Wikipedia:Osmosis

This is the project page for the partnership with medical education provider Osmosis.

Background

The Osmosis team focuses on medical education. They have a video series introducing technical medical topics for a general audience. The series is licensed CC-BY SA and they are donating these to Wikipedia for use on popular medical articles.

Purpose

The goal of this project is to enhance highly-viewed articles with rich and instructive media, to improve reader understanding and engagement of the medical topics they are learning about.

Pilot plan

Jake will document the pilot plan (this page)
James will introduce this concept and sample videos to Wiki Project Medicine
WikiProject Medicine will decide if the video content, quality, and type is appropriate for a pilot on 10-50 articles.
James will work with Rishi to identity most-needed videos for popular articles (use mobile pageview data and v:1.0 tool)
Kyle and Tanner will upload the videos to commons using a compatible format with complete metadata and useful descriptions
Fil will assist Kyle in uploading translated subtitles to videos on commons, and place the videos in the first sections of non-English articles (but below the infobox) as appropriate
James and other medical editors will place the videos in the first sections of articles (but below the infobox) as appropriate
Osmosis will track video views and traffic and report back on changes
Additionally, Osmosis will add an edit/comment link to their internal teaching tools which incorporate embedded Wikipedia content
Future opportunities may explore using Osmosis learning tools (flash cards/quizzes)

Timeline

Videos being actively added. As of May 2016 there are current 67 on Commons.[1]

Questions

Resources

People

James Heilman, volunteer from Wiki Project Med Foundation / WikiProject Medicine
Rishi, Osmosis
Kyle, Osmosis
Tanner, Osmosis
Fil, Osmosis
Sylvia Ventura, WMF Strategic Partnerships
Jake Orlowitz, WMF Community Engagement