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Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018

Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018 ScienceSource funded The Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video. A medical canon? The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen. The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm. Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help. Links OpenRefine logo, courtesy of Google d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data, Wikidata's multi-lingual dictionary project gets going Ordia tool, a basic search interface for Wikidata lexemes and forms OpenRefine tool 3.0, May update allows wrangling of tabular information into Wikidata d:Wikidata:WikiProject British Politicians pushes ahead with data modelling and imports #1Lib1Ref Returns for a Second Time in 2018, IFLA blogpost 25 May 2018, second chance this year to participate in referencing Wikipedia To subscribe to Facto Post go to Wikipedia:Facto Post mailing list. For the ways to unsubscribe, see below. Editor Charles Matthews, for ContentMine. Please leave feedback for him. Back numbers are here. Reminder: WikiFactMine pages on Wikidata are at WD:WFM. ScienceSource pages will be announced there, and in this mass message. If you wish to receive no further issues of Facto Post, please remove your name from our mailing list. Alternatively, to opt out of all massmessage mailings, you may add Category:Wikipedians who opt out of message delivery to your user talk page. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery

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Talk page comment indentation

I recall that you once created (in your talk space?) an annotated demonstration of how bad comment indentation harms accessibility - but I can't find it. Do you recall where it was, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:29, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Hehe, Andy, you're asking a dinosaur who can't even remember what he had for breakfast. I've done some searching and it's not in in any subpage, so we must be thinking about talk page archives. I've found a thread at User talk:RexxS/Archive 19 #Threaded discussion, which refers to a discussion at Joseph A. Spadaro's talk page. That latter one might be what you're thinking of. Or maybe not? I have a dim recollection of another example I wrote out, but I've not found it yet. --RexxS (talk) 15:57, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. That is exactly what I was thinking of. I wonder if you could be imposed upon to rewrite it as a stand-alone help page, and perhaps also include the error when people do this:

Original comment
:Nice reply
:::Over-indented reply

Cheers, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:20, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello RexxS, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

• As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
• Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
• Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Pyle stop

Hi RexxS, I got a strange notification that you reverted my edit at Pyle stop, but on checking the diff it was not a revert, it was a completely different edit based on the same reference as the reverted material, this time supported by the reference. Any idea what happened? Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 16:17, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Yes, Peter, I clicked the undo as it was an easy way to get the OP's text and ref back into the article. Of course I then dramatically altered the text and fixed the timing for the ref, and then I turned it into a cite template. You're right: it ended up a completely different edit, although it didn't start as one. Apologies for the errant notification that I'd forgotten it would generate. --RexxS (talk) 16:57, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

So nothing broken. No worries. I don't suppose you will be at Wikimania this year? Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 17:18, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Peter I considered going, but in the end I couldn't justify to myself spending that much money when I don't have anything ready to present. It would have been really good to to meet you (and maybe get a dive in!), but there will always be more opportunities at some point. Maybe I'll help deliver some Board training for the Africa region in the near future - could be near you. --RexxS (talk) 18:09, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Fair enough. I am going mainly because it is here. It would be a bit daft not to. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 19:37, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Alma mater discussion

Hey!

Thanks for your comment on my discussion. I've left a reply here, and just thought I'd let you know.

Dathus • Talk Contribs 22:49, 23 June 2018 (UTC)