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This project page is for organizing the work of the WikiProject Medicine editors and Google reviewers on working together on medicine-related articles.
Initiated at Google.org and then announced at the doctors' mess, this collaboration is intended as an exploration of active cooperation between professional medical editors (hired by the Google Foundation) and any interested Wikipedians to further improve the quality of articles selected by the Google Foundation. Work began with the identification of a short list of articles for review, selected as a cross-section of medicine-related topics. Each article on the list now has an assessed "Class" and "Importance", harvested from its talk-page banner, reflecting Wikipedians' initial assessment of their state.
Google reviewers review the articles, identify problems, and make suggestions for improving the articles. Ultimately, the Google Foundation wants to hire professional translators to translate the best and most relevant medicine-related articles from the English Wikipedia to several Wikipedias in languages other than English. The Spanish, Arabic, and Kiswahili Wikipedias are the first targets.
Wikipedia sometimes seems very complicated, but lots of people are willing to help you figure it out:
{{helpme}} on your own user talk page, followed by your question. The helpme template sends a note out to the IRC channel when you save your user talk page.You may also want to know a bit about Wikipedia's most relevant guidelines:
You can edit this list here, Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Editorial review article list
This selection of articles was chosen as a combination of more and less popular topics, based on search queries, plus some good-quality articles: to try to get a sense of how the external reviewers will cope with a range of different articles.
| # | Name | Status as of May 2010 | Page views for March 2010 | Reviewed by outside experts | Wikipedians for this article | Importance | Are we done yet? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2009 flu pandemic (talk) |  GA | 47931 | Yes BSW-RMH | (Your name here!) | Mid | |
| 2 | Hemorrhoid (talk) | Start | 184818 | Yes MICROED8 | User:Jmh649 (DocJames) | High | |
| 3 | Sexual intercourse (talk) | B | 827536 | Yes BSW-RMH | (Your name here!) | Not WPMED | |
| 4 | Recreational drug use (talk) | List | 41245 | Yes by Tarheeltoxin | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 5 | Oral sex (talk) | B | 346739 | Yes by BSW BV | (Your name here!) | Not WPMED | |
| 6 | Female reproductive system (human) (talk) | Start | 58476 | Yes Factcheck101 | (Your name here!) | Not WPMED | |
| 7 | Pregnancy (talk) | B | 178132 | Yes by BSW BV | (Your name here!) | Top | |
| 8 | Male reproductive system (human) (talk) | Start | 20793 | Yes SLeonard | (Your name here!) | Not WPMED | |
| 9 | Cervical cancer (talk) | C | 91183 | Yes BSWSJR | (Your name here!) | Top | |
| 10 | Hypertension (talk) | B | 189435 | Yes by BSW-RMH | (Your name here!) | Top | |
| 11 | Sleep apnea (talk) | C | 93225 | Yes AMFEditor | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 12 | Sinusitis (talk) | B | 78332 | Yes by BSW-JMH | User:Jmh649 (DocJames) | High | |
| 13 | Irritable bowel syndrome (talk) | C | 99803 | Yes by SarMarTay | Kallimachus (talk) | High | |
| 14 | Huntington's disease (talk) |  FA | 150197 | Yes by BSW-RMH | Garrondo (talk · contribs) | High | Yes |
| 15 | Streptococcal pharyngitis (talk) | GA | 47370 | Yes by Facthead82 | User:Jmh649 (DocJames) | High | Yes |
| 16 | Hepatitis B (talk) | GA | 119825 | Yes by BSW-RMH | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 17 | Bedbug (talk) | B | 151929 | Yes by BSW BV | (Your name here!) | Mid | |
| 18 | Head-louse infestation (talk) | C | 7209 | Yes by BSW BV | Casliber (talk · contribs) | High | |
| 19 | Asthma (talk) | C | 122482 | Yes by Bioc06 | User:Jmh649 (DocJames), Axl ¤ [Talk] | Top | |
| 20 | Gynaecology (talk) | Start | 49292 | Yes by BSW BV | (Your name here!) | Mid | |
| 21 | Cerebral arteriovenous malformation (talk) | C | 3790 | Yes by Skmcmena | (Your name here!) | Mid | |
| 22 | Compliance (medicine) (talk) | B | 4201 | Yes by BSW-RMH | (Your name here!) | Not yet | |
| 23 | Whiplash (medicine) (talk) | B | 19134 | Yes by FactCheck_EH | (Your name here!) | Mid | |
| 24 | Heartburn (talk) | Start | 64253 | Yes by BSW-RMH | User:Jmh649 (DocJames) | High | |
| 25 | Bacterial vaginosis (talk) | B | 39885 | Yes by Factcheck101 | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 26 | Hypovitaminosis D (talk) | C | 8727 | Yes by BSW-RMH | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 27 | Visual system (talk) | C | 15253 | Yes by Medchecker | (Your name here!) | Mid | |
| 28 | Surgery (talk) | B | 66942 | Yes by BSW BV | (Your name here!) | Top | |
| 29 | Erectile dysfunction (talk) | C | 77025 | Yes by Fact Check AMEF | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 30 | Obstetric fistula (talk) | C | 7284 | Yes BSW BV | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 31 | Chagas disease (talk) | FA | 25610 | Yes by BSW-RMH | DO11.10 (talk · contribs) | High | Yes |
| 32 | Filariasis (talk) | Start | 18518 | Yes by TJS001 | Kallimachus (talk) | High | |
| 33 | Dracunculiasis (talk) | B | 14525 | Yes BSWSJR | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 34 | Onchocerciasis (talk) | C | 12261 | Yes by Kcandando | LeadSongDog (talk · contribs) | High | |
| 35 | African trypanosomiasis (talk) | B | 25362 | Yes by BSW-JMH | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 36 | Vaccination schedule (talk) | C | 8982 | Yes by Factcheckalm | DO11.10 (talk · contribs) | Mid | |
| 37 | Nutrition (talk) | B | 71942 | Yes by Jason.somarelli | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 38 | Leishmaniasis (talk) | B | 26971 | Yes by MotherShabubu | (Your name here!) | High | |
| 39 | Cystic fibrosis (talk) | B | 149984 | Yes by Ggschwei | (Your name here!) | Mid | |
| 40 | Syphilis (talk) | B | 188579 | Yes by Pdb factcheck | (Your name here!) | High |
Follow up announcement to Wikipedia community
Thank you to all Wikipedians who contributed to our trialeditorial review! It was wonderful to see such enthusiasticparticipation, and we are extremely grateful for your support.
We have now had some time to evaluate the initial series ofexternal reviews, and have been able to refine our approach based on ourobservations and your feedback on the discussion pages.
Oneof the most important findings of the trial was that in general, bothsets of external reviewers tended to agree with the existing Wikipediaarticle rankings, adding an additional measure of credibility to theWikipedia process of grading articles. We’re comfortable to say thatwhen an article has been internally graded as good quality, thisassessment can be accepted with confidence.
Inaddition, the dynamic nature of Wikipedia editing makes it difficult tosay when a reviewed article should be considered 'complete'.
Giventhese two findings, we have decided to tweak our approach. Instead ofworking from an initial set of articles for translation basedpredominantly on popular search queries, we have selected a new setcombining both popularity andquality, by mapping only articles that are already graded ‘B’, ‘GA’, or‘FA’ to our query lists. Using this approach, we have a set ofapproximately 700 English articles that satisfy our requirements forboth quality and user interest. This set can be added to over time asnew articles improve to meet the quality threshold.
Ahandful of articles were high priority from a user perspective, butranked 'C' or below (including 4 articles on topics in traditionalIndian medicine, which were very popular among our Hindi users). Forthese articles, we are working to re-engage editors who receivedparticularly high praise from the taskforce.
Thank you again for working with us during this initialtrial. We learned a great deal and it was an important step towards ourgoal of translating high quality health content into many languages!
Best,Joanne Stevens, Google.org Program Manager
We are pleased to be reviewing 12 additional Wikipedia articles that have been ranked as high priority for the WikiProject Medicine/Google.org Project: Constipation, Asthma, Vitiligo, Depression (mood), Dizziness, Tonsillitis, Vitamin E, Boil, Triphala, Ashwagandha (Withania Somnifera), Asana (yoga), and Ayurveda. These articles are currently graded ‘C’ or lower, and our goal is to provide an external review of each that will help the Wikipedia community raise these articles to ‘B’ status. We appreciate all discussion about the reviews and how a ‘B’ grade can be achieved for each. BioScience Writers (talk) 19:18, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]