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This Month in GLAM: October 2014
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The Metaphysics of Ebola
Please read what I wrote carefully.

The CMD of LUTH says when he used Oral Rehydration to treat early stage EVD patients "all of them survived". That as far as I can see is a cure for early stage EVD.

What follows from this is that EVD can be treated 100% successfully by early detection.

With regard to EIS there are two possibilities. Because it is a scientific theory (1) it will be falsified; (2) it will not be falsified but eventually accepted. In either case I would have acted correctly by putting forward the only theory so far that provides a formal cause for different outcomes in EVD. Have you considered the implications of your ACTION if the theory is eventually accepted.

So what was there to object to in the entry in Talk:Ebola virus disease?

The EVD article currently says: “No specific treatment is currently approved. However, survival is improved by early supportive care with rehydration and symptomatic treatment”. In the Nigerian outbreak what I noticed was that survival was 100% for the last group of 10 patients who used oral rehydration. Surely it is too early to have peer-reviewed articles. But there are press accounts: Quote: “So, once there is a rise in temperature, we had an evacuation team, properly kitted at the centre, who would now go and evacuate the contacts developing the symptoms and all the contacts that developed symptoms that we got on time, all of them survived.” My understanding of this is that the Chief Medical Director of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital is saying that early stage EVD has a specific treatment that is 100% successful. Since no drugs or vaccines were used, the question is: what cured 100% of the patients? How can an article on EVD not say that if a person gets early treatment they have an almost 100% chance of survival? The EIS hypothesis is not a fringe theory it is the only theory that in my opinion correctly addresses cause and effect. EIS is not proven but it should inform the EVD article where it is confirmed by a reputable source in this case CMD LUTH.


 * Ibolachi: When Professor Osibogun has published his findings in a reputable, peer-reviewed scientific journal, then it might be worth discussing his findings. Until then, they fail WP:MEDRS. —Tom Morris (talk) 12:01, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Having one degree of separation from someone who died of ebola (that is knowing someone a close relative of whose died in the Nigerian outbreak) I followed that story extremely closely. Every person in the world should be overjoyed to discover that there is now a protocol that will save the lives of everyone (except perhaps the index case) in the next outbreak of ebola anywhere: measure temperature, use oral rehydration on the first onset of fever. Oral rehydration therapy is already on Wikipedia, a link to a peer-reviewed account of the Nigerian outbreak that is already on Wikipedia is here . I thought everyone had grasped what was first achieved in Nigeria and then replicated in the USA. 100% survival for all early stage EVD patients. --Ibolachi (talk) 21:42, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

November 2014
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Wikidata weekly summary #133
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 00:00, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming office hours for Commons (Nov 20th) and Wikidata (Dec 3rd). More details on the office hour page.
 * GLAM/Wikidata hackathon in Amsterdam
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Help make sure these items have labels in your language
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: NATO code for grade
 * Development
 * Work on reviving the tree of life built from Wikidata data
 * Added a "featured portal" badge (Q17580674)
 * Improved the performance of getting labels and sitelinks in Lua (and decreased the memory usage)
 * Did groundwork on applying page deletions to the repo
 * Refactor initialization of EntityView so that we can use batched label lookup for improved performance.
 * Added IRC to available protocolls for the URL datatype
 * Improved calendar model display
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-47
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Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf8 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar).
 * The new search tool ("CirrusSearch") will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19.

Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator
 * The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
 * You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November 24.
 * You can make the change easier for you by creating your account.
 * Bugzilla will be frozen after the change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator.
 * You can join two IRC chats to learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November 18 at 16:00 (UTC) and 23:00 UTC.

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Copyright checks when performing AfC reviews
Hello. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular. The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered. If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.) If you do find a copyright violation, please do not decline the draft on that basis. Copyright violations need to be dealt with immediately as they may harm those whose content is being used and expose Wikipedia to potential legal liability. If the draft is substantially a copyvio, and there's no non-infringing version to revert to, please mark the page for speedy deletion right away using. If there is an assertion of permission, please replace the draft article's content with. Some of the more obvious indicia of a copyvio are use of the first person ("we/our/us..."), phrases like "this site", or apparent artifacts of content written for somewhere else ("top", "go to top", "next page", "click here", use of smartquotes, etc.); inappropriate tone of voice, such as an overly informal tone or a very slanted marketing voice with weasel words; including intellectual property symbols (™,®); and blocks of text being added all at once in a finished form with no misspellings or other errors. I hope this message finds you well and thanks again you for your efforts in this area. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC). Sent via--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
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Wikidata weekly summary #134
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:47, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Had a great hackathon for GLAM and Wikidata in Amsterdam last weekend
 * IRC office hour about structured data on Commons (logs)
 * Building a periodic table using Wikidata
 * Lydia will be speaking at internetdagarna in Stockholm on Monday
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikimedia Commons will get Phase 2 on December 2nd
 * The Sum of all Paintings - new app to nicely display data related to artwork
 * Institutions on Commons without an item on Wikidata
 * Wikidata descriptions being used to help clarify search results in the Wikipedia mobile app
 * WikidataTodo now shows you tasks to be done on Wikidata related to a specific country as well
 * VisualEditor coming as a beta feature
 * Statements on properties are getting closer to the finish line. You could help figure out which properties to use for describing and classifying properties.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: MarineTraffic Port ID, MarineTraffic Ship ID, drives on the, detail map, plaintiff, date of official opening, squad number, BBC Things identifer, SIREN number, CLARA-ID, History of Parliament ID, IRC channel, Commons Institution page
 * Development
 * When a page is deleted on a client (Wikipedia, etc) its sitelink is now removed automatically from its Wikidata item
 * Reworked the automatic precision detection for coordinates
 * The long planned split of the code base into two independent Wikibase Repo and Client extensions is getting closer pretty fast these weeks
 * Made good progress on making the sitelinks section much more compact and moving it into the right-hand sidebar
 * While still reworking lots of details that slightly changed in DataModel 2.0 we already started working on a possible DataModel 3.0
 * More performance optimizations in the form of more advanced label lookup implementations
 * Implemented file-based cache of SiteStore to improve performance
 * Bug fixes
 * Updated the property suggester with new data! :)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item

Tech News: 2014-48
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs in Phabricator.

Problems
 * There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor was trying to fix bad values for the  or   option. VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This was fixed on November 17.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki ( 1.25wmf9 ) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar).
 * You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can find it in your Beta options.
 * VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved.
 * You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing after closing the save window.
 * VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left languages.

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