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 * Hi, that was User:Jmh649, not me (he reverted it to an earlier version by me). --WS (talk) 09:19, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
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FYI: Monthly update for WTMED?

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SeHCAT
Thanks for visiting and rating this page. Would you like to tell me why this is Start class? The Referencing is comprehensive without being exhaustive.Jrfw51 (talk) 21:39, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Comment on collaboration
Hi, we haven't had much chance to communicate other than on the WikiMed talk page. You recently wrote how enjoyable it is to collaboratively edit - I completely agree! Some of my most enjoyable editing (and I believe better quality) was collaborating on lichen planus with. Your comment caused me to reflect a little while. I think we could try and implement a system using a tag or box placed on an article or its talk age, reading something like "User X invites other editors to collaboratively edit this article from 13-16th June 2013", with the tag or box automatically dated and tagged with the user's username.

Then for the next 3-5 days this could be placed on an "invitations for collaboration" list. Just a thought, but I think this'd be quite possible using the existing structure on Wiki, and will think about it the next few days, I would find Wikipedia much more enjoyable if there was more collaborative editing and this would be a nice way for editors to collaborate. The downside would be sudden, rapid influxes of editors demanding RfC, committee oversight, or strict adherence to MEDRS by existing editors. But I feel a little warning wherever it is listed that editing is in process and the invitation for collaboration is specifically for active participants rather than contributors to the talk page may help ameliorate this. Thoughts? LT910001 (talk) 12:06, 5 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Hey, yes that sounds like a clever and easily adopted approach. However it does heavily rely on extra manual work, which I don't know if many people will actually do. What I was personally thinking of was some automatic (bot?) system, but one approach does not exclude the other. Will think it over a little more. --WS (talk) 21:17, 6 November 2013 (UTC)


 * I had a little play-around. A template like this could be added to an article's page, with documentation something like this: User:LT910001/2. Pages can then be viewed using the 'what links here', or posted manually once daily. LT910001 (talk) 01:14, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, but we should have a bot post them somewhere automatically (like how it works with peer reviews). --WS (talk) 13:34, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Hey there
Interesting that you mention stubs. I've been thinking of reforming that rubric:. Maybe I should write an op-ed in the Signpost about it to describe my views. Best. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 13:45, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, completely agree with that, there are plenty of stubs that are good enough as they are. If it were for me, we would get rid of those stub templates completely and leave that status only for the assessments. I don't think many editors get converted through those. --WS (talk) 21:12, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Noticed this discussion when viewing the topic above. I agree with your opinions, I think the 'stub' template has had its day. cfr. the thousands of anatomy articles about tiny structures. LT910001 (talk) 01:04, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
 * After some more discussion I rated an article that was kind of short but I thought fairly complete up to B-class. So maybe it was just my misinterpretation of the rubric. =) This wasn't a WP:MED article, for what it's worth. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 16:28, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Longitudinal WikiMedicine Page Assessment
Hello, I saw your comment on the WikiProject Medicine/Assessment talk page pasted below: ...... There's a new calculation being listed with the stats. Basically, it's 6 points (against) for every stub, and 5 for every start-class article within the project's scope. The goal is to get to zero (all featured/all the group's wikiwork is complete). This might be useful for tracking over time, but the lag in reassessment plus the growth in articles might result in significant work being recorded as losing ground. The average status might be more useful. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:57, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

"Is this tracked over time anywhere? Just a single number as is shown now doesn't say much. Would be nice to have some automatically updated graphs on some of the assessment statistics (also motivating to keep them up-to-date). --WS (talk) 13:46, 16 July 2013 (UTC) "

I am also interested if the change in assessment over time is saved or shown anywhere. Have you had an answer to your question?

Thank you!

BrandonHidaka (talk) 19:12, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Brandon, for the wikiwork factor, no I haven't found an answer to this, let me know if you do. For the other assessment numbers, your best bet would be to manually extract numbers from the history of the assessment table (e.g. here for medicine). --WS (talk) 20:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Possible review calendar
Hello User:Wouterstomp; Your user page indicates a possible interest in medicial article reviews. My present thoughts are to nominate an FA review in medicine, do you have any possible interest? BillMoyers (talk) 15:11, 12 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi,I am certainly interested in medical articles, but what article are you talking about, and what exactly is it you are asking me to do? --WS (talk) 23:17, 18 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello User:Wouterstomp, Thanks for getting back. It is actually not a single page, and possibly 3 or four Wikipedia medical pages which I was referring to. They affect several of the wikipages in Psychology and Psychiatry following the New Edition of the major diagnostic manual, the DSM-5, for Psychiatry earlier this year. The issue is that the majority of the wikipages related to mental health are still in DSM-4 language and all of them require the DSM-5 transition edits to be listed-and-addressed to remain current with the new DSM-5 and not become obsolete. My thinking was to offer to do the technical side of these enumerations of needed DSM-5 transition edits by nominating the pages for a GA or and FA review, and having an administrator associated to make sure that the page management editors (often other Admins) are assured that editorial standards are addressed objectively according to established Wikipedia page review standards and policies. My prediction would be of needing about one week to set up each one of the related wikipages and then let page management for each of the individual wikipages deal with the GA/FA enumerated points objectively and responsibly. Does this sound of possible interest? (Here is a link for the new DSM-5 manual discussed above http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=dsm-5&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Adsm-5&ajr=1.) BillMoyers (talk) 23:17, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

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Mislabeled bones in Carpal Tunnel diagram
Thanks for the new image on the Carpal Tunnel page. I did notice though that the Trapezoid and Trapezium bone labels are inverted. --Spalte (talk) 18:03, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You are right, hadn't noticed that yet. I have requested for someone to adapt the image at Graphics Lab/Illustration workshop. --WS (talk) 18:14, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Corrected in the image now. --WS (talk) 18:50, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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Branchial cleft cyst - new treatment options
Thank you for writing the article on Branchial cleft cysts, it was the first thing I read when my son was diagnosed with a first branchial cleft cyst. We originally scheduled a surgery to remove it, but found out by word of mouth that several doctors in the US now use sclerotherapy to treat it. Other than avoiding the risk of surgery (especially around the facial nerve), there also seems to be no recurrence. It took only 1 single injection of ethanolamine to completely get rid of the cyst.

I wanted to edit the treatment section of your article to reflect these new treatment option, as I was unable to find out about this new treatment despite weeks of looking for information on the internet. However, I am a little overwhelmed by the rules of Wikipedia etc. Can you help me or make the edit yourself? Here are the studies I was going to quote Percutaneous treatment of lymphatic malformations, Sclerotherapy of branchial cleft cysts using OK-432 and Quantitative volumetric analysis of head and neck venous and lymphatic malformations to assess response to percutaneous sclerotherapy.

The second article specifically mentions a branchial cleft cyst. The "Quantitative volumetric analysis..." was done by Dr. Huy Do, my son's doctor and while it doesn't mention branchial cleft cysts specifically (they are too rare, I guess) I can prove to you that it worked on my son's first branchial cleft cyst. Is it ok to quote all of them or which ones? Do they have to mention branchial cleft cysts to be able to stand as a reference? The various doctors (including Dr. Murakami, a colleague of Dr. Shiels at the Nationwide Children's Hospital, second article) I talked to didn't seem to think that the type of cyst made much a difference - the reason branchial cleft cysts are not mentioned is that they come along so rarely.

Also, I noticed the request for photos on the talk page. I have photos of my son's cysts as well as an MRI of it. Would you want me to upload these or email them to you?

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I was wondering if you could look at WikiProject_Medicine the first two edit numbers are very incorrect on the hot articles list, thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:44, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
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Editing News #3—2016
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Did you know?

Did you know that you can easily re-arrange columns and rows in the visual editor?



Select a cell in the column or row that you want to move. Click the arrow at the start of that row or column to open the dropdown menu (shown). Choose either "Move before" or "Move after" to move the column, or "Move above" or "Move below" to move the row.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has mainly worked on a new wikitext editor. They have also released some small features and the new map editing tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the list of work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, releasing the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving language support.

Recent changes

 * You can now set text as small or big.
 * Invisible templates have been shown as a puzzle icon. Now, the name of the invisible template is displayed next to the puzzle icon.  A similar feature will display the first part of hidden HTML comments.
 * Categories are displayed at the bottom of each page. If you click on the categories, the dialog for editing categories will open.
 * At many wikis, you can now add maps to pages. Go to the Insert menu and choose the "Maps" item. The Discovery department are adding more features to this area, like geoshapes. You can read more on MediaWiki.org.
 * The "Save" button now says "Save page" when you create a page, and "Save changes" when you change an existing page. In the future, the "" button will say "".  This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems.  More information is available on Meta.
 * Image galleries now use a visual mode for editing. You can see thumbnails of the images, add new files, remove unwanted images, rearrange the images by dragging and dropping, and add captions for each image.  Use the "Options" tab to set the gallery's display mode, image sizes, and add a title for the gallery.

Future changes
The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining 10 "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next month. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including Thai, Burmese and Aramaic.

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. The 2017 wikitext editor will look like the visual editor and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices in October 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together
Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce. If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:18, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Anatomy newsletter #5
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
Hi.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins) .MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

 * please help translate this message into your local language via meta

Thanks again :-) --  Doc James  along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for editing a page I worked on!
Hi Wouterstomp, I just want to thank you for making some adjustments to the insulitis page that I worked on! People like you make Wikipedia great! 02:47, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
A recently closed Request for Comment (RFC) reached consensus to remove Autopatrolled from the administrator user group. You may, similarly as with Edit Filter Manager, choose to self-assign this permission to yourself. This will be implemented the week of December 13th, but if you wish to self-assign you may do so now. To find out when the change has gone live or if you have any questions please visit the Administrator's Noticeboard. 20:07, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users
Hi!

You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.

When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.

Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.

If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.

We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.

Thank you. /Johan (WMF)

18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

"Malignancies" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Malignancies and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 27 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:42, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
22:53, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

image
Hi, I've only just seen the reply that you posted here, almost 3 months later. Thank you! It seems perfect for what I was trying to do. I'll have a go over the next few days. Dr. Vogel (talk) 23:33, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
 * can you change the angles just a little bit so that you can more clearly see the inion? Dr. Vogel (talk) 20:46, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Editing newsletter 2022 – #1
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The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at most WMF-hosted wikis. You can join the discussion about this tool for the English Wikipedia is at Village pump (proposals). You will be able to turn it off in the tool or at Special:Preferences.

The Editing team plans to change the appearance of talk pages. These are separate from the changes made by the Desktop improvements project and will appear in both Vector 2010 and Vector 2022. The goal is to add some information and make discussions look visibly different from encyclopedia articles. You can see some ideas at Wikipedia talk:Talk pages project.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

23:15, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Editing news 2022 #2
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The new [] button notifies people when someone replies to their comments. It helps newcomers get answers to their questions. People reply sooner. You can read the report. The Editing team is turning this tool on for everyone. You will be able to turn it off in your preferences.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)) 00:36, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

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Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:


 * 1) The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
 * 2) They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences. Please tell them what you think.



An A/B test for on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

ALS Good Article Nomination
Hey there wiki-buddy! I'm hoping I can attract some interested folks to consider reviewing the Wikipedia page about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for Good Article status. As you may know, ALS is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease that quickly causes people to lose the ability to move, speak, and breathe. The Wikipedia page about ALS is read over 2,000 times each day in English alone, and often experiences spikes in traffic whenever a celebrity is diagnosed. There have recently been a number of genetic advances made in the space and some recent drug approvals, thanks in part to the momentum started by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. I've been grinding away at it since early this year but keen to see it improve further, hope you'll consider! PaulWicks (talk) 08:39, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hello, Wouterstomp. Thank you for your work on Gynecologic cancer. User:Scope creep, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with. Please remember to sign your reply with ~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

 scope_creep Talk  07:50, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

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