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Hello - some editors fight off the vandal hordes, as I do repairing pages with citation errors. If I didn't - there would be a large backlog in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting and in Category:Pages with missing references list as in Category:Pages with broken reference names ( more than 1500 yesterday). But it is impossible to work it alone. Do you know how to do a " Blitz" (excuse the comparision) to find willing editors to work on it. It is much more easier to repair references if you do it one hour, one day or one week ago after the errors were made instead of months and years after the error was done. Very, very difficult to find these errors.

Only with WikiBlame Search it is possible to find and repair such errors.

Best wishes -- Frze ^{> talk} 08:49, 10 October 2013 (UTC) reply

Backlog status ( Purge)

Category	Current status
Pages with incorrect ref formatting	Not done
Pages with missing references list	Done
Pages with broken reference names	Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character ",".

Best wishes -- Frze ^{> talk} 04:16, 22 October 2013 (UTC) reply

There is a suggestion on Wikipedia:Bot requests for a new REFBot working as DPL bot and BracketBot do. I beg politely for consideration. Please leave a comment if you wish. Thanks a lot in anticipation. -- Frze ( talk · contribs) 04:16, 22 October 2013 (UTC) reply

I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day ( see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:26, 18 November 2013 (UTC) reply

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

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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

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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Thanks for tackling Patient advocacy. Good start! -- Hordaland ( talk) 05:58, 17 February 2015 (UTC) reply

Re your note on my talk page: "Merge proposal at Patient advocacy". Not having experience at merging, I read up on it. It says (something like) that if the merge shouldn't be controversial, just do it. Merging Patient opinion leader into Patient advocacy looked obviously uncontroversial to me. Doing it would/will be a lot of work, however, so your suggestion is probably wise. I'll do it if I can figure it out (and if you haven't done it first??). -- Hordaland ( talk) 17:32, 7 March 2015 (UTC) reply

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Thanks for helping with merge of articles into patient participation. It helps a lot to have multiple people confirm that everything of value is transferred. Actually, I should have moved the external links and see also content over as a matter of process, but failed to do so. You corrected my mistake. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:11, 6 July 2016 (UTC) reply

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Hi! I have a question about your changes the subheading in the Duty to warn article.

Question: Do you think all of the subheadings in the "Criminal activity" section should be changed? Right now the subheadings are just names of cases and the Clery Act. These subheadings don't provide helpful information to the reader and the reader needs to do more reading. Perhaps it would be better to change the four subheadings. For example:

• change subheading from "Jane Doe v Internet" to "Internet websites"
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Can you look into Psychiatric rehabilitation and add psychosocial rehabilitation principles. 61.3.127.149 ( talk) 23:31, 8 December 2016 (UTC) reply

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Hey Shelley, thanks for making all of these edits for psychological assessment pages on Wikipedia! Quick question -- I noticed that you switched the "External Links" to be after the References section. Can you point me towards where you got this template from, so that I can read more about it? Always striving towards making a better template... Ongmianli ( talk) 10:02, 13 December 2016 (UTC) reply

Thank you for fixing the links to here from the Ibelin page; I came back to finish them off, but found they'd been done already; Thanks very much! Regards, Moonraker12 ( talk) 23:38, 2 March 2017 (UTC) reply

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Further to Blue Rasberry's post above dated 6 July 2016, I am now working on this issue. He has responded positively, but is currently lacking the time to pursue this proposal further. Please have a look at my proposed new page and the merged older pages to which it should refer, respectively:

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just saw your updates, OK to link to this page on badge.wiki research category?

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I have asked at Talk:Tropical year#Change in citation style whether the editors active at that article wish to ratify the change in citation style that you carried out. Jc3s5h ( talk) 15:15, 6 November 2017 (UTC) reply

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