User: Netha Hussain +1
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain nethahussain@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I am a 3rd year student of medicine from Kerala.Though I work on ml.wikipedia, I have recently started editing pharmacology-related articles on en.wikipedia. I have noticed the same insufficiency you mentioned. On Wikipedia, we do have articles covering various drugs their actions and side effects, but most often they are not useful to the public as these articles do not contain the proprietary(trade) names of the drugs. Most of the trade names listed in Wikipedia are those from the US or UK. Presently, the state of things in en.wikipedia is such that if an Indian trade name is added to the Wikipedia page of a drug, it gets deleted soon because of notability reasons. People often search for the trade names on Wikipedia as they do not know the generic names of the same. The end result is that those looking for information about a particular drug on google end up reaching sites other than Wikipedia.
Projects of this kind are something I am looking forward to. Though I am still a student, I would like to get invloved in this project(or similar projects) if ever we plan to launch it.
Regards User: Netha Hussain
On 11/20/11, RadhaKrishna Arvapally radhakrishna.arvapally@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Some time back I was looking for some drug information (which was in my doctor's prescription). Then I was thinking why that information was not there in wikipedia. I found few wonderful sites which gives that kind of information.
http://www.mims.com/index.aspx?Ctry=IN http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ http://www.webmd.com
I searched on google for information on a drug prescribed by my doctor. collected lots of info from various sources and added to wikipedia. And I was hoping I can add few more drugs when ever I visit a doctor. later my article was deleted quoting advertising of my own product.
I was thinking some kind of wikiDrug would help in understanding composition, use, side effects of each drug. Incubation of such project would be helpful.
I found the following website which use wikipedia's logo too. I am sure this is nothing to do with wikimedia foundation project. (see the
copyright
in the bottom) http://wikidrugs.org/
It is imitation of wikipedia.
-- Thanks & Regards, A.Radha Krishna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna
-- Netha Hussain *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com*
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