Comments on: Ask Dr Wiki vs medicine in Wikipedia

By: Health++

Health++ — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:20:08 +0000

It took long time to open Ask Dr Wiki. I think the web server should be improved.

By: Dr Ankush

Dr Ankush — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:25:39 +0000

Well I started of as a wikipedia editor and pretty early bfore entering med school (Just out of fun for out wiki-editors group in school). But things changed after entering med school.
1. Much of the med students rely on wikipedia articles pretty blindly (they even quote it in exams).
2. They dont wish to edit it because, they dont want to go through the learning curve of wikitext or the syntax.
3. I dont have time or dont-teach-me-attitude on wikipedia when a non-medico puts up an argument. Plus the attitude of medicos to go behind credentials and refrences.
4. Wikipedia has a very organised, managed and dedicated set up, which has lived up and will continue to live upto all our dreams.
Unfortunately Im the alone editor in the my whole medical school.
Anyways, any specific medical oriented wiki can do is
Exceptionally well organised info about each and every disease taking care of its talk pages and edits with history. A WYSIWYG editor would do far more than anything for those lazy medicos.
The questions asked from patients should fall under respective disease category with back-fore link ups, which can present usefull cases for doctors and medical students.
The ad revenue model sholud be user and need specific like gynaecolgist would be least intersted in opthalmic instruments. Hence signed in users should define keyword specification for the ads they need.

Well the most usefull would be to have a separate link out of medical portal of wikipedia itself coz its not worth reinventing the wheel (anyways it “CREATIVE COMMONS ROCKS”)

And all this needs a medico with compwhiz head hope the program im working on sloves this:)

By: elizabe

elizabe — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:33:31 +0000

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Pet portrait artists — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:28:30 +0000

Lately, I’ve been faced with a lot of articles saying that Wikipedia has degraded because of some incorrect articles pushed into it. Wikipedia has been very open to people who wanted to contribute something. However, Wikipedia failed to strain or filter this information. They also failed to verify the information being entered.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:27:48 +0000

You need an orthopaedic area

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online shopping — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:30:13 +0000

I agree with you – and I think you’ve assessed it rather well. Wikipedia is for lay people, and it should stay that way. But there is a need for an extensive sort of wiki, something that goes a lot deeper and has more technical references. The idea of Ask Dr Wiki is a fantastic one. I also know there are some other similar wiki’s out there, that are geared towards specific illnesses. These are excellent for rural areas, especially the FluWiki and similar wiki’s. But, they are also for laypeople (and should remain so.) A technical Wiki, edited ONLY by doctors and medical people, is a fantastic idea. All the best to the guys to Ask Dr Wiki then. I think it’s a really excellent idea.

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By: Bertalan Meskó

Bertalan Meskó — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:41:02 +0000

I’m sorry Rosie, but me as a medical student and blogger, can’t give you any kind of advice.

By: Rosie Sekayumptewa

Rosie Sekayumptewa — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:42:48 +0000

I’ve got a medical question that I would like to ask of a physician. I have a brother who was injured in an auto accident August 1989 and he had a CV 3/4 injury. Today he is still paralyzed but lately he has been feeling severe pain in his hip or “butt” area. My question is, I thought he is not suppose to be feeling any pain at all so how could he be feeling this pain. His rehab doctor and his regular doctor have been giving him constant care and examinations but can’t explain how or why that pain is there. What could it be? I would appreciate your response. Thank you.

Rosie S.

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HelloWorld — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:05:56 +0000

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By: ajcann

ajcann — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:45:08 +0000

So I got asked to comment further:

http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/2007/03/askdrwiki.html

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By: ncurse

ncurse — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:54:51 +0000

Good-looking is not a good expression, I’d say proper.

Anyway, do you think that a doctor should trust a Nature or a Newscientist article? Those have lots of good-looking references too.

Did I say that doctors must only trust these wikis? Wikis are works in progress. Doctors must trust medical books and their knowledge. But if additional information is needed, then the properly referenced articles could be a source of information. That’s all I say.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:41:49 +0000

“If those articles are well-referenced, then those should be reliable. It’s not a question of credentials, but references.”

This is a perspective I don’t quite understand, Berci. Should a doctor trust an article at AskDrWiki (or Wikipedia) as accurate because it has lots of good-looking footnotes?

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