The Open Help Conference will be taking place June 15-19 in Cincinnati Ohio, USA. The conference includes two days of presentations and open discussions, followed by team "sprints" - collaborative efforts to write and improve documentation.
It has been suggested to send a team from Wikipedia/Wikimedia: to share our own knowledge about help, learn from others in the open source community working on similar problems, and to carry out a sprint to improve some aspect of Wikipedia's help.
The Article Feedback Tool (v5) has now been changed to be opt-in for all pages. It can be enabled for specific pages by adding Category:Article Feedback 5 to them. There are also a number of new features.
It has been proposed to merge the questions forum of the New contributors' help page into the Teahouse. Discussion is taking place here.
The help menu at Help:Contents/Browse and its subpages have been largely cleaned up.
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Reo, I must confess and yet regret to inform you that some material I sent to you previously entitled "Injection Fraction" has been redacted by Wikipedia. I am a dedicated Wiki editor and am saddened to say I lost several hundred edits under this redaction. Essentially they argued that no one had ever attempted to describe a mathematically simple inverse relationship to Ejection Fraction. I had no earthly idea that this page would run as many years as it did on Wikipedia. I remain thankful for the encouragement from like minded travelers along the way. I was finally tackled by an alert and very annoying physician from the UK (JFW). See my home page "Blocked".
Is Injection Fraction anything more than a mirror image of previously published material? Is inversion of someone else's work subject to license? If so this is a downhill slippery slope that Wikipedia is uniquely positioned to absorb. How can I contribute license to IF lock, stock and barrel to Wikipedia? My granddaughter thinks my battles with Wiki remain hilarious and that I should someday apologize to JFW. I'm thinking I should be offering an olive branch to somebody. What do you think Reo?
Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident? A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?
