WikiLectures:About

Wikilectures 1. LF UK

Wikilectures is a project of First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, which is created to support education at our faculty. 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 First Faculty of Medicine. 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.

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.