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WikiProject Medicine

Welcome to WikiProject Medicine! We discuss, collaborate, and debate anything and everything about medical and health content on Wikipedia on our discussion page.
Everyone is welcome to join!

Guidelines

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An introductory video about how to edit Wikipedia and medicine.
  • Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and has a distinct style that may take some time getting used to.
  • It is important that articles use the best sources and content is given due weight. Different from scientific papers, Wikipedia medical and health content is preferably sourced to secondary sources over primary sources. Citing a review article is preferred over an original trial.
  • To get you started and to explain why this is important here are a number of guides and guidelines:
WP:MEDRS      WP:MEDMOS
Reliable Sources (medicine)      Manual of Style (medicine-related articles)
WP:MEDCOI      WP:MEDHOW
Conflicts of Interest      How to edit
Our guides complement Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and take great care to explain why they are relevant.
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There is also a tool to find all our sub pages here — only for the truly curious

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Wikipedia can be a great resource for getting to know a field — and it can give you an encyclopaedic overview of a subject, acting as a spring-board letting you dive deeper. It should however not be used as your only source when performing research, and you should never blindly trust Wikipedia. Over the years a lot of research has been amassed surrounding the reliability and biases of Wikipedia. To see some of the studies that have been produced on the quality and scope of medical information on Wikipedia take a look at some of the research:

  Academic studies of health information on Wikipedia

This is a list of academic articles related to the coverage of health and medical topics on Wikipedia. For general academic articles see Academic studies of Wikipedia. For academic studies about the use of Wikipedia in education, see Academic studies of Wikipedia in education. For popular media coverage of Wikipedia's medical content see the popular media list.

Summaries, literature reviews of studies on Wikipedia's medical content

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  • Smith DA (2020-02-18). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PLOS ONE. 15 (2): e0228786. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1528786S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786. PMC 7028268. PMID 32069322.
  • Maggio LA, Willinsky JM, Costello JA, Skinner NA, Martin PC, Dawson JE (December 2020). "Integrating Wikipedia editing into health professions education: a curricular inventory and review of the literature". Perspectives on Medical Education. 9 (6): 333–342. doi:10.1007/s40037-020-00620-1. PMC 7718341. PMID 33030643.
  • Santangelo, Omar Enzo; Gianfredi, Vincenza; Provenzano, Sandro (2022-10-29). "Wikipedia searches and the epidemiology of infectious diseases: A systematic review". Data & Knowledge Engineering. 142: 102093. doi:10.1016/j.datak.2022.102093. S2CID 252945115.
  • Alibudbud, Rowalt (2023-07-04). "Wikipedia page views for health research: a review". Frontiers in Big Data. 6. doi:10.3389/fdata.2023.1199060. ISSN 2624-909X. PMC 10353851. PMID 37469441.

COVID-19 pandemic and Wikipedia

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For older articles see Research publications, or search PubMed: Wikipedia, Wikipedia AND Medicine
June 2016
  • Wikimedia in Esino Lario 22nd-27th June 2016 — (site)
    • Wikipedia Medicine Pre-conference day 23rd June, Varenna - Villa Monastero (site and slides)
Video coming soon
152 edits List of common misconceptions
138 edits Comstock Act of 1873
126 edits Nicol Spence Galbraith
107 edits 2024 Tamil Nadu alcohol poisoning
99 edits James Alison Glover
45 edits Source control (respiratory disease)
39 edits Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine
33 edits List of pharmaceutical companies
32 edits Simone Badal-McCreath
32 edits Influenza A virus

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 26 June 2024 by HotArticlesBot.



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A copy of the old page is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Old 2016.
An even older copy showcasing earlier efforts can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Old 2012

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