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WPMed Foundation to become a thematic organization: Your support is needed!
by Shani Evenstein 13 Jul '18

13 Jul '18

Dear WikiMed enthusiasts & friends, The WikiProject Med Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>, which is recognized as a formal User Group is now applying to become a Thematic Organization (an affiliate closer to a chapter). Details are in this Meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/Application#Support_Us!>. *Please support us by signing your name *or your organization's name under paragraph #6. We'd be happy to answer any questions either here or on the talk page. Cheers, Shani Evenstein Sigalov Chair, WikiProject Med Foundation.

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Call for contributors to a report about the use of Wikidata in Medicine
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 13 May '18

13 May '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. We are writing now a scientific publication in which we explain how and why we should use Wikidata in Medicine. We will explain first the knowledge-related matters faced by physicians and other health specialists. Then, we introduce Wikidata as a major medical knowledge database and explain its structure and the useful medical information it contains. Finally, we will explain how Wikidata can solve the knowledge-related problems faced by medical scientists and expose successful experiences of using Wikidata for the support of medicine. We are managing to publish this brief report as an editorial in Journal of Biomedical Semantics or in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. I ask if someone is interested to join this effort. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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A bibliography of the research output of Wiki Project Med
by Houcemeddine A. Turki 21 Apr '18

21 Apr '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. As there is no page that specifies the research output about Wikimedia and Medicine, I had created such a page in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/Research. Please complete it if it is missing some works. I will also try to update it when I have time. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Wikidata labels for Medical entities in French, German, and Chinese
by abdelwaheb turki 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. I analyzed Wikidata using Wikidata query service to find if all medical entities have labels in all common languages. I found that only English labels exist for quite all the entities. That is why I ask if you have implemented French MeSH (http://mesh.inserm.fr/FrenchMesh/) and German MeSH (https://www.dimdi.de/dynamic/de/klassi/downloadcenter/mesh/mesh2018/) as labels to Medical Wikidata entities. I also ask if it is possible to contact the authors of the Chinese-English MeSH so that this database can be indexed in Wikidata as labels to Wikidata entities (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923607001315). Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Wikimania 2018, Wikidata in Medicine
by abdelwaheb turki 10 Mar '18

10 Mar '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your answer. I will answer do a proposal to Wikimania conference 2018 entitled "Wikidata in Medicine: What, why and how" in which I introduce Wikidata as a medical knowledge database, I give an overview of successful experiences of medical applications of Wikidata, I show the useful functions that Medical Wikidata can do when completed, and I give to developers ideas of how Medical Wikidata can be automatically enriched based on eHealthMe, MeSH and Medline. I ask what is the best format for such proposals. I also ask if you are working on similar topics and like to merge your Wikiindaba proposal with this one or if you have some comments and questions about my proposal. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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9 days left to submit your proposal to WikiIndaba
by abdelwaheb turki 06 Jan '18

06 Jan '18

Dear Mr. or Ms., I thank you for your efforts. Want to share and discuss your Wikimedia experience with African community? Need to have African volunteers involved in your Wikimedia project? Like to explain useful ideas and knowledge to African wikimedians? It is time to do that. In fact, you can easily do that by submitting a proposal to WikiIndaba 2018 in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. If you need to have a full or partial scholarship to attend this conference, you can apply to it in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Scholarships. Please keep in mind that you have to submit your proposal and apply for the conference scholarship before or in January 15th, 2018. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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WPMed Foundation: Wrapping up 2017 and heading towards 2018!
by Shani Evenstein 01 Jan '18

01 Jan '18

Dear WikiProject Medicine enthusiasts & friends, It's been a long time since we last updated the list about what we've been up to this year (sorry about that -- it's on our list for improvements for next year :)). As we are wrapping up 2017, we thought you might appreciate an update with some highlights. It's a bit long, but worth the read and getting involved. Wishing you and your families a happy, fruitful and joyous 2018! Yours, Shani Evenstein Chair, WikiProject Medicine Foundation. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *==What did we achieve in 2017?==* 2017 has been extremely busy - * We *collaborated with like-minded organizations*, like Cochrane, Translators Without Boarders, The World Health Organization (WHO), The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and Osmosis, to name a few. * We have continued our *collaborations with Universities *around the world, where Medical students wrote medical-related articles as part of their academic curriculum. * Around *70 new members,* who share our passion to make high-quality medical information available to the world, joined us. * We *participated in conferences* and *published academic peer-reviewed articles in *respected journals. * We have further *developed our Offline Medical Wikipedia App*. * And -- we're *released Internet-in-a-box!* To read more about each of these, please check out our 2017 report draft <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMMED/Reports/2017>. And don't forget -- it's a wiki, so please feel free to click on the "edit" button and add what you did this year! *==Board Activity & Composition ==* In Jan 2017 a new board of 12 was elected and started operating, and as an organization,* we have made some great progress *- * We have started a routine of having monthly meetings, which helped the board work closer together; * We have been involved in the movement's strategy process and have supported and strategic direction. * We have been active in internal conferences, like WikiConference 2017, Wikimania 2017 and Wikidata Conference 2017 and were invited to speak in local ones as well. * We have greatly improved our process for accepting new members to our user group * We have started a long process of managing our finances and donations better * And -- we have made some important changes to our bylaws, as well as administrative decisions, such as having elections *only every 2 years instead of yearly*, to make sure board members have enough time to actually have a positive impact before they change. *That said, we have also had our share of challenges -- * Our main challenge had to do with the fact that we are an international group. As such, finding a time that suited all 12 of us every month has proven more of a challenge than we anticipated. Wrapping up a year of working together as a board, it has become clear to us that we must change our board composition in order to operate smoothly as board. Our solution to this challenge was as follows - 1) We have set up *clear guidelines *as to what is required from a board member in terms of time commitment. 2) Based on that, during December, *board members* who felt they could not invest the necessary time, *have stepped down* from the board and will continue their involvement as Special Advisers to the board. 3) We have also decided to r*esize our board and keep it to a smaller number of 7.* 4 members of the original board remained, 2 new members have been added to the remainder of the term (2018) and 1 more potential board member has been approached, so we will hopefully become 7 again. To see a list of the current board and our special advisers, please see this page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/Board>. Finally,* to increase our transparency*, as well as involve more members who are not on the board, *we have decided to broadcast our monthly meetings live.* This means that every interested member of the user group can either join us live, watch us live, or watch the recording later. In case of meetings where sensitive issues are discussed, the meetings will have an open part that will be recorded and a closed part to board members only, which will not be recorded. Our coming meeting will be before Jan 15 and we'll post the date & time, as well as a link, as soon as we set it. *==Renewing Membership for 2018 == * Of the decisions the board has made this year was regarding membership in our organization. Till this year, anyone who wanted to join us had to fill out a google form once, but we did not have a process for renewing membership or tracking it yearly. The board has decided to change that, and *set up a process, in which membership has to be renewed yearly for existing members.* *This is how it will work as of 2018 --* ** New members* will continue to sigh up via the general membership form, after which they will be added (or not) to our group and mailing list. ** Existing members* will be asked to *renew their membership* yearly, which for now still means only filling out a google form with personal details and showing involvement in our cause. There is no membership fee, but filling out the form is essential for those who wish to be part of the user group formally. Doing this we will be achieving 2 things -- 1) It will help the organization have an up-to-date report on its number of members, as required by authorities. 2) It will help the organization track the eligibility for voting during elections to the board. We will therefore be *asking all those interested in remaining part of the User Group, to sign up the renewal membership form for 2018.* A separate email with a link to the form will be sent separately in the coming week. *==Get involved!==* Finally, we will be working on a proper 2018 yearly plan, but can already say that one of our goals for this coming year is to involve more people from our community, i.e. members of the user group who are not members of the board, in our activities. In other words -- *you don't need to be on the board to be involved*, and we need help from as many people as possible! We are looking for people who are either interested in getting involved with specific tasks, or have specific skills the board recognized as ones that could be helpful to the advancement of the organization in the coming year. *Please contact me privately if you'd like to get involved with - * * Selling Internet-in-a-Box locally * Helping map Wikidata items with Mix'n'match * Running medical-related educational collaborations * Facilitating a collaboration with a like-minded organization *Please also contact me privately if you have one or more of these skills - * * Programming, writing Wiki Tools, Wiki bots or generating statistics of specific pages across different languages. * Fundraising experience * Accounting experience (and in the US) *That's it for this time. Happy 2018, everyone!* *Shani.*

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Submit your proposals to WikiIndaba 2018 until January 15th
by abdelwaheb turki 23 Dec '17

23 Dec '17

Dear Users, I thank you for your efforts. The Call for proposals for WikiIndaba 2018, the 3rd African Wikimedia community conference is now open. If you want to participate and share your experience, tools, skills, knowledge, opinions or ideas with mostly active African wikimedians, please submit your proposals to https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for that is January 15th. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki

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Call for proposals for WikiIndaba 2018 is open
by abdelwaheb turki 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Dear Users, I have the great honour to inform you that the Call for Proposals for WikiIndaba 2018 is now open. WikiIndaba 2018 is the 3rd conference of African Wikimedia movement and will give to participants the opportunity to share their Wikimedia-related experience and skills with a wide and active African Wikimedia audience. The conference will be held in Tunisia from 16 to 18 March 2018. If you want to participate to WikiIndaba and share your works and thoughts with African Wikimedians, feel free to submit your proposal in https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2018/Submissions. The deadline for giving proposals will be January 15th, 2018. If you need a scholarship to attend WikiIndaba 2018, you can apply to it in https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJJ2I0FBqp4SuiW5ypj-9lnLaAidUmhMs…. Looking forward to seeing you in Tunis next March. Yours Sincerely, Houcemeddine Turki Felix Nartey Isla Haddow-Flood

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Fwd: HealthPhone: Launch of Internet-in-a-Box
by James Heilman 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

Here is a nice email design for promoting IIAB just sent out by our partners at HealthPhone. James ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nand Wadhwani <nand(a)motherchildtrust.org> Date: Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 12:26 AM Subject: HealthPhone: Launch of Internet-in-a-Box To: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> Our apps are now available on Google Play [image: HealthPhone] <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> Home <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> Languages <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> Topics <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> Launch of Internet-in-a-Box Bringing healthcare information to those who have no Internet [image: Internet-in-a-Box] Dear James, HealthPhone is excited to partner with Wiki Project Med Foundation and launch an offline distribution system for medical content in collaboration with Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB). IIAB is a mini-computer with mobile hotspot that generates a Wi-Fi signal and enables content distribution in places where access to the Internet is limited, controlled or simply unavailable. Within a range of a few hundred meters, up to 32 people can connect to the device with a computer or mobile phone and access or download its content. IIAB does not offer a connection to the Internet or to content beyond that in the Box itself. This initial version of “Internet-in-a-Box” contains all of Wikipedia’s healthcare content in English, Spanish and Arabic, WikEM, content from Practical Action in English and Spanish, and HealthPhone maternal and child health videos. It also functions as a mini app store allowing Wikipedia, HealthPhone and other medical apps to be downloaded and installed offline. [image: Content menu]Putting health information in the hands of those who need it most. The device is being sold for the cost of the hardware (USD40/CAD50) which includes taxes and shipping. The underlying hardware is made by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and all software and content on the device is under an open licence. Wiki Project Med Foundation welcome donations to support further development. Internet-in-a-Box <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> | Alpha <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> | See Online <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> | *Buy/Donate* <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> | Make your own <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> We believe this device has significant potential to benefit the 4 billion+ people globally without Internet access and are working to develop further versions with other languages and types of content. *Kindly forward this announcement widely to your colleagues and networks.* Thank you! be well, nand Looking Forward HealthPhone is working towards a time when every mother and mother-to-be on the planet has a personal library of health and nutrition videos that will provide her with the knowledge she needs to take care of herself and her family. Contact HealthPhone™ Star House, East Wing, Suite 933, 3 Salisbury Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong <https://maps.google.com/?q=3+Salisbury+Road,+Kowloon,+Hong+Kong&entry=gmail…> info(a)healthphone.org [image: Connect with us on Facebook] <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> [image: Follow us on Twitter] <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> [image: Subscribe on YouTube] <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> © 2017 HealthPhone™ You are receiving this e-newsletter as a colleague, supporter, or friend of HealthPhone. Thanks for helping to provide health and nutrition knowledge to those who need it most. forward this email to a friend | update your profile | add us <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/vcard?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a95017&i…> to your address book unsubscribe <https://healthphone.us8.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=d3b356197b18fa9ddf5a9…> jmh649(a)gmail.com from this list. [image: Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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