Only 6 countries left to go!!
Physiopedia truly has a global reach. It has now been visited by 190 countries, that’s 5 more than last month and only 7 left to go!! We can see that Liechtenstein and Vatican City are missing from the list, can anyone spot the other 5?
See the list of countries that have visited Physiopedia here…
Protect and Sustain Physiopedia by donating and sponsoring.
Physiopedia’s mission is to improve global health by promoting the free dissemination of physiotherapy related knowledge across the globe. It is about the power of physiotherapists like us to do extraordinary things for our profession, and for the wider global population.
Physiopedia isn’t a commercial website, it is a community creation, written by physiotherapists all around the world for everyone to view. You are part of our community and we ask you to protect and sustain Physiopedia. Together, we can keep it free of charge, we can keep it open and we can keep it growing – spreading physiotherapy knowledge everywhere.
Donors ans Sponsors like you can help us in our mission and in developing global projects that support our mission, such as educational projects in less resourced communities. We reach out to ask you and others all across the physiotherapy community to help sustain this project with a donation or by joining our sponsorship scheme.
If you value Physiopedia and see the potential in our mission, please contribut. We can’t provide this resource without you!
Become part of the Physiopedia team as one of our volunteers.
Would you like to become part of the Physiopedia team? We have recently created the opportunity for physiotherapists and physical therapists from all over the world to join us in the creation of this knowledge resource. Physiopedia has set itself a very ambitious task in improving the availability of physiotherapy and physical therapy related knowledge on a global scale. We are building the largest physiotherapy and physical therapy specific resource available, and we need your help!
What does volunteering with Physiopedia involve?
We always have a long list of administration and development tasks on the go and are looking for people who would be willing to help us complete these tasks. By helping us with these tasks you will enable us to focus on core issues that we need to address to ensure that this site develops into the amazing resource that we all hope it will become for our profession.
How will it benefit you?
As a volunteer at Physiopedia you can know, and feel good about the fact, that you have contributed to our global profession by playing an important role in helping to build this professional resource. Joining us on the team at Physiopedia is a great compliment to anyone’s daily work and also to your CV. From the experience you are likely to gain new profession related knowledge and also advance your technical skills. You will be added to our Acknowledgements page and following a successful voluntary position we will be happy to provide you with references for your current and potential employers.
Current volunteer positions available
Quality Assurance Officers – this involves checking that a provided list of pages contains all the information that it requires to qualify as a Physiopedia article. It will involve evaluating pages that have already been written and potentially editing small aspects to bring them up to Article standard. This task does require some editing of the wikitext so experience of this would be an advantage. You will not be required to add to the actual content on the page (unless you wish to!!).
Development Officer (Clinical Areas) – this position involves the evaluation and improvement of the table of content pages for each of our clinical areas. It will involve researching relevant information and adding it to these pages.
Development Officer (Networking pages) – for this position you will be checking that all pages are linked to and from throughout the site in an appropriate way. It will involve completing in-site searches and link building within articles.
Development Officer (Clinical Specialities) – we are always seeking clinical specialists to take a lead editing role for a select group of pages within their area of clinical expertise. For example you may specialise in the knee and could be the lead editor for all pages that fall into this category, or more specifically, you might specialise in knee osteoarthritis and so would just be lead editor on a smaller select group of pages that fall into this speciality.
Content Developers – we are always looking for people to build content on the site. If you would like some guided direction in doing this, this might be the position for you.
How do I become a volunteer?
Get in touch!! If you are interested in any of the above voluntary positions or have an idea for a voluntary position that we haven’t thought of simply email Rachael to express your interest. Once Rachael has received an email from you she will get back in touch to work with you to come to an agreement on the voluntary tasks that you will do in the time that you have available. Then away you go! Rachael will provide you with all the instructions and support that you need.
Job Specifics
Voluntary jobs at Physiopedia will be completed in your own time on your own computer. Although we will provide all the direction and support that you need, Physiopedia is not able to provide any technical equipment.
No bugs after a major upgrade, phew!
Well, it’s been nearly a week now since we did a major upgrade of the Mediawiki installation that runs Physiopedia, and we are pleased to say (fingers, toes, legs and arms crossed!!) that all seems to have gone very well. Although we keep finding very minor bugs ourselves no-one has reported anything to us. Phew!
So we are now running Mediawiki 1.6 which is a very up to date version of the same code that runs Wikipedia. Has anyone noticed the subtle differences? So far the most significant changes that we have noticed are an improved search page, an improved upload file page and many more Special Pages to play with. If you do come across anything that doesn’t look quite right or isn’t working how you expected it to, please do let us know.
Publish Research in Physiopedia
Physiopedia now offers an open opportunity for you to publish your research.
The open and collaborative nature of Physiopedia offers an ideal opportunity for the publication of physiotherapy and physical therapy research, including work that might otherwise not get published. We are happy for you to publish your original research in Physiopedia, include a summary of your research prior to publication in a peer reviewed journal or to publish your student dissertation.
This is a great way of publicising student work, supporting new researchers and bridging the gap between completing research and publication. We welcome all types of research to be published in Physiopedia including randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and case studies.
As a wiki which can be edited by physiotherapists and physical therapists from all over the world, Physiopedia lends itself as a good solution to open peer review of research. Each piece of research in Physiopedia has it’s own page, at the bottom of this page is a section for Physiopedia users to make comments and discuss the research.
Things to do in the new research section of Physiopedia:
Read Research in Physiopedia
The research section in Physiopedia is similar to that seen on journal websites to maintain a recognisable format. When research is added it will be included under the year/date at the time of inclusion.
See the Physiopedia Research – Table of Contents
Submit Research to Physiopedia
There are two ways in which you can add your research to Physiopedia:
All submissions should be submitted in the requested format. See submission guidelines.
Peer Review Research in Physiopedia
To review a piece of research that has been published in Physiopedia you should: go to the page for the piece of research that you wish to review, find the review section at the bottom of this page and add your comments as new bullets points in this section. All we ask is that when you make comments on other peoples research please respect their work and only provide critical reviews that are constructive. The review section of each research article will be moderated by our quality assurance and peer review team.
See how to peer review an article
If you would like to join the Physiopedia research peer review team, let us know.
We hope that this new feature offers an great opportunity to publish all types of physiotherapy and physical therapy research and that the community will collaborate to peer review the published research.
