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I appeciate your thoughts in Lung and Blood. If you are interested in collaborating on medical topics, you might want to join Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine and help with the Collaboration of the Week.

Again, welcome! Novangelis (talk) 17:16, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Greetings from WikiProject Medicine!

Welcome to WikiProject Medicine!

I noticed you recently added yourself to our Participants' list, and I wanted to welcome you to our project. Our goal is to facilitate collaboration on medicine-related articles, and everyone is welcome to join (regardless of medical qualifications!). Here are some suggested activities:

• Read our Manual of Style for medical articles
• Join in editing our collaboration of the week (the current one is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Discuss with other members in the doctor's mess
• Have a look at some related WikiProjects
• Have a look at the collaboration dashboard

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page, or feel free to ask me on my talk page.

Again, welcome!  JFW | T@lk 18:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Tildes in edit summaries

There is normally no need to add ~~~~ to edit summaries. The wiki keeps your name in the page history after each edit anyway. Tildes are useful when leaving comments on talk pages. JFW | T@lk 09:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. I'm just learning my way around this thing. I need as many tips as I can get :-)Orinoco-w (talk) 09:24, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello

Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have. I might have useful answers for you.

Peace, rkmlai (talk) 01:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

respiratory disease

Hello, my interest in reading and editing medical articles waxes and wanes, and right now my desire to edit them is pretty low, but I did quickly read through respiratory disease, and I think you've done a fine job expanding and restructuring the article. I do suggest giving short definitions of such terms as parenchyma and sequela rather than just linking them, because I feel it improves readability... but that's just my personal opinion. Good work! --Kyoko 19:47, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello, if you would like some guidance about how to structure a medical article, you should look at WP:MEDMOS, which is a manual of style for medicine-related pages. For that matter, you might be interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine, if you haven't already done so. --Kyoko 14:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Cardiology

Since you made the "mistake" of mentioning a cardiology-related example on the WPMED page: I need someone who actually knows something (read "anything") about Ventricular hypertrophy to decide whether it's finally made it to B class. It's been on the "needs reassessed" list since January, and our normal turnaround time is rather faster than that. If you're willing to try this, then the process is pretty straightforward: you scan through the article, and if it looks basically okay and seems to have no really major gaps, then you declare that it's B class. If it has significant problems and/or major gaps, then you leave a note on the talk page about your concerns.

I can usually sort out most articles, but cardiology is entirely opaque to me. As for my thoughts on this article: if VH is actually a disease, then it's missing way too much for an upgrade (i.e., pretty much everything about diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis). If, on the other hand, VH is better described as a medical sign or a lab finding, then it might be good enough as it stands. You should, of course, completely ignore my views in favor of developing your own.  ;-)

If you don't want to do this, that's fine, too. Thanks for considering it, WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

"I'm impressed! It's quite a nice little article, although I'm itching to have a go through the language and making it more "layman's terms" if at all possible. However, I'm hesitant just at this stage given the previous comment ->GA (and given my own efforts to date have been much more modest). Well done KC Panchal! Orinoco-w (talk) 23:39, 5 May 2008 (UTC)"

Thanks for going through the article, commenting and encouraging. I've made further changes in the article, and also added another image. Did I make too many mistakes with grammar, or just that it was unnecessarily complex?

Actually, I had started the article 14 months back, which had remained a stub, and was an eyesore for me, so I actually finished the article on the "spur of the moment", though, now I think it actually took a lot of time and effort (almost the entire article has been completely written and "drawn" by me).

Hope to get more feedback and specific suggestions from you.

Regards.

Ketan Panchal, MBBS (talk) 14:55, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Citing dissertations

Awadewit is on wikibreak so I dug around and found a solution for citing dissertations. It is at User_talk:Awadewit#References_and_Dissertations Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 00:05, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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Dissertation citation

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you. I've been away. Did you figure out how to do the dissertation citation? Ruhrfisch left a model on my talk page in MLA style. Is that the style you needed? Awadewit (talk) 18:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Cardiology task force

Cardiology task force is looking for editors to help build and maintain comprehensive, informative, balanced articles related to Cardiology on Wikipedia. Start by adding your name to the list of participants at Cardiology task force Participants. ECG Unit (Welcome!)

-- Addbot (talk) 00:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

T.F.AlHammouri (talk) 08:35, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

	Thank you for joining Cardiology task force, a collaborative effort to make the project more comprehensive and allot of improvment needed for many articles. Below are some ongoing tasks for you to take part in, or you can add a task to do. Another great place to check out is Category:Cardiovascular system stubs. Personal message (optional) MaenK.A.Talk 07:35, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Cardiology task force, tasks you can do:

--MaenK.A._Talk 07:35, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014

The first edition of The Pulse has been released. The Pulse will be a regular newsletter documenting the goings-on at WPMED, including ongoing collaborations, discussions, articles, and each edition will have a special focus. That newsletter is here.

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BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors

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Medical Translation Newsletter

Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 1, June/July 2014
by CFCF, Doc James

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This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.

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Spotlight - Simplified article translation

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Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

• WHO's list of Essential Medicines[1]
• Neglected tropical diseases[2]
• Key diseases for medical subspecialties like: oncology, emergency medicine (list), anatomy, internal medicine, surgery, etc.

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

What's happening?

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IEG grant

CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.

I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

• Swedish
  Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
  Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
• Dutch
  Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
• Polish
  Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
  (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
• Arabic
  The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.

Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [3]

News in short

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To come

• Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
• Proofreading drives

Further reading

• Translators Without Borders
• Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign

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categorization

You evidently subst'd a Borg template that added your user page to Category:Star Trek user templates. Can you please fix? TIA. ⇔ ChristTrekker 17:17, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

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