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==Merging Glossary, Terminology, and Abbreviations pages== {{collapse top}} The [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lingo Lingo Extension] would allow this glossary to be used as tooltips for the rest of the site. This would mean awkward words / phrases could go here and would not need their own page, eg ''diurnial fluctuations'' just means fluctuating during the day. -- The [[Terminology]] page is in the correct format, so these pages need merging. The Lingo extension has been requested. Do we merge [[Abbreviations]] into it too? Also I don't think there is much point keeping journal names as in Abbreviations - we don't normally refer to journals with abbreviations, and are creating pages for key journals that can be linked to instead, eg [[The Lancet]]. Thoughts? [[User:Notjusttired|notjusttired]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 19:57, 15 April 2019 (EDT) :[[User:Notjusttired]] I made a first attempt to convert the first two terms in the Glossary page into Terminology style. You may have a better idea how to do this. I think it's a great idea to merge Glossary, Terminology, and Abbreviations into one page. As for journal abbreviations, there are only a few abbreviations I can think of that are commonly used, e.g. BMJ, PLOS, NEJM. Hope this helps. :[[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 20:05, October 23, 2019 (EDT) ::At the moment the Lingo extension means the Terminology page must but be edited in source editor only, which would be a problem for many / most editors. Lingo also insists each term is on a different line in bold, including upper and lower case for the same word so it doesn't look great. It's also possible to have the words used by Lingo coming from several pages - so if we convert Abbreviations we can keep the name and link it to Terminology so all are looked up as tooltips. It makes sense to merge Glossary and Terminology, but I would suggest protecting the pages to avoid accidental editing that breaks Lingo. I would be interested in others' views on this too. ~[[User:Notjusttired|Njt]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 20:28, October 23, 2019 (EDT) :::[[User:Pyrrhus]] I had forgotten I originally suggested merging Glossary and Terminology. The "noglossary" class isn't work, but basically __NOGLOSSARY__ should be used on all glossary pages to avoid circulator references. I added this and an A-Z index and won't edit further tonight. So far looks good, interesting idea to hide the aliases. I believe there is a "hidden" class or similar that you could also use. ~[[User:Notjusttired|Njt]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 21:28, October 23, 2019 (EDT) ::::[[User:Notjusttired]] I think I fixed the visual editor editing problem. Now users can use the visual editor to insert the "Glossary entry" template, which inserts a glossary entry in the correct format. I tested it on the first two entries. I also linked the Glossary and Abbreviations pages to the Terminology page. All three pages are semi-protected. Now we just have to merge all three pages somehow... ::::[[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 22:27, October 23, 2019 (EDT) :[[User:Notjusttired]] and [[User:Kmdenmark]]: I have finished merging all terms from the [[Terminology]] page into the [[Glossary]] page. Any new entries should now be added to [[Glossary]] according to the easy instructions at [[Help:Glossary]], not on the [[Terminology]] page. Please let me know if you have any questions. Hope this helps! (We still have to merge the [[Abbreviations]] page into the [[Glossary]] page, though.) :[[User:Pyrrhus|Pyrrhus]] ([[User talk:Pyrrhus|talk]]) 16:02, November 12, 2019 (EST) ::Nice job! The Terminology page should be made read only except for admins, and LocalSettings.php will need changing to point to Glossary instead. Abbreviations should stay separate in my view, Lingo allows it to be formatted in the same way and can draw terms from several pages. However, certain terms like ME/CFS need to be excluded from the lookup in some way because otherwise they end up on every page. The "noglossary" class has not been working. ~[[User:Notjusttired|Njt]] ([[User talk:Notjusttired|talk]]) 23:19, November 12, 2019 (EST) {{collapse bottom}}
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