Mailing List Archive: Re: Fwd: A wiki where every article is a real medicalcase

Re: Fwd: A wiki where every article is a real medicalcase

May 6, 2008, 5:15 AM

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Sounds like a recipe for Wikichondria.

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From: Mikael Häggström <haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM
Subject: A wiki where every article is a real medical case
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Good day

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.

See proposal details for Wikisick.

Best regards

Mikael Häggström

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Re: Fwd: A wiki where every article is a realmedicalcase [ In reply to ]

philippebeaudette at gmail

May 7, 2008, 6:44 AM

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Boy, I have some serious medmal liability issues with this one. I hope
someone's having a lawyer look REALLY closely at it.

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From: "Brian McNeil" <brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org>
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realmedicalcase

> Sounds like a recipe for Wikichondria.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael
> Bimmler
> Sent: 06 May 2008 13:32
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Fwd: A wiki where every article is a real
> medicalcase
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mikael Häggström <haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM
> Subject: A wiki where every article is a real medical case
> To: foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
>
> Good day
>
> 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.
>
> See proposal details for Wikisick.
>
> Best regards
>
> Mikael Häggström
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Bimmler
> mbimmler@gmail.com
>
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Re: Fwd: A wiki where every article is a realmedicalcase [ In reply to ]

saintonge at telus

May 7, 2008, 11:30 AM

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Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> Boy, I have some serious medmal liability issues with this one. I hope
> someone's having a lawyer look REALLY closely at it.
>
When something like this is such a non-starter from the beginning,
consulting lawyers is a redundant act.

Ec
>> 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.

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Re: Fwd: A wiki where every article is a realmedicalcase [ In reply to ]

wknight8111 at gmail

May 7, 2008, 11:37 AM

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On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge@telus.net> wrote:
> Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> >> 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.

I don't understand why people think that they need to create
special-purpose wikis for all sorts of specialized topics? If you want
to talk about medical cases, you could easily do a learning experiment
with it on Wikiversity, or write up case studies in book-form on
Wikibooks. You could create a book "Medical Case Studies" with
hundreds or even thousands of sub-pages for each case. If you're
married to the name "Wikisick", I'm sure you could name it that too.

The point is that we have plenty of space for this and other
single-subject ideas in our existing projects. I would love to see
this idea turn into a successful wikibook or wikiversity course. It's
pointless to make it a separate project, however.

--Andrew Whitworth

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Re: Fwd: A wiki where every article is a realmedicalcase [ In reply to ]

innocentkiller at gmail

May 7, 2008, 11:46 AM

Post #5 of 6 (1904 views)

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I was going to say, this screams potential HIPPA violations (or
the equivalent in different countries, where such a law exists).

-Chad

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Philippe Beaudette
<philippebeaudette@gmail.com> wrote:
> Boy, I have some serious medmal liability issues with this one. I hope
> someone's having a lawyer look REALLY closely at it.
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Brian McNeil" <brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:15 AM
> To: "'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: A wiki where every article is a
>
>
> realmedicalcase
>
> > Sounds like a recipe for Wikichondria.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
> > [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael
> > Bimmler
> > Sent: 06 May 2008 13:32
> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> > Subject: [Foundation-l] Fwd: A wiki where every article is a real
> > medicalcase
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Mikael Häggström <haggstrom.mikael@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:31 PM
> > Subject: A wiki where every article is a real medical case
> > To: foundation-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.org
> >
> >
> >
> > Good day
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > See proposal details for Wikisick.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Mikael Häggström
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Michael Bimmler
> > mbimmler@gmail.com
> >
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Re: Fwd: A wiki where every article is a realmedicalcase [ In reply to ]

cbass at wikimedia

May 7, 2008, 11:46 AM

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Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge@telus.net> wrote:
>> Philippe Beaudette wrote:
>> >> 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.
>
> I don't understand why people think that they need to create
> special-purpose wikis for all sorts of specialized topics? If you want
> to talk about medical cases, you could easily do a learning experiment
> with it on Wikiversity, or write up case studies in book-form on
> Wikibooks. You could create a book "Medical Case Studies" with
> hundreds or even thousands of sub-pages for each case. If you're
> married to the name "Wikisick", I'm sure you could name it that too.
>
> The point is that we have plenty of space for this and other
> single-subject ideas in our existing projects. I would love to see
> this idea turn into a successful wikibook or wikiversity course. It's
> pointless to make it a separate project, however.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth

Hear, hear! I'm always trying to promote Wikibooks, though... and am
not always sure how to direct people so I sometimes fall flat. I think
<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/WB:NEW> is a good start.

Partially to understand how Wikibooks works, I did collaborate with
Durova to start a particular one [[b:Introduction to crochet]] which can
still use more contributions.

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