[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs
Abhilash
abhilashunni at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 11:28:10 UTC 2011
This is something worth exploring.
The en.wikipedia do give details, but only on the basis of the
scientific names. The brand specific names are not listed much, unless
they are very famous. Having said that trying to capture the full list
of drugs from manufacturers could be a very tedious task (esp
considering they may keep on getting them
updated/deleted/modified/renamed). More simple and trustworthy would be
to expand whatever is available and add more generic/scientific compound
name into wikipedia or a separate pharmacology/pharmacopeia section
under wikipedia.
Oral citations and citations from SME's would be the way to go.
Abhi
On 22-Nov-2011 9:03 AM, Vickram Crishna 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 (?????????) <viswaprabha at gmail.com
> <mailto:viswaprabha at gmail.com>>
>
> User: Netha Hussain +1
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain
> <nethahussain at gmail.com <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
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