Wikis
As mentioned in other posts I too am having great
difficulties in finding examples of good
Wikis. I searched in Google using Medical wikis and found this list of medical
wikis:- http://www.healthplusplus.com/wiki/List_of_medical_wikis
on the HealthPlusPlus wiki site (http://www.healthplusplus.com/wiki/Main_Page
).
One disadvantage I can see with Wikis is that anyone can add
information you don’t have to be medically qualified. However, I did find
Medpedia (http://www.medpedia.com/ ) which
allows patients to diagnose themselves. Although it is written and edited by
volunteers all contributors must have a medical qualification.
Another disadvantage is that a wiki could not have enough
information / contributors. This was the case for the Royal Society who
recently hosted a group edit-a-thon,
in partnership with Wikimedia UK,
to improve Wikipedia articles about women in science. See http://royalsociety.org/news/2012/women-wikipedia-science/
) for more information.
Google Docs
Creating a
document was OK.
It wasn’t obvious
where to put the email address of the person you want to share the document
with.
It was also not obvious
what to do when you received the link to the document.
One disadvantage
of using this is that everyone who needs access to the document has to have a
Google account. Or have I got that completely wrong?
