| Like [[wikipedia]] it is open for everyone. Unlike wikipedia there is no anonymity and everyone intending to commit is expected to create an user account with his or her real name. The user page should contain some information about yourself. | | Like [[wikipedia]] it is open for everyone. Unlike wikipedia there is no anonymity and everyone intending to commit is expected to create an user account with his or her real name. The user page should contain some information about yourself. |
| + | Imedwiki is strongly oriented towards Wikipedia. There are differences in two respects. Firstly, Imedwiki is a specialist wiki for integrative medicine, i.e. a platform with a specific specialist focus. Secondly, the understanding of paradigm pluralism differs from Wikipedia's understanding of a neutral point of view. This is not so much the case in principle, but in the specific implementation. In principle, the neutral point of view (NPOV) on Wikipedia is intended to enable the presentation of facts from a variety of perspectives, as long as these are described neutrally. This is basically almost congruent with the approach of perspective or paradigm pluralism on Imedwiki. In reality, however, it is much more difficult to present complementary medicine content on Wikipedia, even if it is purely neutral and factual. There are many reasons for this and it would be good to explain them in detail at a later date. However, the difficulties that arose, particularly in the English-speaking world, ultimately led to the decision to establish a platform that refers more clearly to the NPOV than is implemented in Wikipedia, so as to enable the various facets of integrative and complementary medicine to be presented in their respective characteristics. Often, the observations of integrative and complementary medicine are supplements to those of conventional science. As a result, articles from Wikipedia are sometimes imported and supplemented. These articles are provided with a corresponding module that notes the import and contains a link to the original page. If linked content cannot be meaningfully included on Imedwiki, then a link to the respective lemma on Wikipedia is recommended, which should then be marked with an appended link symbol. For example, medicine leads to the article Medicine on Wikipedia. The symbol is automatically attached to every link to Wikipedia. |