Showing posts with label wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wikipedia. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Wikipedia is already the world’s ‘Dr Google’ – it’s time for doctors and researchers to make it better

TheConversation: Health professionals have a duty to improve the accuracy of medical entries in Wikipedia, according to a letter published today in Lancet Global Health, because it’s the first port of call for people all over the world seeking medical information.
In our correspondence, a group of international colleagues and I call on medical journals to do more to help experts make Wikipedia more accurate, and for the medical community to make improving its content a top priority.