Representation

Representing Your WikiProjectMed Volunteer Experience 

Service Letters, Certificates, and References

The Onboarding Certificate

Passing the onboarding quiz earns you your official Healthcare Task Force Certificate!

Sharing this certificate on your LinkedIn profile or resume is a powerful way to elevate your professional image. Showcasing your volunteer work with us:

• Demonstrates Real-World Impact: Shows employers you use your skills for meaningful global causes.

• Highlights Key Skills: Validates your attention to detail, cross-cultural communication, and self-motivation.

• Sets You Apart: Gives you a unique, vetted credential that stands out in a competitive job market.

Share your certificate on social media to celebrate your achievement and show the professional world how you are helping to close the global healthcare knowledge gap!

Volunteer Certificates

Your dedication to bringing accessible healthcare information to the world deserves to be celebrated! To recognize your hard work, we offer official certificates of contribution as you reach major milestones in your volunteering journey.

• Your First Milestone: You become eligible to request your first official certificate after contributing 5,000 words of accepted content.

• Major Milestones: As you continue to grow your impact, we proudly recognize higher tiers of dedication at 25,000 words, 50,000 words, and 75,000 words!

A Note on Quality: Because these certificates represent trusted medical information, they are issued in recognition of high-quality, meaningful contributions rather than word count alone. Every request undergoes a quick quality review to ensure the content meets our project standards for clinical accuracy, readability, and a general reader's understanding.

Professional Reference Requests

As you advance in your career, our team is proud to support you! Volunteers may request a professional reference to showcase their experience to future employers or academic institutions.

To ensure our recommendations carry real weight and protect the integrity of the project, references are provided based on the following guidelines:

• The Authenticity Threshold: To give us a substantial, verifiable track record of your translation or editing capabilities, volunteers should complete at least 15,000 words of accepted content before requesting a reference.

• Expert Review: All reference requests are subject to a standard review of the volunteer's work by a Subject Matter Expert (SME) or designated reviewer, alongside the final discretion of the project coordinator.

• Earning Your Reference: Recommendations are happily provided when there is clear evidence validating your translation/editing skills, consistent contributions, and professional conduct within our community.

We want to help you succeed! By maintaining high standards of accuracy and collaboration in your daily volunteering, you help us confidently vouch for your world-class expertise.

Official Service Letters 

For our highly dedicated volunteers, we are glad to provide official documentation of your impact. Volunteers may request a formal service letter to officially verify and document their contributions to the WikiProjectMed Foundation after reaching the outstanding milestone of 50,000 words of accepted content.

To ensure these letters carry professional prestige and serve as an authentic asset for your portfolio, requests are managed under the following guidelines:

• Quality & Milestone Review: All service letter requests are subject to a standard review of the volunteer's work by a Subject Matter Expert (SME) or designated reviewer. This step ensures that every skill, responsibility, and milestone highlighted in your letter accurately reflects the excellent quality of your contributions.

• Verification Standards: To protect the integrity of your credential and our foundation, WikiProjectMed Foundation reserves the right to refine, modify, or limit specific statements in a service letter if they cannot be independently verified through our review process.

Recommendation on Social Media Platforms

Once you cross the amazing milestone of 100,000 translated words, we want to help you elevate your professional career in return. You will be eligible to request official, glowing feedback from our project coordinators on the platform of your choice (LinkedIn, Upwork, or ProZ).

It’s our way of saying thank you and helping you showcase your world-class expertise to future clients and employers!

Other benefits:

• Your impact starts on day one! Once you begin actively contributing, you become eligible to receive the Cure Award badge directly on your Wikipedia platform user profile. This badge celebrates your vital role in making reliable healthcare knowledge free and accessible to everyone, everywhere.

• You can convert your volunteer work into a structured internship experience by translating 50,000 words within three or six months, particularly if your language pair is among the less commonly translated ones. However, the availability of this option for your language depends on the number of articles available to support the internship requirements. 

• The Wiki Project Med Foundation membership is complimentary for those who have made a minimum of 250 edits within the previous 12-month period.

We encourage volunteers to showcase their contributions to WikiProjectMed Foundation as part of their professional and personal development.

Including WikiProjectMed on Your CV or Résumé

Volunteers may include their WikiProjectMed activities on their CV, résumé, portfolio, scholarship applications, or other professional documents.

When describing your involvement:

• Clearly identify your role as a volunteer position.

• Accurately describe your responsibilities and contributions.

• Do not imply that you were employed by WikiProjectMed Foundation unless you held a paid position.

• Do not exaggerate your role, authority, or level of responsibility.

Examples:

Volunteer, WikiProjectMed Foundation
Volunteer Translator, WikiProjectMed Foundation
Volunteer Subject Matter Expert, WikiProjectMed Foundation

LinkedIn and Professional Networking Platforms

We encourage volunteers to share their contributions on professional networking platforms such as LinkedIn, blogs and social media platforms.

However to avoid confusion regarding employment status, volunteer roles should be listed in the Volunteer Experience section rather than the Employment Experience section whenever possible.

Your profile should clearly indicate that your involvement was voluntary and not paid employment. (Read: Conflict of interest)

Social Media

Volunteers are welcome to share their experiences and achievements related to WikiProjectMed on social media.

When discussing your involvement:

• Speak on your own behalf unless specifically authorised to represent WikiProjectMed Foundation.

• Clearly distinguish personal opinions from organisational positions.

• Do not imply that you are speaking for the organisation, its Board, staff, or volunteers.

• Do not make commitments, promises, policy statements, or partnership announcements on behalf of WikiProjectMed Foundation.

Quality Assurance and Professional Recognition

WikiProjectMed Foundation deeply values the time, effort, and commitment contributed by volunteers. We are grateful for every individual who helps improve access to reliable health information.

To protect the integrity of our programmes and the value of the recognition we provide, all requests for certificates, service letters, and professional references are subject to quality assurance review.

This policy exists because contribution metrics alone do not always reflect the quality of work performed. In some cases, individuals have submitted content primarily to obtain certificates, references, or high word counts, including content that relied heavily on unreviewed machine translation or did not meet project quality standards.

For this reason, professional acknowledgements are based on both the quantity and quality of contributions. Our review process helps ensure that certificates, service letters, and references remain credible, meaningful, and fair to volunteers who consistently produce high-quality work.

Our goal is not to discourage participation, but to maintain trust in the recognition provided by WikiProjectMed Foundation and to ensure that professional endorsements accurately reflect a volunteer's demonstrated skills and contributions.

Conflict of Interest and Transparency

Transparency is an important principle within Wikimedia projects.

When discussing your involvement with WikiProjectMed Foundation in professional, academic, or public settings, ensure that your relationship with the organisation is represented accurately and honestly.

Volunteers should also familiarise themselves with Wikimedia's guidance on conflicts of interest and disclosure when participating in Wikimedia projects.

Questions

If you are unsure how to describe your role or represent your involvement publicly, please contact WikiProjectMed Foundation before publishing information that may be interpreted as an official statement on behalf of the organisation. email: volunteers@wikiprojectmed.org