Hey Ben and Andra,

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Benjamin Good <ben.mcgee.good@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes indeed we do.  Andra is working on a scheduler for the update bot now.
> (And thanks to the tips about wbeditentity function it should go faster
> now...)
>
> We have a grant to expand the scope of the original gene wiki project
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wiki) to a) use wikidata as its
> structural foundation and b) expand into other areas such as genes and
> diseases.
>
> Looking forward to continuing to work with the community to make wikidata a
> key hub of open biological and medical information on the Web.

That's really great news!
Would you be willing to write a blog post about what you did, your
plans for the future and why this is awesome? Jens can work with you
on getting that published on our blog. We ran a few lately and your
project sounds like it should get a bit ore exposure ;-)
http://blog.wikimedia.de/tag/wikidata/


Cheers
Lydia

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