Ganfyd was a medical wiki community and online medical wiki encyclopedia, created in November 2005 by a group of doctors and medical students working in the United Kingdom.[2] The site has been the subject of academic exposition into emerging methods of disseminating medical information and more specifically, the restricting of editors within an open collaborative wiki environment.[3][4][5] This model has subsequently been copied by other medical wikis, but some attempts to improve on the model, such as Medpedia have failed.