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Welcome to Wikipital, the free online resource for health information for developing countries. The aim of this project is to disseminate health information relevant to developing countries. The content will initially be available in English and over the ensuing months will be translated into various regional languages. Click on current events to see how you can contribute to the project.
We will be shortly upgrading to MediaWiki 1.8. Wikipital will therfore be offline for a brief period later this week. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
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What do we intend to do? a.k.a. Objectives |
How can you help? |
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Wikipital is a collaborative effort. It involves the participation of hundreds if not thousands of health professionals including doctors, nurses, paramedics, medical students and others. You can create or edit any content. We need authors, editors, reviewers, moderators and more. Navigate to the help pages and community portal to read more on how you can contribute. And you do it all for the joy of building the largest free resource for health information. |
| Navigating Wikipital | |
| Finding the topic you are looking for is extremely simple. There are many different methods of doing it and you can choose any method depending on how much you know about what you are looking for. We have shown two methods here. You can also use the Search box on the left to search for any topic. Alternatively, go to the Topic Finder to find more ways of finding what you want. Enjoy browsing Wikipital! | |
| Browse by Categories | Browse by Topic (A to Z) |
| All articles in Wikipital are placed in categories based on specialty or the subject of medicine the article deals with. It is extremely easy to navigate the collection of categories and subcategories. Use this method if you know what specialty you expect your topic to be in. | Use this method if you know the first few letters of the topic. Else, you could easily get lost for days if not weeks in the maze of information available. Do not use this method if you are not sure of the name of the topic. |