User talk:Nicke.me
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Thank you WereSpielChequers :)
Nicke.me (talk) 19:20, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
- You're very welcome. For lesson two lets correct an article. ϢereSpielChequers 19:25, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
Sigs
[edit]- OK Nick.me is one possibility. Or Nick.me or Nick.me ϢereSpielChequers 20:17, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
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Invitation!
[edit]Mumbai Photowalk II |
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Greetings from the Mumbai Wiki Community,
We invite you all to participate in the event. Please spread the word among your friends and share our Facebook group: |
Article about Restaurant Week
[edit]Just wanted your feedback on a new Wiki that I have created. Does it meet Wiki standards? Would appreciate your comments and feedback (and help!). Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Bangalore_restaurant_week Varunr (talk) 11:20, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Real Life Barnstar | |
Hey, this is just a small present from my side to award you for organizing such an wonderful event, Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. You initiated it, and stood till the end. Way to go!! -- Karthik Nadar 07:49, 30 January 2012 (UTC) |
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Tag and Assess 2012
[edit]Hi Nicke, Thanks for joining Tag and Assess 2012. Just a quick tip for you - while assessing the articles, please add the importance scale for the subprojects as well. Take a case of Government Polytechnic Nashik, the maharastra-importance and education-importance is left blank - please update those as well. Once again, thanks a lot and wish you great time. Ssriram mt (talk) 12:37, 3 March 2012 (UTC)ssriram_mt
Okk :) Will do that. Thanks for the info. Nicke.me (talk) 15:22, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
Medical translation project
[edit]Welcome and looking forwards to working together. I will be getting more stuff ready for simple Wikipedia over the next couple of weeks. Away on holidays right now. Thanks for signing up. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 12:26, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Photowalk
[edit]Next time, there is a Photowalk, please do consider informing me [on my talk page] please. I'd like to help out with catergorising uploads. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 14:12, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker)Hi Rsrikanth05. I will surely let you know in future. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 09:49, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:34, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. If I do get any idea, I'll ping you. I just wish these kind of events happened when I lived in Bombay. Sad. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 18:40, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
- I won't mind you [Rsrikanth05] travelling all way to Mumbai in our future events ;) You will be the first one to be invited by me. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 19:03, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey, between there is still quite a backlog with categorization of images from the photowalk, if you u would like to do in your capacity. Here's the link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Mumbai_2 Something which can be done being far off from Mumbai ;) :) Regards, Nicke.me (talk) 01:34, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
- Nicke, sure, will do my best considering all I have is this lousy Cyber Cafe to work with. Karthik, it would've been easier when I lived in Bangalore, atleast I had, this, this, and this to travel to Bombay, but now, I need to take of those from Coimbatore to Bangalore, and then to Bombay. Long journey. : ) --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 10:43, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey that's absolutely fine and understandably hectic! Between,nice use of Commons in your above reply !! Cheers, Nicke.me (talk) 18:05, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. : ) --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 11:42, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
WikiProject India Tag & Assess 2012 Contest
[edit]Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles require assessment, that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, a Tag & Assess 2012 drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate from Part One of the Assessment Guide. Part Two of the Guide will help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.
You can sign up on the Tag & Assess page. There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
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Delivered per request on Wikipedia:Bot requests. The Helpful Bot 01:27, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
[edit]A kitten will keep you amused & enthused while assessing WikiProject India articles. :) Good to see your work in so many places.
AshLin (talk) 18:38, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks ALoottt :) Am indeed amused !! Many Thanks for your Encouragement !
Nicke.me (talk) 20:19, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
[edit]The Teamwork Barnstar | |
For your hard work and editing during the Edit-athon on Sarojini Naidu. -- Rsrikanth05 (talk) 06:48, 27 March 2012 (UTC) |
Hi,
Wikipedia Mumbai Community 15thmeetup has been announced on 7 April 2012 @ Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Bandra.
Have a look at the event page here. Hope to see you :) -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 10:14, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Tag and Assess 2012
[edit]Hi, with contributors like you, Tag and Assess 2012 has reached mid stage. To speed up the activities, certain special awards have been announced. User:Yuvipanda has created an excellent tool to help editors who are assessing manually. The tool is under Beta release and I request you to please install, use it and give him feedback. Please see the details in https://docs.google.com/document/d/176bySLlr-fRcMYw-h4k-btL5x08qegY7Ipj2DQLHdQE/edit?pli=1. Thanks again for your contribution and wish you continued support to take the drive to completion. Ssriram mt (talk) 22:42, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
Tag and Assess 2012
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With the help of contributors like you, the Tag and Assess 2012 project has achieved the planned objectives. Close to 65,000 articles have been assessed and 19,000 articles have been added to the scope of the project. Please do watch out for the post tag and assess activities. Thanks a lot. Ssriram mt (talk) 00:57, 1 June 2012 (UTC) |
A cup of tea for you!
[edit]Giving you a cup of tea for your edits on A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and also to enjoy the season of monsoon. Thanks! -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 19:35, 5 July 2012 (UTC) |
A GA barnstar for you!
[edit]The Good Article Barnstar | |
Thanks Nicke.me for contributing as a lender of last resort to promote A. P. J. Abdul Kalam to Good Article status. Please accept this little sign of appreciation and goodwill from me, because you deserve it. Keep it up. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 17:25, 8 July 2012 (UTC) |
Hii Karthik, Thanks alot for this gesture of appreciation ! :) This is my first GA Barnstar !
A bowl of strawberries for you!
[edit]For helping out Karthik in getting a GA on Abdul Kalam. Though you are not a major contributor on that article, you helped him with your edits, which is appreciable. Cheers, Happy Editing ahead and many more GA's! :) BPositive (talk) 06:09, 9 July 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks BPositive! I enjooyed the bowl of rare fruit(for this season) that u gave me :)
Hello,
Thanks for your contribution in the article Independence Day (India). You are also invited to join Talk:Independence Day (India)/GA1. Best, --Tito Dutta ✉ 20:16, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you --Tito Dutta ✉ I'l watch the page :)
- Excellent. I have made some minor changes in your last edit! Are you using Wikied? --Tito Dutta ✉ 20:57, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hii, yes I do. I did not understand why you have reverted the topic 'India Independence Movement' from 'see also'(n I have read WP:also), and the point that 21 gun shots are fired once the Flag is hoisted ?? I guess the format was different, though I had previewed and there seemed no difference in the text.
- Indian Independence Movement was is already linked in article body. I did not edit the gun shot portion! --Tito Dutta ✉ 09:21, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
OK I saw that now. n Sorry, actually I saw the reversion you made of some other editor. That sentence is moved to 'celebration' section by user: Dwaipayanc
Hi there! Thanks for voting and helping in selecting Indian Independence Day as the GA of the month under WP:INCOTM. Please give your vote for the Collaboration section as well. Cheers!:) BPositive (talk) 13:19, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Indian Collaboration of the Month - Red Fort
[edit]Indian Collaboration of the Month | |
Hi there! Thanks for being associated with the nomination cum voting process of the WikiProject Indian Collaboration of the Month under WikiProject India. As per the voting, the article selected for collaboration for the month of August 2012 is Red Fort. Let's improve this article over the course of the month. I look forward to your contributions on the article. BPositive (talk) 14:05, 4 August 2012 (UTC) |
Botulism
[edit]Thanks for adding the Caya 2004 source. However, I am concerned that you appended it to claims that are not in fact supported by the source, such as the remark that honey-associated botulism is now very rare. Had I not accessed the source myself, the content would have failed WP:V. Please let me know if you require any assistance. JFW | T@lk 16:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hello User:Jfdwolff,
- I meant to append it with the claim that 'Honey should not be fed to infants less than one year of age' and remove the following line with 5 % claim etc. ! However I happened to save it otherwise. Thanks! You noticed quickly :) I had to remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick.me (talk • contribs)
No worries. Good that I checked. This is wiki at work. JFW | T@lk 13:03, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
(: Thanks !!
Article about Radha Thomas
[edit]Hi. I have created an article about Radha Thomas and am contemplating it to move it to the AFC space. Before that, I'd really appreciate if you could have a look and give me some inputs, suggestions and advice and hopefully a green signal :-). Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Radha_Thomas Varunr (talk) 09:16, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
Hii Varun ! Thanks for your message ! I had a quick look at the article and the references given by you. I would like you to have a look at Biographies of Living people and general referencing here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRS Also, please have a look at verifiability that emphasises WHY the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion to an encyclopaedia.
- Thank you! I've made more changes. I think I'm still lacking in the citations formatting, but I'll get there :-) Varunr (talk) 11:46, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
WikiWomen's Collaborative
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[edit]It's been going great.Everyone is very approachable. You have been great help to me. Thanks alot for all the things i learned from you.
Thank You. Regards Sonant21 (talk) 07:23, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Sonant ! Leave me a Message for any help,anytime :) Nicke.me (talk) 08:32, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
Wiki Women's Workshop
[edit]Heya Nicke.me, I just wanted to drop by and wish you all the very best for the upcoming Workshop. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 12:50, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
A cup of coffee for you!
[edit]Thanks for fixing the typo in the Seattle meetup page. Are you in Seattle? I am from Seattle and my friends are there. I am planning a trip to Mumbai in a few months. Do you meet with Wikipedians in Mumbai? Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:22, 19 November 2012 (UTC) |
Hello ! Thanks for the Coffee :)
No, am not in Seattle. Based in Mumbai currently. Trip to Mumbai? Thats' Nice :) We too have regular meetups here. Would be a great occurrence to meet you and your friends. Are they too Wikipdians?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicke.me (talk • contribs) 19:44, 20 November 2012
- I have a friend in Varanasi who is learning Wikipedia and he might be joining me. I found your meetup page at Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai. I am not yet sure of my travel dates but if I can, I will come to your regular meeting and if not, I will write to your group anyway to see if anyone is free to meet while I am in town. I am glad to see that your group has meetings every month! Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:24, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Sure ! An e-mail would be favourable, after your travel plans are fixed. A Wikipedian in Varanasi ! That sounds really cool.. That's the magic of Wikipedia arena - generating vast networks !
And, Wish you a bountiful Thanksgiving :) !
- Thanks, I will be in touch. Blue Rasberry (talk) 21:33, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Re: Invitation for 52nd Bangalore meetup !
[edit]Hi Nicke,
Thanks for the invitation! It's my pleasure to be a part of a wiki meetup. The Meetup Link that you provided on my talk page isn't accessible yet , request you to update the link. Thanks!
Hey !
The wikimedia.in site(housing the Meetup page) was down in the morning. I guess that's why it did not open. Can you try again? Nicke.me (talk) 10:25, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update Nicke.me, the meetup page is working fine now, my bad, I failed to realize that the entire wikimedia site was down! — Preceding unsigned comment added by NitRav (talk • contribs) 22:58, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
No issues.. Do sign-up if you are willing to attend :) Nicke.me (talk) 18:04, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks
[edit]Hey Nick! Thanx for the barnstar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urbashi (talk • contribs) 04:37, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Moving
[edit]I've moved it to User:Nicke.me/List of gender-gap articles which is where I think it belongs. Peridon (talk) 21:01, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
Yes, I missed writing 'user:'. Thanks ! Nicke.me (talk) 21:07, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
A page you started has been reviewed!
[edit]Thanks for creating Julie Larson-Green, Nicke.me!
Wikipedia editor Modern.Jewelry.Historian just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:
A little too much hyperbole: ie "passion". "will be" should be removed also.
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Greetings from WikiProject Open Access
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I hope we can manage to discuss Science GLAM soon, but today, I am contacting you on another matter - it is now one year since WikiProject Open Access was started by User:Bluerasberry on January 10, 2012. Since then, the project has advanced modestly, but we have not interacted much. For the coming year, we certainly want to improve on that.
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Thanks for being part of the project, and looking forward to more interaction. With a smile, -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 00:01, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
Dear Daniel,
Warm New Year Greetings! Thanks for this note. I'm currently travelling. Will get back to the project as soon am back :)
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[edit]Wikiproject Medicine; Translation Taskforce
This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice.
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Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions.
Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:
- WHO's list of Essential Medicines[2]
- Neglected tropical diseases[3]
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We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles.
What's happening?
- IEG grant
I've (CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.
- Wikimania 2014
For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.
- Integration progress
There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as Dutch, Polish, and Swedish.
What was found is that thre is hardly any negative opinion about the the project itself; and any such critique has focused on the ways that articles have being integrated. For an article to be usefully translated into a target-Wiki it needs to be properly Wiki-linked, carry proper citations and use the formatting of the chosen target language as well as being properly proof-read. Certain large Wikis such as the Polish and Dutch Wikis have strong traditions of medical content, with their own editorial system, own templates and different ideas about what constitutes a good medical article. For example, there are not MEDRS (Polish,German,Romanian,Persian) guidelines present on other Wikis, and some Wikis have a stronger background of country-specific content.
- Swedish
Translation into Swedish has been difficult in part because of the amount of free, high quality sources out there already: patient info, for professionals. The same can be said for English, but has really given us all the more reason to try and create an unbiased and free encyclopedia of medical content. We want Wikipedia to act as an alternative to commercial sources, and preferably a really good one at that.
Through extensive collaborative work and by respecting links and Sweden specific content the last unintegrated Swedish translation went live in May. - Dutch
Dutch translation carries with it special difficulties, in part due to the premises in which the Dutch Wikipedia is built upon. There is great respect for what previous editors have created, and deleting or replacing old content can be frowned upon. In spite of this there are success stories: Anafylaxie. - Polish
Translation and integration into Polish also comes with its own unique set of challenges. The Polish Wikipedia has long been independent and works very hard to create high quality contentfor Polish audience. Previous translation trouble has lead to use of unique templates with unique formatting, not least among citations. Add to this that the Polish Wikipedia does not allow template redirects and a large body of work is required for each article.
(This is somewhat alleviated by a commissioned Template bot - to be released). - List of articles for integration - Arabic
The Arabic Wikipedia community has been informed of the efforts to integrate content through both the general talk-page as well as through one of the major Arabic Wikipedia facebook-groups: مجتمع ويكيبيديا العربي, something that has been heralded with great enthusiasm.
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Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [4]
News in short
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Medical Translation Newsletter Aug./Sept. 2014
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Issue 2, Aug./Sept. 2014
by CFCF
During August we have translated Disease and it is now live in more than 60 different languages! To help us focus on African languages Rubric has donated a large number of articles in languages we haven't previously reached–so a shout out them, and Ian Henderson from Rubric who's joined us here at Wikipedia. We're very happy for our continued collaboration with both Rubric and Translators without Borders!
- Just some of our over 60 translations:
- New roles and guides!
At Wikimania there were so many enthusiastic people jumping at the chance to help out the Medical Translation Project, but unfortunately not all of them knew how to get started. That is why we've been spending considerable time writing and improving guides! They are finally live, and you can find them at our home-page!
- New sign up page!
We're proud to announce a new sign up page at WP:MTSIGNUP! The old page was getting cluttered and didn't allow you to speficy a role. The new page should be easier to sign up to, and easier to navigate so that we can reach you when you're needed!
- Style guides for translations
Translations are of both full articles and shorter articles continues. The process where short articles are chosen for translation hasn't been fully transparent. In the coming months we hope to have a first guide, so that anyone who writes medical or health articles knows how to get their articles to a standard where they can be translated! That's why we're currently working on medical good lede criteria! The idea is to have a similar peer review process to good article nominations, but only for ledes.
- Some more stats
- In July, 18 full article translations went live (WP:RTT), and an additional 6 simplified versions went live (WP:RTTS)!
- We have a number of new lead integrators into Dutch, Polish, Arabic and Bulgarian, with more to come in smaller languages! (Find them here old sign up page)
- We were mentioned in a Global Voices Online report by Subhashish Panigrahi at Doctors and translators are working together to bridge Wikipedia's medical language gap
- New medical professionals have started, dedicated to working in Odiya and Kinyarwanda!
- Further reading
- Translators Without Borders
- Healthcare information for all by 2015, a global campaign
-- CFCF 🍌 (email) 13:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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