WikiProject Medicine: Creating Credibility in Consumer Health

摘要

In part, this issue's column is as much a piece of advocacy as information. This editor has long believed that Wikipedia is an important research tool for K-12, higher education, and professional audiences as well as a website that increasing audiences and interest groups depend on and increasingly assume to be reliable. Because of its reach and familiarity, and the unique affordances of the platform, there are fascinating pedagogical applications suitable for all manner of students including nursing, medical and dental in initial training and continuing education. It is a bonus that there is an organized community of experts who are committed to the initiative.