Should this run by the legal team because it's medical-related?
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
And as followup, connecting very nicely with this week's dominant topic:
@wikipedia:
"There is one bright light here—Wikipedia." We don't tell third-party
companies which health issues you read about.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies…
FB/G+:
"There is one bright light here—Wikipedia. It was one of the only
sites that trafficked in health information that sent no third party
requests to corporations." We value our readers' privacy highly.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies…
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
From @wikipedia:
Half of Wikipedia's top medical editors are health care professionals,
85% have a university education
http://www.jmir.org/2015/3/e62/
FB/G+:
Wikipedia is probably "the most viewed medical resource globally",
according to this new study.
Wikipedia's medical content is supported by more than 950,000
references and was viewed more than 4.88 billion times in 2013.
Half of Wikipedia's top medical editors are health care professionals,
85% have a university education
http://www.jmir.org/2015/3/e62/
(NB: this is a very similar result as
https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/540932219955449856 , but a
different study.)
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