Vinnypatel

Have you got the required 20 signatures yet for the IC Wiki-society? Wierdy1024 109.224.147.74 (talk) 21:20, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello, yes, I submitted this to the union last year and am just waiting on them for approval. Can I ask who this is?

Hi Vinesh, I am glad everything is progressing well. See you at our second society meeting. - Tom (mthe)

Hi Vinny, Could you please confirm the date of the event as I would like to ensure that some students at the University of Westminster who will be engaging with wikiversity know about it . . . and perhaps some might like to attend?Harrypotter (talk) 16:18, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Vinnypatel, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I see that you are a medical student at Imperial College. Please have a look at WikiProject Medicine and consider joining us.

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ICL

Sorry, i have no connection with Imperial. And please remember to sign your posts.

If there is enough positive feedback with it then go ahead. It could be a good place to generate debates etc. Maybe try to have a look round to find other established Wikipedians in a category. Simply south...... 20:58, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

London meeting follow-up

Hi Vinny,

Drop me a note on Wednesday if Thursday is looking good (Special:EmailUser/Fæ). If there is enough interest in having a chat with or bouncing ideas off an Alumni/Wikipedian than I should be able to make it. Cheers - Fæ (talk) 22:50, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

FAC

Hi Vinny, I hope today went as well as yesterday. I really enjoyed meeting you and your friends. One area you might want to point people towards is the process whereby we review potential featured articles, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-04-07/Dispatches has details. Cheers ϢereSpielChequers 23:27, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

About the “Wikipedia in academics” EPIC FAIL:

Wikipedia itself defines itself as the exact opposite of science. Because neither observation, nor any form of logical reasoning (“no original research”) are permitted. The only thing allowed, is to serve as a source eyewash. To determine the value of information solely based on the “respectedness and number of sources” (“citation needed”). The appeal to authority fallacy as philosophical foundation and compulsory requirement of the site.

In short words: So Wikipedia forces its users, to only publish content, if it is guaranteed to be based on logical fallacies.

If that’s not the definition of EPIC FAIL, then I don’t know what is.

— Navid Zamani, Köln, Deutschland

Upcoming Signpost coverage

Hi Vinny,

I've written up the BBC News article for this week's Signpost. It'd be handy if you could have a glance over and see if you are happy with it: Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-03-28/In the news. If there are any problems, feel free to tell me on my talk page and I'll sort them out. —Tom Morris (talk) 00:24, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Society

Hi,

Sorry to reply so late, I haven't been on Wikipedia much recently except to read the odd article. I would happily join such a society, although I doubt that I would be an active member. I haven't been the most active Wikipedian lately.

By the way, I am a current student; a second year physicist.

Best wishes,

Jonaboff_talk 21:19, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Resources for Wikipedian Student Organizations

Hello, Vinnypatel. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Hi, Vinnypatel. I've sent you a message about testing out some new resources for student organizations. Hope you can lend a hand, and feel free to follow up with questions at studentclubswikimedia.org. Wolliff (talk) 23:51, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Your opinion is wanted

Please provide your input here on the legitimacy and desirability of accepting external links in relevant Wikipedia articles to MedMerits, a new and freely accessible online resource on neurologic disorders. Presto54 (talk) 03:19, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Looking forward to having you back V, unfortunately I am going on residency ... Mthe (talk) 12:08, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Stay in touch

Hi Vinny, was great meeting up. Hope you had a good time after Mumbai. Do stay in touch. Shyamal (talk) 03:15, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Med

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new non-profit organization we're forming at m:WikiMed. Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! Anthonyhcole (talk) 05:26, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)

The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.

• Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
• Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to 100 medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
• If you are still active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:20, 16 June 2013 (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.

The newsletter has been sent to the talk pages of WP:MED members bearing the {{User WPMed}} template. To opt-out, please leave a message here or simply remove your name from the mailing list. Because this is the first issue, we are still finding out feet. Things like the layout and content may change in subsequent editions. Please let us know what you think, and if you have any ideas for the future, by leaving a message here.

Posted by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:24, 5 June 2014 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Medicine.

BMJ offering 25 free accounts to Wikipedia medical editors

Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

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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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!