---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mikael Häggström haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM Subject: A wiki where every article is a real medical case To: foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org
Good day
A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick is started.
It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically, the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive media, and any medically interested person describes it.
See proposal details for Wikisick.
Best regards
Mikael Häggström
Sounds like a recipe for Wikichondria.
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael Bimmler Sent: 06 May 2008 13:32 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: [Foundation-l] Fwd: A wiki where every article is a real medicalcase
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mikael Häggström haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM Subject: A wiki where every article is a real medical case To: foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org
Good day
A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick is started.
It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically, the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive media, and any medically interested person describes it.
See proposal details for Wikisick.
Best regards
Mikael Häggström
Boy, I have some serious medmal liability issues with this one. I hope someone's having a lawyer look REALLY closely at it.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Brian McNeil" brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:15 AM To: "'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: A wiki where every article is a realmedicalcase
Sounds like a recipe for Wikichondria.
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mikael Häggström haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM Subject: A wiki where every article is a real medical case To: foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org
Good day
A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick is started.
It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically, the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive media, and any medically interested person describes it.
See proposal details for Wikisick.
Best regards
Mikael Häggström
-- Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com
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Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Boy, I have some serious medmal liability issues with this one. I hope someone's having a lawyer look REALLY closely at it.
When something like this is such a non-starter from the beginning, consulting lawyers is a redundant act.
Ec
A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick is started.
It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically, the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive media, and any medically interested person describes it.
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically, the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive media, and any medically interested person describes it.
I don't understand why people think that they need to create special-purpose wikis for all sorts of specialized topics? If you want to talk about medical cases, you could easily do a learning experiment with it on Wikiversity, or write up case studies in book-form on Wikibooks. You could create a book "Medical Case Studies" with hundreds or even thousands of sub-pages for each case. If you're married to the name "Wikisick", I'm sure you could name it that too.
The point is that we have plenty of space for this and other single-subject ideas in our existing projects. I would love to see this idea turn into a successful wikibook or wikiversity course. It's pointless to make it a separate project, however.
--Andrew Whitworth
Andrew Whitworth wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically, the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive media, and any medically interested person describes it.
I don't understand why people think that they need to create special-purpose wikis for all sorts of specialized topics? If you want to talk about medical cases, you could easily do a learning experiment with it on Wikiversity, or write up case studies in book-form on Wikibooks. You could create a book "Medical Case Studies" with hundreds or even thousands of sub-pages for each case. If you're married to the name "Wikisick", I'm sure you could name it that too.
The point is that we have plenty of space for this and other single-subject ideas in our existing projects. I would love to see this idea turn into a successful wikibook or wikiversity course. It's pointless to make it a separate project, however.
--Andrew Whitworth
Hear, hear! I'm always trying to promote Wikibooks, though... and am not always sure how to direct people so I sometimes fall flat. I think http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/WB:NEW is a good start.
Partially to understand how Wikibooks works, I did collaborate with Durova to start a particular one [[b:Introduction to crochet]] which can still use more contributions.
I was going to say, this screams potential HIPPA violations (or the equivalent in different countries, where such a law exists).
-Chad
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com wrote:
Boy, I have some serious medmal liability issues with this one. I hope someone's having a lawyer look REALLY closely at it.
From: "Brian McNeil" brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:15 AM To: "'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: A wiki where every article is a
realmedicalcase
Sounds like a recipe for Wikichondria.
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mikael Häggström haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM Subject: A wiki where every article is a real medical case To: foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org
Good day
A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick is started.
It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically, the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive media, and any medically interested person describes it.
See proposal details for Wikisick.
Best regards
Mikael Häggström
-- Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com
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From: Mikael Häggström haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com
A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick is started. It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically, the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive media, and any medically interested person describes it.
Possibly redundant with existing non-Wikimedia projects:
http://askdrwiki.com/ http://www.ganfyd.org/
Both of these restrict contribution to medical professionals, presumably for quality of content.
- d.
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