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Dear colleagues,

This is just to share this info about a partnership with " Translators

Without Borders " and Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine.

Kind regards

Samy Boutayeb

DE/EN/SP>FR

Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 11:16:17 -0700

Subject: [Foundation-l] New partnership: Translators Without Borders and

Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine

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Translators Without Borders and Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine would

like to announce a partnership to improve the free global access to

high quality health information. Wikipedia, as many are aware, is one

of the foremost health care information resources. It is freely usable

by all people globally and can be re-purposed or changed for other

uses as long as Wikipedia is acknowledged and the resulting product is

released under a license that allows the same. Wikipedia's 26,000

medical articles receive approximately 150-200 million page views a

month in English alone with some content available in over 280 other

languages. The top 300 medical articles receive more than 100,000 page

views a

month[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages]

and it is used extensively by both health care providers and the lay

public with between 50-70% of physicians using it in clinical

practice.

Availability of high quality content is however limited in many

languages. Even in English less than 1% of articles have passed a semi

formal peer review process. Our efforts are attempting to both improve

the English content and translation articles on humankind's 80 most

important health care conditions to as many other languages as

possible. This will be for many people the first time high quality

health information becomes available in their own language. We are

looking for people to both help us at Wikipedia improve articles in

English and people to help Translators Without Borders do translation.

We are also needing people with both language abilities and the

ability or desire to learn how to edit Wikipedia to integrate the

translated material back in the Wikipedia edition in question. This

project is just beginning and we are planning on caring it out over

the next three to five years. If you wish further details or want to

become involved feel free to contact me or sign up here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_for\

ce#People_involved_.28with_language_ability.29

.. Also please be extra nice to all the people I am recruiting and give

me a heads up if problems are encountered.

--

Heilman

MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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