Wikipedia and Medicine
James Heilman
MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian
Wiki Project Med Foundation
All text is under a CC-BY-SA license
A little about myself
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Who here uses Wikipedia?
What language do you use it in?
Is Wikipedia Read by Nearly Everyone?
Some numbers
Medical stats (2013)
~5 billion pageview
~160,000 article
Medical stats
Why do medical students use Wikipedia?
Does Wikipedia Cover Nearly Everything?
Size of the English version as of May 2014(9)
Size of the medical content across all languages
Does Wikipedia Have a Huge Number of Editors?
Who has edited Wikipedia?
A few numbers
Medical numbers
Who are they?
Why do they edit?
Positive about Wikipedia
Enjoyable
Learning
Responsibility
English Wikipedia only
Why the falling number of editors?
Is Wikipedia Reliable?
Featured articles / good articles
Reference, Reference, Reference
WP:MEDRS
[10]
Most used journals
How we maintain quality
We agree Wikipedia is not perfect!
Future research:
Collaborations
Health Information for All in a Language of their Choice
(16)
Who are involved?
Wiki Project Med
Foundation
What we are working on?
Two tracks of article
Why do we need this?
Why other languages?
European: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, Swedish
The Digital Last Mile
350 million people
Successes / Difficulties
Wikipedia Based Textbooks
Medical Student Elective
Authorship
Can Wikipedia Advance your Career?
So why get involved?
Questions?
jmh649@gmail.com
http://enwp.org/User:Jmh649
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.”
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