User talk:Savealife/Archive 1

Message from J. Volpe
I think it's apparent that we need to move fairly quickly to establish a Committee Chair and to set priorities for the Committee. I am glad to see that Stephen has taken the initiative to lead the Content Committee. I thought the next step was to have a face-to-face meeting this Friday for personal introductions and hopefully some discussion about direction. I am not sure if this has been confirmed but whether we meet in person or not, I think we need to resolve organizational issues ( roles/resonsibilities, voting etc., -the easy stuff) and then move immediately to talk about project issues-the hard stuff. We have a functioning technical team that is in project mode and we need to have a Content Committee that is also is a more rapid project mode.

I think there are several immediate issues to discuss and decide:

What is the Content strategy or what is the scope of medical information the site will cover?

What changes shall be made to the existing site?

How will this information be organized - briefly what we discussed on the call last week?

Exactly how will we interact with the Technical team?

Whether we meet in person or over the phone, we need to do so fairly soon and set an agenda that covers the above and other critical issues.

And can someone please tell me if there's a tutorial on using the Wiki format?

Johnvolpe 17:29, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Template working?
Vince, I just recopied this talkback template from Wikipedia, and it appears to be working. I'll know if you get the message to look here. If so, please check it with a sig. Savealife 02:20, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

This looks good. Let me know if any issues surface. I have not seen any issues regarding any other templates so I am assuming all is OK with the parser. Vnavarro 15:17, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Test with Greg
Greg, if you receive a message on screen that I have left this message, then please sign here so I know that this works now.Savealife 15:06, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

works--thanks! Gmiller 05:49, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Signing stuff
Elise, whenever you post anything on a talk page, or a minutes page. Or are asked to accept minutes, etc. please do so with the four ~'s. This places an electronic signature on the page and makes its easier to identify who signed in. Thanks.Savealife 17:47, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Hi Pooravi
Welcome to OurMed Savealife 19:10, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Responding to savealife
What will be using this for?

Answer: Are we playing games? As you were not signed in when you wrote this, and did not sign it (four ~'s), I can not know for certain who answered this way. Sorry. Savealife 21:22, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

On second thought, I think I was able to ascertain that this was Elise? But because you did not login, you left only an IP address; 207.145.87.116, which returns the address of the Michael J. Fox Foundation, thus, my guess is that it was Elise who answered me? Please log in in the future, and then sign your entries with four ~'s! Savealife 21:27, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry about that.
I had already reached out to KevinMD with no response. I had thought he might be interested in joining us at OurMed but I guess not. I had sent a message to the original article writer but since it was on Kevin's page and claimed the copyright, I guess that really doesn't matter. [Unsigned by Kevin Mullins 4-23-10]


 * 1) No problem. I appreciate that you were trying. And am impressed that you figured out how to leave the message here. But please sign all messages with four ~'s. It leaves the following: Savealife 16:07, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Operational plan
Whoever entered this page: ?? did not log in in. Without loggin in, admins cannot know who is entering stuff, and guesses have to be made as to whether it belongs on the site. Was this our ED? Savealife 14:46, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Answer to V.N.
Vince, if you just answer where someone leaves a message, and do not place the "you have messages" template (like I just did to get you here) on THEIR talk page, they have no way to know that you answered, unless they are patrolling like I do. Thanks, Savealife 15:26, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

New Bureaucrats
GMiller, VNavarro, and I have been promoted to Bureaucrats, by Florence today. Use the power well, and judiciously. Remember we have an agreement that none of us will create new administrators without two of us signing off on it (presumably on that person's talk page). Congrats Savealife 23:27, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Stephen, I strongly agree that we need to honor the agreement. It is good to know that you will be keeping an eye out for this and am sure that you will point it out if the agreement is violated. Congratulations on being promoted, you certainly deserve it! Vnavarro 12:11, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Gracias amigo, tu tam bien!Savealife 05:15, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Agreed "The 3 Amigos?" Gmiller 05:50, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Problem with templates
Vince - certain templates, even after copying to our site, still do not place on the page the same as on Wikipedia. See for example, the article on Doctor of Medicine, the infobox is not in the right location as on Wikipedia. Can you figure out why? Savealife 20:19, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Sandboxes
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GREG!!!!!
Greg - You MUST turn off the "rich text editor" before importing stuff from any site that has referenced articles. Many of the articles you recently imported and had Marylena add "attrib" templates to, now have to be deleted again!!!! Why? Because the RTE, screws up every one of those articles.

When you use the RTE, it takes the &lt;ref&gt; and converts it to something the WIKI cannot read as a reference. THAT is why there are no references in the reference sections of those articles.

See for example; AVPU, if you look at the 1st ¶, I corrected by HAND the ref entries before and after the first reference. Now look at the second reference.

In the article page it looks like this: &lt;ref name=McNarry&gt;&lt;/ref&gt;

But, if you go to the edit page, it looks like .... well... see all the &amp; l t: etc. instead of what should be there. If you did this correctly, the &lt;/ref&gt; wouldn;t appear in the article at all, only in the edit page!

Why import stuff if it all has to be deleted and reentered. No one is going to go line by line and correct each of the references in every article you import! This is a complete waste of time, yours, mine and Marylena's.

Bottom line: if you are going to use that import function you got as an admin, then you need to use it correctly... go to the "my preferences" tab, click on "misc." and check the box that says "turn off rich text editor".

You MUST wean yourself of this RTE crap. Savealife 19:17, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Stephen, thanks--i believe the problem is with language references with templates. There are some uses in the WYSWIG editor that I like (for example hyperlink button). I'll work with Marilena to correct the Emergency Medicine ones. Gmiller 20:19, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

WYSIWYG
Stephen, thanks--i believe the problem is with language references with templates. Gmiller 20:20, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Media filed attrib
Diane - you need to go to the special pages listing and go down file by file and in the description field, insert either  for Wiki,  or   for each file. Savealife 23:00, 26 June 2010 (UTC)