[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-11 Thread James Heilman
of the Wikimedia Foundation. @ John Vandenberg A recent copy of Wikitravel have been put aside and it is ready to be adding into a mediawiki site. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedians in Other Languages Needed

2012-04-24 Thread James Heilman
is not on this list who might be interested send them my way. Many thanks -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Textbook borrowing heavily from Wikipedia without proper attribution

2012-06-03 Thread James Heilman
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9350256312 -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Travel Site

2012-06-24 Thread James Heilman
planning on having an informal get together of all those interested in travel content during lunch on July 12th at Wikimania (13:00 to 14:00). -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] Site notice on meta

2012-07-06 Thread James Heilman
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian What I do in my spare time www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Travel Guide

2012-07-12 Thread James Heilman
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Travel meeting

2012-07-12 Thread James Heilman
We will be meeting in the main lunch room. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

[Wikimedia-l] Copyright on Xrays

2012-08-20 Thread James Heilman
the image 5) The doctor who read the image 6) The hospital / shareholders of the hospital who owns the equipment 7) All of the above / some of the above / none of the above Would be good to have a legal position on this. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

[Wikimedia-l] Copyright on Xrays

2012-08-20 Thread James Heilman
. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright on Xrays

2012-08-20 Thread James Heilman
The WMF legal team has said they would provide an opinion on this question some time next week. The law is ambiguous and I guess the real question is how much is the foundation willing to put their neck out. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Travel Guide RFC closing in 3,2,...

2012-08-23 Thread James Heilman
justification for deleting them. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] Copyright on Xrays

2012-08-24 Thread James Heilman
care. After all identifying information is removed concerns of patient confidentiality are no longer an issue (we have both publications on ethics and the advice of legal counsel here in Canada to support this concern thus do not need to discuss it further). James Heilman On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

2012-09-06 Thread James Heilman
The community has unofficially summarized the RfC here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide#Summary_of_arguments But yes the final summary and decision was to be left to the WMF. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Naming for the Travel Guide project (James Heilman)

2012-09-28 Thread James Heilman
is thus not an option. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[Wikimedia-l] Creating content in Dari

2012-10-05 Thread James Heilman
is here http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/prs/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

[Wikimedia-l] Logo for new travel guide

2012-10-05 Thread James Heilman
A new logo for the travel guide is being requested. If anyone is interested in proposing one please add it here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Logo -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Creating content in Dari

2012-10-05 Thread James Heilman
here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/RTT If other Wikipedians wish to help I would love that. James Heilman On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:22 PM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Logo for new travel guide

2012-10-05 Thread James Heilman
Okay I guess it would be nice but not necessary to have a new logo for launch. It is fairly clear at this point what name the new project will be going with. Thus I see no reason why we cannot begin looking at logos now. James Heilman ___ Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Proposed Wikimedia Medicine Thematic Organisation

2012-10-14 Thread James Heilman
Thematic organizations have the same amount of authority over content on Wikipedia as chapters. To spell this out clearly that means NONE. One does not put these sorts of details in a NGOs by laws however this will be clearly described in the policies once incorporated. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP

[Wikimedia-l] Real identifies when dealing with copyright issues

2012-10-19 Thread James Heilman
informing the publisher and amazon however would be unethical as we may harm someones career and need to make sure we are correct. Other peoples thoughts? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

[Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikivoyage

2012-11-03 Thread James Heilman
with images before a beta opening or defer any opening until after the images have been moved. Please weight in here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Launch -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

[Wikimedia-l] Meet up in San Fran

2012-12-21 Thread James Heilman
/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/UCSF -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-28 Thread James Heilman
. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-29 Thread James Heilman
the Foundation Inc. bit. The hope is to one day operate under the name Wikimedia Medicine. Hopefully with a bit of paper work this can be achieved. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

[Wikimedia-l] COI versus OUTING

2013-01-21 Thread James Heilman
standing editor believes that the world / patients might be better off if this behavior become more widely known. How would the Wikimedia community apply the above two policies / guidelines (WP:COI and WP:OUTING)? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strange, surprising, bold and unnecessary - reply to the WMF board statement

2013-02-06 Thread James Heilman
The one I am referring to is labeled Second draft. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patent claim relating to QRpedia

2013-02-08 Thread James Heilman
? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Will Beback, Arbcom and Community oversight

2013-03-23 Thread James Heilman
oversight of abrcoms activities. Note that I was involved and did see the private evidence in question. It however is interesting to look at the public evidence as quoted by arbcom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmh649/Will_Beback -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Beback, Arbcom and Community oversight

2013-03-23 Thread James Heilman
be again. With respect to very good show of trying to insinuate that Will Beback was banned in relation to conflict of interest I am just quoting the evidence arbcom has provided. The rest of the evidence is equally poor IMO but others are free to look and judge for themselves. -- James Heilman

[Wikimedia-l] Looking for Wikipedians to add already translated articles

2013-08-20 Thread James Heilman
instructions are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/Adding_content If you have further question or comments I would welcome the feedback. James Heilman MD, CCFP(EM), Wikipedian WikiProject Medicine The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

[Wikimedia-l] Some of Wikipedia's most important tools are broken

2013-09-09 Thread James Heilman
. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread James Heilman
this for non-identifiable images? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread James Heilman
process. We need witnesses and identifying documentation. We need all up-loaders to use real names. We will need a system to verify the identity of all up-loaders and the subjects of the images in question. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-18 Thread James Heilman
these forms a few dozens times without much though. And no I did not request permission from the X-ray tech. In fact it is often not possible to determine who the tech was as that actually pushed the button as there are a lot of student techs in the department. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM

[Wikimedia-l] RfC regarding how we should handle X-rays

2013-09-26 Thread James Heilman
Have started a RfC regarding how we should deal with copyright around diagnostic images on Commons here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/Xrays#Previous_discussion -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

[Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-12 Thread James Heilman
at the foundation thrown at this project. Other less important project like FLOW and the visual editor need to be put on hold to develop this tool. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

[Wikimedia-l] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia

2013-11-26 Thread James Heilman
. At the least Wikipedia should be listed within the kindle edition. It is faltering that when they say there books are based on highest-quality open-access content they more or less mean they are based on Wikipedia. I will continue a discussion with them. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

[Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-27 Thread James Heilman
However we have seen a 20-30% drop in pageviews coming out of this tool http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/view.php Mr.Z-man has looked into it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mr.Z-man/pageview but has not seem to have found the reason yet. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

[Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations

2014-03-08 Thread James Heilman
the development of Wikipedia I have started a RfC here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Non-free_content#Logos_of_organizations_one_is_collaborating_withsuggesting that we allow it. Thoughts? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

[Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations

2014-03-10 Thread James Heilman
@ Yana. You write But we hope to make them all freely licensed eventually and have already done so for newer logos (e.g. the new Wikivoyage logo). But commons does not reflect this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Please advise? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

[Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations

2014-03-10 Thread James Heilman
My apologies. You are indeed correct. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] Is Wikipedia Really 90% Wrong

2014-06-01 Thread James Heilman
reviewed literature this is also not surprising. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

[Wikimedia-l] Add a link to contributors or authors to Wikipedia's byline

2014-08-25 Thread James Heilman
Started a proposal here about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Adding_a_link_to_.22authors.22_in_Wikipedia.27s_by-line And have created a mockup of what it would look like here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_failure Wondering peoples opinions. -- James

[Wikimedia-l] Add a link to contributors or authors to Wikipedia's byline

2014-08-25 Thread James Heilman
to were it links to as long as that page contains a clear list of the authors. Maybe we could add some of Xs tool info to a Wikipedia based page? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

[Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published

2014-10-02 Thread James Heilman
and the number of contributors. I guess we will see. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published

2014-10-04 Thread James Heilman
of them declined feeling that they had not contributed sufficiently to justify being listed. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

[Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published

2014-10-06 Thread James Heilman
edit could have contributed substantially. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

[Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing

2014-12-02 Thread James Heilman
research on how licensing works under the Creative Commons attribution licence has made an impact in the area of scientific, technical and medical publishing. If people know of research articles on this topic please send them my way. Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia

[Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing

2014-12-02 Thread James Heilman
And just to clarify currently WHO is green open access, free to view but not free to reuse. The request is for them to go gold open access free to view and free to reuse. They are wondering why is this reuse bit important. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Ebola

2014-12-04 Thread James Heilman
that are not currently engaging with Wikipedia as a platform for knowledge sharing to do so. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

[Wikimedia-l] Students Editing

2014-12-10 Thread James Heilman
believe in the collaboration between schools and Wikipedia in theory but not like this. Evidence is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard/Incidents#I_simply_don.27t_know -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia President

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Students Editing

2014-12-10 Thread James Heilman
the instructions that they need for their work on Wikipedia to be successful for all involved. James On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:05 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to clarify that I do not have any issues with the formal education program itself or with any of the individuals

[Wikimedia-l] Staff to follow up on copy and paste issues

2014-12-11 Thread James Heilman
by a currently running bot. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-24 Thread James Heilman
here http://www.findbestopensource.com/tagged/text-to-speech. Some of them support up to 50 languages. This of course would require the support of the Wikimedia Foundation. I guess we could also do it with a gadget initially. Thoughts? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons / OTRS is broken

2015-02-02 Thread James Heilman
Someone has thankfully read this issue and has agreed to deal with it. Many thanks to the person involved :-) It is a huge amount of work to get release for a single medical image. If commons admins wish the details they can email me. James On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:52 PM, James Heilman jmh

[Wikimedia-l] Commons / OTRS is broken

2015-02-02 Thread James Heilman
OTRS does not even bother replying to the consents I send them. Thus the images I have received releases for get deleted. Going forwards I am simply uploading to En Wikipedia. Not ideal but not sure what the solution is. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons / OTRS is broken

2015-02-04 Thread James Heilman
someone to ping when I need a faster response. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-24 Thread James Heilman
Okay have gone ahead and started a proposal here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_%22Listen%22_Button J On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 9:08 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Yes if there is no opposition to the idea I will post it to the IdeaLab. Thanks Pine :-) J On Sat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-24 Thread James Heilman
/Grants:IdeaLab Siko, cc'd here, might be able to help advise about possible development of this proposal. Thanks, Pine On Jan 24, 2015 2:21 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and are available for only a fraction of our

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] Bye

2015-02-24 Thread James Heilman
Hopefully this was just an error than. When is Nemo being un-moderated? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-01-25 Thread James Heilman
that need the help. I know that I personally would find such a button helpful. But through a great many steps I could likely figure out a work around. People prefer stuff that is simple. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

[Wikimedia-l] Copy and Paste Detection Bot

2015-04-03 Thread James Heilman
/ expanded the accuracy of the bot will improve. Many thanks to [[User:ערן]] for his amazing work. The bot also has the potential to work in other languages. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Regarding knowledge

2015-04-07 Thread James Heilman
were else (unless a person is pregnancy) It would be good to stop confusing the two. Something appears to have been lost in translation somewhere. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Regarding knowledge

2015-04-07 Thread James Heilman
is that there is no increased risk of sexual transmission of HCV among heterosexual couples in regular relationships WHO says it is a less common method. The main methods of transmission are injection drug use and unscreened blood transmission. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open

[Wikimedia-l] Copy and Paste Detection Bot

2015-04-03 Thread James Heilman
of copyright issues would have been missed otherwise. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can Wikipedia Survive? op-ed

2015-06-22 Thread James Heilman
translated join it back together and add it to that language. This would of course only apply to articles which are non existent in the target language. Maybe Amir's content translation tool could do this eventually https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

2015-06-18 Thread James Heilman
Yes CAPTCHA is a pain. Yes it prevents bots from spamming us. The question is does cluebot provide us sufficient defence such that CAPTCHA is not needed? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian Starting July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation My emails; however, do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thousands of images on Wikipedia and Commons in danger, action needed

2015-06-22 Thread James Heilman
Yes I agree an example of what Wikipedia would look like if this regulation passed is an excellent idea. Could we base it on the geo tags? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian Starting July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation My emails; however, do not represent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Listen Button

2015-05-29 Thread James Heilman
but not technical (maybe they are elderly) Patient.co.uk say that their listen button is used about 1% of the time. You can see it here http://www.patient.co.uk/health/gout-leaflet -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ending discrimination by language

2015-06-28 Thread James Heilman
licenses that would allow the European perspective to gain greater promience. Maybe they could also convince the World Health Organization of the importance of open licenses. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian Starting July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation My emails

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG

2015-07-21 Thread James Heilman
Congrats to all in Iran on user group status and of course keep safe and keep up the amazing work :-) -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian Starting July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF The Wikipedia

[Wikimedia-l] Subject: Community Tech: October report

2015-11-03 Thread James Heilman
Danny, great overview. Thanks for the work you and your team are doing :-) -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation My emails; however, do not represent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

2015-10-15 Thread James Heilman
many of the concerns raised here. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF

[Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"

2015-09-01 Thread James Heilman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Doc_James/Paid_editing -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation My emails; however, do not represent the official position

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"

2015-09-02 Thread James Heilman
and Orangemody was hiring from sites like Elance. I guess the fundamental question is, is Wikipedia a workspace to provide employment for those in the developing world who are willing to do PR piece work for some unknown PR firm? Or is Wikipedia an encyclopedia. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM

[Wikimedia-l] Agenda for the December 9, 2015 Board

2015-12-08 Thread James Heilman
Yes meeting was scheduled during our last board meeting. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation My emails; however, do not represent the official position

[Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

2015-12-03 Thread James Heilman
than to see ads run. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF

[Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-16 Thread James Heilman
Great to see this :-) The community tech team is an amazing initiative. And agree all items listed have the potential to have significant impact. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com As of July 2015 I am a board member

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

2016-01-01 Thread James Heilman
to continue for the purpose of producing such a statement. I have always acted in what I believe are the best interests of the movement and the WMF. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

2016-01-07 Thread James Heilman
IMO. With respect to "ignoring advice" I did use my own judgement. With respect to the "disruption" I do not feel I can take responsibility for the engagement survey results. I did bring staff concerns forwards to the board but I was simply reporting these concerns. -- James

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

2016-01-06 Thread James Heilman
I have begun a reply to the board Q & A here https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/James_Heilman_removal_FAQ=15213281#What_happened.3F Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medi

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

2016-01-08 Thread James Heilman
. Sincerely, James Heilman -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-28 Thread James Heilman
Deadlinks are one of the most common ways of spamming Wikipedia. Paid editors replace deadlinks with links to the spam site which now contains the contain as it way copied from waybackmachine. Linking to waybackmachine is thus superior. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia

[Wikimedia-l] WMF Board of Trustees

2015-12-28 Thread James Heilman
Heilman -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

2015-12-28 Thread James Heilman
I or legal impropriety on my part. I have done what I believe is in the best interest of our movement. I hope Patricio and I can work together to provide greater explanation in the coming days. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofme

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-28 Thread James Heilman
Hey Trillium Am a little distracted. Will dug up some difs for you soon. Please email me directly to remind me. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning

2016-01-12 Thread James Heilman
+1 to the idea of developing a movement strategic plan, we can than judge how well different movement partners including the WMF are aligned with movements goals -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Clarifications on 2014 Form 990

2016-06-07 Thread James Heilman
> > > > We would also like to thank Sue for her willingness to being completely > > transparent about her compensation here. Many people find this > information > > sensitive. We appreciate that she has said she doesn't mind. > > > > I hope this answers

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

2016-06-06 Thread James Heilman
published 6 months late? Did we pay the $18,000 late fee or were multiple 3 month extensions applied for? Do we expect next year's 990 to be published by the deadline? Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

2016-06-06 Thread James Heilman
year we apply for the extension. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-26 Thread James Heilman
ilman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > David Goodman > > > > DGG at the enWP > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG > > http://en.wikipedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Status report #2

2016-06-01 Thread James Heilman
> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now

2016-06-01 Thread James Heilman
: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

[Wikimedia-l] Medical day at Wikimania

2016-06-22 Thread James Heilman
is beautiful :-) Please add you name here if you plan to attend https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme/Wiki_Project_Med Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board appointment of Executive Director

2016-06-24 Thread James Heilman
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread James Heilman
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movemen conferences/Wikimania

2016-02-09 Thread James Heilman
. Attempting to bring us together once a year is not too much. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

2016-02-09 Thread James Heilman
Yes I am also not a big fan of moving Wikimania to every two years. Meeting once a year on a global scale is important. I could see possibly keeping it smaller / capping funding. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

[Wikimedia-l] Evidence supporting my statements

2016-01-25 Thread James Heilman
, and I have no plans to do so. I hope for a reply from the board by Feb 8 and plan to release the email on Feb 15th. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

[Wikimedia-l] Thank you for our time together.

2016-02-25 Thread James Heilman
Thank you for this important step towards stabilizing the WMF. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org

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