Dear all,

You may have seen that we recently published a preprint entitled "Wikidata as a FAIR knowledge graph for the life sciences" [1].  This manuscript was primarily spearheaded by the Gene Wiki team [2], which has been active in data modeling and data ingestion for a variety of biomedical resources.  

Our goal was to write a manuscript that educated the general biological community about Wikidata and to drive more growth and participation. To do this, we selected and described a series of scientific vignettes -- identifier translation, integrative biomedical SPARQL queries, crowdsourced curation, Wikidata-backed application development, and phenotype-based disease diagnosis.  Those vignettes were based on our own areas of interest as well as our guess at what would appeal to our target audience.

Of course, there are many possible vignettes that could fit under the broad title we chose. As a matter of practicality, we could not include them all while still creating a final product of reasonable length and focus.  

However, upon further reflection and discussion with colleagues, we realized that while the selection of vignettes needed to be somewhat limited, the manuscript should reflect a more complete and inclusive representation of the _people_ behind the larger movement, including those that worked on aspects that weren't directly highlighted as vignettes. Therefore, we'd like to invite anyone to add their name to the author list or acknowledgements by adding their name to this page [3]. Note that due to journal policies, all authors must still meet the ICMJE standards [4], but interpreted according to the broadly-defined title of the manuscript. (That broader scope might also be summarized by the class-level diagram that is included as Figure 1 in the manuscript [5].)

Finally, this message is being cross-posted to many places.  We will monitor replies at [6] (and on this mailing list), but please ping/cc me to notify me of replies or discussion elsewhere.