Wikipedia's medical pages receive billions of views and its cancer pages are among the most read, yet they are often out of date on treatment. Funding a standing team of oncology editors and translators, as Cochrane and WHO have done with Wikimedia, would keep them current against living guidelines and add structured trial and drug identifiers to Wikidata.
Wikipedia's medical pages receive billions of views; cancer pages are among the most read and are often out of date on treatment. The proposal funds a small standing team of oncology editors and translators (as Cochrane and WHO have done in partnership with Wikimedia) to maintain cancer articles against living guidelines, add structured data to Wikidata (linking to trial and drug identifiers), and measure accuracy over time.
Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.