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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.
Feb 3, 2024 · The Wiki Project Med Foundation (WPMEDF), also known within the Wikimedia movement as Wikimedia Medicine, is the Wikimedia thematic organization dedicated to promoting development and distribution of health care content within our movement. More broadly, we are an independent corporation founded in December 2012 committed "to make clear ...
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Wikipedia editor communities are organised into approximately 800 currently active ‘WikiProjects’, which bring together editors interested in a particular topic or process in Wikipedia (online supplementary table S3).29 WikiProject Medicine was one of the first such communities, being founded in 2004 by Jacob de Wolff, MD.
- Thomas Shafee, Gwinyai Masukume, Lisa Kipersztok, Diptanshu Das, Mikael Häggström, James Heilman
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This is a complete collection of all health care, sanitation, anatomy, and medication related topics from Wikipedia in an offline format. Like Wikipedia all content is open access, meaning that it is free to download, reuse, share, and build upon.
Note: The name "Wiki Project Med" and initialism "WPMEDF" both refer to the nonprofit corporation "Wiki Project Med Foundation", incorporated in New York in December 2012, and currently recognised by WMF as a user group. The name "WikiProject Medicine" refers to any of the 40 Wikiprojects, informal collaborations of editors on particular ...
Apr 19, 2024 · WikiJournal of Medicine is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation; WikiProject Medicine provides support for the Wikipedia Education Program in Medicine, which helps instructors facilitate the incorporation of Wikipedia into classrooms.
Jan 31, 2011 · This paper, written by members of the WikiProject Medicine, discusses the intricacies, strengths, and weaknesses of Wikipedia as a source of health information and compares it with other medical wikis. Medical professionals, their societies, patient groups, and institutions can help improve Wikipedia's health-related entries.
