Lots of good news with medicine and wiki lately!
- Wikimedia Medicine is established at the chapter rank!
- stable leadership and membership in the organization for years!
- lots of medicine + wiki + university partnerships!
- ongoing medical content programs!
- people are enjoying!
- 20% of the Wikimedia Foundation board of Trustees are highly engaged
in medicine
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 12:36 AM Rajeeb Dutta <marajozkee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats Shani & Doug Taylor and all my best wishes for your upcoming
> future endeavour.
>
> Best Regards,
> Rajeeb Dutta.
> (U: Marajozkee)
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 13-Aug-2019, at 4:43 AM, Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > If you've seen my post yesterday then you might have expected this this
> > announcement as well; if you haven't -- as some of you may know, I will
> > soon be joining the Board of Trustees (August 15), and am therefore
> > required to resign my formal role as Chair of Wikimedia Medicine (a.k.a.
> > WikiProject Medicine Foundation). This means a new vacancy in the board
> has
> > to be filled and a new Chair must be appointed.
> >
> > I'm happy to report that in an online board meeting earlier this month
> the
> > board chose *Doug Taylor* to serve as the new Chair for our newly
> approved
> > Thematic Organization. Doug has been part of WikiProject Medicine for
> years
> > now and has diligently served as the group's formal secretary. Doug not
> > only has the institutional memory of the organization, but has actively
> > taken part in a variety related activities in the UK and in collaboration
> > with other countries. Doug also brings management skills to the board,
> > experience from the board of Wikimedia UK, as well as a deep
> understanding
> > of the movement as a whole, which I have no doubt will allow the
> > organization to grow and expand its activities around the world.
> >
> > As Doug transitions into his new position as Chair, *Dr. Stuart Ray* will
> > be supporting him as Vice Chair and continue to serve as co-treasurer,
> and
> > *Mossab* will continue to serve as Membership Admin. A new secretary will
> > be appointed soon, hopefully during the board's in-person meeting at
> > Wikimania. The board will also soon co-opt a new board member to fill out
> > the vacant spot, till the next election in 2022.
> >
> > I'll remain involved in the organization as an 'adviser to the board' and
> > look forward to seeing this Thematic Organization grow, as well as to
> > continue contributing to medical-related topics as a volunteer and
> lecturer
> > at the Tel Aviv University.
> >
> > Best,
> > Shani Evenstein.
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Dear all,
If you've seen my post yesterday then you might have expected this this
announcement as well; if you haven't -- as some of you may know, I will
soon be joining the Board of Trustees (August 15), and am therefore
required to resign my formal role as Chair of Wikimedia Medicine (a.k.a.
WikiProject Medicine Foundation). This means a new vacancy in the board has
to be filled and a new Chair must be appointed.
I'm happy to report that in an online board meeting earlier this month the
board chose *Doug Taylor* to serve as the new Chair for our newly approved
Thematic Organization. Doug has been part of WikiProject Medicine for years
now and has diligently served as the group's formal secretary. Doug not
only has the institutional memory of the organization, but has actively
taken part in a variety related activities in the UK and in collaboration
with other countries. Doug also brings management skills to the board,
experience from the board of Wikimedia UK, as well as a deep understanding
of the movement as a whole, which I have no doubt will allow the
organization to grow and expand its activities around the world.
As Doug transitions into his new position as Chair, *Dr. Stuart Ray* will
be supporting him as Vice Chair and continue to serve as co-treasurer, and
*Mossab* will continue to serve as Membership Admin. A new secretary will
be appointed soon, hopefully during the board's in-person meeting at
Wikimania. The board will also soon co-opt a new board member to fill out
the vacant spot, till the next election in 2022.
I'll remain involved in the organization as an 'adviser to the board' and
look forward to seeing this Thematic Organization grow, as well as to
continue contributing to medical-related topics as a volunteer and lecturer
at the Tel Aviv University.
Best,
Shani Evenstein.
Dear WMMed Board,
Hope you are all well.
Since my last email, 2 board members have offered to step up and take the
role of Chair for WMMed - *Doug & Stuart.*
This means you'll need to vote on who your preferred candidate is. In order
to make this choice and avoid any awkwardness, I'm suggesting that board
members send me a private email with their vote by Saturday. I'll then
count the vote and the person with most votes will be announced chair by
next Sunday.
If anyone objects, please say so as soon as possible, and offer an
alternative.
Best,
Shani.
-----------------------------------------------
*Shani Evenstein Sigalov*
* Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
* EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
* PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
* OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology, Internationalization
and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
<https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>.
* Chairperson, Wikimedia Medicine
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med>.
* Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>.
* Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
<http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>.
* Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://bybe.benyehuda.org>.
+972-525640648
Dear Sir,
I thank you for your answer. I was mainly interested in the medical side of the biomedical use of Wikidata as the session was included in the Health space. It is sure that attendees with limited medical knowledge will suffer a bit. However, I will simplify and explain the medical information during the session when needed. Concerning your first comment, the word "relations" is widely used in Biomedical Informatics domain to mean associations, relationships, statements or links. You can absolutely refer to a simple Google Scholar search query to verify that. https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=fr&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22Biomedical+relati…. Concerning your second comment, I changed "of" by for as required.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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De : Stuart Ray <soupvector(a)gmail.com>
Date : 2019/08/06 02:22 (GMT+01:00)
À : Wiki Medicine discussion <wikimedia-medicine(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc : libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org, "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Objet : Re: [Wiki-Medicine] My Wikimania presentation slides are available
The slides make sense to me and seem to flow well, highlighting important considerations for WikiData and Medicine; however, they may be challenging for audience members with less medical training.
On the penultimate slide:
1. you use the term "relations" where I would expect "relationships" - but perhaps I am misunderstanding the use of terms
2. you state as the third Challenge, "Decide the guidelines of the verification of relations by scientists " - this is hard to parse. Should the first "of" be "for"?
-- Stuart (user: soupvector)
Stuart C. Ray, M.D.
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 9:26 AM Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr<mailto:turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr>> wrote:
Dear all,
I thank you for your answer. My Wikimania presentation slides have been uploaded today. I invite you to find them in https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2019:Submissions_by_Houcemedd…. I will be honoured to receive comments regarding my works. See you in Stockholm.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
________________________________
De : Jan Ainali <jan(a)ainali.com<mailto:jan@ainali.com>>
Envoyé : lundi 5 août 2019 14:06
À : Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr<mailto:turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr>>
Objet : Re: RE : Re: [Wikimania-l] Uploading PPTX Presentation Slides
Alright, then the short answer is: No it is not possible to upload a pptx file to the Wikimania wiki.
/Jan
5 augusti 2019 12:21:47 +02:00, skrev Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr<mailto:turkiabdelwaheb@hotmail.fr>>:
Dear all,
I thank you for your answer. I know about the possibility of uploading PDF files to Wikimedia Commons. I just asked if there is a way to upload my slides in PPTX format.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
____________________
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De : Mina Theofilatou <saintfevrier(a)gmail.com<mailto:saintfevrier@gmail.com>>
Date : 2019/08/05 10:10 (GMT+01:00)
À : jan(a)ainali.com<mailto:jan@ainali.com>, "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org<mailto:wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>
Objet : Re: [Wikimania-l] Uploading PPTX Presentation Slides
Thank you Jan, I was just about to suggest the same: convert to PDF and upload to Commons, then link on Wikimania site (this is what I did with my presentation in Lviv last year and I suppose is the common practice)
Houce if you need any help please let me know!
See all of you soon, Best wishes
Mina
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, 11:53 Jan Ainali, <jan(a)ainali.com<mailto:jan@ainali.com>> wrote:
If you want to upload them to Wikimedia Commons, usually the best alternative is to save your presentation as a PDF. Please add the category for space you are presenting in, what day you are presenting and, of course, that it is a presentation.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2019_by_spacehttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2019_by_dayhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2019_presentations
/Jan Ainali
Knowledge saver volunteer
4 augusti 2019 21:07:41 +02:00, skrev Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com<mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com>>:
Houcemeddine A. Turki, 04/08/19 20:04:
I thank you for your efforts. I have prepared PPTX Presentation slides for Wikimania 2019. I ask about how to upload them to Wikimania wiki.
Thank you for sharing your slides' sources. Please save them in ODP format (e.g. by using LibreOffice) and upload them on... ahem. I guess archive.org<http://archive.org> would be a good place, we already keep many Wikimania videos there.
On WMF wikis, these formats are currently only allowed on private wikis.
Federico
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Dear all,
I thank you for your answer. My Wikimania presentation slides have been uploaded today. I invite you to find them in https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2019:Submissions_by_Houcemedd…. I will be honoured to receive comments regarding my works. See you in Stockholm.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki
________________________________
De : Jan Ainali <jan(a)ainali.com>
Envoyé : lundi 5 août 2019 14:06
À : Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr>
Objet : Re: RE : Re: [Wikimania-l] Uploading PPTX Presentation Slides
Alright, then the short answer is: No it is not possible to upload a pptx file to the Wikimania wiki.
/Jan
5 augusti 2019 12:21:47 +02:00, skrev Houcemeddine A. Turki <turkiabdelwaheb(a)hotmail.fr>:
Dear all,
I thank you for your answer. I know about the possibility of uploading PDF files to Wikimedia Commons. I just asked if there is a way to upload my slides in PPTX format.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
____________________
+21629499418
-------- Message d'origine --------
De : Mina Theofilatou <saintfevrier(a)gmail.com>
Date : 2019/08/05 10:10 (GMT+01:00)
À : jan(a)ainali.com, "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Objet : Re: [Wikimania-l] Uploading PPTX Presentation Slides
Thank you Jan, I was just about to suggest the same: convert to PDF and upload to Commons, then link on Wikimania site (this is what I did with my presentation in Lviv last year and I suppose is the common practice)
Houce if you need any help please let me know!
See all of you soon, Best wishes
Mina
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, 11:53 Jan Ainali, <jan(a)ainali.com<mailto:jan@ainali.com>> wrote:
If you want to upload them to Wikimedia Commons, usually the best alternative is to save your presentation as a PDF. Please add the category for space you are presenting in, what day you are presenting and, of course, that it is a presentation.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2019_by_spacehttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2019_by_dayhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2019_presentations
/Jan Ainali
Knowledge saver volunteer
4 augusti 2019 21:07:41 +02:00, skrev Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com<mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com>>:
Houcemeddine A. Turki, 04/08/19 20:04:
I thank you for your efforts. I have prepared PPTX Presentation slides for Wikimania 2019. I ask about how to upload them to Wikimania wiki.
Thank you for sharing your slides' sources. Please save them in ODP format (e.g. by using LibreOffice) and upload them on... ahem. I guess archive.org<http://archive.org> would be a good place, we already keep many Wikimania videos there.
On WMF wikis, these formats are currently only allowed on private wikis.
Federico
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