Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/Collaboration of the Month/Archive 1

Template updates
I believe that all the templates associated with this project are now updated to reflect its new monthly focus. If any of you are wikiTemplate savvy, they probably could use a check. Craig Hicks (talk) 16:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Wider scope including things other than single articles
Whilst we're updating things, how about expanding the scope of the collaboration to include one off missions - ( as in the GA sweeps removing their backlog ), as whatamidoing said there are an awful lot of articles in WikiProject Medicine/Cleanup listing which we could have a bash at clearing ... I know its part of ongoing project stuff but a concerted effort to catch-up with ourselves wouldn't go amiss? We could also look at say cleaning up a category or sorting out a topic or set of articles ( do we have any featured topics yet? ) Lee&there4;V (talk • contribs) 11:32, 19 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I think the reminder is all that we need. I like the idea of the collaboration of the month being pretty specific.  On the other hand, having an associated mission would make sense given that we are changing to a monthly focus; it would provide an outlet for people who are tired of working on the article but still want be part of the co-op. Kallimachus (talk) 05:24, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Someone did update the WP:MED, how you can help list to mention all the above. One page for one month will be good to improve focus.  Maybe would could use it as a method of creating GAs?  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 01:09, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Definitely! The GAC backlog was blown away earlier this year so it might be possible to get a review as the collaboration is running ... obviously we need to make sure it is in retty good shape before this to not waste reviewers time... The collaboration was running on the Huntington's disease article when it was promoted to FA, so we do have a track record. Lee&there4;V (talk • contribs) 14:14, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

August 2010 Medicine Collaboration of the Month
Congenital heart defect garnered the most votes, with a total of five collaboration participants in support of choosing it for MCOTM. There are other nominations still active and in play for September, including one with a bounty and another with Google interest. Craig Hicks (talk) 17:45, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not necessarily based on voting :-) But I do agree it would be good to get this moving again. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 01:06, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I was thinking maybe we should do a round-robin of medicines task forces to start with, that is pick an article that would be of interest to each in-turn, we might pick up some extra help on the way ... Another is that if a medicine article is going through GA or FA to switch to helping there - you know how tricky they can be! Lee&there4;V (talk • contribs) 14:05, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * The medicine collaboration page describes a voting procedure that predates my involvement in WikiProject Medicine. I modified the description of the procedure to reflect a change to a monthly versus weekly cycle, in the hope that the collaborations would be more sustainable on a monthly basis. The process as currently described seems reasonable, in that article collaboration projects are selected based on the expressed interests (i.e. votes) of project participants. Has this been a bone of contention in the past? Craig Hicks (talk) 17:53, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Nope, don't remember a single murmur of dissent ... my only intention is to expose those editors that don't often stray from a set of articles to the collaboration, but on the overhand to keep participants interested choose subjects they want to edit on ... I myself tend to be happy whatever topic is picked, they can all be improved. Lee&there4;V (talk • contribs) 18:15, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Good point, Lee. In this spirit of engagement, I've posted a notice about the August collaboration to the cardiology task force and  WikiProject Genetics talk pages. Also, I've been queried by the dermatology task force about my interest in their topics. I suggested they nominate some articles for collaboration of the month :-) Craig Hicks (talk) 18:22, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes even though the next MCOTM/W is often decided by vote occasionally it is also decided by decree. When flu was sweeping across the world it became the collaboration of the mouth.  I agree with this approach.  We should also take into account the current important logistical events such as googles donation of help independent of votes. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:13, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Doc James, can you tell me more about the Google situation? Craig Hicks (talk) 18:59, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Here is the link to the google project WikiProject_Medicine/Google_Project were I think everything is explained. Basically google.org is paying people to review important medical articles and provide feedback on them.  We have not had the people power to keep up.  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 21:02, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

October 2010 Medicine Collaboration of the Month
Sorry I've been maintaining a low-to-no profile ... the October collaboration is Trauma (medicine) and I hope we get some good involvement on improving this article. What do you think about the articles that remain on the nomination list, but haven't gotten many votes? Should we expire them, or keep them in the queue? Craig Hicks (talk) 20:45, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I posted a notice on WT:MED. About the old nominations: I would say remove the old nominations if there are enough new ones. --WS (talk) 21:15, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I've cross-posted MCOTM notices on the talk page for the Emergency Medicine and EMS task force as well as participants in the NIH 2009 Wikipedia Academy in an effort to enlist more collaborators. Craig Hicks (talk) 21:19, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

November 2010 Medicine Collaboration of the Month
What do y'all think about Serotonin for the November medical collaboration of the month? The article appears to be in fairly good shape already and there is a bounty for it to reach featured article status by December 31, 2010. Craig Hicks (talk) 19:09, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The importance of seratonin is mid. Not a clinical article really. I feel we should have top importance articles that get lots of page views preferably as collaborations of the month.  Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 19:39, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Looking at the list of nominations, hypercholesterolemia seems to be the most logical choice. --WS (talk) 21:33, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hypercholesterolemia it is. I've notified my fellow Wikipedians at the National Institutes of Health in an attempt to drum up some additional participation. Craig Hicks (talk) 15:07, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

April
It looks like pneumonia is currently the most popular; is that what we want to switch to on Friday? WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:10, 29 March 2011 (UTC)


 * It's now April, and Spinal cord injury has already been up for two months. Is anybody here?  Are we ready to move on?  WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:04, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Can't see any reason against this. Lets do it. Peter.C  •  talk  •  contribs  20:17, 2 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes thanks... Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 23:49, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

May 2011 Medicine Collaboration of the Month
It's a new month so it's time for a new article. As Diabetes mellitus has the most votes I think we should switch to it by Tuesday 00:00 UTC. Any objections? Peter.C •  talk  •  contribs  10:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Feel free.-- Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:00, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

January 2012
I took the liberty of making pneumothorax, currently a featured article candidate, the collaboration of the month. --WS (talk) 13:18, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

seriously? pneumothorax has been the "project of the month" for the last 4 month? I'm sort of new here so I don't know about this sort of things, but is it always like this? I'm waiting for the next collaboration of the month so I can translate pneumothorax to french. Delage Clément (talk) 13:12, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Regarding August 2016's focus on transverse myelitis.....
This is an FYI, keep your ear to the ground alert as I have no citation for the following information. A friend was recently treated with immunotherapy for bladder cancer consisting of bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) (a live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis). Several months later, my friend developed rapidly progressive neuro-muscular failure of all 4 extremities and was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, a tertiary care center.

The diagnosis was TM caused by an autoimmune attack on the spinal nerves secondary to the BCG. Standard TM medications were administered and then a repeat round was given after a relapse occurred while at Helen Hayes Rehabilitation Hospital. This is apparently a rare cause for a rare condition, but with more frequent use of BCG immunotherapy for cancers, perhaps the incidence will rise in the future. Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 09:38, 13 August 2016 (UTC)