Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-30 Thread Jay Litwyn
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Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-30 Thread zetawoof
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Jay Litwyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manufacturing section?...that's {{howto}} or [wikiversity], isn't it? If innocuous things like How to Clean a Fish Tank aren't here... Not necessarily. Manufacturing processes can be incredibly significant; consider the

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread Oskar Sigvardsson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:46 PM, David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe this one has been debated before and was considered to be covered in the nest of disclaimers linked from the general disclaimer. - d. There's really two arguments here, a legal argument and a moral one. Legally,

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
current entries were superior to those 90 days prior (p = 0.024). First scientific proof that quality still is improving? There's actually been a real study comparing different versions of articles? Fantastic! We should encourage more of that. ___

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 11/25/08, Oskar Sigvardsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it would be a bad thing at all if at the dosage section of an article on drugs we say Consult your physician before taking medication Funny thing, my meds say that right on the label (but damned if I pay it any mind). —C.W.

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread geni
2008/11/25 David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So what will it take for us to get this switched on for en:wp? Proof that having the sighted revision as the standard view (which you have to for it to be meaningfully useful) doesn't result in a drop in editing rate. Proof that en would be able to

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
Proof that having the sighted revision as the standard view (which you have to for it to be meaningfully useful) doesn't result in a drop in editing rate. Proof that en would be able to keep up with the required rate of sighting (We have a hard time marking new pages as patrolled at the

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/11/25 geni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/25 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is only one way to prove any of that, though, and that's giving it a go. Not so. I assume we keep the not English wikipedias around for a reason. Um, yeah, so that non-English speakers can read Wikipedia.

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/11/25 geni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/25 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But flagged revisions for currently protected pages is more wiki than protected pages... Given the historic grow rate of semi protect from replacement for full protection in some cases to turning up all over the

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/25 geni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/25 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But flagged revisions for currently protected pages is more wiki than protected pages... Given the historic grow rate of semi protect from