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PatientsLikeMe

Hi there, I saw your note on the PatientsLikeMe page. We have been written about a lot, in the press (http://news.patientslikeme.com/in_the_news) and in the scientific literature (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=patientslikeme).

As a long time Wikipedian and employee at PatientsLikeMe I'd be happy to work with you on increasing the reliability of the page about us.

Best wishes

--PaulWicks (talk) 13:55, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you Lane, for saving my camera yesterday when the Sun went down and I stopped thinking. That pleasant and informative day produced no great harvest of pictures, but without you there would have been none. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:56, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Ken Getz for deletion

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petitions.whitehouse.gov

Hi Bluerasberry. I though you might be interested in this discussion: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#petitions.whitehouse.gov. Cheers. - MrX 15:28, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

This was resolved at the spam whitelist. Blue Rasberry (talk) 11:50, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Washington Global Health Alliance for deletion

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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for creating the new Stealth Starbucks article, an interesting topic that improves the encyclopedia. NorthAmerica1000 10:50, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for cup of coffee... I am currently committed to contribute more and more articles about Gujarati culture especially Gujarati literature and authors. It is true that, due to Modi, more people are interested in Gujarat nowadays. Gujarati authors are not covered well in English wikipedia due to lack of English citation sources and committed contributors and we have about 270+ articles on Gujarati Wikipedia about Gujarati authors. So I am trabslating and writing more and more of them. Thank you again for your encouragement. --Nizil (talk) 17:27, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Shwayze photo nominated for deletion

Hey Blue, would mind heading on over to the talk page of file:Shwayze.jpg over at Wiki Commons. It seems they are looking to take the photo down? What did I do wrong and how can I prevent it in the future? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterchiapperino (talk • contribs) 06:46, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Peterchiapperino My first thought is that the person thinks you did not take this picture, and therefore did not have the right to upload it. You took it yourself, right? Wikipedia does not get many high-quality photos donated so it is always striking when a quality picture appears.

You did not do anything wrong. Take it as a complement that this picture is so much better than most of what gets uploaded that people doubted that you took it. To prevent this in the future, set up a userpage which says that you photograph musical performers and post this both to your account on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, so that people will anticipate that you are able to make your own high-quality photos of performers.

For now, confirm to me that you took this picture. If you took it, I will set up a private email address for you to make a statement that you own the copyright to this photo, and your statement will be on record for copyright verification people to see (this is fairly private - not many people have access). After it is established that you have done this once, then in the future, you will not again be flagged like this. Blue Rasberry (talk) 11:25, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Bluerasberry Mahalo Blue! Actually, a wild animal stole my camera and snapped the pic. Just kidding! All the photos I have contributed to Wiki Commons are taken by myself, Shwayze included. I definitely will take it as a compliment. I will just copy and past my user page from my Wikipedia user page, I've been meaning to do it anyway, this is a motivating experience. Thank you very much for being so patient and helpful with me Blue! Aloha! Peterchiapperino (talk) 11:58, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Resolved

With the photographer providing OTRS permission for this photo and noting on his userpage that he is a photographer. Blue Rasberry (talk) 14:18, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Infection in childcare

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:02, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Student organization

Hi Lane,

I am Matt from the Ohio State Evolution class. As a TA, I have to grade student contribution, but the current setup on the course page has all students listed in a giant string, organized by how recent their enrollment was. Can we reorganize this list, or in some other way make it convenient to find students on the list? Alphabetical would work, but I'd prefer to sort them by the section of our course that they are in.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mholding70 (talk • contribs) 00:58, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

I will reply on your own talk page. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:21, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Source data and voices

Hello, Bluerasberry, we met at Wikimania. The citation metadata database is now a project on Wikidata: d:Wikidata:WikiProject Source MetaData. I've been told I should file a bugzilla report for the automatic generation of voiced Wikipedia articles, where a human reader is not yet available, using the Festival Speech Synthesis System. This will establish whether it has already been suggested, and what any past experience is. Does this make sense to you? I like the photo of your hamster. HLHJ (talk) 16:35, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

HLHJ Thank you for writing. I will pass the complement on to my hamster.

That Wikidata project follows a lot of other initiatives since about 2007. I compiled a lot of them at Grants:IdeaLab/Reform of citation structure for all Wikimedia projects. A major difference now is that we can now host the database to back this at Wikidata, but in those other discussions, there are at least several hundred pages of discussion of how this should work.

No, a bugzilla report should not come first for that speech synthesis system. Community support is first, then coding is next, then bugzilla people can implement technical changes to make it happen. In my opinion, the most obvious route to implementation would be this:

1. Create a project page for text-to-speech projects
2. Compile directory of all past efforts on that project page (I can help with this)
3. Propose the "Festival" software as a subproject of the larger goal of audio for everything
4. Feature one article using Festival speech as an example
5. Get community comment on that one example (I can help with this)
6. If workable, make 10-20 more examples
7. seek broader community comment (I can help with this)
8. If still favorable, seek development for automatic generation of audio files (I can help with a grant proposal)
9. If the tool for making audio files works, then file bugzilla request to turn the tool on, if developers are not already connected to bugzilla community

You might have information that I do not have. Why did someone send you to bugzilla first? I would talk more by voice or video if you like. Blue Rasberry (talk) 07:33, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi, Bluerasberry. Thank you for the helpful reply. I suspect he suggested there because he does engineering outreach. I could ask. If you are sure that there is no project page for text-to-speech projects in existence, I could create one. What project should it be on, though?

I've just noticed that the Festival page has an out-of-date Festival voicing of itself. The ESpeak page does too (and actually might be better software to work with...). Making one (or twenty) more articles have voicings like that would be easy; just run the texts through an up-to-date copy of the software installed on my computer, and post the resulting soundfile. I think one could fairly easily make a bot do this and run it through all of Wikipedia once a week or so (technically, socially that might tick someone off). It would, however, lack all automatic-update functionality of a dynamically-generated recording, and there's no way you could add, say, a voice menu listing the headings.

I know blind people with their own computers have them set up to read text, and there is even a Firefox extension for it. But if the goal is to let an illiterate or a blind person use Wikipedia through a voice-only phone or internet café, or automatically turn any Wikipedia article into a podcast you can download, then any working prototype is going to involve either rewriting some of the Mediawiki software, or creating a seperate audio interface for it. I am not familiar with Mediawiki and I don't have time to become so anytime soon; if there is a dev with suitable expertise, I could probably find them a voice-synthesis-software expert, but frankly we could probably use existing open-source text-to-voice software as-is, at least at first; it's perfectly intelligible. Have I misunderstood something? What functionality, exactly, would be useful?HLHJ (talk) 18:56, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) here. From a dev perspective I think the gains to automating voiceover are somewhat limited. The best way to ensure articles are accessible to all readers is to make sure we (as article writers) avoid relying on elements which are hard for screen readers to deal with (complex tables, in text references to images which are required to understand content, etc.) and as devs making sure that mediawiki produces HTML which is parsable by screen readers (setting the right aria attributes and so forth). The advantage of spoken articles comes from their being read by a human who can intelligently walk over the article structure and content, reading in a way which is demonstrably better than an algorithm. Also, while spoken articles can help those who are completely visually impaired, screen readers offer many other features which allow blind and partially sighted readers to read an article. Namely, navigation within and beyond the page. Users of screen readers browse the web much like the rest of us; they skip content, reread portions and hunt for references. It's possible to do that with a well designed and accessible page and difficult to do that with a single audio file which has to be traversed linearly. Sorry for the cold water, but if we're concerned about accessibility we need to make the pages we have more accessible, not generate separate elements which serve only one function for blind and partially sighted readers. Protonk (talk) 19:12, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

@HLHJ: Wikipedia articles have introductions. Right now, I think it would be useful to have some automated audio recordings of some intros to about 10 Wikipedia health articles. Would you be on-board to help with turning some articles into speech as a demo with this Festival software? I think this demo could integrate with an existing project to distribute 100 health summaries in every language - see WP:TTF and more specifically Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/RTT. We would like to also have spoken versions of these articles in every language, but we need to demo at least English first.

@CFCF: is coordinating contributors to this translation project. If we provided recordings to him, he could integrate them into the English language articles.

@Protonk:, I agree with you that automating this is not best and having humans read this would be ideal. We just had a meetup Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Spoken_Wikipedia in July in which gathered a lot of people at a recording studio and had them read article intros. It was difficult to manage this mostly because of technical logistics, and not because of difficulty recruiting or queuing readers in a studio. At this point, we still have difficulty applying completed recordings to articles and designing an appropriate cataloging system for them, as well as teaching people how to play the recordings. I hate to create a lot of ruckus having recordings which are not entirely useful, but if it is no big difficulty to run this software to make demo recordings, then I think that would help everyone evaluate the vision of doing this at all.

@AbhiSuryawanshi: is coordinating an effort to have people in India read articles, mostly health articles, in local languages, and through him a lot of Wikipedians in India become stakeholders in this shared project.

I myself am in kind of an awkward situation in that the Wikimedia Foundation is having a staffperson from Wikipedia Zero present at the United Nations with a telecommunications company about delivering health information to the developing world. One of the major ideas is to sell mobile phones preloaded with Wikipedia's information and particularly the health information, and if we had voice recordings, those two could be preloaded on phones at the factory. I will be speaking with this group for the first time next week and showing them all that we have, but it would be nice to have some project proposals in queue and this voice project could be one of them.

Going forward - HLHJ, if we gave you 10 blocks of text, could you run those through the text-to-voice software and return audio files? CFCF, if I had some audio files for you and some documentation on how they were created, would you be comfortable integrating this project with the main translation project somehow? If so, then we need a project page somewhere. Can I put it anywhere in the translation project space, or do you have an idea of where it should go? Also, do you have suggestions of which blocks of text we would like to first convert to audio?

Thanks everyone for any input any of you can give. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:22, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

BTW I saw this because I have your page on my watchlist. I don't think the pings triggered for that edit. If you were hoping to get the attention of those editors you may have to make another comment w/ the pings. Protonk (talk) 13:17, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

I changed the typical user templates to ping templates. That should work. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:54, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Not My Life

Hi Lane,

Thanks for commenting on the Not My Life FAC. Given the comments in response, do you intend to contact Rhodes and solicit her opinions on the article? I don't mind if you do; I was just wondering if you were awaiting a response from her before commenting further. I hope life has been going well with you since we were last in touch.

Neelix (talk) 15:37, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Neelix. I replied at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Not_My_Life/archive1#Request_for_opinion_from_expert and yes, I did contact Rhodes and bcc'd you. No, I am not waiting for any response and do not plan to comment further unless I hear from her, and even in that case, my role would be just to help her say whatever she wanted to say on wiki. Thanks for writing the article. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:14, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

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Copyediting Help needed

Hey, I submitted newly created Ichharam Desai at DYK. Can you copyedit it? I am not native speaker so it may have mistakes. Regards and Thanks -Nizil (talk) 17:26, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Nizil Shah Done! Thanks for writing this, and ask me anytime for copyediting. I broke the life section into two paragraphs to separate his life before and after arrest. When I did this, I copied a reference. I checked the reference, but I am not sure that the one I copied is actually the one from which early life information came. Can you please check that I placed the correct reference on that first paragraph? Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:53, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your quick help. I fixed the ref. :) -Nizil (talk) 20:08, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Greetings!

Hello there! Thank you so much for your message! Sorry for the delay in my reply. As you can probably see on my talk page, no one has really posted anything on here for a number of years, so I didn't think to check. In regards to my interest in helping with maternal health articles, my short answer is - YES! My long answer is, Yes, but I may not be able to make it a top priority, as I am trying to focus my efforts on publishing papers and pushing through on my dissertation, which will be on cesarean delivery. If we can work together to collaborate on a very do-able schedule and actually make these articles something that reflects the robust scientific (qualitative AND quantitative) literature, it would make me incredibly happy.

I actually work and go to school in NYC! Email me at cmvmph(at)gmail(dot)com -I will delete the email once you have email me-, and we can definitely make some plans! I would love to get together and have a cup of coffee to discuss. I work on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Northern Manhattan, and am in Midtown Manhattan during the late afternoon/early evening on Mondays (usually). Let's set something up - yay! Chat soon! WiiAlbanyGirl (talk) 21:40, 22 September 2014 (UTC)