On 2014 May 30, Lane Rasberry commented:

As a Wikipedia contributor I appreciate this paper greatly. Questions about complementary and alternative medicine are among the most popular questions asked on Wikipedia, and by extension, I believe that this sorts of questions are among the most popular health questions asked generally.

Wikipedia has a long history of restricting discussion about CAM to separate explanations of its cultural impact and what is reported in academic literature as evidence based medicine coming from review articles or other secondary sources. While anyone familiar with the societal practice of CAM is encouraged to present non-medical claims as they like with whatever reliable sources they can cite, as this article says - Wikipedia articles on CAM get a lot of traffic and the public's demand for summarized results of medical research on CAM is not being met in Wikipedia. I feel this is because there are as many health professionals in CAM doing educational outreach as there are in other sectors of health.

As a Wikipedia community anecdote, I would also like to share that Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales also expressed a need for more evidence based reporting on Wikipedia about CAM, as he said in 2014 in response to a petition to include non-evidence based medical information on Wikipedia.

On 2014 May 30, Lane Rasberry commented:

As a Wikipedia contributor I appreciate this paper greatly. Questions about complementary and alternative medicine are among the most popular questions asked on Wikipedia, and by extension, I believe that this sorts of questions are among the most popular health questions asked generally.

Wikipedia has a long history of restricting discussion about CAM to separate explanations of its cultural impact and what is reported in academic literature as evidence based medicine coming from review articles or other secondary sources. While anyone familiar with the societal practice of CAM is encouraged to present non-medical claims as they like with whatever reliable sources they can cite, as this article says - Wikipedia articles on CAM get a lot of traffic and the public's demand for summarized results of medical research on CAM is not being met in Wikipedia. I feel this is because there are as many health professionals in CAM doing educational outreach as there are in other sectors of health.

As a Wikipedia community anecdote, I would also like to share that Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales also expressed a need for more evidence based reporting on Wikipedia about CAM, as he said in 2014 in response to a petition to include non-evidence based medical information on Wikipedia.