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By: Paper compares interaction databases | The OpenHelix Blog

Paper compares interaction databases | The OpenHelix Blog — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:33:03 +0000

[...] I can see it has arisen again. But if we expect to rely on Wikification projects like Gene Wiki for more and more, I think that would need to be [...]

By: Personal Genomes, Candidates, and the NYT | The OpenHelix Blog

Personal Genomes, Candidates, and the NYT | The OpenHelix Blog — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:39:00 +0000

[...] you imagine the frantic Wikipedia editing of the candidate pages to add their alleles? Will Gene Wiki be ready for that? Will it be like horoscopes or your birthdate: famous people who carry your [...]

By: The Spittoon » Author! Author!

The Spittoon » Author! Author! — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:41:18 +0000

[...] the WikiGenes site is fairly intuitive, which is good for first-time collaborators. Instead of having to go to the edit tab as on Wikipedia, WikiGenes [...]

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:26:36 +0000

I heard an interesting anecdote recently from an IT person at calit2.net. They tried to get all of their faculty to write their own biosketches for the institute website, and of course, compliance was very spotty. So they made it into a research project by taking each investigator’s CV and publications

By: CopperKettle

CopperKettle — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:38:58 +0000

Thanx for giving the high mark to my favourite WikiPage.. will try to make it more exemplary. (0:

By: The Spittoon » Gene Wikiality

The Spittoon » Gene Wikiality — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:20:35 +0000

[...] people unfamiliar with the site to learn how to contribute. Early feedback suggests the process may not be as intuitive as expected, and notes that participation is key for this effort to [...]

By: Rhea Miller

Rhea Miller — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:33:40 +0000

Well, I must say I am very excited to see how things end up. Besides, people know to take things in wiki with a grain of salt…most use the information to initiate their searches…so i’m definitely optimistic.

By: Another Wiki, WikiPathways | The OpenHelix Blog

Another Wiki, WikiPathways | The OpenHelix Blog — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:09:26 +0000

[...] The proposed solution for pathway data, as there has been for other data types and curation that I’ve written about lately, is a wiki: WikiPathways to be exact. The authors have high hopes for this wiki, as they state: [...]

By: Andrew Su

Andrew Su — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:25:09 +0000

… and Martin raises a great point. I heard an interesting anecdote recently from an IT person at calit2.net. They tried to get all of their faculty to write their own biosketches for the institute website, and of course, compliance was very spotty. So they made it into a research project by taking each investigator’s CV and publications and applying natural language processing to take an automated guess at a biosketch. Needless to say, NLP is far from perfect and so the text wasn’t very good, but they posted these NLP-bios nonetheless. And now that each user was faced with a highly imperfect and incomplete version of something they cared deeply about (their own bios), investigators were much quicker to correct and add new content.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:18:25 +0000

It is because that article is locked that it isn’t full of nastiness. That’s my point. I’m glad someone has time to monitor that, but I don’t have time get into those kinds of flamewars and do those cleanups. I’m glad someone does. But if people are casually coming in, doing a few genes, and not doing regular maintenance I think some genes could get full of anti-science, woo, and in some cases real vitriol.