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magnusmanske at googlemail

Jul 8, 2008, 5:50 AM

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Wikipedia opens online library on human genes

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

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mathias.schindler at gmail

Jul 8, 2008, 5:57 AM

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Re: Wikipedia opens online library on human genes [In reply to]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske [at] googlemail> 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

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guillom.pom at gmail

Jul 8, 2008, 6:00 AM

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Re: Wikipedia opens online library on human genes [In reply to]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Magnus Manske
> <magnusmanske [at] googlemail> 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

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» Nicolas de Chamfort.
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cohesion at sleepyhead

Jul 8, 2008, 7:52 AM

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Re: Wikipedia opens online library on human genes [In reply to]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler [at] gmail> 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

Judson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion

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dgerard at gmail

Jul 9, 2008, 3:12 AM

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Re: Wikipedia opens online library on human genes [In reply to]

On 08/07/2008, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske [at] googlemail> 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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swatjester at gmail

Jul 9, 2008, 5:45 AM

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Re: Wikipedia opens online library on human genes [In reply to]

What is the name of the wikiproject: Wikiproject Genes?

-Dan

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 6:12 AM, David Gerard <dgerard [at] gmail> wrote:

> On 08/07/2008, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske [at] googlemail> 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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jim at scrubnugget

Jul 9, 2008, 6:23 AM

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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 [at] scrubnugget

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