Comments on: Wikipedia project takes on global healthcare information gap

By: James Heilman

James Heilman — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:03:34 +0000

By the way we are concentrating primarily on languages in which little medical coverage exists like Dari and Tagalog.

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By: James Heilman

James Heilman — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:17:15 +0000

Yes when I said “no one else” I meant no one other than Wikipedia (which of course includes dozens medicine wikiprojects). The World Health Organization translates content into about 70 languages.

When significant content already exists, translation only occurs if their is support from a local Wikipedian in that language who is able to integrate the translated content with the existing content. The Italian translations occurred partly independently from this project (in that they where not done by TWB).

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By: mwangi

mwangi — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:11:57 +0000

u r doing a good thing to transform the word to a good place to leave

By: Erik Zachte

Erik Zachte — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 05:22:52 +0000

Nemo, there is some ambiguity in the wording, and it could be read as you do, but the way I read that statement was a bit different: “Nowhere else than at Wikipedia” people are attempting to solve the problem of delivering medical information in the other 280 plus languages we work on. I don’t think the point of the statement was to degrade other Wikimedians’ work.

By: Nemo

Nemo — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:52:03 +0000

«“No one else is attempting to solve the problem of delivering medical information in the other 280 plus languages we work on,” said Heilman.»

This is frankly excessive. I hope the other dozens of medicine wikiprojects of the other wikis and other editors there don’t read this blog post!

What are those 80 languages and what will happen to the articles there (how much of them exist already)? Will the information be adapted to the local culture? For instance, I see that the translations to Italian in some case produced only some copyediting or small expansion because the local article was good enough; some parts may as well differ.

By: Frank Schulenburg

Frank Schulenburg — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:01:42 +0000

This is amazing. Congratulations to James, the WikiProject Medicine and everybody who’s involved in making this happen!