http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/08/2297510.htm
We do? Well, I'm all for it!
Is the Foundation officially involved, or did someone just think "Oh, let's put it on Wikipedia"?
There's a somehow similar project for RNA initiated here at the Sanger center (where I work). Check it out: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Rfam/getacc?RF00551
Magnus
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/08/2297510.htm
We do? Well, I'm all for it!
Is the Foundation officially involved, or did someone just think "Oh, let's put it on Wikipedia"?
The Foundation is not "officially involved". Andrew Sue wrote the bot, announced it in the Wikiproject on Molecular Biology and wrote a paper for PLoS Biology about it.
Telling the press that wikipedia contains information about individual genes at least since 2003 (my first random guess was [[BRCA1]]) is like telling a penguin that his latest rise in popularity is only because a Finnish computer science student did not chose to play ice hockey but to write his own kernel.
Mathias
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/08/2297510.htm
We do? Well, I'm all for it!
Is the Foundation officially involved, or did someone just think "Oh, let's put it on Wikipedia"?
The Foundation is not "officially involved". Andrew Sue wrote the bot, announced it in the Wikiproject on Molecular Biology and wrote a paper for PLoS Biology about it.
useful linky: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
Telling the press that wikipedia contains information about individual genes at least since 2003 (my first random guess was [[BRCA1]]) is like telling a penguin that his latest rise in popularity is only because a Finnish computer science student did not chose to play ice hockey but to write his own kernel.
Looks like [[P53]] got created in 2001. I only mention it because it was created by Magnus! :) hehe
On 08/07/2008, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/08/2297510.htm We do? Well, I'm all for it! Is the Foundation officially involved, or did someone just think "Oh, let's put it on Wikipedia"?
The latter - it's a volunteer wikiproject on en:wp. It's useful in publicity in putting forward the message that all this is not a top-down endeavour directed by the Foundation, but the work of lots and lots of motivated volunteers.
- d.
What is the name of the wikiproject: Wikiproject Genes?
-Dan
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:12 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/07/2008, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/08/2297510.htm We do? Well, I'm all for it! Is the Foundation officially involved, or did someone just think "Oh, let's put it on Wikipedia"?
The latter - it's a volunteer wikiproject on en:wp. It's useful in publicity in putting forward the message that all this is not a top-down endeavour directed by the Foundation, but the work of lots and lots of motivated volunteers.
- d.
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On Jul 9, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Dan Rosenthal wrote:
What is the name of the wikiproject: Wikiproject Genes?
No: it's Wikiproject Molecular and Cell Biology.
Jim Redmond jim@scrubnugget.com
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