Verey very nice info. Looking forward to join all of you alive. Regards--mossab
بتاريخ ٠١/٠١/٢٠١٨ ١٢:٢٩ ص، كتب "Shani Evenstein" <shani.e...@gmail.com>: > Dear WikiProject Medicine enthusiasts & friends, > > It's been a long time since we last updated the list about what we've been > up to this year (sorry about that -- it's on our list for improvements for > next year :)). > > As we are wrapping up 2017, we thought you might appreciate an update with > some highlights. It's a bit long, but worth the read and getting involved. > > Wishing you and your families a happy, fruitful and joyous 2018! > > Yours, > > Shani Evenstein > Chair, WikiProject Medicine Foundation. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------- > > *==What did we achieve in 2017?==* > 2017 has been extremely busy - > * We *collaborated with like-minded organizations*, like Cochrane, > Translators Without Boarders, The World Health Organization (WHO), The > International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and Osmosis, to name a few. > * We have continued our *collaborations with Universities *around the > world, where Medical students wrote medical-related articles as part of > their academic curriculum. > * Around *70 new members,* who share our passion to make high-quality > medical information available to the world, joined us. > * We *participated in conferences* and *published academic peer-reviewed > articles in *respected journals. > * We have further *developed our Offline Medical Wikipedia App*. > * And -- we're *released Internet-in-a-box!* > > To read more about each of these, please check out our 2017 report draft > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMMED/Reports/2017>. > And don't forget -- it's a wiki, so please feel free to click on the > "edit" button and add what you did this year! > > *==Board Activity & Composition ==* > In Jan 2017 a new board of 12 was elected and started operating, and as an > organization,* we have made some great progress *- > * We have started a routine of having monthly meetings, which helped the > board work closer together; > * We have been involved in the movement's strategy process and have > supported and strategic direction. > * We have been active in internal conferences, like WikiConference 2017, > Wikimania 2017 and Wikidata Conference 2017 and were invited to speak in > local ones as well. > * We have greatly improved our process for accepting new members to our > user group > * We have started a long process of managing our finances and donations > better > * And -- we have made some important changes to our bylaws, as well as > administrative decisions, such as having elections *only every 2 years > instead of yearly*, to make sure board members have enough time to > actually have a positive impact before they change. > > *That said, we have also had our share of challenges -- * > Our main challenge had to do with the fact that we are an international > group. As such, finding a time that suited all 12 of us every month has > proven more of a challenge than we anticipated. Wrapping up a year of > working together as a board, it has become clear to us that we must change > our board composition in order to operate smoothly as board. > Our solution to this challenge was as follows - > 1) We have set up *clear guidelines *as to what is required from a board > member in terms of time commitment. > 2) Based on that, during December, *board members* who felt they could > not invest the necessary time, *have stepped down* from the board and > will continue their involvement as Special Advisers to the board. > 3) We have also decided to r*esize our board and keep it to a smaller > number of 7.* > 4 members of the original board remained, 2 new members have been added to > the remainder of the term (2018) and 1 more potential board member has been > approached, so we will hopefully become 7 again. > To see a list of the current board and our special advisers, please see > this page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/Board>. > > Finally,* to increase our transparency*, as well as involve more members > who are not on the board, *we have decided to broadcast our monthly > meetings live.* This means that every interested member of the user group > can either join us live, watch us live, or watch the recording later. In > case of meetings where sensitive issues are discussed, the meetings will > have an open part that will be recorded and a closed part to board members > only, which will not be recorded. > Our coming meeting will be before Jan 15 and we'll post the date & time, > as well as a link, as soon as we set it. > > > *==Renewing Membership for 2018 == * > Of the decisions the board has made this year was regarding membership in > our organization. > Till this year, anyone who wanted to join us had to fill out a google form > once, but we did not have a process for renewing membership or tracking it > yearly. The board has decided to change that, and *set up a process, in > which membership has to be renewed yearly for existing members.* *This is > how it will work as of 2018 --* > ** New members* will continue to sigh up via the general membership form, > after which they will be added (or not) to our group and mailing list. ** > Existing > members* will be asked to *renew their membership* yearly, which for now > still means only filling out a google form with personal details and > showing involvement in our cause. There is no membership fee, but filling > out the form is essential for those who wish to be part of the user group > formally. > Doing this we will be achieving 2 things -- > 1) It will help the organization have an up-to-date report on its number > of members, as required by authorities. > 2) It will help the organization track the eligibility for voting during > elections to the board. > > We will therefore be *asking all those interested in remaining part of > the User Group, to sign up the renewal membership form for 2018.* > A separate email with a link to the form will be sent separately in the > coming week. > > *==Get involved!==* > Finally, we will be working on a proper 2018 yearly plan, but can already > say that one of our goals for this coming year is to involve more people > from our community, i.e. members of the user group who are not members of > the board, in our activities. In other words -- *you don't need to be on > the board to be involved*, and we need help from as many people as > possible! > > We are looking for people who are either interested in getting involved > with specific tasks, or have specific skills the board recognized as ones > that could be helpful to the advancement of the organization in the coming > year. > > *Please contact me privately if you'd like to get involved with - * > * Selling Internet-in-a-Box locally > * Helping map Wikidata items with Mix'n'match > * Running medical-related educational collaborations > * Facilitating a collaboration with a like-minded organization > > *Please also contact me privately if you have one or more of these skills > - * > * Programming, writing Wiki Tools, Wiki bots or generating statistics of > specific pages across different languages. > * Fundraising experience > * Accounting experience (and in the US) > > > *That's it for this time. Happy 2018, everyone!* > *Shani.* > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-Medicine mailing list > Wikimedia-Medicine@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-medicine > >
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