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NYTimes: "Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries"
by Pine W 08 Jun '16

08 Jun '16

Interesting read: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/technology/online-searches-can-identify-c… Pine

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"Why getting medical information from Wikipedia isn’t always a bad idea"
by Pine W 28 May '16

28 May '16

Sharing "Why getting medical information from Wikipedia isn’t always a bad idea", a piece which was "co-authored with Dr Mikael Häggström, a medical doctor in Sweden who is also the editor-in-chief of the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine". This piece discusses the quality of Wikipedia medical articles, and readership of those articles. https://theconversation.com/why-getting-medical-information-from-wikipedia-… Pine

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Wiki Ed blog post: "The Roundup: Drugs and drug policies"
by Pine W 11 May '16

11 May '16

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/05/09/the-roundup-22-ways-to-think-about-drug… Pine

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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikidata] [ANN] Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets
by Pine W 09 May '16

09 May '16

Forwarding to the Wiki Medicine mailing list, and also to the Cascadia Wikimedians mailing list because we've had discussions about how to prioritize the development of articles related to WikiProject Seattle. Thanks, Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com> Date: Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:38 AM Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikidata] [ANN] Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." < wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Thomas Steiner < tomac(a)google.com> Hello, I wanted to make an on-wiki place to host discussion of the tool so I set up this project page on meta. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Tools_for_Google_Spreadsheets> This is an interesting tool. I have been playing with it for some weeks trying to learn whether it could be used to generate monthly traffic reports for sets of Wikipedia articles. Among editors of Wikipedia's medical articles, there is continual discussion about monthly article traffic for certain sets of articles, and I think that somehow this tool could be used to get those reports for health articles in different languages. If anyone wants to join me in discussing the tool then write me or meet me on that wiki page. yours, On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Thomas Steiner <tomac(a)google.com> wrote: > Esteemed Wikipedia, Wikidata, Linked Data, and Semantic Web communities[*], > > === > tl;dr: Released a Google Spreadsheets add-on called Wikipedia Tools > [1] that makes working with data from Wikipedia and Wikidata a breeze. > === > > I am happy to release a Google Spreadsheets add-on called Wikipedia > Tools [1]. This add-on allows you to work with data from Wikipedia and > Wikidata from within a spreadsheet context using custom formulas. Let > me motivate the tools with a short example: > > You may have heard of Volkswagen's #DieselGate scandal. Is this still > a problem for Volkswagen—and if so, where? Google Trends to the > rescue? Maybe [2]. But what about global impact? How do people in > Korea, an important Volkswagen export market [citation needed😉], > refer to the scandal? Turns out they call it 폭스바겐 배기가스 조작 (among > probably other options). > > With a custom function from Wikipedia Tools, we can safely "translate" > from one English (a language that, for the sake of this example, we > assume we dominate well enough) Wikipedia article to many other > languages (that we do not necessarily dominate): > > =WIKITRANSLATE("en:Volkswagen_emissions_scandal") > bg Афера на Фолксваген > cs Dieselgate > de VW-Abgasskandal > […] > zh 福斯集團汽車舞弊事件 > > Then, using Wikipedia page views as one (among others) reasonable > popularity indicator, for each of these language results, for example > for Korean, we can get =WIKIPAGEVIEWS("ko:폭스바겐 배기가스 조작") for the last > n days, and plot the results [3] (in practice, you would probably > still normalize by size and/or total views of the particular > Wikipedia[**]). > > There are a lot more custom functions implemented than I could cover > in this short example. I have put together a slide deck [4] and paper > [5] that go into more detail if you are interested, a demo with all > functions is available at [6]. The add-on also has a built-in manual > (in Google Sheets, click Add-ons→Wikipedia Tools→Show documentation) > and its underlying code is open-source [7]. > > Please let me know in case of any open question, feature request, or > bug. Thanks! > > Cheers, > Tom > > -- > [1] http://bit.ly/wikipedia-tools-add-on > [2] > http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=volkswagen+emissions+scanda… > [3] > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PyFq59iEeLWpPQrWDUyU8mlmQrb4GDv2QEl… > [4] bit.ly/wikipedia-tools-slides > [5] bit.ly/wikipedia-tools-paper (PDF) > [6] > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sVduZul787O-bRzuy0UKpRl7bkouxwaIOsx… > [7] https://github.com/tomayac/wikipedia-tools-for-google-spreadsheets/ > [*] Cross-posted on purpose > (http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2014/01/31/apologies-for-cross-posting/), > please choose your reply options accordingly. > [**] This is a simple example for illustrative purposes, I do _not_ > claim it is an accurate popularity prediction, nor do I mean to bash > Volkswagen. > > -- > Dr. Thomas Steiner, Employee (http://blog.tomayac.com, > https://twitter.com/tomayac) > > Google Germany GmbH, ABC-Str. 19, 20354 Hamburg, Germany > Managing Directors: Matthew Scott Sucherman, Paul Terence Manicle > Registration office and registration number: Hamburg, HRB 86891 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.29 (GNU/Linux) > > > iFy0uwAntT0bE3xtRa5AfeCheCkthAtTh3reSabiGbl0ck0fjumBl3DCharaCTersAttH3b0ttom > hTtPs://xKcd.cOm/1181/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane(a)bluerasberry.com _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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Re: [Wiki-Medicine] [Wikitech-l] Technical advice on expert review?
by Pine W 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

Hi Anthony, Thanks for this initiative! As someone who deals with budget tables, I am very supportive of improving features for table editing. Have you tried editing tables in VE? You might also consider using a spreadsheet like Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, or (offline) LibreOffice Calc. Because the use case here involves medical content, I am cross-posting this thread to the Wikimedia-Medicine mailing list, and also pinging Doc James to ask for comments. Pine On Apr 16, 2016 23:21, "Anthony Cole" <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > BMJ, the publishers of the *British Medical Journal* and other top-tier > biomedical journals, have kindly recruited the best minds they can get to > review the en.Wikipedia's article, "Parkinson's disease". > > We began the review by passing the article, in a Word document, from one > reviewer to the next by email. Each made proposed changes to the article > text and left comments in the document, using Word's "Review" and "Track > changes" features. > > At that point we needed to start a discussion, and Word isn't ideal for > that. So I pasted the relevant paragraphs from the Word document into the > left column of a wiki table, and the reviewers' comments into the right > column, where the discussion could happen. [1] I manually applied > background colours to distinguish deletions from additions in the left > column, using <span style="background:#xxxxxx">. > > That discussion has now begun but one of the many things I've learned > during all this is, the top researchers and theorists spend a lot of time > in the air (travelling to conferences, lectures, meetings), and it is then, > free from the demands of job and family, when they do their reviewing. > > So, I have pasted that wiki table into Word and have made it available to > the reviewers here: [2]. Now they can download a copy before they get on a > flight, and email it back to me with their comments when they're online > again, and I'll transcribe their comments into the wiki table for > discussion. > > This may be as simple as it gets but I just thought I'd put this before > you, in case you may have thoughts on a better technical approach for next > time. (BMJ have offered to do more of these.) I'm finding the construction > of the wiki table tedious (particularly highlighting the deletions and > additions) though I'm getting faster, and transcribing offline comments > from the Word document into the wiki table will be a small chore. The wiki > table pastes easily into Word with highlighting and formatting intact, but > not vice versa. (I've also asked at Village pump (technical).) > > Any thoughts on making this easier or smarter would be much appreciated. > > Anthony Cole > > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthonyhcole/sandbox > 2. > > https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=C1FF29217E209194!2141&ithint=file… > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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"Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond"
by Pine W 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

Publication from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/16/031971 Pine

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Facebook page for WikiProject Medicine
by Pine W 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

For those who use Facebook (: https://www.facebook.com/WikiProjectMedicine/ Pine

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Candidature for the European Commission Open Science Policy Platform
by Daniel Mietchen 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

Dear all, the European Commission is setting up an advisory group for its Open Science Agenda: https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-policy-… This group - called 'Open Science Policy Platform' (OSPP) - has an open call for candidates, and I am amongst those who have publicly declared their interest in serving on this group. Since many of my Open Science activities have a Wikimedia component, I posted my candidacy at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/European_Commission_Op… and would welcome endorsements from individuals and groups, especially if you are active at the interface of Open Science with Wikimedia or other open movements. I also set up https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:European_Commission_Open_Science_P… in case others here would like to serve as candidates as well, which I would welcome. Thanks and cheers, Daniel

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User searches for information about health crises
by Pine W 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

Food for thought: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/smartphone-voices-not-always-helpful-i… I wonder if Wikipedia search should have some enhanced capability to help people who perform searches like these. There may be ethical and legal limits to what Wikipedia should provide in the way of "medical advice", but I think if our search tool gets queries like the ones mentioned in that article, Wikipedia Search might suggest to people that they contact their local emergency services rather than try to do self-help via Wikipedia. Pine

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Expert input on Zika
by Daniel Mietchen 04 Mar '16

04 Mar '16

Dear all, I am trying to stimulate the communication of ongoing research around Zika and have set up a mailing list for this purpose. So if you need expert input while editing on Zika-related topics, consider channeling your requests there. Thanks and cheers, d.

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