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WikiProject Medicine was started in 2004 by Dr. Jacob de Wolff as WikiProject Clinical Medicine with the later branch WikiProject Preclinical Medicine. These merged and WikiProject Medicine has since been one of Wikipedia's most active WikiProjects. WP:MED as it is known aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles.
The science outline provides a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject. It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan and develop science-related material. Outlines are a hub from which to organize scientific topics.
Why should medical professionals care about Wikipedia? Wikipedia is one of the most commonly read online sources of medical information, and is consistently among the top 10 most visited websites in the world (currently fifth).1 As well as being widely read by the general public, it is also used as a source of healthcare information by 50%–70% of physicians2 and over 90% of medical students ...
- Thomas Shafee, Gwinyai Masukume, Lisa Kipersztok, Diptanshu Das, Mikael Häggström, James Heilman
- 2017
Mar 3, 2015 · WikiProject Medicine making progress. In the 14 years since Wikipedia launched, it has become one of the most popular sources of health information online. Although some doctors decry its crowd-sourced content as unreliable, studies indicate that many use it. Some even cite Wikipedia in their peer-reviewed journal articles, despite the ...
- Terry Murray
- 10.1503/cmaj.109-4982
- 2015
- CMAJ. 2015 Mar 3; 187(4): 245.
Apr 19, 2024 · WikiProject Medicine provides support for the Wikipedia Education Program in Medicine, which helps instructors facilitate the incorporation of Wikipedia into classrooms. WikiProject Medicine has helped create several regional versions of an Internet-In-A-Box to provide people in areas without internet access the ability to read and download ...
Results. During 3 cycles of the month-long elective, 28 students in aggregate edited 28 different Wikipedia pages, contributing a collective 1,084 edits. They adding 369,994 bytes and removed 82,559 bytes of data, for net changes of 287,385 (average of 10,264/student). The total number of edits made was 1,084.
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Jan 31, 2011 · Abstract. The Internet has become an important health information resource for patients and the general public. Wikipedia, a collaboratively written Web-based encyclopedia, has become the dominant online reference work. It is usually among the top results of search engine queries, including when medical information is sought.
