[Foundation-l] The pathology informatics curriculum wiki: Harnessing the power of user-generated content

Mon Oct 25 09:48:58 UTC 2010

Nice. Worth noting though that the articles were informatics articles, 
rather than medical articles.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929539/table/T0004/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929539/table/T0003/

A.

> From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>

> Here is a medical use of Wikipedia,
> from Journal of Pathology Informatics:
> 
> The pathology informatics curriculum wiki: Harnessing the
> power of
> user-generated content
> 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929539/?tool=pubmed
> 
> This journal article in free online. I really like it. They
> don't whine
> about Wikipedia, they use it, and made their own wiki,
> using information
> from Wikipedia:
> 
> http://pathinformatics.wikispaces.com/
> 
> And encourage medical professionals to pitch in and improve
> Wikipedia
> medical articles:
> 
> "Please get involved
> We encourage contributors to (1) use the the wiki format to
> improve and
> extend this curriculum; (2) help edit and maintain the
> pathology
> informatics related pages in Wikipedia that are linked to
> this
> curriculum, and (3) create new pathology informatics pages
> in Wikipedia
> and link them to this website. In each of the lessons of
> the curriculum,
> we highlight areas where we feel that there is need for new
> or updated
> articles in Wikipedia relating to that topic."
> 
> Fred
> 
> 
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