On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
I recently came across this wiki:
It seemed a lot better than Wikipedia for what I wanted to look up.
Has anyone else come across this wiki before?
It launched to modest fanfare last year, but I hadn't seen much about it since.
It looks like their main focus has been batch imports of content from other sources, including lots of full journal articles automatically quasi-formatted for the wiki. Actual human edits seem to be minimal, though. Compare all edits (dominated by automatic imports) versus mainspace edits (which trickle in slowly):
http://wiki.medpedia.com/Special:RecentChanges?namespace=0&limit=500&... http://wiki.medpedia.com/Special:RecentChanges?namespace=&limit=500&...
-Sage