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Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

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Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Altered States of Consciousness/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Altered States of Consciousness.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

• The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
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We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Altered States of Consciousness, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

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Lysergic acid diethylamide listed at Requested moves

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Cannabis (drug) listed at Requested moves

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Related Wikidata project

I created a related Wikidata project Altered States of Consciousness to coordinate and discuss creation and connection of Wikidata items and statements. -- JakobVoss (talk) 09:49, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

420 Collaboration

The 420 Collaboration to create and improve cannabis-related content runs through the month of April. WikiProject members are invited to participate. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 01:44, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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Anyone here?

Hey all. Is this page useful in its current state? It seems to have fallen fairly quiet around here. If this forum isn't being used, maybe we should mark the project as inactive and remind folks that they may find a (only very slightly) livelier discussion group at Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychology (very sadly, Wikipedia:WikiProject Psychoactive and Recreational Drugs is also marked as inactive). Thoughts? Ajpolino (talk) 19:22, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

 Done Sadly enough. Lights out for now. Ajpolino (talk) 20:36, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Ajpolino, this is an interesting one -- I'm trying to piece it back together. I think what happened here is a wikiproject was "half-created" and then abandoned partway through -- it doesn't actually seem to have any tagged articles, for instance. I think it's worth trying to recreate this for categorization purposes, considering that as you note, the next level down is defunct (not just inactive). Vaticidalprophet 09:42, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Certainly anyone is welcome to revitalize a project. That said, if you'll forgive my pessimism, the "if you build it they will come" strategy for revitalizing a WikiProject doesn't seem to work very often in my experience. I unilaterally restarted WP:MICRO when I was relatively new here in 2015, spruced up the project infrastructure, and sat waiting hopefully for folks to show up. After ~5 quiet years, I finally trudged over to WP:MED where at least there was some human activity. If you'd like to invest time in getting this WikiProject moving again, I'd recommend posting at relevant projects to see if you can find a few folks interested in making this push with you. If you can snag a few interested editors, that'll really help get the gears turning. That aside, I wish you the best of luck. If there's something I can help with just ping me to let me know. Cheers! Ajpolino (talk) 01:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

​Oh, yeah -- I'm not expecting a glowing beacon of activity. I think the big use case of wikiprojects now is less in collaboration and more in archival purposes, that is, being able to categorize and assess articles. (I think our quality-importance scales are important, even vital, and that's the thing we should be paying more attention to.) In turn, it interests me that there's a wikiproject with such a developed landing page but no articles within its scope, and indeed where the project's template seems to be borked that it doesn't actually assess articles properly. I'm considering asking around to figure out what happened here, because it definitely seems to be an odd/half-finished situation. It looks from a lot of the landing page that the project originated in a university project, which might explain some of the weirdness? Vaticidalprophet 01:56, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Well yes, but of course that categorization is only particularly useful if there are interested people who will use it. Also I think quiescent projects can serve the very useful purpose of being topical noticeboards, even if the project talk page isn't being used for active collaboration. Regarding the weird project setup: yes, that's my assumption as well. If you're primarily interested in the narrower topic of drug-induced alteration to consciousness, that project looks like it had a more canonical run. Might be an easier restart. Also weirdly, I checked the templates for both projects on PetScan to see if any pages came up tagged, and both searches came up empty. But at Talk:Lysergic_acid_diethylamide I can see both projects are tagged. So either PetScan is down, or I'm losing my mind? Speaking of losing my mind, Talk:Peyote has Category:B-Class Altered States of Consciousness articles listed at the bottom, but when I navigate to that category Talk:Peyote isn't listed in it? My understanding of categories has always been a bit tenuous, but here I really don't know what's going on... Ajpolino (talk) 02:12, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:23, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Psilocybin mushroom listed at Requested moves

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Hyoscine listed at Requested moves

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Biomedical information, scope

Hullo,

On this project's main page, under the subsection Biomedical information, and when discussing the question of whether or not ASC falls into that category, it is stated, As some ASC phenomena are indeed dicussed in the medical literature to have therapeutic potential[1],[...] - My question regard this, for clarification, is: does this apply only to said cases, wherein "ASC phenomena are...discussed in the medical literature to have therapeutic potential"? or, does it apply to any and all descriptions of effects of any altered state of consciousness, whether it exists in medical literature or not? The former, to me, seems reasonable enough, but the latter I would find to be an excessive and unrealistic guideline..also, if it is strictly the former, I think this should be clarified, to avoid having (any more than already are) folks running around tagging articles, or worse, removing material for not being MEDRS compliant for material that MEDRS shouldn't apply to Firejuggler86 (talk) 07:14, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Firejuggler86, I would concur that this shouldn't be treated as biomedical-by-default. Vaticidalprophet 09:19, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

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Requested move at Talk:Medicinal fungi#Requested move 31 January 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Medicinal fungi#Requested move 31 January 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 18:13, 31 January 2024 (UTC)