User talk:MedicRoo

Welcome! Hello, MedicRoo, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! The New Mikemoral ♪♫ 02:13, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm curious

From pure speculation by seeing your name, are you a medic? If so, you may wish to sign up to the WikiProject Medicine to contribute to some of our medical articles. If not, feel free to disregard this message. Any further queries, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page or any other member of WP:MED at the respective talk page. Kind regards, —Cyclonenim | Chat 22:04, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't worry about not knowing too much about how things work, you'll probably survive just fine by knowing briefly what's in these links: WP:MEDRS and WP:NPOV. If you go to the help section of the website (link's just to your left), there's a guide to writing articles. Don't feel pressured to do anything to hardcore if you don't want to, even small edits help. As you might have guessed, one of our main issues is making sure WP:MEDRS applies to all our medical articles, but that's a slow process because we have to find the reliable, secondary sources from places like PubMed. If you could help with anything like that, it'd be great.

As for my application, I'm actually doing deferred entry but the kinda weird default not applying kind of way. I'm applying in October, and probably not to medicine anymore. I'm more likely to enter onto a biomedical sciences and maybe do graduate medicine after if I get a decent degree. This is because my predicted grades aren't anywhere near what I need for medicine. Can I ask where you're studying? As for exam time, indeed it is, I've got 13 in biology, chemistry and physics coming up in May/June. Sorry for the essay! —Cyclonenim | Chat 22:36, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

When I was thinking of applying, I had a look at Imperial, seems one of the more prestigious universities to study medical science so you could count yourself lucky ;) If you could contribute with your textbooks, that'd be great, I tend to use some Oxford Handbooks I bought, and an old textbook on Neurology (an area I'm particularly interested in). As for tables, a great person to get to know is Delldot (talk · contribs), a paramedic I believe, who seems to be pretty good at them. Good luck with your exams, if you need any help (with Wikipedia, I mean, I doubt I'd be much use at your exams) then feel free to contact me again :) Might see you at WP:RD/S, too. —Cyclonenim | Chat 22:55, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia! Please do consider joining WikiProject Medicine. If you have any questions, do feel free to ask. Best wishes. Axl ¤ [Talk] 18:24, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, at the moment I'm in the middle of revision so most of my contributions are minor edits and grammar or posting on the reference desk as you saw. Nonetheless as wiki is normally open for quick reference and I'm coming across articles (more stubs really) that I think should be improved, and apparently I should know the topics so I should be able to do so. I imagine getting a hang of the editting will come as I go... Angina watch out, I'm a-coming. (Is there a way of saying on my user page I'm collaborating with the wikiproject so that other people don't inconveniance themselves)MedicRoo (talk) 23:40, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Copy this text onto your userpage:-

Also, you'll want to add your name to the list of participants. By the way, it's considered good form to add Talk page replies directly underneath on the same thread. [I have copied your reply across here.] Happy editing! Axl ¤ [Talk] 08:00, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info and etiquette tip. It's also remembering the tildes that's difficultMedicRoo (talk) 08:38, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 and guide to Reliable medical sources

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 please feel free to ask for help on my talk page.

Again, welcome!

--Maen. K. A. (talk) 15:25, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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!)

Maen. K. A. (talk) 15:25, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiMedicine

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

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) 07:05, 9 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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

The Wikipedia Library (talk | edit)

Get free access to research!

...Support Open Access...

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} 20:13, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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.[reply]

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)[reply]

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.

note: you will not receive future editions of this newsletter unless you *sign up*; you received this version because you identify as a member of WikiProject Medicine

Spotlight - Simplified article translation

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?

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

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

Medical Translation

partners

resources

outreach

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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!