[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

[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] Announcement about changes to the Board

2016-01-01 Thread James Heilman
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

2016-01-06 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&oldid=15213281#What_happened.3F Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of

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

2016-01-07 Thread James Heilman
versations 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.

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

2016-01-08 Thread James Heilman
well. 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 messag

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

[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

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

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

2016-02-09 Thread James Heilman
uable. 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

[Wikimedia-l] Simple English please! was The conversation is happening elsewhere :(

2016-02-17 Thread James Heilman
any people are therefore being cautious with their words. I agree we need to speak clearly, simply, and openly. We should also invite the Knight Foundation to join this conversation. We need to get a few more perspectives on the issues in front of us. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The

[Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

2016-02-20 Thread James Heilman
we want to go. This is how one gets buy in and is key in a volunteer movement. We have some amazingly smart people both as staff and as community members. Long term strategy should not be determined by the ED and a couple of board members. Would be good to see the board leading a collaborative dis

[Wikimedia-l] Context around the KE

2016-02-23 Thread James Heilman
the plans that previously existed. While the ED has recently apologized for the lack of transparency, this was brought to her attention many times before, and thus I am not convinced her apology will result in a change in her approach. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open T

[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

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

2014-10-02 Thread James Heilman
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
ll 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:

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

2014-10-06 Thread James Heilman
one who has made a single 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/

[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

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Ebola

2014-12-04 Thread James Heilman
thers 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:

[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
I think we need to take a step back, return to pilots and try something different. Best James On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:12 PM, James Heilman wrote: > Hey All > > We must scale back the education program working on English medical > articles immediately. It is simple not working. &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Students Editing

2014-12-10 Thread James Heilman
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 wrote: > I would like to clarify that I do not have any issues with the formal > "education program" itself or with any of the indi

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

2014-12-11 Thread James Heilman
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
o-speech listed 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

2015-01-24 Thread James Heilman
Lab > > 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" wrote: > >> While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and >&g

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 wrote: > Yes if there is no opposition to the idea I will post it to the IdeaLab. > Thanks Pine :-) > > J > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

2015-01-25 Thread James Heilman
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] 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 of

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 wrote

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] [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

[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

[Wikimedia-l] Copy and Paste Detection Bot

2015-04-03 Thread James Heilman
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] 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
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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

2015-05-29 Thread James Heilman
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] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections

2015-06-05 Thread James Heilman
Many thanks to all those who gave me their vote of confidence. I look forwards to starting in July in an official capacity and hope to see as many of you as possible at Wikimania. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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 not

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 the

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 Heil

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

[Wikimedia-l] Non-free images in collaborations

2014-03-08 Thread James Heilman
omotes 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 o

[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, Wikip

[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
ad a lot of the peer 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.or

[Wikimedia-l] Catching copy and pasting early

2014-07-20 Thread James Heilman
is free to apply. -- 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] Catching copy and pasting early

2014-07-21 Thread James Heilman
y for profit is evil to the core. If someone can build an effective system another way that is even more open than this the money is still theirs. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___

[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
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] Translation into new languages and meeting at the NIH

2013-05-24 Thread James Heilman
ent at the NIH please sign up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/May_2013 Would be great to have more Wikipedians to help with the hands on editing sessions. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofme

[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] Mobile image upload

2013-08-25 Thread James Heilman
/File:Dirty_white_pseudomembrane_classically_seen_in_diptheria_2013-07-06_11-07.jpg I have never seen diphtheria as it is exceedingly rare in my area of the world. And technically this image is very hard to take. Look forwards to mobile editing arriving. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine

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

2013-09-09 Thread James Heilman
ly on 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/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mai

[Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-16 Thread James Heilman
hospitals (maybe). -- 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] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread James Heilman
tance I will go elsewhere. -- 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/lis

[Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread James Heilman
me of these organizations that are doing 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 Unsubscr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread James Heilman
s are copyrightable with no guarantee that they are, some combination of these 10 groups own the copyright" with each lawyer supporting one or a number of the different members of this group of 10. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread James Heilman
for professionally published material. Sort of defeats the purpose of commons in a way. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread James Heilman
would get deleted for a combination of unclear copyright laws and "unclear patient consent". -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mail

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

2013-09-17 Thread James Heilman
.org/guidance/ethical_guidance/7842.asp>). Further advice on anonymising information is available from the Information Commissioner’s Office.7<http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/ethical_guidance/7840.asp#7> Per http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/ethical_guidance/7840.asp -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-18 Thread James Heilman
ave signed 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 M

[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
rce 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.opentextbookofme

[Wikimedia-l] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia

2013-11-25 Thread James Heilman
vailable? -- 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/wik

[Wikimedia-l] Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia

2013-11-26 Thread James Heilman
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, Wikip

[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 The

[Wikimedia-l] Translations efforts

2012-06-02 Thread James Heilman
e Wikipedians I would love you help. Please sign up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/People -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian Board of Directors Wikimedia Canada Lead Editor Open Textbook of Medicine by Wikipedia

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

2012-06-03 Thread James Heilman
://books.google.ca/books?id=VAqP7xd4r74C&pg=PA264>. JP Medical Ltd, 2012. pp. 264. ISBN<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number> 9350256312 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9350256312> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian ___

[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

2012-07-05 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
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
permission. -- 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 X rays

2012-08-20 Thread James Heilman
@ Klaus So if they are copyrightable in Germany who owns the copyright? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

[Wikimedia-l] Copyright on Xrays

2012-08-22 Thread James Heilman
warrant. -- 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] 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, wrote: > Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Creating content in Dari

2012-10-05 Thread James Heilman
. If people are interested please sign up here with your language abilities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force/People We are having a webinar on this topic Oct 23rd for any interested more details will be available soon. James Heilman

[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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012-10-17 Thread James Heilman
the creation process for new language versions (when previous content already exists). -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Copy and paste

2012-10-17 Thread James Heilman
ws out. Support Wikipedia and use the latest version online! Further details / discuss are here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Can_we_still_use_books_as_refs.3F -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextboo

[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
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.opentextbookofme

[Wikimedia-l] Official launch of Wikivoyage

2012-12-15 Thread James Heilman
course which means all are invited to fix any issues they see. -- 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

[Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo caption

2012-12-18 Thread James Heilman
Hello all We are discussing what text should accompany our logo. We have a straw poll up and running. The hope is to officially launch on Wikipedia's birthday so a little pressed for time. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Med

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo caption

2012-12-18 Thread James Heilman
Sorry an here is the link http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikivoyage/Logo#Round_2_results James On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:53 AM, James Heilman wrote: > Hello all > > We are discussing what text should accompany our logo. We have a straw > poll up and running. > > The hop

[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

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