Hello SYSOPs

Hi - I'm purposely writing this article to demonstrate the problem that OurMed has to create articles without user accounts. According to one of the OurMed Board Members, Ms. Florence Devouard, Wikipedia no longer allows this on their site. Ms Devouard is the former head of the Wikimedia Foundation that made Wikipedia and we all respect her insights and suggestions. I suggest too that we do not allow users to post articles without an account. This will eliminate a lot of the spam that we are experiencing on the site as well.

Best regards,

Greg Miller. December 21 2009

greg ^dot* miller ^at^ ourmed ^dot^ org

Hello again--just documenting that just temporarily it seems that the Tech Committee lead by SYSOP Vincent Navarro has made the change to only allow new articles by logged in users. Since the time of my suggestion above, however, I did get strong advice from Florence Devouard (Former Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation and current OurMed Board Member) that we should allow non-logged in users the freedom to post articles. In the January 8th 2010 Community Call it was noted that what works for Wikipedia may not necessarily be the case for OurMed--especially due to the more imperative need to have OurMed authors disclose their medical qualifications and associations with special interests.

Greg Miller, January 8th, 2010