@Michaël St-Gelais, je leur ai envoyé une petit courriel. Cette fondation est roulée par des gens de la Silicon Valley et ils donnent à l'international. Un projet comme Wikimedica pourrait les intéresser.
Voici le contenu du courriel:
Hello,
I'm reaching out to you as the vice president of Wikimedica, a Canadian non-profit whose aim is to to build a free and open access wiki knowledge base for medical professionals around the globe. We have no affiliations with the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the Wikipedias. However, the resemblance in our names is no coincidence: we share the same values of making knowledge free and accessible wherever it is needed. We also use the same software ;)
Up-to-date, reliable and thorough knowledge is paramount to quality medical care. Presently, that knowledge is trapped in silos, behind costly paywalls and guarded by editorial processes that are no longer suited for a world of fast evolving scientific discoveries and pandemics. Speaking of pandemics, the absolute mess that COVID-19 was highlighted the need for a resource such as Wikimedica. Sharing information was either a storm of emails containing PDFs that were outdated the next day or convoluted scientific papers that made little sense to most clinical settings. Yet, in the fog of war, timely, accurate and consensual information means lives saved.
Abroad, medical education and care in developing countries is still done using leftover and outdated manuals donated from well-off nations. With access to the internet now a given in most regions, there is no reasons clinicians from everywhere cannot have at their disposition a free and open source of reliable medical knowledge that can make a world of difference for patients.
Wikimedica wants to change the current paradigm of medical knowledge transfer.
We are:
- 100% free and open access (CC-BY-SA)
- open to all for reading but only editable by professionals
- covering 1000+ medical subjects ranging all specialties
- offering evidence based medical point-of-care summaries that clinicians can rely on while caring for their patients
- French language (so far), having been visited by a million plus individuals last year with a third coming from the Maghreb and Sub Saharan Africa (countries whose lingua franca is French)
- updated daily and collaboratively by medical professionals and students from Canada (and welcoming to medical professionals from other countries)
- building a semantic data driven collaborative platform that will feed future clinical AI systems with reliable and sourced information while keeping humans in the loop of knowledge creation, edition and diffusion.
If you want an example, please check out our recently published hepatitis C article.
While Wikimedica does not seem to fit within any of you programs, it does fall under many of your focus areas, namely those of Global Health and Pandemic Preparedness. We also thought an out-of-the-box-thinking Wikipedia type of solution to sharing knowledge in medicine might strike a chord with your tech oriented ethos and origins.
On behalf of the Wikimedica community, I thank you in advance for you consideration.
On verra.