[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs

[Vaishak Kallore]

What about the wikidrugs.org? It uses the wikipedia logo too...

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Vickram Crishna
<vvcrishna at radiophony.com>wrote:

> I am not familiar with the online availability of pharmaceutical
> information of drugs made in India. Do websites of manufacturers not list
> the drugs they make? Is there any issue with citing the manufacturer's list
> of drugs?
>
> What about online pharmacopeia? Do Indian associations not list the drugs
> made in India? It seems to me this is a very basic requirement, the lack of
> which (if correct) can be addressed by an RTI to the Ministry of Health,
> possible bringing about a solution within months.
>
> A very similar action could happen with indigenous pharmacopeia, but there
> may be genuine difficulty with an authoritative source for the
> medicines/manufacturers/vendors/formulations, as the regulations for these
> may not be of the same order. Again, there is no logical reason why this
> situation should be permitted or encouraged to continue - it is in our own
> interest to see it improve. Oral citations may be the way forward.
>
> 2011/11/22 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <viswaprabha at gmail.com>
>
> User: Netha Hussain +1
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain <nethahussain at 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 at 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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Vaishak Kallore
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