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PhysOrg.com (press release)
Wikipedia is making its first Canadian university stop at McMaster Tuesday to encourage students, faculty, researchers and staff to contribute to its medical and health pages. The university's reputation for innovation and evidence-based collaborations ...

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There is no formal process to begin working with Wikipedia. The quality of all content is subjected to a number of checks: Bots (computer programs) look at all new changes and revert obviously poor edits; a group of volunteers go over all new changes to the encyclopedia (known as Recent Changes Patrol); and some content at certain points in time is locked into place to prevent its removal.

Wow, it sounds like Wikipedia is very carefully edited! I now trust all of its content to advise my doctors, especially before surgery.

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