The Cochrane Collaboration has formed a partnership with Wikipedia via the Wiki Project Med Foundation to promote the use of independent, high-quality evidence in Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia’s impact and global reach easily surpass all other knowledge resources in the world today, providing an unparalleled opportunity for Cochrane to reach new audiences.

Wiley, has provided 100 full Cochrane Library licences free to Wikipedia medical editors to enable them to use Cochrane evidence to edit Wikipedia articles in health and medicine topics. Additionally, Cochrane is now in the process of appointing a Wikipedian-in-Residence (WiR) to work with Cochrane contributors and groups who want to get involved, to teach authors how to edit Wikipedia articles with the evidence they have produced; and to advocate Wikipedia within the Cochrane community as a key tool for disseminating Cochrane evidence. Read more here.