CRUK – WIKIPEDIA NEWSLETTER DRAFT edit
Issue 2, October 3rd 2014 'The newsletter for Wikipedia:WikiProject CRUK By John Byrne, Wikipedian in Residence, Press & Science Communications dept, Angel, x 5318
Hi! I’m sending you this because you have attended a presentation or training session on the CRUK Wikipedia project, or been involved in some other way. I’m planning to send this out every so often, to give news of how the project is going, and point to a few cancer-related issues that are current on Wikipedia – talk page rows, articles in the news or ongoing reviews. Any comments on it very welcome, and I hope it may provoke edits on Wikipedia itself. I will post modified versions online. If anyone wants to be added to, or removed from, the list, please let me know.
September activity edit
September was a relatively quiet month, with work continuing on various fronts. Henry Scowcroft and I led editing training sessions at LRI and the Cochrane Collaboration offices at Oxford, that one led by User:RexxS. The first report showing the monthly figures for page views of the articles containing the CRUK images showed views of over 1.1 million in August for the images. Several of the most viewed articles had multiple images, especially sets of "by stage" diagrams, and breast cancer has no less than 17, none added by myself or others with a COI.
We also saw the first uses of CRUK images in other language versions of Wikipedia, although the captions were not translated, which is possible for the svg file format, if you know what you are doing. Currently 3 images are used, in the Polish, Italian and Armenian wikipedias. You can run the "glamorous" tool for Category "Images from Cancer Research UK" here
Upcoming edit
There's only 2 1/2 months left for the project, and a lot to do. Endometrial cancer, not strictly a project article, is still a featured article candidate, though reviews are going well - please add a review at [[1]], even if it's quick comments. Work is being done on Pancreatic cancer and Esophageal cancer, and a start has been made on Brain tumor - but is it fast enough? Lung cancer has been a Featured Article for a couple of years, but has been extensively revamped and updated by User:Axl, the existing main editor.
There should be more images and media released in October - watch the project page for news.
Talking points, on wiki pages edit
- Radon causes lung cancer, but which types? What sources are there on this? See [2]
- My attempt to stop readers stumbling onto prognosis by stage figures for pancreatic cancer was a quick flop - see [[3]]
- [Pacak-Zhuang_Syndrome] - new cancer syndrome, described 2013. Is it notable yet?
- Morphogen - out of date it seems, like so many articles.