[Foundation-l] Re: Update on Wikibook: Emergency Medicine

Fri May 13 01:49:39 UTC 2005

For ideas of presentations, check out 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Presentations

Unless I am wrong no presentation has ever been done on wikibooks...

who is the other participant also knowledgeable in emergency medicine ?

And what is your opinion about wikiversity ?

Anthere

Paris Lovett a écrit:
> Hi all,
> 
> Some news and a quick update on the Emergency Medicine wikibook:
> 
> 1. Those of you who recommended that we not have special author registration
> processes were right. It's hard enough to get contributors at the start
> without extra speed bumps!
> 2. The book is still at an embryonic stage. The structure has been laid out,
> but there is only one chapter (by yours truly).
> 3. On the plus side, I recently emailed a 1200 member listserv for emergency
> physicians and got some interested responses, particularly from one
> emergency physician who also is a regular wikimedia participant
> 4. The listserv posting also got me an invite to make a presentation on May
> 24th 3:00-4:30 at the Annual National Meeting of the Society for Academic
> Emergency Medicine. That is pretty exciting.
> 5. For the presentation, it would be helpful to have some facts that could
> demonstrate the unique benefits of the wiki system to those who've had no
> contact. 
> (a) I would appreciate any metrics on the growth of the wikipedia. 
> (b) And I would appreciate your thoughts on how best to "sell" the concept. 
> (c) Some at the meeting will be very sceptical of a textbook that does not
> verify authors' credentials and does not have a formal peer-review process.
> Those are the two big concerns. Remember, in medicine, when people read a
> textbook, they may go directly to use the advice in patient care, so the
> audience will have safety concerns, whatever disclaimers we place on the
> site. Please give thoughts on how best to respond.
> 6. Finally, I may get a mention in a national EM residents' magazine.
> Hopefully all these things will help get past the embryonic stage, to the
> fetal stage, and eventually to critical mass!
> 
> Paris Lovett.