Blood transfusion articles on Wikipedia

Background

• 203 articles identified as relating to blood transfusion (organised under Category:Transfusion medicine)
• Between 1 July and 31 August 2016 these articles received 1.8 million views
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  • The top ten most-viewed articles are:
    1. Blood type 312,959 views
    2. Platelet 119,738
    3. Rh blood group system 117,852
    4. Blood plasma 84,602
    5. ABO blood group system 68,518
    6. Lactated Ringer's solution
       69,855
    7. Blood transfusion 65,060
    8. Blood donation 58,893
    9. Ryan White 64,913
    10. Hh blood group 46,651
• Blood transfusion not currently linked from outline of medicine (115 views/day)
• Most wanted articles within the 'transfusion medicine' category tree - judging by counting the number of incoming redlinks to a page
  1. Lan blood group system
  2. Vel blood group
  3. Er blood group collection
  4. Junior blood group system
  5. Forssman antigen system
  6. Thermodilution catheters
  7. Single-lumen catheter
  8. Multiple-lumen catheter
  9. Implantable catheter
  10. Hemodialysis catheters

Media files

• Wikimedia Commons has 183 media files related to blood transfusion
  • Most are historic and there is a dearth of diagrams (the sort seen at Commons:Category:Images from Cancer Research UK)
  • These images were seen more than 700,000 times in August 2016, but as would be expected from the above the most viewed image is historical, dating from WWII

Next steps

To improve Wikipedia articles and track and co-ordinate efforts internationally a WikiProject (or task for of WikiProject Medicine) could be established.

• Establishing a WikiProject would
  • create a central place where contributors can share their work
  • Allow tracking of editors active on related articles to enable outreach, eg: Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Medicine/Cardiology task force
  • Allow a 'clean up listing' will all the pages tagged with issues (eg: needing a global view, expert input, or proofreading). As seen here.
  • Tracking of article quality based on Wikipedia's assessment scale. eg: this is how it appears for the cardiology task force
• Could use Wikidata to see what articles are missing based on other languages?
  • Possible missing or uncategorised articles identified through Wikidata

• RN to check with WikiMed to see if there is any previous or on-going work around transfusion medicine and explore the possibility of setting up a WikiProject or taskforce