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== Theory of Change ==
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! rowspan="2" |Activities
! rowspan="2" |Outputs
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!Short-term
!Mid-term
!Long-term
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| colspan="6" |'''Main goal:''' Produce high-qualitative, accessible articles on longevity research with the purpose of increasing awareness and funding to the field. 
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|Core team
| rowspan="7" |<u>1.1.</u> Attract scientific researchers in the field of longevity research to contribute to our articles.

<u>1.2.</u> Keep and build an active, sustainable community that is engaged and willing to produce and maintain content.

<u>1.3.</u> Produce new high-qualitative accessible articles on longevity topics in pace with new research, and maintain the ones already existing.
| rowspan="7" |''Non-direct project impact''
<u>1.1.a)</u>

<u>1.2.a)</u> Awareness of Longevity research increases among researchers and the public

<u>1.2.b)</u> Credibility of Longevity research increases among research institutions and news sources

''Direct project impact''

<u>2.1.a)</u> Awareness of Longevity Wiki increases

<u>2.1.b)</u> Credibility of Longevity Wiki increases

<u>2.1.c)</u> Accessibility of Longevity Wiki increases

<u>2.1.d)</u> Number of articles on Longevity Wiki increases
| rowspan="7" |''Non-direct project impact''
<u>1.1.</u> Funding for researchers and research institutions that focus on longevity increase.

<u>1.2.</u> Awareness of the importance, existence and credibility of longevity research increase among researchers and the public.

<u>2.1</u> Longevity Wiki is a  well-known, science-based, sense-making, trustworthy and reliable source of information on longevity.
| rowspan="7" |Longevity research is an '''established research field''', with '''several institutions''' around the world having longevity as a research focus, and more researchers continually come into the field, with the '''number of scientific research papers''' steadily '''increasing'''.


Longevity Wiki is the '''primary''' Internet source of knowledge in longevity research.
| rowspan="7" |Significant '''increase''' in '''average/maximum human health- and/or lifespan''' in the next '''100 years''' and life extension therapies are accessible all over the world.
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|Contributors
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|LongevityWiki Community
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|Advisory Board
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|Financial Resources
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|Partnerships (e.g. Effective Altruist organizations)
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|Global Longevity Community (e.g. subreddit, researchers, etc.)
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| colspan="6" |Our vision is a world in which humans live physically healthy lives until the day they die, and that death is a choice, not an obligation.
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!Target Year 2022
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|1.1.a)
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|1.2.a)
|Awareness of Longevity research increases
|Number of articles written on longevity in scientific journals
Number of news articles on longevity written in (non-)scientific journals

Number of funding applications for longevity research
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|1.2.b)
|Credibility of Longevity research increases
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|2.1.a)
|Awareness of Longevity Wiki increases
|Number of readers per month
Number of new web links per month
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|2.1.b)
|Credibility of Longevity Wiki increases
|Number of citations in notable journals
Number of researchers in the field contributing to the Wiki

Amount of money received in funding for the Wiki
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|2.1.c)
|Accessibility of Longevity Wiki increases
|Number of people interacting with our mini-widgets
Number of mini-widgets

Google Search queries where we place top 5
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|2.1.d)
|Number of articles on Longevity Wiki increases
|Number of finished articles 
Number of articles in progress

Number of active content writers
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!Indicators
!Target Year 2022
!Data source
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|1.1.
|Funding for researchers and research institutions that focus on longevity increase.
|Amount of funding (in $) given to researchers for longevity-related projects.
Number of grants given to research in longevity-related projects.
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|1.2.
|Awareness of the importance, existence and credibility of longevity research increase.
|Number of university students who write their Bachelor/Master/PhD thesis within a subject closely related to longevity research.
Number of research institutions doing longevity-related research.

Number of researchers doing longevity-related research.

Percentage change in number of published scientific research papers on longevity.
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|2.1.
|Longevity Wiki is a  well-known, science-based, sense-making, trustworthy and reliable source of information on longevity.
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