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Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
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 * Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

 

ScienceSource funded
The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.

The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen.
 * A medical canon?

The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm.

Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help.

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 * d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data, Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going
 * Ordia tool, a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms
 * OpenRefine tool 3.0, May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata
 * d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians pushes ahead with data modelling and imports
 * #1Lib1Ref Returns for a Second Time in 2018, IFLA blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia
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Women in Red June Editathons
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Women in Red tools and technical support
We are preparing a list of tools and techncial support for Women in Red. I have tentatively added your name as you have provided assistance in editathon tools, especially for WiR registration. Please let me know whether you agree to be listed. You are of course welcome to make any additions or corrections.--Ipigott (talk) 07:18, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, yes that's fine. John Cummings (talk) 08:27, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: May 2018
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Invitation to participate in study
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Thank you Ewitch51 (talk) 21:29, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

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Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
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This Month in GLAM: June 2018
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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
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María Sáez de Vernet - Sources
Seriously? Have you looked at the sources on es.wikipedia?



Are you really suggesting this is a suitable source? WCM email 18:25, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

This Month in GLAM: July 2018
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Nomination of Emerdata for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Emerdata is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Emerdata until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.  HighKing++ 16:18, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018
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This Month in GLAM: August 2018
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Canon 5D vs Magic Lantern
Hello, I just wanted to know that I have reverted your edit to Canon EOS 5D, where you said it is compatable with Magic Lantern. I checked Magic Lantern's list of supported models on their web site, and it does not include the 5D. It has the 5D Mark II and 5D Mark III, but not the original 5D. If the 5D is supported, then please provide the source that says so. --Gronk Oz (talk) 03:12, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * OOPS - I just found the 5D listed as partially supported ("Old versions only"), so I will put that back. Sorry for the mix-up. --Gronk Oz (talk) 03:16, 15 September 2018 (UTC)
 * , thanks very much, sorry, I should have put a reference. John Cummings (talk) 07:11, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
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This Month in GLAM: September 2018
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Get ready for November with Women in Red!
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