Oliver: I mean I'm working on a comprehensive answer to your question
(singular).
Anthony Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Anthony Cole ahcole...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for your thoughtful replies.
Oliver: I'm working on a
Thank you for your thoughtful replies.
Oliver: I'm working on a comprehensive answer to your questions.
Anders: I, too, am very relieved when I see something from a scholarly
society or highly-regarded institution out-ranking us on search engine
results for medical queries, and am pleased to see
With respect to the SV medical content issue:
1) Urinary tract infections are treated with antibiotics in Sweden. I have
check with a Swedish speaking medical professional
2) Asymptomatic pyuria is NOT a urinary tract infection. They are not to be
treated with antibiotics in either Sweden or any
While Wikipedia's medical content is far from perfect, Google knowledge
graphs however have issues as well.
For example they say that Hepatitis C is MAINLY spread by sexual contact.
This 2010 review in Hepatology states Regarding heterosexual transmission,
the weight of evidence is that there is
Thanks Lane. Bloody Mayo Clinic. Google can dump them, too, in my opinion.
Has anyone told Google?
Anthony Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Anthony Cole ahcole...@gmail.com wrote:
James: Google obviously made a bad choice of source
James: Google obviously made a bad choice of source there, or a good source
got something catastrophically wrong. That does not mean Google (or anyone)
should rely on Wikipedia's systemically unreliable content. Wikipedia
should not be trusted for anything - least of all health matters .
Anthony
Thanks, Katie, James,
yes, the list on vote.wikimedia.org was quite useful for a first check.
What I was looking for was exactly such a list, but annotated with which
requirements they fulfilled, but as James says, it can be surmised mostly.
I was curious whether staff and contractors of the
On related points concerning the accuracy level and overall usefulness
of Wikipedia as compared with other resources, people may be
interested in my posting here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Newyorkbrad/Newyorkbradblog#A_reference_librarian_reviews_Wikipedia
and the second half of my book
It's an encyclopedia, Marc. The world's encyclopedia. People should be able
to trust it. You and the rest of the WMF need to get that through your
heads or you'll wake up one morning soon and find Wikipedia on page 2 of
Google and you out of a job. This is the most important issue facing
Back in 1989-90 I was working in a telecom company. We then said mobile
phones can never really challange fixed phone as it is not at all
reliable compared with fixed phone and will never be of the same
quality. We then learnt
reliable enough for the purpose it it used for as an explanation for
That's a really good point, Anders. I agree 100%.
Anthony Cole http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:37 AM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se
wrote:
Back in 1989-90 I was working in a telecom company. We then said mobile
phones can never really
Wikipedia has been, is, ever shall be a work in progress. I don't think
anyone is denying that any Wikimedia project is imperfect nor is anyone
suggesting that there is no room for improvement. Regarding
trustworthiness, *Доверяй, но проверяй* [Trust, but verify
If I may, I’d like to offer some tips into the optimal use of Twitter to
both thank 60 Minutes and increase the impact of the report for Wikimedia
via your followers:
- Don’t start your tweet with either @saferCBS or @jschieberg. When you
start a tweet with an @ address, generally speaking, only
tl;dr:[0] Please join the community review for six annual plan grant
proposals requesting USD $1.5 million in movement funds. Add your questions
and comments to the proposals until April 30!
Hello Wikimedians,
Round 2 of the Annual Plan Grants program [1] is underway, and the
Community Review
APGs are the way that chapters and thorgs request funding from the
Wikimedia Foundation. Usergroups are ineligible. See for instance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23/News_and_notes
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:09 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Katy
Hi Garfield,
I'm asking this on Wikimedia-l because a number of Wikimedians have noted
the expensiveness of the San Francisco area including its high cost of
living for staff, employer competition for engineering talent, and
associated high salaries for WMF employees.
I see on
Postscript (sorry): this isn't a time-sensitive question, so please respond
at your convenience. Thanks (:
Pine
On Apr 7, 2015 9:58 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Garfield,
I'm asking this on Wikimedia-l because a number of Wikimedians have noted
the expensiveness of the San
Katy Love wrote:
tl;dr:[0] Please join the community review for six annual plan grant
proposals requesting USD $1.5 million in movement funds. Add your
questions
and comments to the proposals until April 30!
Hello Wikimedians,
Round 2 of the Annual Plan Grants program [1] is underway, and the
This page explains the eligibility.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Eligibility
Sydney
On Apr 8, 2015 12:09 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Katy Love wrote:
tl;dr:[0] Please join the community review for six annual plan grant
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