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Dear ____,

Nearly 2 years ago now I created www.wikidoc.org, the world’s first and largest free medical textbook. I am writing to see if you would be willing to contribute information regarding _____. 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 'Discussion' tab allows the community of users to discuss rapidly evolving issues. WikiDoc members can choose to be alerted by email when changes are made to a topic they are interested in by clicking on the 'Watch' tab. Any time the page changes, you can be emailed regarding the change. Images, sounds, links to slides and movies can 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 point! By intent, the site has no financial support from industry.

We are always looking for new and up to date content for the site.

I write to you because I know how sensitive device and pharmaceutical companies can be regarding placement of materials in the public domain.

That being said, though, would you mind sharing non-copyrighted materials that are in the public domain related to ____?

I have created a chapter dedicated to ____ at the following address: http://en.wikidoc.org/index.php/____

How do you put the material up? Just click on edit 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

If you would like myself to post the materials, send them to me by email.

I hope you will consider contributing material. Thank you ahead for your support!

With appreciation,