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Harvard Medical School To Help Build Wikipedia for Medicine (thecrimson.com)
8 points by alexwg on Aug 10, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


"which will be edited by approved contributors selected through an internal review process"

That's not a wiki, people keep co-opting that term. Wikis by nature are editable by everyone. Sites that are editable by "approved contributors" have been around since approximately forever, that's like saying my blog is a wiki because I'm the approved contributor on it


"Faculty at Harvard Medical School will be contributing un-editable seed content to the site. [...] Other academic institutions will be also contributing to the Medpedia Project, [...] though all of the content that they provide will be editable."


Ooh, Harvard has just invented Knol for medicine.




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