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Wikipedia page #70

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MatthewVita opened this issue Apr 30, 2017 · 18 comments
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Wikipedia page #70

MatthewVita opened this issue Apr 30, 2017 · 18 comments

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@MatthewVita
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Dear Maintainers,

My name is Matthew Vita, a programmer in the healthcare industry. I am trying to help build up the high impact "List of open-source health software" Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_health_software) and would love to add your software to the list. However, it appears that your project does not have a page on Wikipedia so I ask you to consider the following:

  1. Adding a nice article for your project (see the GNU Health article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Health) for a really good example and Ginkgo CADx (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_CADx) for a lightweight, but acceptable example).
  2. Adding said article to "List of open-source health software" Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_health_software).

(If you’re already on Wikipedia, my search-fu wasn’t working when I looked you up so please consider doing only step 2 above)

Thanks,
Matthew

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tangollama commented May 2, 2017 via email

@MatthewVita
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Dear Maintainers,

I just wanted to follow up with a few words in regards to Conflict of Interest (COI). As you can imagine, I have been reaching out to all kinds of mature, reputable, and active open source healthcare projects to help build up this Wikipedia list. However, some project members have (rightly) reached out to me with concerns about COI, so I wanted to clear this up as best as I can. I should first note that my role in this process is of a neutral party that is solely acting in the interests of Wikipedia readers that wish to learn about open source healthcare solutions.

Wikipedia defines COI as "contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships. Any external relationship can trigger a conflict of interest." They also go on to say that organizations writing about themselves is a COI.

If you meet one or more of those criteria, I suggest reaching out to a neutral party in your project's community to put together the article. If you do not meet any of those criteria, I suggest putting together an article with material that places the interest of the encyclopedia and its reader above all else.

Assuming you don't have a COI, I encourage you to do as other open source healthcare projects have done by creating a neutral article about the project with the help of the community (users, developers, and subject matter experts) as well as reliable references.

For whatever it's worth, my personal opinion is that if you don't have a COI, it is rather easy to write up an article talking about the software's features, history, usage, and milestones all while being neutral.

Thanks,
Matthew Vita

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Hello @tangollama. Thank you so much for your efforts thus far. I (exception_e user) has left some notes on your talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_talk:HospitalRun
Thanks.

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bkbu1024 commented Apr 6, 2018

I have started to write the Page and shall continue my efforts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:HospitalRun

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stale bot commented Aug 7, 2019

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

@fox1t fox1t self-assigned this Aug 7, 2019
@EdwardGoomba
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@fox1t Can anyone from the community put together a draft for the wiki?

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fox1t commented Aug 22, 2019

@EdwardGoomba are you talking about Wikipedia? If so, I think that we have to write a draft as soon as possible.

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Yup - Wikipedia. Are you tackling that or did you need a hand? If you need a hand - any chance Joel has the copy he submitted the first time around on hand?

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fox1t commented Aug 23, 2019

@tangollama? :)

@matteovivona matteovivona transferred this issue from HospitalRun/hospitalrun-frontend Aug 23, 2019
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matteovivona commented Aug 26, 2019

I've recreated the draft. You can find it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:HospitalRun

@EdwardGoomba
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Thanks! I'll see what additional info I can pull from the site and ad it in, then check back for review before submitting?

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fox1t commented Aug 27, 2019

@EdwardGoomba do it!!! And thanks for pointing this out! <3

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@EdwardGoomba any news?

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I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I fail all revisions. @EdwardGoomba any advice?

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@tehkapa Sorry about the delay - forgot I turned off GitHub notifications

I looked through both rejections - what it sounds like is they are rejecting the submission because the only sources given for info are the hospital run website.

From what I understand the info needs to be compiled from several third party sources. Do you have publications, news articles, etc that mention the project? I think if we add in varied sources that should give more credibility?

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@EdwardGoomba looks like a dead end :(

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An attempt was made :(
With v 2.0 the project might get more traction, maybe we can open this up then?

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