by Greg Stupp | Aug 31, 2018 | bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, biomedical research, Gene Wiki, SPARQL, Uncategorized, Wikidata
We recently gained access to the anonymised logs of several hundred million SPARQL queries from the Wikidata SPARQL endpoint. This blog post contains some discussion about the main takeaway points, while the full analysis and code can be found here. What are we...
by Andrew Su | Jul 7, 2017 | Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, proposal, Wikidata
The Gene Wiki project has been generously funded by the National Institutes for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) since 2009. As the second funding period is wrapping up early next year, it was time to once again look forward and think about our vision for the next 4-5...
by bgood | Jun 16, 2017 | crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, semantic wikipedia, sulab, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
As the Wikimedia Movement works to define its strategy for the next fifteen years, it is worthwhile to consider how its recent product Wikidata may fit into that strategy. As its homepage states, “Wikidata is a free and open knowledge base that can be read and...
by ginger | Dec 26, 2016 | big data, biocuration, conference, Gene Wiki, poster, presentation, publication, semantic wikipedia, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
I knew it! Last year, I struggled with the year-end post for the Gene Wiki/WikiData (AKA the Gene WikiData) project because the Gene WikiData team was incredibly active. I learned my lesson, and attempted to better track their activity earlier this year with a running...
by ginger | Oct 8, 2016 | collective wisdom, community intelligence, conference, Gene Wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most widely used and freely accessible knowledgebases. As one of the largest, crowdsourced resources, many researchers are engaged in making the Wikimedia platform more useful in scientific research—including researchers from our lab here at...
by ginger | Apr 8, 2016 | citizen science, conference, crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, mark2cure, wikipedia
Mark your calendars, the Mark2Curathon is coming! If you didn’t know, next week (April 10th to April 16th) is National Public Library (NPL) Week in the US. In addition to NPL week, April 15th is MicroVolunteering Day followed by Citizen Science Day on April 16th. This...
