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Welcome to the WikiProject Medicine. This project aims to enable Wikipedians to cooperate, organize, make suggestions and share ideas on the improvement of the medicine and health-related articles of Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to join in this endeavor (regardless of medical qualifications!).
If you have any questions, feel free to ask on our discussion page (also known as the doctor's mess). You can also have a look at some related WikiProjects.
Many suggestions and guidelines have been developed since the project began. A particularly useful collection can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles), which contains a detailed discussion of issues related to writing medicine articles on Wikipedia. However, these are only suggestions: they should help to give us focus, and inspire our contributions, but no one should feel obliged to follow (or even read) them. This WikiProject is not prescriptive. They should not distract anyone wanting to contribute from our main purpose: to write and improve medicine articles!
If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants (no strings attached!), or just look over the How you can help section below. Also of interest is the (featured) Medicine Portal associated with this project.
We hope you enjoy improving Wikipedia's medical articles,
-The members
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Goals
To produce reliable and neutral information on medical conditions, diagnosis and treatment in a readable and standardized format. It aims to deal with these diseases in every context, from molecular biology, symptomatology and diagnosis to therapeutical issues and historical and geopolitical ramifications. To this end, the WikiProject will collaborate with other WikiProjects relating to the health sciences.
News and announcements
| Date | News and announcements |
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| June 17 2008 | WikiProject Medicine is beginning to organize task forces. If you would like to propose or participate in a task force, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Task forces. |
| May 07 2008 | A proposal of a new Sister Project, called Wikisick (where every article is a real medical case), is started. See proposal details for Wikisick. The final name is discussable. Take a look at the demo version at Wikia: Diagnosis. |
How you can help
Collaborate
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The current Medicine Collaboration of the Week is Lymphatic system. |
| Last week's collaboration was Ascending cholangitis. |
| Collaboration Dashboard | |
| Top priorities | Medicine, Cancer, Disease, Health, Death... (more core topics or vital articles) |
 Featured article candidates |
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (FAC page) |
| Featured list candidates | none at the moment |
| Featured article review | none at the moment |
| Featured article removal candidates | none at the moment |
| Featured list removal candidates | none at the moment |
| Featured picture candidates | none at the moment |
 Good article candidates |
Abortion-breast cancer hypothesis, Mental status examination, Ketogenic diet |
| Good article review | none at the moment |
| Peer review | Blood donation |
| Requires copyediting | Hemorrhoid, Neurolinguistic programming |
| Requested articles | Latin terminology in anatomy, Vascular recruitment, Immune collapse |
| Recently revised | Artificial limb, Gastroenteritis |
| Active Portals |  Medicine |
Other ideas
- Adopt a stub! There are many, many stubby MED articles that have the potential to be excellent articles. Categories containing these stub articles are Cat:Medicine stubs and Cat:Stub-Class medicine articles.
- Contribute to a team effort by participating in the Collaboration of the Week, a bi-weekly collaboration to improve medicine articles to featured article status. Everyone from subject-matter experts to normal readers is welcome to do what they can!
- Create a new article. Many medicine-related articles have been requested for creation.
- Edit existing articles needing attention. Some articles are also in need of expert attention.
- Add references. Correct and reliable references are vital if the articles produced by this project are to be a verifiable source of information for our readers. Adding references is easy with this tool. Just submit the PubMed ID and copy and paste the resulting output (xxxx) into the page between <ref> xxxxx </ref> Alternatively, if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox (2.0+), then Wouterstomp's bookmarklet can automate this step from the PubMed abstract page.
- Add requested pictures, also listed in Cat:Wikipedia requested photographs of medical subjects.
- Participate in articles nominated for deletion.
- The Medicine Portal always needs to be maintained! If you want to join or find out more, please contact contact the maintainers.
- Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in medicine to contribute to Wikipedia.
- Tag the talk pages of medicine-related articles with {{WPMED|class=|importance=}}. You can also assess the article according to our assessment scale.
List of open tasks
If you have a job for the project, you can add it to this list. However, you're more likely to get the help you want if you ask for help at the doctor's mess. Please consider leaving a specific explanation of what you want, or a link to a detailed description on an article's talk page.
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| User:Eric Kvaalen | Muscle contraction | A long dispute (see Talk:Muscle contraction#Eccentric, continued in the sections "Eccentric contractions and forces" and "Eccentric redux") concerning the whether the opposing force in an "eccentric contraction" must necessarily be greater than the force exerted by the muscle (at all times, not just initially). Also on a proposed sentence concerning whether less energy is consumed in "eccentric contractions" than in "concentric contractions" for the same amount of force. It may be more appropriate to bring this up with physicists or chemists, rather than medical people! EricK (talk) 16:33, 5 January 2008 (UTC) |
| User:WhatamIdoing | Hypoplasia | This stub looks awful. My first thought was that it was supposed to be a disambiguation page, but it's actually just a list of conditions in which hypoplasia is present. I think that just about any change will be an improvement. I'll make one small improvement tonight; can you make another? WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:58, 12 January 2008 (UTC) |
| delldot | Concussion | If someone with expertise could vet this for accuracy, it would be most appreciated. So far no experts have looked at the article. delldot talk 14:34, 23 January 2008 (UTC) |
| User:io_io_editor | natalizumab | This article has received recent attention and discussion, most well-meaning, but the result is a gross bias towards its media-sensationalized history and which has subordinated the therapeutic benefits to a single down-the-page paragraph. See also Talk:Natalizumab. New eyes are badly needed, preferably qualified and preferably with experience in MS treatment.io-io (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2008 (UTC) |
| User:tb | Fasting#Physiological effects of fasting and Famine response | These two articles contain discussions of ketosis and the process by which the body adjusts metabolism in response to dietary restriction. Both could really use some references and checkups from the experts in this area Tb (talk) 14:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC) |
| WLU (talk) | Methadone maintenance | Page was a back and forth criticism-rebuttal of MM with no real sources and no real discussion. Now a stub. Needs expert advice. WLU (talk) 18:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC) |
| SmithBlue (talk) | John J. Bonica | One of the pivitol figure in post-WWII pain management. Began; first formalized training program in pain management, IASP, multi-discipline pain clinic. SmithBlue (talk) 03:39, 10 April 2008 (UTC) |
| User:69.140.152.55 (talk) | Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/Health science#Medicine | Low-priority job: fix the bot that updates the "Expert attention needed" list that appears on this page. 22:37, 25 May 2008 (UTC) |
| vulnerable plaque | Find more sources; copyedit. 03:56, 1 June 2008 (UTC) | |
| sarindam7 (talk) | Medical instruments and implants | This series of lists needs a lot of data to be filled in. Many pages aren't even created but many are nearly complete. Please help out here as and when possible.sarindam7 (talk) 20:39, 13 June 2008 (UTC) |
| :) User talk:Smallbones:) | Peter Pronovost | Pronovost was recently listed by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, but we had nothing on him until today.:Note I know nothing about medicine, could a knowledgable person check the article?. Smallbones (talk) 20:18, 14 May 2008 (UTC) |
| :) Save The Humans:) | Arnold-Chiari malformation | More infomation has come out of this malformation and it needs to be updated. Like causes "genetical and non-gentical", ect.
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Project organization
Departments
- The Assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's medicine articles.
- The Review department focuses on reviewing medicine-related featured articles.
Task forces
Task forces are groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of medicine. All project members are encouraged to participate in any task forces that interest them.
To propose a new task force, please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Task forces.
Participants
The full list of project participants is located on a separate subpage. If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list.
Templates
Article-related
- {{WPMED}} - Placed on talk pages of medicine-related articles and used to assess articles.
- {{reqphoto|medical subjects}} - Used on talk pages to request that photographs be added to the article.
- {{med-stub}} - Used on stub articles.
- {{Medref}} - Used to indicate an article in need of references.
- {{Medicine}} - The main template to be used on articles about broad disciplines of medicine.
- Cat:Medicine templates - Contains all templates used on medicine-related articles.
User-related
- Welcome messages (all of these substituted onto a user's talk page):
- {{subst:MedWelcome}} - Welcome template to greet new Wikipedians and invite them to join WikiProject Medicine.
- {{subst:MedInvitation}} - Invite for established Wikipedians to join WikiProject Medicine.
- {{subst:MedGreeting}} - After editor added to participation list.
- {{User WPMed}} - Userbox for members of this WikiProject.
- {{subst:The WikiProject Medicine Barnstar}} - You may award the Medicine Barnstar to those you feel have done superb work in the realm of medicine-related articles.
Showcase
Featured articles
Featured articles are considered to be Wikipedia's very best work; they must pass through a review process as featured article candidates before being selected. Articles in bold indicate that the article has been featured on the Main Page on the date noted.
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Former featured articles
These articles used to be Featured Articles, but no longer qualify.
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Featured lists
Featured lists are considered to be the best lists in Wikipedia; they must pass through a review process as featured list candidates before being selected.
Other featured content
Types of content other than articles—such as images, portals, sounds, and topics—can also achieve featured content status.
Related WikiProjects
Descendants
- Anatomy
- Dentistry
- Emergency medical services
- Gastroenterology
- Medical Genetics
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Ophthalmology
- Pathology
- Radiology
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