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Thanks so much, Scray, for helping out with that editor. There seem to be some competency issues, so I'm afraid it may continue. Fingers crossed, but I appreciate the help. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:58, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. You have earned a mountain of goodwill, so simply let me know if I can help. -- Scray (talk) 00:52, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
What a nice thing to say. Thank you so much for cheering me. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:22, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Zyprexa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013_August_3#Zyprexa_interacting_with_vitamins. i do not understand " access only at work"--78.156.109.166 (talk) 20:29, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

What I meant was that they only have access to the Internet while at work, and their employer restricts their Internet access. -- Scray (talk) 11:37, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
Thanks.--78.156.109.166 (talk) 19:24, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

I have a Question

Hello, I do not know if you are the person who reverted my edit, because the change was made by a user who said they were you. But, because I am new to Wikipedia (in fact that was my first edit), I want to know why my edit on the article "sentry gun" was reverted so I will have a better understanding of how to edit articles. Note that I do not believe that your edit was a bad thing and that I understand that as it is my first edit, It would have been likely to be deleted anyways :). 184.58.189.31 (talk) 01:58, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

You are very tactful! Thank you for being so polite. I don't think I've ever visited the Sentry gun article, so I can assure you that I did not revert your edit. I do understand your confusion: the editor who did revert your edit did so from IP address 69.23.116.182 (talk · contribs), and the top of their Talk page includes a greeting and comment from me. It's customary to introduce oneself to a new user, and that's what you saw there; I have no other relationship to that user than the comment I left there. If you had seen "Hi, I'm xxx" on their user page, that would have been a stronger indication of "who" they are; however, note that IP addresses change, so as long as they (and you) edit via an IP, it won't be possible to determine whether there's any continuity. That is just one of many reasons to create an account, and I hope you'll consider doing so. You seem like someone who could become a very valuable contributor to Wikipedia! To get an answer to the reason for that revert, I think you'll need to post your query on that user's Talk page. Cheers! -- Scray (talk) 04:32, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I just want to thank you for helping IP: 184.58.189.31, In fact, that was actually Me before (Thanks to Your encouragement) I made a Account. Thank you for remembering that IP addresses are people to and I wish you the best of luck-Danke! Happy Attack Dog (talk) 21:52, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

You are incredibly kind to come back and leave this note - welcome and happy editing! -- Scray (talk) 05:23, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

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Medical Translation Newsletter


Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 1, June/July 2014
by CFCF, Doc James

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This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.

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Spotlight - Simplified article translation

Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.

Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:

We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.

What's happening?

IEG grant
CFCF - "IEG beneficiary" and editor of this newsletter.

I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.

Wikimania 2014

For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.

Integration progress

There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.

  • Swedish
    Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
    Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May.
  • Dutch
    Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie.
  • Polish
    Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
    (This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration
  • Arabic
    The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.
Integration guides

Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis.

Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [3]

News in short

To come
  • Medical editor census - Medical editors on different Wikis have been without proper means of communication. A preliminary list of projects is available here.
  • Proofreading drives

Further reading



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Archiving

Okay, I know you're not an expert in this, but I'm hoping you're more clever at it than I am. :) The archiving bot is down at the RefDesks due to Steve being out of town. I'm using our old cheat sheets to archive the daily stuff. I'm not bothering with the indices for the questions, but I am getting stuck on something else. At the top of the daily archives, there's a header template to add; it looks like this: <noinclude>{{subst:RD Archive header|%d%|%Mmm%|%desk%|%YYYY%}}</noinclude>. No problem. However, there's obviously a slightly different header being used to create the form for a new month. Any idea what that template might be? If you check the header for a month (like here) you can see it's set up slightly differently than the header for the daily archive (like here). I've tried fudging around with the markup, but I usually end up with invalid parameters. Any thoughts? When he gets back, maybe I'll see if Steve Summit @Scs: can expand the instructions page you made. Matt Deres (talk) 20:43, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Medical Translation Newsletter Aug./Sept. 2014

Medical Translation Newsletter
Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
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Feature – Ebola articles

Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion

During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!

Just some of our over 60 translations:
New roles and guides!

At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!

New sign up page!

We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!

Style guides for translations

Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.

Some more stats
Further reading


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Ebola virus disease Revision 631397794 by Scray

Hi Scray,

Apologies for rollback. I think there is more utility from awareness of Melatonin as potential treatment than danger from its misuse. See related article also contributed to by author.

Effects of melatonin treatment in septic newborns:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11726736

If u still unconvinced the feel free to roll back again, I won't undo a second time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sdesalas (talk • contribs) 01:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

You should fix it yourself. You might also want to read WP:SYNTH - you've illustrated that problem beautifully (in your own head you've connected "Ebola causes sepsis" and "melatonin might treat sepsis"). Especially in medicine-related articles, that's a serious no-no. -- Scray (talk) 03:12, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
Now that an experienced editor has agreed with me on that talk page, I've fixed it. -- Scray (talk) 03:58, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for focusing on the issues!

So thanks for focusing on the policies procedures and underlying perceptions of the issues rather than personalizing disagreements which, sadly, some who should know much better than to do, have done, on AIDS and Ebola.Wikidgood (talk) 21:33, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for this note. -- Scray (talk) 21:53, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
I am having a long day. Is this a good edit on my part? Wikidgood (talk) 23:59, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
Correction. Wikidgood (talk) 00:00, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

desoto1 / desoto10

Hello Scray, I have no idea where desoto1 came from although it does go to my normal desoto10 talk page. I wouldn't have known about it except that I logged in with desoto1 by mistake, typed in my normal pw and it logged me in. I made that one edit before realizing it. I would love to get rid of it, and took a look at the help section where it gives some hints, but I fear deleting my normal page, since desoto1 links to it. I obviously don't know enough about how Wikipedia works since I would have thought that desoto1 would have gone to a desoto1 talk page, not my normal desoto10 page. I'll figure out how to get rid of it eventually. Desoto1 (talk) 04:39, 23 November 2014 (UTC), who is really Desoto10 (talk) 04:41, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

I'll reply on your talk page, since we should ask for help there. -- Scray (talk) 04:51, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
BTW, I don't understand what you mean about your talk page: User_talk:Desoto1 is distinct. -- Scray (talk) 05:08, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Apology

I screwed up over there on the Medicine Project Page and I sincerely apologize. Formerly 98 (talk) 20:22, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Apology accepted - I know this was entirely in good faith. -- Scray (talk) 20:39, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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...at the Cantharidin article, svp. It regards where the "Popular culture" information should appear. Cheers. Leprof 7272 (talk) 00:33, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, Scray. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! Lepricavark (talk) 14:46, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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