Wikipedia:Batea

Batea is a research project to understand how readers and editors use health information on Wikipedia.

If you use Google Chrome as your Internet browser, then consider registering for the research project as a way to learn about it.

Project summary

This is one perspective of the Batea project. Please read the official website for the official explanation.

1. The Batea project seeks to find people who read or contribute health information on Wikipedia.
   1. Medical students are especially desired as project participants
   2. Anyone in any circumstances is allowed to participate, even though not everyone may be a target of study recruitment
2. Anyone wishing to join the study should complete the consent process at Batea: Help Improve Medical Wikipedia Articles
3. Part of the consent process includes installing a plug-in to Google Chrome
4. This plug-in, in a limited way, watches the editing habits of those in the study
   1. The plug-in is designed to be minimally invasive
   2. It notes whatever a person reads on Wikipedia
   3. It notes when a research participant goes to certain popular sources of academic medical information, including for example PubMed and UpToDate
   4. The researchers have made a good faith attempt to not collect information which is not relevant to describing Wikipedia readership and especially the connection between Wikipedia and medical research among students in medical school
5. More information is available at the Batea website and please see also the research review of this project on Meta-Wiki at meta:Research:Batea

Research review

Please see the research review process for this project on Meta-Wiki, where it is logged with other research projects which interact with contributors to Wikimedia projects.

Relationship with English Wikipedia

This project page is a base on English Wikipedia which is created for the convenience of contributors to English Wikipedia. Readers and editors of English Wikipedia are the major immediate stakeholders in the outcome of this research.

See discussions -

• New tool for getting reader feedback, November 2015 at WikiProject Medicine

Partners

It is best to go to the website of Batea to see the listing of project partners. However, these partnerships exist:

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the project
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine participants are the most relevant Wikipedia community stakeholders in the outcomes of this research
• Consumer Reports is an organization piloting the use of this software in medical school outreach in the Wikipedia:Education program. See WP:WikiProject Consumer Reports for details
• This is not an exclusive project. Anyone may use this software and offer it to others. The data becomes more valuable when more people contribute more of it.

Media

• Sullivan, Tom (17 November 2015). "Batea: a Wikipedia hack for medical students". healthcareitnews.com. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
• Haelle, Tara (14 December 2015). "Batea initiative hopes to help improve Wikipedia health content". healthjournalism.org. Retrieved 17 December 2015.

External links

• Join Batea as a research participant
• Batea mainpage
• DocGraph, the company managing the project