Fund expert editors for the cancer pages of Wikipedia and Wikidata
Wikipedia is where most people first read about their cancer. Pay clinicians and librarians to keep the cancer pages accurate, current and readable in many languages.
Wikipedia's medical pages receive billions of views; cancer pages are among the most read and are often out of date on treatment. The proposal funds a small standing team of oncology editors and translators (as Cochrane and WHO have done in partnership with Wikimedia) to maintain cancer articles against living guidelines, add structured data to Wikidata (linking to trial and drug identifiers), and measure accuracy over time.
- Knowledge reaches practice too slowly · Knowledge diffusion is slow: it takes years for a proven result to change what most patients receive, and no one can keep up with the literature.
- Misinformation and unproven therapies · Patients are sold unproven treatments and frightened away from proven ones.
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Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
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Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
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Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
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Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
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Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
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Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
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Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.
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Shares Misinformation and unproven therapies, Knowledge reaches practice too slowly.