User:ChaseKiwi
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Alternative Wiki models
If like ChaseKiwi you have had some interest in technical health topics and policy (i.e. more experience in evaluating secondary and primary sources than many) you may be aware that there are/were attempts at wiki's with editorial control restricted to professionals which often run into the classic problems of long term sustainability but certainly offered for a while higher quality articles than Wikipedia. I note that any technical article tends to need someone with a smattering of current understanding of topic to review it every 5 to 10 years as non peer reviewed non academic work is used too much as sources. In the sciences I have found it is often 4 to 6 years work by an individual to dissect a new insight with the support of experts and the peer review process so rush into the tertiary source of Wikipedia needs to be tempered and subject to such revisiting.
Historic links when Web2 was new in 2007
- Medpedia - mainly plain US english and not that technical - recommended as a first stop by American public which did not come so it died
Medical
- GANFYD Open access medical resource but technical with British english bias - it took much longer to die but in the end the server died and too much hassle to recover as a functioning wiki (the link however reaches a frozen in time - before the COVID-19 pandemic - selection of articles that it seems have tickled the selectors fancy as the first rescued often comment on issues political decision makers should have addressed before the pandemic although its never too late.)
- Ask Dr. Wiki Open access medical resource - died
Pharmacology
- PubDrug Open access drug resource - removed
Evidence Based Medicine
- [/ EBM Librarian] Open access EBM rhttp://ebmlibrarian.wetpaint.comesource -dead
Specialist Medical
Kidney Disease
- Wikikidney.org Open access Renal disease resource
Neurogengerative Disease
- MRC Neurodegeneration Research Wiki Open access neurodegerative disease resource