How is Medpedia different from Wikipedia?
The founders and Editors of Wikipedia, more than anyone, demonstrated the power of collaborative communities to produce a complex and accurate information resource. They are the leading open source community and the inspiration for the wiki portion of Medpedia. However, the wiki portion of Medpedia is only part of the entire Medpedia Project. • The Medpedia Project is a combination of a Wikipedia, a LinkedIn and condition communities, and is not simply a wiki. The intention of The Medpedia Project is to provide a complete Web platform to the medical industry by 2014. • More than twenty-nine major software modifications have been made to the MediaWiki software to accommodate the unique requirements of health and medical information. • Only physicians and PhD’s can edit the wiki and they cannot be anonymous • Editors must disclose conflicts of interest • Medpedia allows debate to be visible to readers • Medpedia has two pages for every Article topic, one is “Plain English” written in 9th
