SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the free-content online encyclopaedia, contains many heavily accessed pages relating to healthcare. Cochrane systematic reviews contain much high-grade evidence but dissemination into Wikipedia has been slow. New skills are needed to both translate and relocate data from Cochrane reviews...

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Main Authors: Schmidt, Lena, Friedel, Johannes, Adams, Clive E.
Format: Article
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48141/
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Summary:Wikipedia, the free-content online encyclopaedia, contains many heavily accessed pages relating to healthcare. Cochrane systematic reviews contain much high-grade evidence but dissemination into Wikipedia has been slow. New skills are needed to both translate and relocate data from Cochrane reviews to implant into Wikipedia pages. This letter introduces a programme to greatly simplify the process of disseminating the summary of findings of Cochrane reviews into Wikipedia pages.