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Wow, it just goes to show you how much work we have to do to educate people on the proper use of all information resources, including Wikipedia.

Finally, a new medical wiki, Medpedia, is going to be starting soon.  It's like Wikipedia except that it's going to require you to have an MD or PhD in a "biomedical field" to contribute.  According to the Chronicle, the new encyclopedia is "backed by medical institutions like Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health, and the University of Michigan Medical School, as well as the National Institutes of Health, the American College of Physicians, and several other organizations."  Pretty good, I think.  I'll have to wait and see how useful it is and whether it takes off.  The aim is to be the "most complete and up-to-date health site online."  That's a pretty lofty goal and one that I think will be hard to accomplish.  We've already got sites like medlineplus.gov that I think are pretty good.  But, one of the nice things about this particular wiki is that it will have "an accessible version for the lay public and a more technical account for health professionals and other knowledgeable readers."  That's worth noting because there isn't such a thing for Wikipedia.  And, because we know medical knowledge is very specialized, I can only imagine how quickly this site would go down in flames if it were only for doctors and medical praticioners.

Many thanks to BioImagene for their help and sponsorship!

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Update: You can find some of the slideshows here.

Worst of all, also ubiquitously highlights the sad, sweet, desperate " subscribe and get miles" link that demonstrates a profound, perhaps fatal misunderstanding of what the goals of news companies need to be in a digital world.

Note to the Observer's Dept. of Clue Procurement: It's not about selling newspapers any more.

Imagine Henry Ford selling the Model T with an ad that says, "Buy the car and we'll give you discount on a horse too!"

A Look Behind the Curtain of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is supposedly all about "transparency," allowing users to see who's been authoring and reauthoring Wikipedia pages. In practice, exploring this information is like reading source code for a mortgage disclosure document.

The Palo Alto Research Center has debuted WikiDashboard, the beta version of a tool designed to help you visualize who's been up to what on the backend of those Wikipedia entries. It's the newest of several tools that take up this task.

Here's an image identifying the most prolific authors of the Wikipedia entry of John McCain.

mccain-on-wikipedia

Click on their names and see what they contributed to the entry, how much they contributed and what they've added to other content around Pediaville.

n.b.: Would all Wikipediasts stop using that term " disambiguation"? It's a smug, exclusive word that says to the world: We're wonky digitalinfogeeks. Join our club or stay the hell out. Makes you wonder just how committed the architects of this project are to creating an encyclopedia "by and for" the people.

And finally, Our Regular Sighting of the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (tm):

www.buyyourfriendadrink.com

Have you spotted other middling, memorable or malignant examples of social media webbery? Please share the wealth and leave links in the comment section below.

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