Health 2.0 News: From Android Interfaces to Wikipedia Hard-Cover Editions November 18, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Electronic Medical Records, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha.2 comments
Welcome to the Imagine Medicine contest! We are looking for fascinating medical photography that… imagines medicine. Nothing is off the table: portraits, group shots, happy shots, tragic shots, clinical shots, photoshop illustrations, macro, micro, and anything in between. Can you imagine medicine, showcase it as art, and make us wonder?
Health 2.0 News: From Blekko to Cellphones saving lives November 12, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Mobile, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?, Wikipedia.add a comment
- Blekko is a new search engine that aims to remove spam content from search results by slashtagging websites.
Free knowledge is the foundation of all Wikimedia projects: anyone is free to use, modify and redistribute the content for any purpose. But copyright and free licenses are very confusing for new users, especially when they want to contribute pictures and other media files. A new illustrated licensing tutorial will now guide new users through the basics of copyright and free licenses to make their first steps easier.
- Blausen Human Atlas iPad v3.0 New Features
Early iPad adapter, and Oncology Net Guide advisory board member, Don Dizon, MD, FACP, will review the benefits of using the iPad and explore apps that health care professionals might find useful. Dizon will also explain how he has implemented the iPad into his medical practice; initially planning to use the iPad for personal use, the physician now uses it 80% of the time for professional purposes.
10+8 Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia October 6, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Collaboration, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, Wikipedia.5 comments
As I’ve been an administrator of Wikipedia, it’s really important for me to persuade more and more professionals to edit Wikipedia. A new paper published in PLoS Computational Biology seems to be a very helpful first step for those who are interested in editing biomedical content in the biggest encyclopaedia.
Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia
- Rule 1: Register an Account
- Rule 2: Learn the Five Pillars
- Rule 3: Be Bold, but Not Reckless
- Rule 4: Know Your Audience
- Rule 5: Do Not Infringe Copyright
- Rule 6: Cite, Cite, Cite
- Rule 7: Avoid Shameless Self-Promotion
- Rule 8: Share Your Expertise, but Don’t Argue from Authority
- Rule 9: Write Neutrally and with Due Weight
- Rule 10: Ask for Help
I have some other tips dedicated to the biomedical entries.
- Focus on the Medical Collaboration of the Month if you cannot choose which entry to work on.
- Defend entries that would be deleted
- There are entries needing expert attention
- Requested articles in medicine
- Expand medical stub entries
- Contribute to the assessment of medical entries
- Work on the most visited Medical Portal
- Find collaborators or other projects on WikiProject Medicine
Real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits September 9, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Visualization, Web 2.0, Wikipedia.add a comment
In the Internet in Medicine electice course for medical students, I always mention how Wikipedia works in real-time in the Wikipedia lecture. I also show a video to them about the London bombings and how the related entry changed from second to second:
Well, this semester I will show them something even better, the real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits:
Health 2.0 News: Centrifuge for Labor and Behind Healthcare.gov August 11, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Genetic testing, Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Statistics, Visualization, Web 2.0, What's on the web?, Wikipedia.add a comment
- Measuring Hospital Quality: The data presented is from The Joint Commission’s 2009 Annual Report on Quality and Safety
- Centrifuge for Helping Women in Labor: An unbelievable patent
At the moment the sensitivity and specificity of a lot of genetic tests for complex, polygenic disorders (for which we haven’t yet identified all the genetic variants that increase risk) are unlikely to match those of standard diagnostic or screening tests. What’s likely is that the predictive capacity of these tests will improve as more variants are identified, and/or if additional non-genetic information is included in the test.
- Statistical analysis is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for people who love stats. It’s 100% free, no registration required.
WikiProject Medicine + Google August 10, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Collaboration, Google, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, Wikipedia.2 comments
I just joined an initiative on Wikipedia which features Google and the medical editors on Wikipedia. WikiProject Medicine editors and Google reviewers work together on articles within Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine.
Initiated at Google.org and then announced at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine#Announcement to WikiProject Medicine community prior to trial editorial review, this collaboration is intended as an exploration of active cooperation between professional medical editors and wikipedians to further improve the quality of articles. Work began with the identification of a short list of articles for review, selected as a cross-section of medicine-related topics. Each article on the list now has an assessed “Class” and “Importance”, harvested from its talk-page banner, reflecting Wikipedians’ initial assessment of their state.
While I’m not really sure I understand why it’s beneficial for Google, this is a great project which I’m gladly participating in.
Wikipedia Admins: Beware! March 30, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Web 2.0, Wikipedia.4 comments
I’ve recently received quite a strange e-mail, obviously I haven’t even answered it. I’ve been not so active on Wikipedia for the last few months and they thought they could use my admin flag for some other purposes.
We tried to get in contact with you almost a year ago, detailing our desires to utilise your account to help rid Wikipedia of the corruption and bureaucracy at every level that continues to plague it to this very day. We are hoping that, almost a year on, your circumstances may have changed and you may be more willing to aid us in achieving our goal. At the end of the day we all want the same thing – an encyclopedia that is informative and accurate, but one that is also run in a fair manner so all can contribute on an equitable level. As a reminder, here is an extract from our original message:
“We are currently expanding our portfolio of administrator accounts, and as yours remains dormant perhaps you could consider donating it to us – to do so will take you only two minutes: change the password (if desired) and then reply to this email with your login details. We’ll do the rest!”
Once more, thank you for your time and consideration, and naturally do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Kind Regards,
The Wikipedia Freedom Fighters
It’s not unusual though.
Internet in Medicine Course Week 4: Wikipedia and Medical Wikis March 24, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Web 2.0, Wiki, Wikipedia.2 comments
I’ve been a Wikipedia administrator since 2006 so this topic is really close to my heart. First slideshow is dedicated to Wikipedia issues.
- Facebook + Google + Flickr (=) Wikipedia
- How to build an encyclopedia? Pay professionals? Certainly not.
- I believe in the power of masses.
- Wikipedia statistics, history (Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales)
- 10 most visited websites in the world: Wikipedia is the 6th one.
- Why is Wikipedia great? (Free, fast, comprehensive, discussions, easy to edit, objective, etc)
- Why it isn’t great. (Almost the same reasons)
- Vandalism and how we fight it: Huggle
- Basics of editing an article; page history, talk pages
- A Wikipedia article minute by minute:
- Basic guidelines: Be bold, objective, no hoax, don’t copy and notability issues
- A few controversies (Seigenthaler in 2005; Congress in 2006; Essjay in 2007)
- Encyclopaedia Britannica vs Wikipedia; my analysis
- Medical Wikiproject, Medicine Portal, article assessment
- Editing process: from a Good Article to a Featured Article
- Sister projects
- Uncyclopedia
Take-home message:
Wikipedia is a great place to start your research, but should never be the last source you finish your research with.
Second slideshow was focusing on medical wikis.
- We need wikis for collaboration, teaching, organizing events, etc.
- Definition of Wiki
- Wikis in plain English:
- Medical wikis, featuring two examples: Askdrwiki and Radiopaedia
- How to launch a wiki on Wetpaint
- Semantic Wikis? Wikiproteins
- Classification of diseases, WHO project
- 3D Wiki = Second Life?
Take-home message:
If you want to share and create content online, a wiki is a great tool to use.
