G'day folks
Nature has apparently published an article about Ganfyd which is an online textbook of medicine only edited by doctors. I was alerted by a blog post by the medical library of the University of Utah. It is also interesting that wikipedias is used as a plural which may be an indication that wikipedia is becoming a word for an online editable encyclopedia.
The post reads:
Read the following article about wikipedias, especially about a new medical wikipedia, Gandfyd http://www.ganfyd.org/. Only registered medical practitioners are allowed to edit Ganddyd. In it's "about us" section, it states "Simply put this is an evolving textbook of medicine." http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v13/n3/pdf/nm0307-231.pdf "WikiMedia" *NATURE MEDICINE *VOLUME 13 | NUMBER 3 | MARCH 2007 "Ganfyd, short for 'get a note from your doctor,' accepts contributions only from people with medical credentials. More than 300 doctors have already written some 3,000 articles for Ganfyd."
Regards to all.
Keith Old
Wasn't Wikipedia trademarked? Anyway, technically wikipedias is the correct term to use as all the different language versions are different projects right now.
Mgm
On 3/19/07, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
G'day folks
Nature has apparently published an article about Ganfyd which is an online textbook of medicine only edited by doctors. I was alerted by a blog post by the medical library of the University of Utah. It is also interesting that wikipedias is used as a plural which may be an indication that wikipedia is becoming a word for an online editable encyclopedia.
The post reads:
Read the following article about wikipedias, especially about a new medical wikipedia, Gandfyd http://www.ganfyd.org/. Only registered medical practitioners are allowed to edit Ganddyd. In it's "about us" section, it states "Simply put this is an evolving textbook of medicine." http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v13/n3/pdf/nm0307-231.pdf "WikiMedia" *NATURE MEDICINE *VOLUME 13 | NUMBER 3 | MARCH 2007 "Ganfyd, short for 'get a note from your doctor,' accepts contributions only from people with medical credentials. More than 300 doctors have already written some 3,000 articles for Ganfyd."
Regards to all.
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On 3/19/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Wasn't Wikipedia trademarked?
yes and if that is how they described themselves there would be a problem.
They also have one of the strangest lisences I've run across:
http://www.ganfyd.org/deeds/commons.html
On 3/20/07, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
Read the following article about wikipedias, especially about a new medical wikipedia,
Bizarre. Anyone seen any other usage like that?
Steve
On 20/03/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
They're using "wikipedia" as an abbreviation for "wiki encyclopedia", which is understandable, although completely incorrect. We may have trouble holding onto the trademark - it could easily become generic.
Well, if people do insist on gluing two existing words together and claiming them as a trademark...