User talk:Garvin58/Archive 1

Corrective lens
Hey, optometry student, the information you contributed is great, but it would be even greater if you would support it with some references. Not only is this a good idea, aligned with wikipedia policy, but in my experience things supported by good references last and resist vandalism and well-intentioned dilution of truth, while unsourced stuff gets corrupted over time, since it's not easy to tell when a change is good or bad. So be a real contributor, and tell us your sources. Dicklyon (talk) 07:48, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I have replied on your talk page.
 * I replied there. It's conventional to keep a conversation in one place.
 * Also, please fix the case of the new headings that you added. We use sentence case, not title case, for headings. Dicklyon (talk) 17:13, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Garvin, yes I am still around and would like thank you for your contributions to the corrective_lens page. MichaelGoldshteyn (talk) 19:50, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

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FYI
Just FYI, it's not considered "polite" (or at least "the Wikipedia way") to delete comments from Talk pages on articles. When things have been addressed, you can add a note saying that it's all taken care of, but people seem to prefer that the discussions be left there. (IMO, not a big deal in this case, but thought you'd like to know.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:21, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Noted. Thanks Garvin  Talk 00:27, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Interested
Thank you for the message (user talk). I am interested (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine/Participants). Please, explain me how to do that. Thanking you.

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Cardiology task force
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Jamestown, New York
Hello, I wonder if you know anything of a shoe business owned by a James Wade Squier and his sons, Isaac and Edward? They were all shoemakers who lived in Jamestown from 1880 until their deaths. They are all buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Jamestown. James was my great-great grandfather. Anything you can offer would be greatly appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.215.155.5 (talk) 03:46, 15 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I'd be glad to help investigate. I don't have any direct knowledge, but I can ask my parents and other relatives. (I was born in the 1980's and have never been to a shoemaker, but I feel like the name is familiar.)  Please leave me a way to contact you or continue to check this page. Garvin  Talk 15:29, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Medicine
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) 08:01, 1 November 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. Cheers, Ocaasit &#124; c 20:43, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
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The Pulse (WP:MED newsletter) June 2014
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Medical Translation Newsletter
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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
 * Neglected tropical diseases
 * 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?

I've () 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.
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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.
 * Wikimania 2014

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.
 * Integration progress


 * 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 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.
 * Integration guides

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here

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

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