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SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia

Authors: Lena Schmidt, Johannes Friedel, Clive E. Adams

Published in: Systematic Reviews | Issue 1/2017

Abstract

Wikipedia, the free-content online encyclopaedia, contains many heavily accessed pages relating to healthcare. Cochrane systematic reviews contain much high-grade evidence but dissemination into Wikipedia has been slow. New skills are needed to both translate and relocate data from Cochrane reviews to implant into Wikipedia pages. This letter introduces a programme to greatly simplify the process of disseminating the summary of findings of Cochrane reviews into Wikipedia pages.

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Title: SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia
Authors: Lena Schmidt
Johannes Friedel
Clive E. Adams
Publication date: 01-12-2017
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Systematic Reviews / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 2046-4053
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-017-0607-3

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