Wikipedia:Osmosis
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This is the project page for the partnership with medical education provider Osmosis.
Background[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Videos on Commons.[1]
Central list of issues[edit]
Please use this page for a central list of issues with videos: Wikipedia:Osmosis/Issues.
Pending scripts[edit]
The next videos to be made are listed here Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Osmosis so that people can give feedback before they are produced.
Resources[edit]
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Firefogg
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Data_transfers_to_Wikimedia_Commons:_Sharing_institutional_archives
- Top 1000 medical articles by importance and quality
- add mobile pageview data
- Weekly pageviews for medical articles (mobile included)
- Uploads listed at Commons:Special:Contributions/OsmoseIt
People[edit]
- 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