Fellow Wikipedians
We have been working hard in the Arabic Wikipedia to establish a twin
WikiProject Medicine that would address local medical issues, in
addition to participating in global translation efforts.
One of the questions I had was the criteria currently followed to
evaluate the importance of medical articles on the English Wikipedia.
They seem a little bit vague and more difficult to follow when
compared to the quality scale.
Is there any suggested third-party reference that provides some kind
of a guide or a list of important medical subjects?
Best,
Dear Wikipedians,
Earlier this week, a large conference for the students of health
professions was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The organizers were
kind enough to invite me to speak about Wikipedia and Medicine and
about the medical wikithons we have been organizing in Saudi Arabia.
The turnout was really good (3,500 students attended the conference!)
and I spoke about the following points:
1. Wikipedia *is* a reliable source for health information.
2. Wikipedia *is* the right place to distribute health-related
information.
3. WikiProject Medicine is active and can use your help!
The presentation I used was in Arabic, but it includes many quotes and
citations in English. The presentation is best viewed using
Chrome/Chromium (and doesn't work on mobile browsers):
https://osamakhalid.com/mirror/presentations/hpc_2016/
I just thought that this might be of interest to people who would like
to present the case for Wikipedia and medicine.
Best,
Interesting intersection of an MMPORG and epidemiology.
Pine
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 3:22 PM
Subject: Proposed social media post: epidemiology and the World of Warcraft
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Share from the main Wikipedia account?
"In 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the
game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected
were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to
see how real life people would react to a pandemic."
Pine