Grants:IdeaLab/Increasing health care contributors
Increasing health care contributors
Wikipedia is one of the most consulted sources of healthcare information. However, the number of active contributors is falling. How do we change this?
created on14:28, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Project idea
[edit]What is the problem you're trying to solve?
[edit]How to increase the number of contributors to health-related and medical content. Why have editors numbers fallen between 2008 and 2013 on English Wikipedia? Why are 80% of editors male and 10% female? Why do people edit Wikipedia? Why don't people edit Wikipedia?
What is your solution?
[edit]We are interested in raising awareness about the need for editors in health-related Wikipedia. Our aim would be to invite/find people who would think editing Wikipedia is fun. Are there any markers (e.g. character traits) that are more likely to predict a future Wikipedian?
Goals
[edit]Have 300 hundred editors participate and 10 still participating after 6 months.
Get Involved
[edit]Participants
[edit]- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 14:30, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
- Volunteer On-ground support if needed AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 04:27, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
- Advisor I've guided similar projects in the past and looking forward to doing that again. Sunnynitb (talk) 17:23, 24 January 2018 (UTC)