Template:Invitation to serve as Editor-In-Chief

Dear ____,

Nearly 2 years ago now I created www.wikidoc.org. I am writing to see if you would be willing to serve as Editor-In-Chief of ______ at the site.

What is WikiDoc? WikiDoc is an open source website that allows an international community of healthcare professionals to add and edit medical content in a process termed co-creation. WikiDoc is designed to facilitate collaborative authoring. WikiDoc allows a community of healthcare professionals to 'co-create' webpages in a way that does not require knowledge of HTML language or computer programming. As a result, numerous people can collaborate in writing articles, textbook chapters or news stories. Prior versions of webpages are stored, and at any time, a page can be reverted to any of its previous states in case of vandalism or errors.

The 'Edit' tab allows you to post and edit material. Once you are done editing, click Save page at the bottom.

The ‘History’ tab shows all the changes made to a page, and you can compare versions using this tab.

The 'Discussion' tab allows the community of users to comment and discuss issues such as would occur in a forum.

The 'Watch' tab allows WikiDoc members to be alerted by email when changes are made to a topic they are interested in. Any time the page changes, you as Editor-In-Chief can be emailed regarding the change should you choose.

In addition to text, images, sounds, links to slides and movies can all be uploaded as well.

Nearly 2500 chapters and news articles are now available, and the site is being contributed to in seven different languages at this time.

By intent, the site has no financial support from industry. I have personally funded the creation of the site, and have used monies from my research to fund the site. We are in the process of creating a non profit 501C3 foundation to support the site. We hope to create scholarships so that residents or fellows can spend dedicated time contributing to the site.

You can view the structure of the materials related to cardiology here: http://en.wikidoc.org/index.php/The_WikiDoc_Living_Textbook_of_Cardiology

I have created a page dedicated to your chapter at the following address:____

You will need to 'log in' at the top right of the page to begin editing. Please use your full name so that I know you are the person doing the editing.

How do you put the material up? Just click on the ‘edit’ tab at the top of the page and paste the material in. To get help editing pages click here: http://en.wikidoc.org/index.php/Help:Editing

Please spread the word to students, nurses, residents, fellows and attendings. If you know anyone who would be interested in contributing new stories let me know. We are paying a nominal fee for contribution of new stories by fellows and residents at this time. News stories resources can be found on the following pages: http://en.wikidoc.org/index.php/WikiDoc_News:_News_Team_Resources http://en.wikidoc.org/index.php/Wikidoc_news_template

I hope you will consider serving as an Editor-In-Chief. You can have others join you as Editors-In-Chief. Thank you ahead of time for your support!

With appreciation,

Mike