Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Events and residencies

This page lists events, university courses and Wikipedia residencies that focused on improving medical articles.

Wikimedians in residence
A Wikipedian in residence or Wikimedian in residence (WiR) is a Wikipedia editor, a Wikipedian (or Wikimedian), who accepts a placement with an institution to facilitate Wikipedia entries related to that institution's mission, encourage and assist it to release material under open licences, and to develop the relationship between the host institution and the Wikimedia community.

Consumer Reports
From 2012-2018 Consumer Reports employed Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry as Wikimedian in Residence. The major objective for the project was supporting medical professional associations and medical schools in sharing their knowledge in Wikipedia. Activities including adding key messages from public health campaigns to Wikipedia as statements matched to sources, training of medical students to edit Wikipedia in the Wikipedia education program in medicine, and adding safety information of various kinds from Consumer Reports in Wikipedia articles. The project was supported by Wikimedia New York City.

Project pages:
 * WP:WikiProject Choosing Wisely
 * WP:WikiProject Consumer Reports

Cancer Research UK
Between May 2014 and February 2015, Cancer Research UK employed John Byrne as Wikimedian in residence in London, UK

Project page: WikiProject CRUK

Publications:


 * We’ve joined forces with Wikipedia to improve cancer information
 * New images released are quickly put to use, Wikimedia UK blog
 * Wikipedia – is it fit for patient consumption?, CRUK blog, 27 May
 * Cancer Research UK, Royal Society and Women Fellows…, 20 May, Wikimedia UK blog

Cochrane
From May 2014 to 2016 Cochrane employed Sydney Poore as Wikipedian in residence. Since 2016 their Wikipedian in residence is Jennifer Dawson.

Project page: Cochrane Wikipedia Partnership

Publications:


 * The Cochrane-Wikipedia Partnership in 2022
 * Improving Health-Related Content on Wikipedia
 * Cochrane-Wikipedia: 2020 Update
 * August 2018. Get involved with the Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative. Jennifer Dawson
 * Special Report on Cochrane-Wikipedia
 * October 2017. Cochrane-Wikipedia Initiative: Keeping Wikipedia content up to date
 * October 2017 publication. SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia: an important dissemination tool for Cochrane
 * 12 months on: Cochrane Oral Health, Dundee Dental School, and Wikipedia – a project update
 * Rewriting Wikipedia
 * The Cochrane-Wikipedia partnership in 2016
 * What proportion of Cochrane Reviews are Wiki-compatible?
 * Fixing mistakes and replacing outdated content on Wikipedia
 * Cochrane Collaboration and Wikipedia
 * Cochrane recruits talented Wikipedian in Residence

Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection employed Alice White as their Wikipedian in residence between 2016 and 2017. From October 2017, Wellcome Collection's Wikimedian in Residence became a full-time member of the Digital Editorial team.

Project page: Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome

Publications:


 * Images from Wellcome Collection pass 1.5 billion views on Wikipedia
 * Wellcome Collection, Wikipedia and the pandemic

International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)
Marium Umme Kulsum is the Wikipedian in residence for the ILAE Wikipedia Epilepsy Project.

Project page: ILAE Wikipedia Project, WikiProject Epilepsy


 * The ILAE Wikipedia Epilepsy Project

HSE National Health Library and Knowledge Service (NHLKS)
In 2018, in partnership with National Doctors Training & Planning, the NHLKS employed Niall O’Mara as the first National Healthcare Wikipedian in Residence. In 2020 Conor Malone was appointed to the role.


 * Wikipedian-in-Residence: a global first for health libraries
 * World's First National Healthcare Wikipedian-in-Residence

National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
In December 2021 the NIHR employed Adam Harangozó as Wikipedian in residence.

Project page: NIHR

Publications:


 * Where should we share health information if not where people are looking?
 * Covid: How scientists are working with Wikipedia on access to information
 * How can Wikipedia help disseminate research findings?

Netherlands Cancer Institute
As part of a longer residency at multiple places, the Netherlands Cancer Institute hosted a Wikipedian in residence between February and March 2014.

Project page: Wikipedians in Special Residence (in English)

Department of Pathology, Calicut Medical College
In 2015, the Department of Pathology employed Netha Hussain as Wikipedian in residence.

Project page: Department of Pathology, Calicut Medical College

History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group
The HMBRG employed Andy Mabbett

Project page: HMBRG

The Physiological Society
The Wikipedian in residence for the Society was Andy Mabbett in 2017.

Project page: PhySoc

Publications:


 * Top ten reasons why your Wikipedia edits get reverted

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Emily Temple-Wood worked as the Wikipedian in residence at NIOSH for four months in 2015. Since 2017 the role is filled by John P. Sadowski.

Project page: NIOSH, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health

Publications:


 * Collaboration with Wikipedia

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
The Wikipedian in residence at PCORI has been Jeffery Keefer since 2019.

Project page: Integrating Patient-centered Outcomes Research into Wikipedia, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institut e (old)

Publications:


 * Wikipedia in Health Professions Education

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

 * Nursing courses

Gallaudet University

 * Educational Neuroscience Proseminar

Georgetown University

 * Courses

Grand Valley State University

 * Introduction to Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice course

Houston Baptist University

 * Virology course

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Project page: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Imperial College School of Medicine

 * Wikipedia health hackathon

John Brown University

 * Virology courses

Rockford University

 * Nursing course

Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University
Project page: Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University

Salisbury University, Universities in Maryland

 * Health Advocacy and Engagement

University of California at San Francisco
Project page: UCSF School of Medicine
 * UC San Francisco Med Students Help Make Wikipedia Reliable

University of Hawaii—Mānoa

 * Courses

University of Illinois

 * Wikipedia for the Medical Editor courses

University of Massachusetts

 * Theoretical Comparisons in Nursing Science course

University of Michigan

 * Improving Medical Communication Through Wikipedia elective
 * LGBTQ Reproductive Health

University of Nebraska

 * Hearing Conservation courses

University of Northern Colorado

 * Hearing Loss Prevention courses

University of Pennsylvania

 * Medical missionaries to Community Partners course

University of South Carolina Aiken

 * Neuroscience courses

University of North Texas Health Science Center

 * TCOM WikiMed Directed Studies course

University of Virginia
Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry has been Wikimedian in Residence at the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia since 2018. Medical projects include
 * Article and citation matching research, a machine learning project to match scholarly publications to Wikipedia articles
 * meta:WikiCite, a project to curate citation metadata into Wikidata, where PubMed Central has been the first major corpus
 * WikiProject Clinical Trials, a project to import ClinicalTrials.gov into Wikidata and also further develop it and other trials data
 * https://scholia.toolforge.org/ - Scholia is the Wikimedia scholarly profiling service
 * For example, Scholia for Medical information in Wikipedia
 * SWASTHA for translating health information from English to languages of India

University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

 * Epidemiology courses

Utah State University

 * History of Psychology courses

Palo Alto University

 * Foundations of Clinical Trauma Psychology course

Vanderbilt University
WikiMed Advanced Electives

Western University of Health Sciences

 * WesternU Wikiproject Medicine WAVE

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

 * WikiProject National Institutes of Health

Publications:


 * NIH, Wikipedia Join Forces to Improve Online Health Info
 * Wikipedia Teaches NIH Scientists Wiki Culture
 * NIH and Wikimedia Foundation Collaborate to Improve Online Health Information