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 Sebastian Burgstaller | Sep 9, 2015 | biocuration, code, community intelligence, wiki, Wikidata, wikipedia
Introduction: Sulab has proven it’s love for Wikipedia by creating the GeneWiki[1]. Wikipedia is primarily a collection of free-text pages which also can contain some structured data in the form of infoboxes. In order to increase the abilities of handling and...
by ginger | Jan 22, 2015 | Gene Wiki, open science, sulab, wiki, wikipedia
Wikipedia is probably the most current, extensive, and accessible knowledge base available. Currently, there are over 10,000 Wikipedia entries for human genes of interest thanks to the Gene Wiki project and the contributions of the dedicated and altruistic Wikipedia...
by ginger | Oct 2, 2014 | science, sulab, Thursday Science, wiki, work
For my dissertation research, I studied the mechanisms of viral persistence in the central nervous system using an in vitro model consisting of picornavirus infections of differentiated and undifferentiated murine neural progenitor and stem cells. To some of my...
by ginger | Aug 6, 2014 | crowdsourcing, GENE journal, Gene Wiki, open science, publications, review articles, sulab, wiki
Did you know you can update your favorite gene on Wikipedia and get a review article published while you’re at it? Here’s what you need to know about the GENE/Gene Wiki partnership: What is it? The goal of the Gene Wiki is to create a comprehensive...
