25 Facts About James Heilman

James Heilman encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopedia.

James Heilman was the president of Wikimedia Canada between 2010 and 2013, and founded and was formerly the president of Wiki Project Med Foundation.

James Heilman is the founder of WikiProject Medicine's Medicine Translation Task Force.

James Heilman is a clinical assistant professor at the department of emergency medicine at the University of British Columbia, and the head of the department of emergency medicine at East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook, British Columbia, where he lives.

James Heilman graduated from the University of Saskatchewan in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in anatomy, and he subsequently earned his medical degree there in 2003.

James Heilman then completed his family medicine residency in British Columbia from 2003 to 2005.

James Heilman currently holds a certificate of added competency in emergency medicine with the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

James Heilman worked at Moose Jaw Union Hospital, a hospital in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, until 2010, when he began working at East Kootenay Regional Hospital, where, in October 2012, he was appointed head of the department of emergency medicine.

Later that year, James Heilman co-authored a version of the Wikipedia article for dengue fever in the peer-reviewed journal Open Medicine.

Since the beginning of his activity as a contributor to medicine-related Wikipedia articles in 2008, James Heilman has been promoting the improvement of medical content by encouraging fellow physicians to take part.

James Heilman became interested in editing Wikipedia on a slow night shift, when he looked up the article on obesity and found that it contained many errors.

James Heilman's time spent editing decreased to 20 hours a week in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

James Heilman takes part in an initiative through Wiki Project Med Foundation with Translators Without Borders, working to improve and translate English Wikipedia medical articles of top importance into minority languages.

James Heilman spoke at Wikimania 2014, where he said that 93 percent of medical students use Wikipedia, and argued that "fixing the internet" is a critical task for anyone who cares about healthcare.

James Heilman reduced the time he spent working in the emergency department so he could spend more time updating this page.

In 2009, James Heilman, who was then a resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, added public domain images of the ink blots used in the Rorschach test to the Wikipedia article on the subject, and concerned psychologists said that this could invalidate the tests.

In September 2009, the College of Psychologists of British Columbia urged the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons to launch an investigation into James Heilman's posting of the images.

In 2012, James Heilman noticed that the book Understanding and Management of Special Child in Pediatric Dentistry, published by Jaypee Brothers, contained a long passage about HIV that was plagiarized from Wikipedia's article on the subject.

In October 2014, while reading a copy of the Oxford Textbook of Zoonoses, James Heilman noticed that the book's section on Ebola was very similar to the Wikipedia page on that subject.

James Heilman initially suspected that a Wikipedia editor had copied the portion but later noticed that the part of the Wikipedia article that resembled the part of the textbook had been written in 2006 and 2010, while the textbook had not been published until 2011.

In June 2015, James Heilman was elected by the community to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

In 2012, James Heilman was one of two Wikimedia contributors sued by Internet Brands for shifting freely licensed content and volunteer editors from the for-profit site Wikitravel to the non-profit site Wikivoyage.

In 2014, James Heilman criticized a study which concluded that nine out of ten Wikipedia medical articles contained errors.

In 2017, Vice ran an article about conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia, in which the author noted that James Heilman had vocally called on the Wikimedia Foundation to increase its enforcement of Wikipedia's policy against undisclosed paid editing.

James Heilman has run the Marathon des Sables, the Adventure Racing World Championships, and the Saskatchewan Marathon.