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March 2015
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- Released: 1 July, 2015
- Editor: Tom (LT)
Hello
- What's new
- A related WikiProject is formed, WikiProject Women's health
- Cerebellum, promoted in 2006, receives a long overdue featured article review
- Heart and Glomerulus receive a peer review
- Our article base explodes from about 10,000 to 12,775, with most new articles being redirects.
- Sympathetic nervous system, Autonomic nervous system and Parasympathetic nervous system all receive significant makeover, and cry out for more attention!
- Should Vermiform appendix be retitled to its more common name (Appendix)? The discussion continues!
- A large number of "back end" changes are made, and integration with Wikidata continues -- see the focus for more.
- Our set of cranial nerve-related articles receive a review by a subject expert
- How can I contribute?
- If you're interested in a topic area, let other editors know by creating a 'drive' in that area
- Continue to reword articles in language lay readers can understand
- Search Wikimedia commonsfor high-quality coloured images that can be used to replace some of our older, lower quality images.
- Don't forget that anatomy isn't always about gross anatomy! A number of other fields, including articles about embryology and histology ("microanatomy") cry out for attention.
- Issue focus - technical changes
This issue was originally going to focus on how far we've come as a project. However, that encouraging news can wait until next issue, as there are simply too many changes going on at the "back end" of our project not to write about. What do I mean by "back end"? I mean changes that are not necessarily visible to readers, but may have a significant impact on the way we edit or on future edits.
Templates
A number of visible changes have been made to our templates. Firstly, the way our templates have been linked together has changed. Previously, this was a small bar with single-letter links. This has been replaced by a light-coloured box contained within all our templates with fully-worded links, which provides links to relevant anatomy and medical templates. This should make life a lot easier, particularly for students and other readers who are struggling with the vastness of anatomical systems and their related diseases and treatments.
As part of this, almost all our templates have been reviewed and cleaned up. The previously confusing colour scheme has been removed and colour standardised. The titles have been simplified. References to "identifiers" in the titles of navigation boxes (such as
Anatomy infobox
Most of our articles have an infobox. Previously, there were 11 separate infoboxes for different fields, such as muscles, nerves and embryology. These have been united so that at the "back end", every template will take formatting directly from the main anatomy infobox -- however at the "front end", there is little difference for readers. This will make future changes much easier -- including adding new fields, formatting, and reordering the contents. Several changes have already been made: infoboxes now link to a relevant anatomical terminology article; contents are now divided into 'Identifiers' and 'Details' headings, making it easier to grasp content for new readers; and new fields have been added, including Greek and UBERON, with several more under discussion.
External links
An editor has reviewed all our template-based external links. These are the links that often fill the "External links" category, and sometimes used as citations. At least thirty different links sets, with the number of links stretching into the thousands, have been fixed, and if not functioning, deleted. A number of non-functioning dead links (with no archived websites available), and one or two others, have been deleted. This helps keep our 'external links' section relevant and functioning for those readers who want extra information about articles.
Wikidata
Perhaps our most important change has been integration with
Our next issue will focus on how far WikiProject Anatomy has come in the past 2 years.
This has been
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WikiProject Anatomy newsletter #5
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- Released: November 2016
- Editor: Tom (LT)
Hello
I value feedback, and if you think I've missed something, or don't wish to receive this again, please leave a note
- What's new
- good article status
- Our previous barnstar has changed to the new shiny "Golden galen" barnstar to celebrate contributions to anatomical articles
- We are featured in the journal Clinical Anatomy [1]
- How can I contribute?
- Participate in discussions - a number of discussions such as those on our talk page or about our infoboxwould benefit from your opinion!
- Continue to add content to our articles
- Collaborate and discuss with other editors - many hands make light work!
- Focus - how far we've come
How far have we come since
- Hundreds to thousands of articles improved and standardised by many, many editors.
- 14 new good articles created or added to our project [2]
- Improved quality of our articles - subjectively and objectively. GAs quadrupled from 5 to 16, B-class articles doubles from 62 to 115, C-class article well on the way to trebling from 219 to 611, Start-class increased from 1,082 to 1,570.
- Tens to hundreds of mergers performed between tiny, unedited articles - a remnant of our Gray's Anatomy (1918) heritage.
- Layout guidelineschanged and layout standardised for the majority of our articles
- In the project space:
- WikiProject Animal Anatomycreated
- 20-30+ new members
- 200+ new editors welcomed with our new welcome template
- Interdisciplinary category system to help new editors
- Active integration with wikidata in our infoboxes
- Overhaul of all of our navboxes
- Review and integration of all of our templates
- External link templates reviewed to ensure they all work
- To help improve anatomical literacy:
- Creation of a suite of five Anatomical terminology articles, and overhaul of existing articles
- Creation of the {{Anatomy-terms}} template created
- Links provided in infoboxes
- Simplifying anatomical terminologyessay released
These are substantial improvements and my thanks go out to our many editors who played a part in this. These improvements are almost always the result of consensus, compromise, collaboration and discussion between multiple editors.
I hope we can continue to improve in the future. How can you help? Continue to edit, add content, and create a welcoming atmosphere so that new editors will join us.
Well done to us all, and the many anonymous editors who've helped along the way!
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WikiProject Anatomy newsletter (#6)
Released January 2018 聽路 Previous newsletter 聽路 Next
Hello
I value feedback, and if you think I've missed something, or don't wish to receive this again, please leave a note on my talk page, or remove your name from the mailing list.
Yours truly, --Tom (LT) (talk) 10:48, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
What's new
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new good articles since last newsletter include Thyroid, Hypoglossal nerve, Axillary arch, Human brain, Cerebrospinal fluid, Accessory nerve, Gallbladder, and Interventricular foramina (neuroanatomy)
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I write an Introduction to Anatomy on Wikipedia in the Journal of Anatomy [3] |
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Vagina receives a lot of attention on its way to good article status. |
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We reach two projects goals of 20 good articles, and less than half of our articles as stubs, in July 2017. [4] |
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A discussion about two preferred section titles takes place here .
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Introduction to WikiProject Anatomy and Anatomy on Wikipedia
Seeing as we have so many new members, and a constant stream of new editors to our articles, I would like to write in this issue about how our project and articles are arranged.
The main page for WikiProject Anatomy is
- Project and article structure
Wikipedia has about
Our articles are structured according to the
Our articles are organised in a particular way. Most articles have a
}}. This lets us link to relevant and related articles. The bottom of articles also shows categories, which store groups of related articles.- Tools
For interested editors, our project offers a number of additional tools to help edit our articles. On our
Our project has all sorts of smaller items that editors may or may not know about, including a barnstar, user box ({{User WPAnatomy}}), welcoming template ({{WPANATOMY welcome}}) and fairly comprehensive listing of templates (here).
- Invitation
We are always happy to help out, and I invite new editors, or for those with any questions relating to how to get around the confusing environment that is Wikipedia, to post on
How can I contribute?
- Ask questions! Talk with other editors, collaborate - and if you need help, ask!
- Continue to add content (and citations) to our articles
- Collaborate and discuss with other editors - many hands make light work!
- Find a space, task or type of article that you enjoy editing - there are lots of untended niches out there
This has been
Wikiproject Anatomy newsletter #7
Released September 2020 聽路 Previous newsletter
Hello
I value feedback, and if you think I've missed something, or don't wish to receive this again, please leave a note on my talk page, or remove your name from the mailing list.
Yours truly, --Tom (LT) (talk) 07:24, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
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new also awaiting review |
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A made-up eponymous term is used in our article that eventually makes it in to university anatomy teaching slides and a journal article |
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We reach a project goal of 150 B-class articles in July 2020, increasing by about 50% over five years, and are one good article away from our goal of 40 GAs, doubling over the last five years |
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In the infoboxes, and there is ongoing discussion about updating TE as well
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A beautiful new barnstar is released ({{subst:The Anatomist Barnstar}}) |
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portals are deleted (vale Human body and Cranial nerve portals)
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Some things left out from past newsletters - A large amount of redirects are created to help link plural structures, and Cerebellum ([8]) and Hippocampus ([9]) are published in Wikiversity. |
Newsletter topic: anatomy and featured articles
I have been asked to write up something introducing the
A vital purpose of Featured articles is to serve as examples for new and aspiring Wikipedia editors. FAs are often uniquely comprehensive for the Internet. They showcase some of our best articles, and can enhance Wikipedia's reputation if they are maintained to
Looking more specifically at WP Anatomy's featured content, the Featured media is impressive and seems to be an Anatomy Project strength. The
Whether tuning up an older FA at
You can read the essay "Achieving excellence through featured content" here.
SandyGeorgia has been a regular FA reviewer at FAC and FAR since 2006, and has participated in thousands of nominations
How can I contribute?
- Ask questions! Talk with other editors, collaborate - and if you need help, ask at our project page!
- Continue to add content (and citations) to our articles
- Collaborate and discuss with other editors - many hands make light work!
- Find a space, task or type of article that you enjoy editing - there are lots of untended niches out there
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