[WikiEN-l] Ganfyd - an online medical encyclopedia

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

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 at 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.
>
> Keith Old
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