Over the past year, Wikipedians and Cochranites have ventured to amalgamate the strengths of Wikipedia's successful community-driven model and global reach with Cochrane's reputation for methodological rigour. The aims are to improve the evidence-related content in Wikipedia articles, to provide resources or assistance to Wikipedia editors interpreting scientific data, and to encourage academics and scientists to add evidence to Wikipedia articles.
From Cochrane's perspective, the benefits to underpinning medical articles in Wikipedia with Cochrane evidence include:
- Increasing the number of citations to Cochrane evidence in Wikipedia
- Increasing the uptake of Cochrane evidence
- Increasing the relevance of Cochrane evidence
- Increasing interactive learning
- Harnessing the power of crowdsourcing
- Rapid dissemination of critical information
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