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News feature: WikiMedia

Nature Medicine volume 13, pages 231–233 (2007)Cite this article

Uneasy with information websites policed by people with little expertise, scientists are creating their own online encyclopedias. But are they accessible enough to supplant Wikipedia, asks Brandon Keim.

On Wikipedia, however, Mesko is a prominent medical voice. Since last May he's added to and edited topics for the online encyclopedia's coverage of health and medicine—an enterprise of no small import, given that Wikipedia is the 12th most heavily used site on the Internet. The New York Times, by contrast, is ranked 115th, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica checks in at more than 4,000 slots down the ladder.

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