Ganfyd

Ganfyd
Type of site
Wiki
Available inEnglish
URLganfyd.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationRequired
LaunchedNovember 2005; 18 years ago (2005-11)
Current statusDefunct (still selectively accessible)

Ganfyd was a medical wiki and online medical wiki encyclopedia, created in November 2005 by a group of doctors and medical students working in the United Kingdom.[1] 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.[2][3][4] This model has subsequently been copied by other medical wikis, but some attempts to improve on the model, such as Medpedia have failed. In 2010, Paula Younger noted it as a laudable attempt to make medical information freely accessible and authoritative.[5]

The Wiki went offline early in 2019 but is available as a selective article read only version as of 2023.

  1. ^ Ginn S (August 2010). "Evidence based mental health and Web 2.0". Evidence-Based Mental Health. 13 (3): 69–72. doi:10.1136/ebmh.13.3.69. PMID 20682812. S2CID 36358650.
  2. ^ Moturu, Sai T.; Liu, Huan; Johnson, William G. (20 August 2008). "Trust evaluation in health information on the World Wide Web". 2008 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Vol. 2008. 30th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference. pp. 1525–8. doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4649459. ISBN 978-1-4244-1814-5. PMID 19162962. S2CID 14562548.
  3. ^ McLean, Rick; Richards, Brian H; Wardman, Janet I (6 August 2007). "The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution?". Medical Journal of Australia. 187 (3): 174–7. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01180.x. PMID 17680746. S2CID 320469.
  4. ^ Barsky, Eugene; Giustini, Dean (2007). "Introducing Web 2.0: wikis for health librarians". Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association. 28 (4): 147–150. doi:10.5596/c07-036. hdl:2429/497.
  5. ^ Younger, Paula (2010). "Beyond Wikipedia: how good a reference source are medical wikis?". Reference Reviews. 24 (1): 7–9. doi:10.1108/09504121011019899.