WikiLectures:About
WikiLectures
WikiLectures is a project focused on creating and storing medical study materials. It's being developed for student and teachers of all medical faculties in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Authors and readers of WikiSkripta obtain support from editors maintaining the site.
Due to its openess, everyone can contribute to WikiLectures. You can correct mistakes or publish your materials for other students. You can work anonymously, however, it is recomended to log in to obtain better support from editorial board. If you are more interested in working on WikiLectures, join our team (editor@wikilectures.eu).
Main point of this project is to simplify the process of preparation of the education materials, their editing and updating. As our goal is not to create an encyclopaedia, the articles may not satisfy all requirements which are necessary for common encyclopedic entries; they will be rather designed to resemble chapters of textbook.
Main differences between WikiLectures and Wikipedia
Although the rules and recommendations in Wikipedia apply largely to creation of any scientific text and, in most cases, it is advisable to follow them while editing WikiLectures too, the authors should keep in mind the ultimate goal of utilization of their text for educational purposes at medical faculties. Hence, the articles should be designed in a most effective form in order to facilitate their future use in educational process.
Because the education must follow the latest trends in scientific research, sometimes it is needed to use data from original published research too (i.e. using of primary information is allowed). Of course a critical approach towards inclusion of primary research has to be kept, data must be verifiable and their source has to be always cited. Reliability of the data should be always reviewed by the competent specialist. In justified cases, an expert view of a particular topic can appear at WikiLectures, still respecting the principles outlined above
Community of WikiLectures is much smaller than the community of Wikipedia. Correction of potential mistakes and updating of articles through mechanisms common in Wikipedia, i.e. voluntariness and large number of members, might not always be prompt enough. That is the reason why WikiLectures will remain bound to faculty structures to ensure their technical and factual administration.
Thank you for your patience with reading this article and wish you pleasant work with WikiLectures.
