Type of site | Wiki |
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Available in | English |
URL | ganfyd |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Required |
Launched | November 2005 |
Current status | Defunct (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.