Should this run by the legal team because it's medical-related? On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> And as followup, connecting very nicely with this week's dominant topic: > > @wikipedia: > "There is one bright light here—Wikipedia." We don't tell third-party > companies which health issues you read about. > > http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies-are-collecting-your-data > > FB/G+: > > "There is one bright light here—Wikipedia. It was one of the only > sites that trafficked in health information that sent no third party > requests to corporations." We value our readers' privacy highly. > > http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies-are-collecting-your-data > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:57 AM, Tilman Bayer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > From @wikipedia: > > Half of Wikipedia's top medical editors are health care professionals, > > 85% have a university education http://www.jmir.org/2015/3/e62/ > > > > FB/G+: > > Wikipedia is probably "the most viewed medical resource globally", > > according to this new study. > > Wikipedia's medical content is supported by more than 950,000 > > references and was viewed more than 4.88 billion times in 2013. > > Half of Wikipedia's top medical editors are health care professionals, > > 85% have a university education > > http://www.jmir.org/2015/3/e62/ > > > > (NB: this is a very similar result as > > https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/540932219955449856 , but a > > different study.) > > > > > > -- > > Tilman Bayer > > Senior Analyst > > Wikimedia Foundation > > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > > > > -- > Tilman Bayer > Senior Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY> Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] https://donate.wikimedia.org/
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