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An introductory video about how to edit Wikipedia and medicine.
  • Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and has a distinct style that may take some time getting used to.
  • It is important that articles use the best sources and content is given due weight. Different from scientific papers, Wikipedia medical and health content is preferably sourced to secondary sources over primary sources. Citing a review article is preferred over an original trial.
  • To get you started and to explain why this is important here are a number of guides and guidelines:
WP:MEDRS      WP:MEDMOS
Reliable Sources (medicine)      Manual of Style (medicine-related articles)
WP:MEDCOI      WP:MEDHOW
Conflicts of Interest      How to edit
Our guides complement Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines and take great care to explain why they are relevant.

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Top-importance articles at B-class or above as of 7 January 2023: 79% complete
Goal: 80 featured articles: 78.8% complete
Goal: 500 good articles: 73.4% complete
WikiProject Medicine assessment statistics
Medicine articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 7 14 19 23 63
FL 2 3 8 13
FM 74 74
GA 30 47 110 180 367
B 57 426 1,318 1,736 25 3,562
C 5 413 3,169 7,643 148 11,378
Start 136 4,596 17,807 1 358 22,898
Stub 1,613 9,998 487 12,098
List 22 267 560 16 865
Category 10,633 10,633
Disambig 172 172
File 478 478
Portal 540 540
Project 168 168
Redirect 422 768 5,952 7,142
Template 1,709 1,709
NA 1 6 7
Draft 7 283 290
Assessed 99 1,060 11,517 38,731 20,016 1,034 72,457
Unassessed 1 74 75
Total 99 1,060 11,517 38,732 20,016 1,108 72,532
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 243,590 Ω = 4.84

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152 edits List of common misconceptions
138 edits Comstock Act of 1873
126 edits Nicol Spence Galbraith
107 edits 2024 Tamil Nadu alcohol poisoning
99 edits James Alison Glover
45 edits Source control (respiratory disease)
39 edits Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine
33 edits List of pharmaceutical companies
32 edits Simone Badal-McCreath
32 edits Influenza A virus

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 26 June 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

MCOTM

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Each month we select a Medical Collaboration of the Month to focus our efforts on. Topics may either relate to medical basic sciences (such as anatomy or biochemistry), or clinical medicine (such as illnesses and surgical procedures). The project aims to improve medicine articles, and to give editors an opportunity to collaborate. Anyone can nominate an article, or vote on nominees at our project page. The collaboration of the month for October 2024 is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease! Visit its talk page to help coordinate our efforts.

About

WikiProject Medicine was started in 2004 by Dr. Jacob de Wolff as WikiProject Clinical Medicine with the later branch WikiProject Preclinical Medicine. These merged and WikiProject Medicine has since been one of Wikipedia's most active WikiProjects. WP:MED as it is known aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles. We write articles and discuss all manner of issues on our talk page: WT:MED.

Through the years we've built up a catalogue of sub-projects and task-forces which vary in their activity, you can find some of them at the task force page.

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Wikipedia can be a great resource for getting to know a field — and it can give you an encyclopaedic overview of a subject, acting as a spring-board letting you dive deeper. It should however not be used as your only source when performing research, and you should never blindly trust Wikipedia. Over the years a lot of research has been amassed surrounding the reliability and biases of Wikipedia. To see some of the studies that have been produced on the quality and scope of medical information on Wikipedia take a look at some of the research:

  Academic studies of health information on Wikipedia

This is a list of academic articles related to the coverage of health and medical topics on Wikipedia. For general academic articles see Academic studies of Wikipedia. For academic studies about the use of Wikipedia in education, see Academic studies of Wikipedia in education. For popular media coverage of Wikipedia's medical content see the popular media list.

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