Wikipedia:SWASTHA/FAQ

What is SWASTHA?

 * WikiSWASTHA is a special WikiProject
 * SWASTHA stands for (Special Wikipedia Awareness Scheme for The Healthcare Affiliates).
 * Swastha is the Sanskrit word for health.


 * swa= my own self and stha = to be situated. SWASTHA also means 'health and well-being' in 10 different languages. SWASTHA is a special project to promote healthcare awareness amongst local communities with the help of existing healthcare affiliates. Click here to learn more . Wikipedia SWASTHA Introduction.webm
 * This project will use Wikipedia as a community forum and publication channel for curating and delivering health information to people in India, in languages of India, and in partnership with stakeholder communities.

What is a WikiProject?
A WikiProject is a group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve Wikipedia. These groups often focus on a specific topic area. Click here to learn about WikiProject. The English Wikipedia currently has over 2,000 WikiProjects, about 1,000 of which are monitored by 30–2,000 editors, all with varying levels of activity. You can use the search box below to easily find a WikiProject that interests you!

What is scope and approach of this project?
In order to deliver quality health content in Indian languages, we would begin by using the existing topic prioritization process established by Wiki Project Med's Translation Task Force to select the English Wikipedia medical content which we translate to languages of India. That process seeks to deliver the health information which is most relevant for audiences in India, to the most people, with the highest quality information which already has gone through Wikipedia's English language quality control process. The translation process includes staging text for stakeholder evaluation, translating it in a way that similarly invites comment, and complying with existing Wikimedia community processes for stakeholder participation. Once content is publicly available and after three months, a typical amount of time to collect Wikipedia user response, we will measure and report the quality of the content and its associated impacts using native Wikipedia measurement tools which report the Wikimedia suite of communication metrics, including pageviews, editor engagement, and any user comments.

This project will publish medical information in Indian language Wikipedias. We will adopt existing Wikimedia community processes wherever there is a stakeholder community offering guidance. The workflow will include applying existing community processes to each of the following steps: selecting existing English Wikipedia medical articles for translation, staging that content for localizations, executing the translation, publishing the translated content, recruiting stakeholder feedback, measuring the publishing impact, and publishing a program summary to communicate outcomes and credit the contributions of all participants. Each step will invite open public participation and include collaboration from a relevant, representative Wikimedia or community organization.

Why you believe the approach would lead to the desired results
Making this content available would benefit a wide population of Indian users fluent in various language, who are seeking medical and health related content via one of the most popular and accessible information sources online.

These assumptions are underlying in the design of this project:

1. Wikipedia is one of the most stable and most consulted sources of health information in existence. (Heilman, 2015)

2. Posting translations to Wikidata, the Linked Open Data complement to Wikipedia, is the most efficient strategy for multilingual Wikimedia content monitoring, maintaining quality control, promoting stakeholder participation, making content accessible for current and next generation technology, and measuring program impact

3. Universities can achieve their educational mission by sharing their expertise in Wikipedia (Wiki Education Foundation report)

4. Wikipedia and Wikidata are of low quality in languages of India. We can assess and improve these with existing Wikimedia engagement processes, which relevant stakeholder organizations already have established.

5. We can measure and report the communication impact and success of our project with native metrics tools and processes in the Wikimedia platform.

What is Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and based on a model of openly editable content. The name "Wikipedia" is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word 'wiki', meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links designed to guide the user to related pages with additional information.

Who can join the project?
Anyone can join the project. It is free and open to all.

What are the main goals of the project?
Kindly have a look at the Goals tab and you can help us to write/expand articles.

I am new to Wikipedia, where can I learn more about Wikipedia editing?
Click here to learn more.

How can I contribute?
Don't be afraid to edit – anyone can edit almost every page, and we are encouraged to be bold! Find something that can be improved and make it better. For example, spelling, grammar, rewriting for readability, adding content, or removing non-constructive edits. If you wish to add new facts, please try to provide references so they may be verified, or suggest them on the article's discussion page. Changes to controversial topics and Wikipedia's main pages should usually be discussed first. Contributing to Wikipedia will provide you with resources on all the basics needed to use, comment on, and contribute to Wikipedia.

Remember – you can't break Wikipedia; all edits can be reversed, fixed or improved later. Wikipedia is allowed to be imperfect. So go ahead, edit an article and help make Wikipedia the best information source on the Internet!

Who can edit articles
Wikipedia is the product of millions of editors' contributions, each one bringing something different to the table, whether it be: researching skills, technical expertise, writing prowess or tidbits of information, but most importantly a willingness to help. Even the best articles should not be considered complete, as each new editor can offer new insights on how to enhance the content in it at any time. Click here to learn more about editing policy.

How Do I edit a page
To edit the whole page at once, click the "edit this page" tab at the top. To edit just one section, click the "edit" link to the right of the section heading. To edit on Wikipedia, you type in a special markup language called wikitext. See the cheat sheet for the most basic wikitext codes. See How to edit a page for more details and examples of making links, using bold and italics, linking to images, and many other things. See also Alternative method of editing.

Who owns articles if I create them?
All Wikipedia content—articles, categories, templates, and other types of pages—is edited collaboratively. No one, no matter how skilled, or how high-standing in the community, has the right to act as though they are the owner of a particular page. Also, a person or an organization that is the subject of an article does not own the article, and has no right to dictate what the article may say. Click here to learn more.

I found misinformation on a page, what should I do?
You can click on 'edit' button and improve the article. We are closely working with healthcare experts who keep an eye on existing articles apart from that - we also have community of volunteers active on almost all Indian languages.

I read about your project in the news, I am an existing Wikipedian - how can I help?
You can
 * 1) Join our project - help us to improve healthcare content on Wikipedia
 * 2) Inform your community about this project on local language village pump - be a leader for your community
 * 3) Engage with other members through periodic online/offline meetups.

My language community is not mentioned, can I still be part of this project?
Yes, you can add new languages. We are always looking to improve and expand.

I am least interested in writing, is there any other way to contribute?
Yes. You can help in various ways ranging from uploading images to coordinating online/offline meetups to translating medical terms in Wikidata, e.g. via this list of items missing labels in Telugu, with English and Hindi labels provided if they exist.



Do you have Facebook page?
Yes, You can follow us via facebook.com/WikiSWASTHA.