Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/About

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. We write articles and discuss all manner of issues on our talk page: WT:MED.

Through the years we've built up a catalogue of sub-projects and task-forces which vary in their activity, you can find some of them at the task force page.

News mentions

2022 and older
Nov 9, 2022 Wikipedia, Once Shunned, Now Embraced in the Classroom
Mar 3, 2021 Wikipedia maintained high-quality COVID-19 coverage during first pandemic wave
May 24, 2020 The rise of Wikipedia as a source of medical information
Mar 15, 2020 How Wikipedia Prevents the Spread of Coronavirus Misinformation

2016 and older

Dec 6, 2016 Wikipedia Thinks It Has Facebook Beat in Handling Fake News Dec 2, 2016 Wikipedia is the world’s largest medical resource, but crucial information is often missing Nov 10, 2016 Meet Doctor Wikipedia Nov 9, 2016 Oriya Medical Wikipedia app growing popular Nov 3, 2016 Should You Use Wikipedia for Medical Information? Aug 30, 2016 Is Wikipedia a High Quality Evidence-Based Resource? Aug 9, 2016 Translators Without Borders press release July 4 Two policies in Conflict? Signpost Jun 29, 16 radio in Italy May 24, 16 Why getting medical information from Wikipedia isn’t always a bad idea Apr 24, 16 Update on EranBot, our new copyright violation detection bot Apr 24, 16 Knowledge Engine and the Wales–Heilman emails Mar 29, 16 Wikipedia’s coverage of essential vaccines is expanding Mar 17, 2016 Thursday Thinkpiece: Kleefeld & Rattray on Editing Wikipedia for Law School Credit The Telegraph Feb 2, 2016 Scientific journal retracts research copied from Wikipedia entry Tech News, Jan 21, 2016 About talks in TW Washington Post, Jan 15, 2016 [1] The Register, Jan 12, 2016 [2] PR Wire Nov 17, 2015 [3] Nov 5, 2015 Washington Post[4] Oct 29, 2015 Copy and Paste Bot Sept 14 2015 10 Wikipedians Aug 2015 Oxford University Press Plagiarized Wikipedia, Now Who the Hell Should I Believe? Aug 2015 The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay The Atlantic July 2015 Dynamed May 2015 CFCF's final report June 2, 2015 Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese Signpost May 19, 2015 Towards ‘Health Information for All’: Medical content on Wikipedia received 6.5 billion page views in 2013. / Signpost Mar 11,2015 Wikipedia's medical errors and one doctor's fight to correct them Mar 3, 2015 The Doctor Who’s Healing Wikipedia Feb 25,2015 Text from Wikipedia good enough for Oxford University Press to claim as own Signpost Feb 4, 2015 Is Wikipedia for sale? Signpost January 27,2015 Murray, Terry. "WikiProject Medicine making progress". CMAJ. doi:10.1503/cmaj.109-4982. Jan 6,2015 Improving the Accuracy of Wikipedia’s Medical Information Philanthropy New York Dec 3,2014 Medical Students Learn to Treat Ailing Wikipedia Entries Nov 20, 2014 Keeping the facts straight Nov 4, 2014 Global Ebola Oct 29, 2014 SBM on Wikipedia in Every Language Oct 26, 2014 Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola Oct 1, 2014 Wikipedia article published in peer-reviewed journal; Wikipedia in education Signpost Oct 2nd, 2014 A Fight for Awareness in the Age of Globalization Sept 3, 2014 Copy and Paste Bot Sign Post Aug 27 2014 UK Blog Aug 11 BMJ blog Aug, 2014 Simi Sara Show Aug 21, 2014 Wikipedia's medical errors and one doctor's fight to correct them Aug 14, 2014 Wikimania: student medics get credit for webside manner Aug 5,2014 Blog 5 ways Wikipedia’s health information is improving July 31, 2014 Canadian doctor leads Wiki Project Med Foundation Wikipedia, a valuable resource "tertiary" June 23, 2014 Is Wikipedia’s medical content really 90% wrong? June 2, 2014 Wikipedia for medicine — right or wrong? Australian Doctor "Trust your doctor, not Wikipedia, say scientists". Retrieved 2 June 2014. Davide Bennato (27 May 2014). "Ricerca e comunicazione amori difficili ma non impossibili". Retrieved 27 May 2014. Mar 26th, 2014 Information on health, free for all with Wikipedia (Italian) Mar 5th, 2014, The Atlantic, Doctors’ #1 Source for Healthcare Information: Wikipedia [5] Feb 20th, 2014, National Journal, Wikipedia Is a Massively Popular (Yet Untested) Doctor [6] Feb 19th, 2014, Hindustan Times [7] Feb 12, 2014, Sleep Review [8] Open Science Jan 22, 2014 [9] IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics [10] Signpost Oct 9, 2013 College credit for editing Wikipedia [11] Center for Digital Education Oct 9, 2013 [12] Motherboard [13] The Atlantic Oct 1st, 2013 [14] NYTs Aug 29th 2013 [15] UCSF press release [16] Reader's digest, Sept 2013 [17] NIH blog July 17,2013 [18] Signpost July 3 Wikipedia's medical collaborations gathering pace [19] World Health Organization Bulletin, Jan 2013 [20]

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