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Wikipedia as an e-patient source–Susannah Fox

June 5, 2007 By Susannah Fox 1 Comment

Read this quote and think about which industry is being admonished: “We cannot, however, continue to reject Wikipedia because we aren’t comfortable with the wiki process itself… To be quite frank, continually bad-mouthing Wikipedia to the very people who use it—successfully—makes us look a bit daft. It would be much more productive to teach [people] […]

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