Table 1.
Characteristics of page attributes of articles on complementary and alternative medicine and on conventional medicine.
| Attribute | Frequency or median (min–max) | P | |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAM articles (n = 97) | Conventional therapy articles (n = 8) | ||
| WikiProject quality class | |||
| Featured article & A | 0 | 0 | 0.042 |
| Good article | 4 | 0 | |
| B & C | 33 | 7 | |
| Start, stub | 57 | 1 | |
| Not available | 3 | 0 | |
| Daily access over the past 90 days | 372 (7–4,214) | 1,063 (129–3,236) | 0.116 |
| Median total edits | 477 (2–10,646) | 1,105 (138–2,697) | 0.293 |
| Edits per month | 5 (0–87) | 9 (2–21) | 0.411 |
| Unique editor | 198 (2–2,330) | 468 (64–1,296) | 0.218 |
| References with PMID | 2 (0–130) | 10.5 (0–46) | 0.015 |
| References with ISBN | 2 (0–70) | 1 (0–5) | 0.212 |
| Word count | 1,840 (371–17,197) | 5,032 (1,432–8,172) | 0.029 |
| PMID per 1000 words | 0.8 (0–15.5) | 2.9 (0–11.4) | 0.056 |
| SMOG readability | 12.7 (9.4–17.7) | 14.4 (11.6–15.2) | 0.042 |
CAM: complementary and alternative medicine; PMID: PubMed unique identifier; ISBN: international standard book number; SMOG: simple measure of Gobbledygook.