English Wikipedia has more than 25,000 medical articles, which
receive approximately 200 million page views a month. The
encyclopedia is one of the foremost health care resources in the
world, used by the lay public as well as professionals. Surveys
have found that between 50 and 100 percent of physicians use
Wikipedia in their clinical practice, and Wikipedia is
consistently at the top of Google web searches for medical
terms. Wikipedia’s Medicine Translation Task Force is an
initiative established in late 2011 to make sure that the
content readers are finding is accurate, unbiased, and
accessible. As part of this endeavor, the task force is taking
80 core medical articles–articles like cancer, malaria,
HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis–and improving their quality to a good
article or featured article status through a process of peer
review by task force participants. Though 80 might not seem like
much, these articles are very popular, with over 10 million page
views per month. Eventually they hope to have these ar