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- 14 May 2024 – Phenotypic disparity (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Interaccoonale (t · c); see discussion
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- 17 May 2024 – Traceability of genetically modified organisms (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by KoA (t · c): Unsourced student-like essay, also gets into into more hypothetical things than in practice or WP:DUE. Not a clear case for WP:N, but if content is going to be developed, it's probably best done at a parent article and then decided if it needs a ...
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- 09 Feb 2024 – Exosome complex (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Pereoptic (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 05 May 2024 – Gastric acid (talk · edit · hist) move request to Gastric juice by Iztwoz (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 20 Apr 2024 – Chromosome theory of cancer (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Chromosome instability by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Mar 2024 – Pparg coactivator 1 alpha (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to PPARGC1A by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Dec 2023 – Spiral bacteria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bacterial cellular morphologies by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Dec 2023 – Coccus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bacterial cellular morphologies by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Dec 2023 – Bacillus (shape) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bacterial cellular morphologies by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Nov 2023 – Maltase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Α-Glucosidase by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Sep 2023 – Phosphorylcholine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Phosphocholine by Hammer q (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 06 May 2024 – Tether (cell biology) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Bluescreening (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jan 2024 – Linoleoyl-CoA desaturase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Sep 2023 – Institutional racism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Shoreranger (t · c); see discussion
- 05 May 2023 – T cell (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Feb 2023 – Formylation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Smokefoot (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Nov 2022 – Platelet (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Darkskysunflowers (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Aug 2022 – Epidermal growth factor (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kupirijo (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jun 2022 – Hypervariable region (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by KingisNitro (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Dec 2020 – Pilin (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Nov 2020 – Holocarboxylase synthetase (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
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Articles for creation
- 18 May 2024 – Draft:Carolyn Napoli (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eastmarin (t · c)
- 13 May 2024 – Draft:Lipoprotein rotamase A (SlrA) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JLG science (t · c)
- 04 Mar 2024 – Draft:Mikhail E. Nasrallah (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ashoak2023 (t · c)
- 18 Jul 2023 – Draft:Catalog of MCA Control Patterns (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rhodydog (t · c)
- 12 Jul 2023 – Draft:American Gene Technologies (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Khoff352 (t · c)
- 10 May 2024 – Draft:RG/RGG Motif (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by ZDISK (t · c) was moved to RG/RGG Motif (talk · edit · hist) by Graeme Bartlett (t · c) (author) on 13 May 2024
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Projects and Partnerships
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Wikimedia[edit]
WikiData Molecular Biology - ensuring accuracy of molecular biology items in WikiData
Gene Wiki - create and improve articles on all human genes in Wikipedia
Societies[edit]
- ISCB article competition - an annual Wikipedia article competition in association with the International Society for Computational Biology: entries for the 9th edition of the competition are open from 26 Aug 2019 - 15 May 2020.
- ISMB-ECCB Editathons - annual Wikipedia writing workshops at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology conference.
Institutions[edit]
RCSB Protein DataBank - In 2014, WikiProject Biophysics persuaded David Goodsell and the Protein DataBank release all Molecule of the Month images under CC BY open licenses.
Journals[edit]
PLOS Computational Biology and PLOS Genetics - publishing v:PLOS Topic Pages, where articles in those journals are written in a Wikipedia style and copied over after publication in the journal.
Gene - publishing Gene Wiki Reviews, where review articles on gene families in Gene have an accompanying Wikipedia article written by the same authors.
WikiJournal of Science - putting new and existing Wikipedia articles through academic peer review and publication.
Metrics
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MCB[edit]
MCB articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 9 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 22 | ||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 16 | 16 | 15 | 13 | 60 | ||
B | 52 | 208 | 273 | 300 | 2 | 835 | |
C | 68 | 248 | 587 | 1,120 | 49 | 2,072 | |
Start | 21 | 299 | 903 | 5,616 | 61 | 6,900 | |
Stub | 4 | 254 | 18,022 | 31 | 18,311 | ||
List | 4 | 7 | 33 | 52 | 245 | 18 | 359 |
Category | 1 | 1 | 3 | 885 | 890 | ||
Disambig | 10 | 31 | 41 | ||||
File | 34 | 34 | |||||
Project | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||||
Redirect | 2 | 18 | 79 | 971 | 887 | 1,957 | |
Template | 1 | 293 | 294 | ||||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Draft | 1 | 1 | |||||
Assessed | 173 | 807 | 2,150 | 26,112 | 2,383 | 161 | 31,786 |
Unassessed | 7 | 16 | 1 | 156 | 180 | ||
Total | 173 | 807 | 2,157 | 26,128 | 2,384 | 317 | 31,966 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 155,285 | Ω = 5.51 |
Genetics[edit]
Genetics articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||
FL | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 8 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 50 | ||
B | 24 | 63 | 99 | 124 | 6 | 316 | |
C | 25 | 108 | 315 | 578 | 87 | 1,113 | |
Start | 3 | 66 | 352 | 1,283 | 255 | 1,959 | |
Stub | 1 | 1 | 66 | 1,536 | 167 | 1,771 | |
List | 5 | 7 | 8 | 38 | 5 | 63 | |
Category | 437 | 437 | |||||
Disambig | 5 | 5 | |||||
File | 38 | 38 | |||||
Project | 38 | 38 | |||||
Redirect | 2 | 2 | 14 | 71 | 131 | 220 | |
Template | 65 | 65 | |||||
Other | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Assessed | 73 | 257 | 869 | 3,652 | 722 | 515 | 6,088 |
Unassessed | 1 | 1 | 3 | 73 | 78 | ||
Total | 73 | 258 | 870 | 3,655 | 722 | 588 | 6,166 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,916 | Ω = 4.97 |
Computational Biology[edit]
Computational Biology articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
GA | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | ||
B | 8 | 30 | 31 | 49 | 118 | ||
C | 10 | 42 | 63 | 125 | 240 | ||
Start | 1 | 39 | 143 | 495 | 1 | 679 | |
Stub | 1 | 29 | 383 | 3 | 416 | ||
List | 10 | 17 | 19 | 46 | |||
Category | 1 | 30 | 31 | ||||
Project | 58 | 58 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 9 | 27 | 18 | 55 | ||
Template | 6 | 6 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Other | 1 | 1 | |||||
Assessed | 20 | 125 | 298 | 1,103 | 113 | 4 | 1,663 |
Unassessed | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Total | 20 | 127 | 298 | 1,103 | 113 | 5 | 1,666 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,235 | Ω = 4.94 |
Gene Wiki[edit]
Gene Wiki articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | ||
B | 1 | 50 | 1 | 52 | |||
C | 8 | 40 | 5 | 53 | |||
Start | 2 | 69 | 7 | 78 | |||
Stub | 1 | 1,576 | 2 | 1,579 | |||
List | 4 | 4 | |||||
Category | 12 | 12 | |||||
Project | 3 | 3 | |||||
Redirect | 77 | 10 | 87 | ||||
Template | 1 | 1 | |||||
NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
Other | 4 | 4 | |||||
Assessed | 4 | 12 | 1,812 | 32 | 15 | 1,875 | |
Total | 4 | 12 | 1,812 | 32 | 15 | 1,875 | |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 10,232 | Ω = 5.81 |
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