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June 2015

WikiProject Anatomy Newsletter #4

WikiProject Anatomy Newsletter #4

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Released: 1 July, 2015

Editor: Tom (LT)

Hello WikiProject Anatomy participant! This is the fourth update, documenting what's going on in WikiProject Anatomy, news, current projects and other items of interest. We've had a quiet time over the last half-year or so, so I've slowed down the release of this newsletter and will probably release the next one around the end of the year. If you'd like to provide some feedback, if you think I've missed something, or don't wish to receive this again, please leave a note on my talkpage or remove your name from the mailing list

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!

What's going on

• 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 commons for 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 Gray's Anatomy and Terminologia Anatomica numbers) have been removed. Where possible, the wiki-code of templates has been updated to give a cleaner, more standardised, format that is hopefully more friendly to new editors. The cleanup continues , please feel free to contribute or propose templates which need attention.

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 Wikidata. This is because of both its current uses and potential future uses. Wikidata is a service related to Misplaced Pages focusing on storing information. Data relating to a Misplaced Pages item (such as a muscle or bone, or even a template) can have related "structured" infomation stored systematically alongside it. For example, a muscle can have information about its embryological origin, nerve supply, and the relevant sections of Terminologica Anatomica (TA) stored alongside it. Much information that was stored within articles on infoboxes is now stored on Wikidata, including the TA, TH, and TE fields. An immediate benefit is that Wikipedias in every language will (as they update their own infoboxes, be able to automatically include this information. New data can be entered in a much easier format, and data can be batch entered by bots making future updates much easier Future uses include data visualisation. I personally am looking forward to the day when a reader can view a wikidata-based "tree", clicking mesoderm and seeing all of the derived structures, then selecting the intermediate mesoderm, then Pronephric duct, mesonephric duct and vas deferens. The possibilities of using Wikidata for data visualisation are really quite encouraging!

Our next issue will focus on how far WikiProject Anatomy has come in the past 2 years.

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Neurocranium template

Hi, CFCF - am trying to make changes following page moves, to the neurocranium template - but it just redirects to cranium template..?? Thanks --Iztwoz (talk) 09:42, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Iztwoz! Rather, the cranium template redirects to the neurocranium template. There isn't really a proper cranium template, and I moved it because I wasn't able to delete it. A cranium template should include both neuro- and viscerocranium, but there isn't even a Template:Viscerocranium. All this was lost in my endless todo-list and I would create a cranium template later on. Could you enlighten me in what you want done and maybe I can help you better? -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 10:04, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

When you try to edit the neurocranium template it takes you to cranium template redirect page. The three groupings of Squama need to be changed to Squamous parts.--Iztwoz (talk) 10:11, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Have just looked and the page for viscerocranium is entered as Facial skeleton for which there is a template. Maybe this could be added to Cranium template ? --Iztwoz (talk) 10:16, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

 Done! I'll try and find time to fix the templates. I think if we add both viscerocranium and neurocranium in full to the template it'll be too large, so I'll try to make a slightly smaller overbearing template. -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 12:50, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Just to say the headings need to be singular Squamous part. cheers --Iztwoz (talk) 22:08, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Suggestions?

Per your response, what are your suggestions for what I should add? I'm no expert; just have an interest in neuroanatomy and Misplaced Pages. You suggested Cranial nerves' "set" of articles, but that sounds rather broad, since there are 12 (and many branches). Is there any particular/more specific area you suggest I begin? Bush6984 (talk) 22:05, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Tom Catena

Thanks for expanding Tom Catena, but did you write this sentence correctly? It does not make sense to me: "While not expressively forbidden, since at least 2012 relief is in practice permitted and volunteers are not allowed into the region." 76.11.104.7 (talk) 17:45, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out, I fixed it. -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 17:49, 2 July 2015 (UTC)