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WikiMSK launched on 13 June 2020 and is hosted on server space generously donated by Ellerslie Medical Centre. I presented the website at the NZAMM conference in Wellington in October to very positive reception. At the time of writing we have between 150-300 content pages depending on how the counting is done. In the month of May 2021 we had 3,041 unique page views. The most popular pages are Cluneal Nerve Pain, Slipped Rib Syndrome, and Cauda Equina Syndrome. Only 10% of users are from New Zealand and Australia, with the United States making up the biggest user base at 55%. 85% of views have come from direct search.

Most of the work gone into the website thus far has been spent setting up the features and structure to provide a better framework for article creation and editing. WikiMSK runs on MediaWiki, an open source wiki software that runs Wikipedia and countless other wikis. While it is very customisable and powerful, out of the box it is extremely basic and not very user friendly, and doesn't have many simple quality of life features that are common in content management systems such as Wordpress. In order to better achieve the goals of WikiMSK heavy customisation has been necessary but there is currently no funding to hire a professional developer, and support is very limited from the open source community. While some customisations have been relatively straightforward, others have required a large amount of time debugging and testing. There have been failed experiments which are too numerous to list. I suspect the website as it stands now would have cost about $15,000 to set up if it was outsourced to a New Zealand developer.

Here are some of the software customisations achieved thus far:

Creation of a training portal with protected access through AccessControl depending on the NZAMM status of the user.
Breadcrumbs at the top of articles to allow easier navigation through Breadcrumbs2
Simpler category exploration through CategoryTree
Tracking of user contributions with a scoring system using ContributionScores
Notification and alerts system through Echo
Video embedding such as Youtube videos through EmbedVideo
Graphing and visualisation tools through Graph and Mermaid respectively
Creation of a case histories section using HeaderTabs to allow the user to go through cases step by step
Google analytics to allow monitoring and planning through HeadScript, we are getting about 20 unique visitors a day.
Clickable skeleton in the front page using ImageMap
Easier article creation in the "Create a new article" link using InputBox
Latest articles feature in the main page using Intersection
Mark up editor customisation using MsUpload, and MsWikiEditor
Mark up editor easier referencing of journal articles using PubmedParser
View PDFs right in the article using EmbedPDF
Popup boxes when hovering over articles using PopUps and TextExtracts
Popup boxes when hovering over references using a custom gadget from Wikipedia
MCQ tool using Quiz
Latest journal articles section by using RSS and TwitterTag
Visual editor providing the user with a visual way of editing articles instead of the markup editor
Easier template searching and interpretation using TemplateData
Shorter URLs
Skin using Medik with heavy customisations (1000 lines of custom CSS code), with a secondary optional skin called Citizen.
Custom namespaces
Show article quality markers on each item in a category using a gadget.
A large number of templates to provide things like the various infoboxes, red flag box, practice point box, reliable sources box, custom table of contents, navigation bars, image licensing information, and much more.

The following further features are desired but are not possible at this time either due to limitations of the server or limitations in my own skill. Therefore the following features will require donations.

Installation of citoid - automatic reference generator in VisualEditor using things like the ISBN and PMID
Installation of elastica and cirrus search - a much more powerful search tool.
Modification of the discussions pages to make it more intuitive to use by using StructuredDiscussions.
Installation of Cargo, PageForms, and VEforAll to allow even easier article creation and editing.
Caching
Custom tool in a central dashboard tool for easier monitoring of the quality control process.

Some of the general policy and website structural implementations achieved so far

Affiliated with the New Zealand Association of Musculoskeletal Medicine
Quality control and peer review process
Account eligibility and access level policy
Privacy, copyright, patient information policies and general disclaimers
Implementation of website structure using portals
User guide

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+WikiMSK launched on 13 June 2020 and is hosted on server space generously donated by Ellerslie Medical Centre. I presented the website at the NZAMM conference in Wellington in October to very positive reception. At the time of writing we have between 150-300 content pages depending on how the counting is done. In the month of May 2021 we had 3,041 unique page views. The most popular pages are [[Cluneal Nerve Pain]], [[Slipped Rib Syndrome]], and [[Cauda Equina Syndrome]]. Only 10% of users are from New Zealand and Australia, with the United States making up the biggest user base at 55%. 85% of views have come from direct search.
-WikiMSK launched on 13 June 2020 and is hosted on server space generously donated by Ellerslie Medical Centre. I presented the website at the NZAMM conference in Wellington in October to very positive reception. Most of the work gone into the website thus has been spent setting up the features and structure to provide a better base for article creation and editing. WikiMSK runs on MediaWiki, an open source wiki software that runs Wikipedia and countless other wikis. While it is very customisable and powerful, out of the box it is extremely basic and not very user friendly, and doesn't have many simple quality of life features that are common in content management systems such as Wordpress. In order to better achieve the goals of WikiMSK heavy customisation has been necessary but with no funding to hire a professional developer, and support is very limited from the open source community. While some customisations have been relatively straightforward, others have required a large amount of time debugging and testing. There have been failed experiments which are too numerous to list. I suspect the website as it stands now would have cost about $15,000 to set up if it was outsourced to a New Zealand developer.
+Most of the work gone into the website thus far has been spent setting up the features and structure to provide a better framework for article creation and editing. WikiMSK runs on MediaWiki, an open source wiki software that runs Wikipedia and countless other wikis. While it is very customisable and powerful, out of the box it is extremely basic and not very user friendly, and doesn't have many simple quality of life features that are common in content management systems such as Wordpress. In order to better achieve the goals of WikiMSK heavy customisation has been necessary but there is currently no funding to hire a professional developer, and support is very limited from the open source community. While some customisations have been relatively straightforward, others have required a large amount of time debugging and testing. There have been failed experiments which are too numerous to list. I suspect the website as it stands now would have cost about $15,000 to set up if it was outsourced to a New Zealand developer.
 Here are some of the software customisations achieved thus far:
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