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2026

• "Making Health Knowledge Universal: WikiProjectMed in 2025". diff.wikimedia.org. 10 January 2026.

• Moshie, Abdul-Rauf (14 March 2026). "Expanding Access to Health Information: Dagbani Health Editors Introduced to MDWiki Platform". diff.wikimedia.org.

• McLemore, Andrew (19 March 2026). "Internet in a Box: Prepper Disk Brings Online Knowledge Off-Grid". GearJunkie. Retrieved 20 March 2026.

• Tabor, Jared (20 March 2026). "Wiki Project Med needs your help to bring vital healthcare information to everyone". ProZProBono. Retrieved 21 March 2026.

2025

• "When health information speaks your language: a movement to translate medical knowledge for all". clearglobal.org. 17 December 2025.

• "WikiProjectMed Healthcare Translation Task Force's Efforts Across the CEE Region". CEE/Newsletter/Newsroom. 27 July 2025.

• "OLI and WikiMed Marked World Mental Health Month with a Translation Drive". olangi.org. 2 June 2025.

2024

• Alfaro, Oscar Felipe Núñez (7 March 2024). "My Experience Volunteering For Wiki Project Med (part 2)". prozprobono.world.

• Alfaro, Oscar Felipe Núñez (30 Sep 2024). "My Experience Volunteering For Wiki Project Med (part 1)". prozprobono.world.

2021

• Ward, Tricia (10 March 2021). "How Wikipedia Fought COVID Misinformation". Medscape.

2020

• "The rise of Wikipedia as a source of medical information". www.cbsnews.com. 24 May 2020.
• Benjakob, Omer (8 April 2020). "Why Wikipedia Is Immune to Coronavirus". Haaretz.
• Harrison, Stephen (19 March 2020). "The Coronavirus Is Stress-Testing Wikipedia's Systems—and Editors". Slate Magazine.

2018

• May 2 2018 With a 25-gram box, taking medical knowledge where it is needed most

2017

• Sept 2017 Blog post in AOASG

• 11 Aug 2017 Academics can help shape Wikipedia (Thomas Shafee1, Daniel Mietchen, Andrew I. Su)

• 2017 Best Medical App Top 6 Best Medical Apps for Doctors, Patients & Students

• Aug 7, 17 Peter Frishauf Linkedin [1]

• Aug 7, 17 B.C. physician writes — and fixes — Wikipedia medical information

• Aug 4, 17 Sharing Wikipedia offline medical information in the Dominican Republic

• May 28, 17 The Citation Election Coverage

• Jan 25, 17 How Students Are Learning Medicine and Collaborative Skills, And Transforming Wikipedia

• Jan 3, 2017 The Top Ten Wikipedia Stories of 2016 The Wikipedian

2016

• Aug 9, 2016 TWB press release

Before 2016

• Dec 22,2015 http://medcitynews.com/2015/12/data-mining-health-data-wikipedia/

• http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2013/11/18/wikipedia-role-medical-education-brings-awesome-promise-and-few-risks/iasrC5cWfCPhWkF9R0mZ4L/story.html

• http://scienceblog.com/67611/ucsf-first-u-s-medical-school-to-offer-credit-for-wikipedia-articles/

• http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/09/109201/ucsf-first-us-medical-school-offer-credit-wikipedia-articles

• http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2013/11/08/ucsfs-wikipedia-experiment-should-med-students-get-credit-for-curating-medical-information-online/

• http://www.webpronews.com/doctors-decide-they-need-to-be-the-ones-editing-medical-wikipedia-articles-2013-10

• http://www.healthliteracyoutloud.com/2013/11/05/wikiproject-medicine-what-it-is-why-it-matters-how-health-literacy-advocates-can-help-hlol-106/

• http://ehealth.med.ubc.ca/2011/06/24/wikipedia-in-bmj/

• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/business/media/editing-wikipedia-pages-for-med-school-credit.html

• http://www.ibtimes.com/wikipedia-goes-medical-school-ucsf-med-students-will-learn-how-improve-online-encyclopedia-1414154

• http://psych.ucsf.edu/news.aspx?id=7838

• http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/med-school-wikipedia-edit/

• http://news.msn.com/science-technology/should-i-be-getting-health-information-from-wikipedia

• http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/rMqNG1u7k3PTRYQc4M2EcJ/Editing-work-for-medical-students.html

• http://sph.berkeley.edu/editing-wikipedia-pages-med-school-credit

• http://www.contentrules.com/blog/teaming-up-with-smart-people-to-improve-wikipedia/

• http://www.pcfleming.com/2013/10/23/oa-science-and-wikipedia/

• http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/med-students-get-credit-editing-wikipedia-michigan-hie-expand-using-informa/2013-10-01

• http://hitchhikersgui.de/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_Task_Force

• http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/should-i-be-getting-health-information-from-wikipedia/280138/

• http://www.procor.org/prevention/prevention_show.htm?doc_id=1627868

• http://www.hifa2015.org/2012/01/09/new-partnership-translators-without-borders-and-wikipedias-wikiproject-medicine/

• http://www.fttglobal.com/blog/133/ftt-global-announces-sponsorship-of-translators-without-borders/?m=0

• http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/apr/11/volunteers-translation-language-health-messages

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/blog/2013/07/Wikipedia-visits-National-Library-of-Medicine-NIH/