The ILAE Wikipedia Epilepsy Project

Wikipedia is the most commonly accessed source of health information by professionals and the general public worldwide. Through its Wikipedia Epilepsy Initiative, the ILAE has a unique opportunity to convey the most authoritative and up-to-date information on epilepsy via Wikipedia, with the widest possible reach and in many languages.

The scope of work of the Wikipedia Epilepsy Initiative involves two equally important activities:

• Editing existing epilepsy-related entries – This is a central aspect of the initiative. The goal is to make entries accurate and authoritative by applying extensive references and links to appropriate publications, especially those involving ILAE-related materials on www.ilae.org or from ILAE’s three journals. This includes incorporating open-access articles and using language that is, as much as possible, understandable by non-professionals, in keeping with Wikipedia policy.

• Creating or soliciting new epilepsy-related entries, including:

  • Standard Wikipedia entries
  • Full-featured, professional-quality articles that can be simultaneously published on Wikipedia and in open-access journals such as Epilepsia Open or other Creative Commons–licensed journals. This second format is preferred when possible, as it provides authors with an opportunity for recognized authorship and contributes to their curriculum vitae.

The ILAE invites interested medical students, physicians (residents, fellows, and epilepsy experts), as well as other healthcare professionals and researchers, to contribute.

Learn about possibilities here: Call for Wikipedia Contributors

• Anti NMDA receptor encephalitis
• Benign infantile epilepsy
• Catamenial epilepsy
• Childhood Absence Epilepsy
• Dravet syndrome
• Early myoclonic epilepsy
• Electroencephalography
• Epileptogenesis
• Febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome
• Febrile seizures
• Frontal lobe epilepsy
• Generalised tonic clonic seizures
• Generalized epilepsy
• Hemispherectomy
• Idiopathic generlised epilepsy
• Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
• Midazolam
• Myoclonic astatic epilepsy
• Myoclonic epilepsy
• Myoclonus
• Neonatal seizures
• Reflex seizure
• Seizure and epilepsy classification
• Status Epilepticus
• Tuberous sclerosis

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The ILAE Wikipedia Team

• Nandan Yardi, MD — Editor-in-Chief
  Senior Consultant Epileptologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Pediatric Neurology, MUHS-KEM Hospital, Yardi Epilepsy Clinic, Jehangir Hospital, Sahyadri Hospital, Pune, India
• Jonah Fox — Deputy Editor
• Amin Azzam, MD, MA — Wikipedian, Faculty Lead of the UCSF “Expanding Wikiproject Medicine” course
  Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, California, USA
• Nadia Khan
• Christos Lisgaras, PhD — Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine - Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Developmental Epilepsy Laboratory
  
• Atul Maheshwari, MD — Senior Editor and American Epilepsy Society representative, ILAE Wikipedia Epilepsy Initiative
  Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA

Advisors

• Nicola Maggio
• Selim Benbadis, MD, FAAN, FACNS – Senior Editor, ILAE Wikipedia Epilepsy Initiative
  Professor of Neurology and Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, University of South Florida and Tampa General Hospital, Florida, USA
• Shani Evenstein Sigalov - Member of Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation
  Educator, Lecturer and Researcher, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• James Heilman, MD – Wikipedian, member of Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation
  Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada

Reports

2023 Wikipedia Epilepsy Project Annual Report

2022 Wikipedia Epilepsy Project Annual Report

2021 Wikipedia Epilepsy Project Annual Report

2020 Wikipedia Epilepsy Project Annual Report