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Help Project newsletter : Issue 6

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Issue VI - April 2013

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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.

Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to 100 medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
If you are still active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 20:38, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted to say great job with this! GabrielF (talk) 00:58, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your messages in de

Hello,

you have to correct the links on your bot messages in de. I've done it here. Cheers, DestinyFound (talk) 21:24, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DestinyFound. Thank you for noticing and fixing it locally! I have sent out the correct link. My apologies for the error :/ Ocaasi^{t | c} 21:27, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also second links were wrong. To make a link you do [[:en:pagename]] (notice the ":" in front of the "en", without it it becomes an invisible interwikilink). I fixed it in nl.wiki. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 21:51, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Taketa. It was a silly error, which I made twice in one message. Cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 21:54, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You also have made similar mistakes in svwp; and hence perhaps also in a large number of wp's. JoergenB (talk) 22:54, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Resource search

Hey Ocaasi, I've been stuck on Botik of Peter the Great for a while now. It's really close to FA status, but I need to find a little bit more information for the soviet & post-soviet era sections. I'd also like to find some way to mention the stamp that I include in the text. How good are you at searching for resources? Do you think there's any chance you might be able to find something? Ryan Vesey 03:13, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Ryan! I highly recommend WP:RX to be used as a research desk. Those folks are much better informed about tracking down sources than I am. Good luck! Ocaasi^{t | c} 15:06, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cochrane Library access

Hi Ocaaasi,

Thanks for the update on The Cochrane Library. Actually I have access to the Library due to a national subscription from the Government body- ICMR (http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/FreeAccess.html#INDIA). Do I need to sign up?

I was one of the people who initiated the talks with the Collaboration for this purpose. I am glad that it has finally worked out officially. I also have had a project for the purpose of updating evidence based content in medical articles.Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Evidence_based_content_for_medical_articles_on_Wikipedia#Articles_to_be_updated_with_newer_evidence. Check it out and comments are always welcome.

Manu Mathew (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:20, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Manu! If you already have access then no you don't need to apply. Thanks for the link to the WPMED EBM page. I think I might link to it from the Cochrane sign-up page. Cheers, Ocaasi^{t | c} 15:07, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it would be great if you could link up to the project page on EBM. Ill add a link to this page too. And also any help in filling the table with the articles that need to be updated would be much appreciated. Manu Mathew (talk) 16:45, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ocaasi, thanks for letting me know about this. I have access to the Cochrane library through work, but it was kind of you to notify me Adh (talk) 23:20, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Cochrane Library links on other wikis broken

Hi Ocaasi, I think it was you who posted on other wikis about this access using EdwardsBot? I'm afraid the link is still broken even after correction. It needs a preceding colon before the link to create an interlanguage link, like so: [[:en:w....]]. I have corrected gv.wiki but you'll need to do the others yourself. -- Shimmin Beg (talk) 10:33, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ping

Yo, Ocaasi, sorry for taking a while to respond, but I have on my talk page. I'll also be idling on IRC for a while, so if you happen to be on, just ping me, and we can talk more specifically if you like. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:22, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) What channel wk? Technical 13 (talk) 15:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
-en-help, which IIRC is usually where Ocaasi chills. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:22, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats... You were an awesome Teahouse maître d!

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Congrats... You were an awesome Teahouse maître d!

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I take it back, it needs these changes to fix it. Technical 13 (talk) 13:11, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you from Tamil Wikipedia

Thank you for the information you provided on Tamil wikipedia about The Cochrane Library, thank you for your consideration.--Senthi (talk) 19:14, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]