[Foundation-l] Greetings, Wikimedians

James Hare messedrocker at gmail.com
Sat Jun 17 20:35:24 UTC 2006


Anyways, I think we should focus on a name. Apparently WikiMD is taken, so
how does MedWiki or WikiMed or WikiMedicine sound?

On 6/17/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How is Wikipedia better than World Book or Encyclopaedia Britannica? How
> is Wikinews better than CNN.com? How is Wiktionary better than
> dictionary.com? The idea is that when Wikimedia starts a project, we're
> the copyleft alternative to the ideal corporate source we're getting
> information from. The information Wikimedia publishes is for all the people
> with Internet access, and eventually the entire world.
>
> On 6/17/06, Lord Voldemort <lordbishopvoldemort at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 6/17/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The idea I came up with for preventing liability would be using
> > exclusively
> > > verifiable resources for research, i.e. something like WebMD where
> > people
> > > -know- it's good. I guess it was a mistake to call it a "medical
> > dictionary"
> > > when it's more of a "guide to finding out if you have disease X and
> > how to
> > > make it go away."
> >
> > Okay, then how would it differ or be better than WebMD? --LV
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