Faculty at the school have decided to really put the "wiki" back in Wikipedia as they have created a course in which medical students review and edit articles on diseases and treatments that appear on the site. The course is for fourth-year medical students and is set during a time when students are often traveling around the countries for interviews and need the ability to earn course credit with the flexibility to work remotely.
Depending on the success of the course, the school may make it a requirement. The students will be part of Wikiproject Medicine and will focus on the 100 most accessed medical topics on Wikipedia. After the articles are written and/or edited, they will then be sent to a group from Translators Without Borders which helps to produce medical articles for Wikipedia in languages spoken in countries that often lack high quality medical information... an example recent posts include articles in Javanese on dengue fever and in Hindi on urinary tract infections.
Maybe we could help save the history pages in Wikipedia by starting a similar project...
Thoughts?