[WikiEN-l] Medpedia

[Fred Bauder]

Here's what happens when you click on "suggest changes"

The edit window opens and this message:

"Suggesting Changes to Children and Diabetes
Type your suggested changes to the Article in the box below and then
click the "Submit Suggested Changes" to save them. The changes will go
live on Medpedia when an Editor reviews and approves them. See Help:How
to Suggest Changes for more step-by-step instructions."

I don't suppose this would be a problem if you made a useful well-sourced
suggestion. This would have to be tested. My usual reaction once would
have been to not even try, but now, after years on Wikipedia, I've got a
good idea of what a useful well-sourced suggestion looks like.

Fred Bauder


> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>> I recently came across this wiki:
>>
>> http://www.medpedia.com/
>>
>> 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&title=Special%3ARecentChanges
> http://wiki.medpedia.com/Special:RecentChanges?namespace=&limit=500&title=Special%3ARecentChanges
>
> -Sage
>
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