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-are-collecting-your-data

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-are-collecting-your-data

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@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.)
>
>
> --
> Tilman Bayer
> Senior Analyst
> Wikimedia Foundation
> IRC (Freenode): HaeB



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