[Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

[Ziko van Dijk]

Dear James,

My sincere congratulations for this important step, and I am really
very happy with a Wikimedia Medicine. But the name "Wiki Med
Foundation" - I find the choice for that name just strange (I saw the
discussion on Meta too late). "Wikimedia Health", by the way, would be
as great as "Wikimedia Medicine". I understood that there problems in
the State of New York to use "medicine" in the title. So, "Wiki
Health" could have been an alternative until recognition from the
AffCom.

Kind regards
Ziko


2012/12/29 James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com>:
> Yes so Wiki Med Foundation Inc incorporated Dec 19, 2012 and we had our
> first official board meeting Dec 26, 2012. We have had expressed interest
> from 57 people from more than a dozen countries with a large group of
> interested members from India. Our 9 board members are from 7 different
> countries.
>
> Our first official event is being held January 7-11th at the University of
> California San Francisco in collaboration with Wikimedia Canada. We have
> been invited by the college of medicine to give a half dozen lectures on
> Wikipedia and Medicine and a few editing sessions where students and staff
> can try their hand at editing themselves. This is in preparation for an
> elective for 3rd and 4th year medical students which will resolve around
> contribution to Wikimedia projects hopefully to launch in the spring.
>
> Of course we are a new corporation, however our membership is composed of
> people who have extensive experience within the Wikimedia movement. Once we
> have had a chance to prove ourselves over the next 6 month we will re
> approach the aff com / Wikimedia movement to determine if an official
> association is desired. Currently as stated by Bence we are not officially
> associated.
>
> --
> James Heilman
> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
>
> The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
> www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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