VisualWikipedia and entries on drug information January 9, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine, Web 2.0, Wikipedia.trackback
I would like to share 4 interesting articles mentioning Wikipedia with you. As you may know, I’ve been an administrator in the English Wikipedia since October, 2006 so I’m not saying I can be neutral when writing about one of the biggest online projects ever.
- Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of drug information on Wikipedia (The Daily Scan): Wikipedia is worse than Medscape Drug Reference. But of course it is. I’m still saying Wikipedia should never mention dosage-related information as this is an encyclopaedia created for laypeople, and if a doctor is interested in such information, they should look it up on a site managed by only medical pofessionals.
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Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway? (Silicon Alley Insider)
The bulk of Wikipedia is written by 1400 obsessed freaks who do little else but contribute to the site, says a post racing up the Hacker News charts. The post pulls this number from an essay Aaron Swartz wrote more than two years ago, based on some comments by Jimmy Wales.
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VisualWikipedia: VisualWikipedia is a visual, intuitive, and interactive web interface to encyclopedic knowledge/information. It is designed to provide a fun place to learn stuff in an efficient manner.
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New Wikipedia initiative should be a must for humanities journals too (Biomedicine on Display)
Further reading:
- RNA Biology Journal and Wikipedia
- How to manage the content of a wiki?
- Google vs Wikipedia? No!
- Medicine in Wikipedia: Reliable Information?
- Wikipedia: Reliable Sources and Gene Wiki
That looks awesome. I love how wikipedia builds on itself and expands to all these cool things.
-Rob Fraser
I get a bit tired of people who refer to their fellow (wo)men with an intellectual passion as ‘obsessed freaks’, and at the same time overwhelmingly hail sports(wo)men who spend 20 hours per week for many years just to (perhaps) better a short track record with 0.01 second as heroes.
That stereotyping by commentators is what I would call nearly pathological behaviour: many of them probably are free riders that prefer jealousy over gratitude (and probably over any personal achievement).
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