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practice as opposed to research, he says: "what doctors want and need in the rush of their everyday practice is review articles, not original research articles, which are usually too narrowly pitched for immediate applied purposes". Review articles are like information hubs that present summary context and a great number of direct references, and this publication highlights their similarity to Knowledge (XXG) articles and the utility of both sources to working health professionals. Heilman comments that it is little wonder that Knowledge (XXG) is the world's most consulted source of health-related information, which appears to cast it already as a popular way to access the traditional function of review articles.
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written by only a small number of authors. In 2014, WikiProject Medicine conducted a survey of all editors with more than 250 edits in health-science articles on all language Wikipedias during 2013. This revealed that about 50% of these editors are medically qualified as healthcare professionals, of which the greater proportion are qualified physicians.
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Heilman says that Knowledge (XXG) medical articles might indeed sacrifice a consistent narrative unless they are very well looked after, but that this is not uncommon for prominent topics. He drew an analogy with featured articles; while some do lose their shine over time, others keep both polish and
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The third issue raised by the journal is the absence for Knowledge (XXG) articles of "formal peer review by at least one, and often many, experts who point out conflicts, errors, redundancies, or gaps". There was a gentle warning that "should the example of the dengue article be copied, this may lead
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A lack of a single, authorial voice in the Wiki process means not only that strong personal recommendations are unlikely, but also that the style can be inconsistent, and the sentences and transitions between them less smooth, resulting in a paper that might be challenging to read. Some “Wikipedians”
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Maiman commented that "since the program’s launch in 2010, nearly 10,000 students in some 500 classes have contributed 44,000 printed pages of content, editing thousands of existing articles and creating 1,900 new ones, all of it overseen by academics while students get credit. Participating schools
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Despite or, perhaps, because of its "anyone can edit" approach, Knowledge (XXG) itself has always been subject to dynamic tension between amateur and expert, generalist and specialist, and those with and without formal credentials in the field in which they are editing. In the latest chapter of this
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The work done by James and others to advance the cause of medicine through Knowledge (XXG) is very laudable. None other than the Duke of Manchester has been promoting awareness of this initiative, and it is clear that the Duke in question has been expressing their views on this elsewhere for a long
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reliability, and are continually updated, through the vigilance of proud editors. This, he says, shows one of the great advantages of Knowledge (XXG): its ability to stay abreast of fast-moving medical topics. (In this respect, the journal has made arrangements for annual updates to be indexed with
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indeed essentially literature reviews by the very design of site policy. Like Knowledge (XXG) articles, review articles in journals (a sought-after genre for career researchers because of high readerships and citations) typically contain little or no original research. But when it comes to medical
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article (on the basis that his contributions were the largest), with Wikipedians Jacob de Wolff, Graham M Beards, and Brian J Basden as the other authors. All are credentialled experts in the health sciences and are listed with their institutions. The authors' roles for the English Knowledge (XXG)
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that a key stumbling block was the notion of credentialled authorship—something that goes against a basic ethic on Knowledge (XXG) but which in the open research literature is central to gaining readers' trust in accuracy and balance. True to this, Heilman is listed as the primary author in the
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They are listed as contributors in the paper with a link. There is a certain not set in stone bar for authorship below which one is no longer an author. Was aware of the computation bio work. These articles were written off wiki than added to wiki rather than written on wiki and published in a
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Knowledge (XXG) already has analogues of the traditional academic review article, he observes, with featured forums akin to peer-reviewing, and key contributors and featured nominators akin to primary authors. Most high-quality Knowledge (XXG) articles in the health sciences, he maintains, are
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associate editor, James Maskalyk, wrote that Knowledge (XXG) lacks three things that are very important to research journals. The first is the identification of a single, responsible author "who acts as guarantor of the integrity of the work". Then there is review by "a trained editorial team,
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Knowledge (XXG) article published in peer-reviewed journal; Knowledge (XXG) in education: The argument on Knowledge (XXG) over the benefits of crowdsourcing versus the primacy of "expert" contributors stretches back to co-founder Larry Sanger's break with the project to start the alternative
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Heilman's hope is "that making people aware of the expertise in the Knowledge (XXG) communities and the close relationship of our articles with traditional academic genres will attract more professional researchers to join us as editors". The publication of
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The article is bound to ruffle a few feathers in the medical and academic worlds, if for no other reason than it challenges the established conventions that have defined the cloistered world of research publishing for more than a century. Heilman told the
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What about contributors to the page that are not listed as authors on the paper? I didn't do an exhaustive survey, but it did look like there were some minor contributions by editors not among the paper's authors. Also, I just wanted to link to
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I had seen that, but I was under the impression that there were changes between what I see on Knowledge (XXG) and what was published in the journal, no? Are there any content differences between the two at the moment?
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He also writes that students find themselves challenged by peer reviews and the norm of consensus among Wikipedians, as opposed to the usual academic model of having just one professor judging the students' work.
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I'd also be curious to know what kinds of structure/style changes were needed in the reformatting—could be a useful reflection piece for the rest of the community interested in this type of publishing.
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on that serious infectious tropical disease, with some aspects of formatting and structure adapted to comply with the journal's house style. The journal's formal peer-review appeared on the article's
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have little traditional experience in publishing and the editorial process that accompanies it, which can lead to frustrations about content or format that might fit a journal’s preference.
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time. It is not quite clear why the Duke would not now broaden their enthusiasm to include contributing to Knowledge (XXG) as well, but perhaps we shall find out? --
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attuned to publication ethics". This second point may surprise Wikipedians who know the rigours of community nitpicking, particularly in the ego-crushing
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However, the fact remains that the boundaries around research publishing are closely guarded, perhaps with some justification. In a provocatively titled
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From the review article: a 1920s photograph from the southern United States of efforts to disperse standing water and thus decrease mosquito populations
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Looks like the nomination for Admin process could benefit from searching out good candidates rather than relying on the dwindling number of self-noms.
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Right, so to my original comment, I'd be interested in knowing what exactly is more complicated about it, if such a piece were to be written
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The argument on Knowledge (XXG) over the benefits of crowdsourcing versus the primacy of "expert" contributors stretches back to co-founder
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They wanted more complicated language to be used. Most of the rest of the changes were combined into Knowledge (XXG). One can see it here
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process. Nevertheless, Knowledge (XXG) seems to have flourished while Citizendium remains on the outer margins of internet history.
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are then listed under the unintuitive title of "competing interests": Heilman, Badsen, and De Wolff are board members of the
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resulted in the resignation of the steward, and a different steward removing rights from the global sysop. The
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for the history of RfAs. Only 16 editors have been appointed to adminship in 2014 as of the end of September.
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The journal credits the images to Commons, but doesn't the attribution need to be to the specific author?
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Yes the published version has used more complicated language than the Knowledge (XXG) version dose.
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says that WMF will prohibit the offending users from holding advanced permissions for one year.
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Why is there an MfD template, linking to a nonexistent deletion discussion, on this page?
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Knowledge (XXG) article published in peer-reviewed journal; Knowledge (XXG) in education
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on 3 October that for the first time a Knowledge (XXG) article has been published by
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No new administrators were appointed on English Knowledge (XXG) in September 2014
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is conducting a separate review of the incident. The Wikimedia Foundation's
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to a number of rejected submissions to formally peer-reviewed journals."
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in the academic literature may be an important step in achieving this.
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Privacy violation results in a resignation and a removal of user rights
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article, is slightly different from the one used in the en.WP article.
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Maiman notes the incorporation of Knowledge (XXG) into coursework at
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that carries the disease. This Commons image, which appears in the
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underlines the fact that most mature Knowledge (XXG) articles
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at UC Berkeley. He quotes students and faculty as well as
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in the same publication—"Modern medicine comes online"—
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run the gamut from Ivy League to community college."
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dynamic flux, longtime medical editor James Heilman (
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Is it not " 224:, a peer-reviewed academic journal. 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World map showing the countries where the Aedes mosquito is found (the southern US, eastern Brazil and most of sub-Saharan Africa), as well as those where Aedes and dengue have been reported (most of Central and tropical South America, South and Southeast Asia and many parts of tropical Africa).
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