[Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

[Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com]

I am not affiliated with Wiki Med. However as an American, "Health" to my ear means scammy quacky bullshit that wants to pretend it is medicine for the $$$.  There are real reasons NY does not let an organization use the title "Medicine" without approval from the medical board. And all those reasons use the title "Health" or "Healing"  instead. I imagine the members of an organization like Wiki Med are more than normally aware of this and would be more than normally distressed to be associated with this. After all, the majority of Wikipedian medical editors seem dedicate a good portion of their time to keeping the scammy quacky bullshit out of the medical articles.

Birgitte SB

On Dec 29, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Leinonen Teemu <teemu.leinonen at aalto.fi> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I think the thematic organizations are good for the movement. Could the naming of the affiliated thematic organizations be primary based on the Wikipedia Portal namespaces (from all the Wikipedia's in different languages)?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Portals
> 
> With this "logic" the Wiki Med could be "Wikimedia Health".
> 
> - Teemu
> 
> On 28.12.2012, at 19.29, "Ziko van Dijk" <vandijk at wmnederland.nl<mailto:vandijk at wmnederland.nl>> wrote:
> 
> Dear James,
> 
> My sincere congratulations for this important step, and I am really
> very happy with a Wikimedia Medicine. But the name "Wiki Med
> Foundation" - I find the choice for that name just strange (I saw the
> discussion on Meta too late). "Wikimedia Health", by the way, would be
> as great as "Wikimedia Medicine". I understood that there problems in
> the State of New York to use "medicine" in the title. So, "Wiki
> Health" could have been an alternative until recognition from the
> AffCom.
> 
> Kind regards
> Ziko
> 
> 
> 2012/12/29 James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com<mailto:jmh649 at gmail.com>>:
> Yes so Wiki Med Foundation Inc incorporated Dec 19, 2012 and we had our
> first official board meeting Dec 26, 2012. We have had expressed interest
> from 57 people from more than a dozen countries with a large group of
> interested members from India. Our 9 board members are from 7 different
> countries.
> 
> Our first official event is being held January 7-11th at the University of
> California San Francisco in collaboration with Wikimedia Canada. We have
> been invited by the college of medicine to give a half dozen lectures on
> Wikipedia and Medicine and a few editing sessions where students and staff
> can try their hand at editing themselves. This is in preparation for an
> elective for 3rd and 4th year medical students which will resolve around
> contribution to Wikimedia projects hopefully to launch in the spring.
> 
> Of course we are a new corporation, however our membership is composed of
> people who have extensive experience within the Wikimedia movement. Once we
> have had a chance to prove ourselves over the next 6 month we will re
> approach the aff com / Wikimedia movement to determine if an official
> association is desired. Currently as stated by Bence we are not officially
> associated.
> 
> --
> James Heilman
> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
> 
> The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
> www.opentextbookofmedicine.com<http://www.opentextbookofmedicine.com>
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