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A zero-profit effort to build open, trustworthy reference and connection tools, always free to use, always completely ad-free (outside of some gentle nudging to other collective sites and/or [https://wiki.archlinux.org/ other] [https://www.wikiart.org/ awesome] [https://oeis.org/ places]). It began as 4 apparently separate ideas, that, with the advent of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model modern LLMs] (thank [https://www.anthropic.com/claude Claude]), [[Special:UserProfile/MDElliottMD|I]] have been able to just develop them myself. Pharmacopedia.wiki (PCP.wiki) is first and foremost a med reference for anyone with a license to prescribe medicines. There is a ridiculous gap in this space because everything is .. [https://www.epocrates.com/online/drugs/1153/fluoxetine#adult-dosing not good/ad-ridden], and/or [https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/uptodate/roles/residents-fellows-students ludicrously expensive], at the moment (as far as I know). But much beyond that, PCP.wiki and PCP.ext are tools for exquisitely detailed self-discovery/mesearch, as well as sharing experiences with how humans interact with medicines in the broadest sense. This is the face of the org, but I'll introduce you to the other 3 ([https://pubsci.io pubsci], [https://oyami.org oyami], and [https://trykl.org trykl]) as we go. What follows is most of the details of how I did it, in excruciating detail, built as an iterative mix of AI and me (like most things here), in the spirit of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source open-source], transparency, and just in case it might help somebody else build their dreams too.

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| 2026-06-02 || the Pharmacopedia Collective is incorporated in California as a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation. zero-profit, now in writing.

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