Complementary and Alternative Medicine on Wikipedia: Opportunities for Improvement
Table 1
Characteristics of page attributes of articles on complementary and alternative medicine and on conventional medicine.
Attribute
Frequency or median (min–max)
CAM articles ()
Conventional therapy articles ()
WikiProject quality class
Featured article & A
0
0
0.042
Good article
4
0
B & C
33
7
Start, stub
57
1
Not available
3
0
Daily access over the past 90 days
372 (7–4,214)
1,063 (129–3,236)
0.116
Median total edits
477 (2–10,646)
1,105 (138–2,697)
0.293
Edits per month
5 (0–87)
9 (2–21)
0.411
Unique editor
198 (2–2,330)
468 (64–1,296)
0.218
References with PMID
2 (0–130)
10.5 (0–46)
0.015
References with ISBN
2 (0–70)
1 (0–5)
0.212
Word count
1,840 (371–17,197)
5,032 (1,432–8,172)
0.029
PMID per 1000 words
0.8 (0–15.5)
2.9 (0–11.4)
0.056
SMOG readability
12.7 (9.4–17.7)
14.4 (11.6–15.2)
0.042
CAM: complementary and alternative medicine; PMID: PubMed unique identifier; ISBN: international standard book number; SMOG: simple measure of Gobbledygook.
