User:Mikael Häggström/Radviser

Radviser (Radiology Adviser, at radviser.org) is a proposed online source for radiologists, containing information that is useful in the course of work in radiology. It will be a non-profit open access MediaWiki-based online source that is editable by doctors, as well as trustworthy administrators, while everyone is welcome to leave comments and suggestions at talk pages.

Credentials
Initially, doctors can register automatically to become editors by simply entering their name, place of work or residence, and checking a box promising that their doctor degree. All edits are tracked in the MediaWiki software, and upon any irregular behavior, an investigation will be performed wherein an editor may be requested to provide identification and credentials to the board. Failure to provide those items may result in that edits made by that editor will be reverted.

A prospective editor needs to submit an application for consideration by the board if the applicant is not a doctor but has expertise in radiology by other means, wants to become an administrator, or if the applicant wants to edit under a pseudonym rather than under a real name. Once the project has a large base of contributing doctors, it is likely that all new prospective editors will need to apply to the board.

Differences from Radiopaedia
Radviser will in some ways be a non-profit and ad-free alternative to Radiopaedia, which is currently the most comprehensive wiki-based reference work in Radiology. Radiopaedia is a "business" owned by Investling.com, making profit by advertising and paid subscription. Radviser, on the other hand, will be able to run on donations and volunteer time alone, with Miraheze as a host. Also, Radviser will not really be an encyclopedia in that it should not include all information in radiology, but keep only what is useful for radiologists during their course of work.

Furthermore, Radiopedia by default uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which makes the material ineligible for integration into for example Wikimedia projects including as Wikipedia. Content in Radviser, on the other hand, will by default be licensed as Attribution 4.0 International, which will allow the content to be used by other scholarly websites around the world.

Wiki creation request

 * Special:RequestWikiQueue/4731

People interested in participating

 * Mikael Häggström. I will do further recruitment after wiki creation. Mikael Häggström (talk) 10:23, 6 April 2018 (UTC)