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The Wonder Weeks[edit]
Hi, I posted a note here asking you to look at the Talk page for The Wonder Weeks and help me better understand your concerns, but now I don't see it. Trying again. Bn (talk) 21:24, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
Clarification of wording of Barbara's topic ban[edit]
Sandstein has closed the User:Barbara (WVS) ANI discussion with a topic ban worded "is topic-banned (WP:TBAN) from medical articles". Following discussion with Sandstein regarding the scope of that topic ban (User_talk:Sandstein#What_the_topic_ban_covers), it is felt that further wording is required. Therefore it is proposed that the wording of the topic ban is amended to read:
"By consensus of the community, Barbara (WVS) (talk · contribs), also editing as Bfpage (talk · contribs), is topic-banned (WP:TBAN) from health and medical topics, including anatomy and sexuality, broadly construed, and is also banned from interacting with Flyer22 (talk · contribs) (WP:IBAN)."
As you took place in the discussion, please visit Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Proposal_for_clarification_of_scope_of_topic_ban to give your views. SilkTork (talk) 08:40, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
April 2018 at Women in Red[edit]
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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting[edit]
Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject Parenting[edit]
Regarding this WikiProject template, as I commented at the MfD page, I have created documentation at Template:WikiProject Parenting/doc. I have some questions regarding the banner template proper:
- Why have you provided the
|class=and|importance=parameters with positional aliases? This is very unusual, and can lead to problems with some scripts and bots. - Why is the parameter
|MAIN_CAT=WikiProject Women's Health articlespresent? Did you intend to set it to something else?
I think that's it for now. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:57, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Redrose64: Thanks for adding the doc! Neither of those issues were intentional. I fixed the main category bit. If you want to fix it go right ahead :). Mvolz (talk) 17:38, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
- OK, I removed the aliasing too. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:54, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
May 2018 at Women in Red[edit]
  
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Wiki Loves Food[edit]
Hello! After the successful pilot program by Wikimedia India in 2015, Wiki Loves Food (WLF) is happening again in 2018 and this year, it's going International. To make this event a grand success, your direction is key. Please sign up here as a volunteer to bring all the world's food to Wikimedia. Danidamiobi (talk) 20:57, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
References[edit]
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN. We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Jytdog (talk) 01:15, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
Women in Red June Editathons[edit]
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July 2018 at Women in Red[edit]
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Compartmental models in epidemiology[edit]
I see you restored a section I deleted in Compartmental models in epidemiology. Did you see my comments on the talk page? Adpete (talk) 09:19, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
August 2018 at Women in Red[edit]
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September 2018 at Women in Red[edit]
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October 2018 at Women in Red[edit]
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Editing News #2—2018[edit]
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes[edit]
- The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
- The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
- The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
- The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
- The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [1]
Let's work together[edit]
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ArbCom 2018 election voter message[edit]
Hello, Mvolz. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
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Editathon in Oxford[edit]
I know this is short notice (I only found out about it today), but there is an editathon in Oxford tomorrow evening you may be interested in m:Whose Knowledge?/VisibleWikiWomen/Online edit-a-thon/Oxford Editathon. Thryduulf (talk) 16:26, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know! Unfortunately I can't make it though, alas! Mvolz (talk) 17:14, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
displayContributions.js[edit]
As an alternative to pasting the whole thing in global.js, you could use the long-form of importScript():
mw.loader.load('//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mvolz/displayContributions.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript'); // Linkback: [[w:en:User:Mvolz/displayContributions.js]]
I have to use this form whenever I want to use a script cross-wiki. It's really handy. — AfroThundr (u · t · c) 00:16, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
December 2018 at Women in Red[edit]
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Children's Literature Project Relaunch[edit]
- Children's Literature Project Relaunch December 2018
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January 2019 at Women in Red[edit]
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A page you started (Soft book) has been reviewed![edit]
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Merry Christmas (belated)[edit]
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- @Redrose64: Thanks and you too! It's not belated, it was on the 5th day of Christmas! See you in the new year! Mvolz (talk) 09:59, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
Addison's Walk (Dublin) moved to draftspace[edit]
An article you recently created, Addison's Walk (Dublin), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 06:16, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
- @CASSIOPEIA: Thanks but I probably will never get around to it; this was all content that I removed from Addison's Walk which wasn't relevant because it was about the wrong walk. Mvolz (talk) 09:54, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Mvolz, Greetings to you. Kindly place {{Db-g7}} on top of the page for deletion and place "deletion request my author on the summary edit" before click save. Thank you. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 10:01, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
February 2019 at Women in Red[edit]
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Children's Literature Newsletter February 2019[edit]
- Children's Literature February 2019
Wow! Can you believe that we've gone from less than 5 members to over 20 in just a short time? Thanks to everyone for joining (or rejoining) the project and hopefully we will do some great work ahead. Please feel free to bring any ideas you might have to our talk page.
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March 2019 at Women in Red[edit]
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April 2019[edit]
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Children's Literature Newsletter March 2019[edit]
- Children's Literature March 2019
More good work has been underway since our last newsletter. Thanks to all the project members for what you to do to support Children's literature on Wikipedia.
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- Article Assessment
With the completion of our project banner project, we have a large backlog of unassessed articles. Doing article rating is a great way to find interesting articles with-in our project's scope and to also find articles that were incorrectly tagged. This project will hopefully let us better monitor and aid in the development the many articles that this project supports. Thanks to Legoktm for all his work in making this happen.
- Google Custom Search Engine
Looking for information on a book? Try out the new Children's literature custom search engine. This custom google search engine will look at designated sites for information. Included so far are Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, Horn Book, and Publisher's Weekly. If you have ideas for other sites which should be added start a discussion on our project talk page.
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Discussion on Layla Moran talk page[edit]
There is a rather spirited discussion currently ongoing at Talk:Layla Moran#Domestic Violence. I would appreciate if you could chime in with your view, in the interests of finding a consensus one way or the other. Domeditrix (talk) 09:52, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
Camera tripod attachment[edit]
I forgot to mention - I have part of your camera tripod here, it's the bit that screws into the bottom of the camera and then clips to the top of the tripod. I'll bring it to the next Oxford meetup, on 28 April. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:09, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
May you join this month's editathons from WiR![edit]
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Hi, good to have a chat in Oxford yesterday. This is the place I was talking about to take the family to, with a whole range of toys, both historical and modern, and some workshops for kids to get involved with. It's about ten minutes' walk from Bethnal Green tube station. The article on the museum needs a bit of work too, which I can probably do as soon as I locate my well-worn copy of The London Encyclopedia. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:05, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
June events with WIR[edit]
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Children's Literature Newsletter April/May 2019[edit]
- Children's Literature April/May 2019
This newsletter sees us embark on a project drive around article creation of some medium, or higher, importance topics that are currently redlinks. Read more and consider joining the work.
- Newly Recognized Content
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- Awards in Red
MrLinkinPark333 recently pointed out that on some of our Top importance pages about Children's literature awards there are many redlinks. The three pages with these redlinks are Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, and Carnegie Medal (with 0 existing redlinks in the other top importance award article - Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award). As of this newsletter there are 222 redlinks in those three articles. How many can we as a project create over the next 6 weeks? Could we even do better and see if we could create any that earn a Did You Know or even get it up to Good Article status?
As always feel free to head on over to the project discussion page if you find yourself in need of any help as we work to turn these notable entries on some of our most important articles blue.
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July events from Women in Red![edit]
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Editing News #1—July 2019[edit]
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Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon 
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Edit Cards
This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases[edit]
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team has recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
- Section editing
- The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
- The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
- Loading overlay
- The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects[edit]
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲Try Edit Cards.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead[edit]
- Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to them about how editing can be improved.
- Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
Learning more[edit]
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
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August 2019 at Women in Red[edit]
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Ways to improve Ischnocodia annulus[edit]
Hello, Mvolz,
Thanks for creating Ischnocodia annulus! I edit here too, under the username Willsome429 and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-
Please add reliable sources to establish the page’s notability.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Willsome429}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . For broader editing help, please visit the Teahouse.
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September 2019 at Women in Red[edit]
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Melissa A. Wilson Sayres moved to draftspace[edit]
An article you recently created, Melissa A. Wilson Sayres, does not have information as written to show that the subject meets the relevant criterion WP:PROF. It needs citations to her actual peer-reviewed scientific papers, not just to reports of them in non-professional sources, and indication that they have been influential. Influence in WP:PROF is normally shown by the extent ot citations to the person's published work, for which the most convenient source is often Google Scholar 'In particular, my preliminary analysis of this data shows that her most heavily cited papers are those where she is one of a great many co-authors, sometimes more than 100. In such cases, it is necessary to figure out her role. I've found the first step is to see if she was an independent researcher at the time of the work.
I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. DGG ( talk ) 01:16, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I noted you were a member of Wikiproject Parenting. I was hoping you might have the time or interest to consider helping me with a review of this article that I nominated. The recent DYK may be of interest as well. Disclaimer, I'm an uncle 4x over but not yet a parent :) --[E.3][chat2][me] 16:04, 12 September 2019 (UTC)
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Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages – October 2019[edit]
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Help[edit]
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team would value your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk Pages[edit]
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor[edit]
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
Edit Cards[edit]
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
Toolbar[edit]
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania[edit]
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead[edit]
- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: The Editing team hopes to share results in November. This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:51, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
November 2019 at Women in Red[edit]
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Nomination for deletion of Module:Sources[edit]
Module:Sources has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:29, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
ITN recognition for James Le Mesurier[edit]
On 12 November 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article James Le Mesurier, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Black Kite (talk) 21:00, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Patricia Moreira[edit]
Hi...How are you? You can see from my edits that I am not a feminist...but kind of feel this should not be deleted. Any thoughts? Whispyhistory (talk) 21:12, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks! I'm in inclusionist so personally I think it meets the criteria, but I do think it was ambiguous when nominated - I added a few additional citations, that might help! Cheers, Mvolz (talk) 11:34, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
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Dear Mvolz,
Thank you very much for your e-mail message sent yesterday about my major edits of ==Menstrual Psychosis== and ==The Psychiatry of Childbearing==. I do appreciate the care that Wikipedia staff take to ensure fair play and to maintain the highest standards of Wikipedia entries – and especially because three of my 2009 entries – these two and a third on ==Postpartum Psychoses== – have been mauled by subsequent editors without any explanation that I have been able to discover. I very much want my entries to be legitimate, and that is why, when making these major changes, I spelt out the reasons in detail. Indeed, I particularly asked stewards to read these explanations when assessing my entry. These explanations are on one of the talk pages. I have attached them to an email. Please be so kind as to study them, and, I hope, replace my revised entry. I did fill in the Edit summary but perhaps not in the right format. I have downloaded the advice on that, and will study it.
Thank you also for your advice about Wikipedia references.
There does seem to be a problem with my 'talk page' entries not reaching stewards. I am at present having difficulties with my submission on ==Organic Psychoses of Childbearing== - two or three stewards have made the same adverse comments, without apparently having seen my response. How can I bring my explanations to the attention of stewards?
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Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools[edit]
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Glycyrrhizin edits[edit]
Please be careful about overinterpreting sources and making a synthesis of results from more general studies. See WP:SYNTH. There is no direct evidence that glycyrrhizin itself affects specific receptors involved in regulation of body fluids or blood pressure. There are no WP:MEDRS sources indicating its adverse effects or role in normal physiology. Zefr (talk) 15:10, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
- I'm a little confused by this comment; the only edit I've made was to replace primary sources that were already in the article, with a secondary source - and to use the name of the preparation directly in the article (whereas before it wasn't mentioned by name.) I haven't edited anything at all regarding "body fluids" or blood pressure. Cheers, Mvolz (talk) 15:36, 25 April 2020 (UTC).
- With this revert of my edit, you restored a weak ref inferring a role in body fluids and blood pressure, and several side effects not supported by any good source. No worries. Zefr (talk) 15:42, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Compartmental_models_in_epidemiology (2)[edit]
@Diannaa: Wikimedia received an inquiry at OTRS relating to recent edits of Compartmental_models_in_epidemiology
I see removal of copyvio issues and removal of an image, but no discussion on the editors talk page. I do see an edit summary, and I will point that out to te editor, but could we have a little more feedback to the editor? --S Philbrick(Talk) 12:43, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
- The copyright content was added by user:Zvi grossnass, not Mvolz. Which editor is requesting feedback? — Diannaa (talk) 12:55, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
- Sure, I can give more feedback in the future. My edits were more editorial, I didn't remove anything related to copyvio. I wish we had more eyes on this page in general. I've seen a LOT of new accounts suddenly making lots of small edits to this page, particularly to the models themselves, with no citations given or reason given for the changes, so I've gotten a bit lazy about feedback. I think all the models need to have inline citations, and then also reviewed to make sure no errors have been introduced; for example I recently found that over time, defined terms were removed, and replaced with undefined terms in at least one model. I need to go through all the other ones and make sure they're okay. I've been meaning to do this for a while by my expertise is kind of limited to what I've taught first year undergrads, and no higher, and so it's labour intensive. The page really needs an expert watching it who can do this faster, which I am not, and thus far it's been kind of a free for all. Mvolz (talk) 13:06, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
- Mvolz, I don't want to come across as too negative. I thought your edit summary was adequate, but my experience is that some new editors are not yet aware of edit summaries. There's more I wish I could share, but I don't yet have permission to say more. S Philbrick(Talk) 21:30, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
- Diannaa, Kelly222, sorry I may have read too quickly. S Philbrick(Talk) 21:25, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
- Sure, I can give more feedback in the future. My edits were more editorial, I didn't remove anything related to copyvio. I wish we had more eyes on this page in general. I've seen a LOT of new accounts suddenly making lots of small edits to this page, particularly to the models themselves, with no citations given or reason given for the changes, so I've gotten a bit lazy about feedback. I think all the models need to have inline citations, and then also reviewed to make sure no errors have been introduced; for example I recently found that over time, defined terms were removed, and replaced with undefined terms in at least one model. I need to go through all the other ones and make sure they're okay. I've been meaning to do this for a while by my expertise is kind of limited to what I've taught first year undergrads, and no higher, and so it's labour intensive. The page really needs an expert watching it who can do this faster, which I am not, and thus far it's been kind of a free for all. Mvolz (talk) 13:06, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates[edit]
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- Reply tool: This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon. The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing
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Editing news 2020 #3[edit]
Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:
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- That's a shame. Now nobody will ever know that vest means two totally different things. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:46, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
- REdrose64 - the fate of such ventures and the lack of that allows for the ambiguities that create some bizarre situations is more the loss... JarrahTree 04:31, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
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Reply tool[edit]
The Reply tool has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.
- More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
- Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
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Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Sdrqaz (talk) 01:51, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- It's not an opinion - it's literally in the lede of the article on osteopathy. Couching it in neutral sounding language is false balance. Cheers. Mvolz (talk) 10:57, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- I was just slightly perturbed by the edit summary that you'd attached. The page is regarding the doctoral degree and should probably just be concentrated on the degree; osteopathy obviously goes into the actual practice of osteopathy with greater depth. Sdrqaz (talk) 18:10, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
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Editing news 2021 #1[edit]
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Reply tool[edit]
The Reply tool is available at most other Wikipedias.
- The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
- It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.
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- There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.[3]
- The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month.[4] Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
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Editing news 2021 #2[edit]
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.
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- Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
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September 2021 at Women in Red[edit]
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