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From: Mikael Häggström <haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com>

> A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick is started.
> It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically,
> the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive
> media, and any medically interested person describes it.


Possibly redundant with existing non-Wikimedia projects:

http://askdrwiki.com/
http://www.ganfyd.org/

Both of these restrict contribution to medical professionals,
presumably for quality of content.


- d.
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Mikael;
I can see a lot of promise in this idea. I think you should approach CDC with it though, because they would have the resources to make it more productive.
Sincerely;
Geoff


----- Original Message ----
From: David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:52:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: A wiki where every article is a real medical case

From: Mikael Häggström <haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com>

> A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick is started.
> It is a wiki where every article is a real medical case. Basically,
> the victims of diseases write the symptoms and upload interactive
> media, and any medically interested person describes it.


Possibly redundant with existing non-Wikimedia projects:

http://askdrwiki.com/
http://www.ganfyd.org/

Both of these restrict contribution to medical professionals,
presumably for quality of content.


- d.
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