Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Participating institutions/Cochrane

About Cochrane


Cochrane is an international health organization in which volunteers from many countries collaborate to publish systematic reviews of medical research on health care and to share the information broadly. Cochrane volunteers and the organization itself have partnered with Wikipedia since 2013 to improve the quality of Wikipedia's health information.

About the Cochrane-Wikipedia Collaborative
Wikipedia's health content was made up of more than 155,000 articles at the end of 2013, and was viewed more than 4.88 billion times in the same year. Wikipedia is thus a major source of health information for people across the world.

The Cochrane-Wikipedia partnership, formalized in 2014, supports the inclusion of relevant evidence within all Wikipedia articles on health, as well as processes to help ensure that health information included in Wikipedia is of the highest quality and accuracy.
 * The Cochrane-Wikipedia partnership in 2016

Overview of resources
Participants in the program get supporting including the following:
 * Access to Cochrane publications through The Wikipedia Library
 * Online small-group and training for health professionals to edit Wikipedia
 * Review of the content you submit to Wikipedia provided by Cochrane health experts

Position announcements
''Cochrane is not currently accepting applications. Please see Visiting Scholars/Apply for other options.''