[WikiEN-l] Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2010/7/27 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> On 27 July 2010 11:56, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>> A friend of mine woke up in the middle of the night with a belly-ache.
>> He googled it (in Hebrew) and the first result was the Hebrew
>> Wikipedia article about appendicitis. The symptoms matched, so he went
>> to the hospital and it indeed was appendicitis.
>>
>> Wikipedia may have saved his life and this story may make a good
>> testimonial video - but are we sure that we would want to do it in the
>> light of [[Wikipedia:Medical disclaimer]]?
>
> I'm not at all sure we should. We shouldn't be encouraging people to
> diagnose themselves using Wikipedia. What if your friend had found the
> article on indigestion and found that his symptoms seemed to match
> (the symptoms can be pretty similar) so just went back to bed?

That's exactly what i meant to say.

Testimonials may be great, but the message must be safe. A video about
bringing quality-tested articles as teaching aids to schools in poor
areas may be safer. (We may not have actually done it, but we
might...)

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אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
Amir Elisha Aharoni

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 I want to live in peace." - T. Moore