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Hi. If you haven't seen this yet, please check out User:Diberri's Wikipedia template filling tool (instructions). Given a PubMed ID, one can quickly produce a full citation that can be copied and pasted into a Wikipedia article. This tool can save you a lot of work and ensure that the citations are displayed in a consistent manner. Cheers. Boghog (talk) 10:33, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
I enjoyed meetIng you this past weekend and I wanted to follow up. Wikipedia:Help desk is a place you could leave a question, but probably not a place for an instant answer. I mainly wanted to direct you there because of the box at the very top with various links. On the right there is one called "Live editing help via web chat." This will open up a web interface to freenode. You will have to pick a name you use as a handle, but it need not match anything. Also something I forgot to mention to you, which I think Is something you should at least suggest that your students read, is the new Terms of Use. A self-selected group of editors and staff from the Foundation worked collaboratively to produce this document on a wiki with much disscussion and debate, like some sort of giant, legal-binding Wikipedia article. I personally think it is monument to clarity and ethical dealing that should make the lawyers who write the other existing TOS on the web blush. I know most people the age of your students are beyond blasé about giving away their intellectual property on the web and probaly click through a new TOS every week, but I still feel would easier knowing that projects like yours go beyond the students expectations in this regard. I also just think everyone should read it because it is inspiring! Feel free to contact me on my talk page or by email (I am not on en.WP everyday), if you have any questions about anything.BirgitteSB 00:51, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
Hello! Biolprof,
you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. An awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us! Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 11:27, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
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Dust off your Polaroid camera and pack your best lenses. The first-ever Wikipedia Takes St. Louis photo hunt kicks off Sat, Sept. 15, at 12:30pm in downtown St. Louis. Tour the streets of the Rome of the West with other Wikipedians and even learn a little St. Louis history. This event is a fun and collaborative way to enhance St. Louis articles with visual content. Novice photographers welcome! Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 01:24, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm "Bioshtmors" (a rearrangement of thrombosis). I just responded to a post of yours at WP:ENB and I thought I'd say hello! I am glad you are here. As you can tell from my user page here, I'm chiefly interested in medical and health content. I got DVT up to good article status last year and I plan to take it to featured status in the near future. Anyhow, let me know if you have any questions about Wikipedia. FWIW, I've made significant edits to WP:AFSE today, and I just I wanted to stop by and say hello since we have so many shared interests. Please feel free to ask me at my talk page (or here) if you have any questions. Best! Biosthmors (talk) 05:15, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the helpful feedback you left at the end of the educators training modules. We'll try to get some info up on how much class time should be allotted at each point in the sample syllabus.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 14:27, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
I did post at MCB here, FYI, to potentially attract interested editors. Best. Biosthmors (talk) 20:44, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the reference! I made a minor edit per WP:REFSPACE with this edit, FYI. References go after the punctuation (unless everything that is cited is inside parentheses) and no space. Prothrombin G20210A is a good example of the "proper" format. Thanks! Biosthmors (talk) 03:46, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
FYI, I left messages at each student's user talk page. Some were simple welcomes, and sometimes I asked questions. Best! Biosthmors (talk) 20:33, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
I think I'm pretty committed to working on the SR protein page. Wikipedia rates it as a stub and low-importance, but I still believe it would be a good topic for my wikipedia project. The article is bare bones at best and could really use a lot of help and I've found a bunch of review papers that I think the page could benefit from.
Potential Articles
I also did a breif search of PLOS and found a image of SR proteins that I can add to the article. There are no pictures or images on the SR protein page currently.
Even though wikipedia does not rate the SR protein page as high or even mid-importance, the page could be filled out significantly and wikipedia would be better because of it. BreCaitlin (talk) 17:47, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
Signal Transduction of Ubiquitin in Plant Immunity
I was toying with the idea of tying in several areas of molecular bio for this project. More specifically, I was doing some research on signaling in plant immunity to see how ubiquitin works in the signal transduction of their immunology. The page on plant immunity is only rated as a start, and they have a section dedicated to plant defense in signal transduction; yet there are no specific molecules or pathways displayed. However, doing a quick Google search, I pulled several scholarly articles from PubMed, the NCBI, and several Cell Bio journals that could definitely add to this information.
Here are some links:
RING finger domain and ubiquitylation function
This topic revolves around a protein domain known as RING finger domain. They play a role in the ubiquitin pathway; especially with cancer pathways, mitosis, and viral infection. This domain is a little more specific than say a broad topic like GPCR or RTK, but it still is general enough to encompass several areas of research and integration of topics. The wikipedia page I found on it lists it as a start-class, so it has a lot of room for development.
Here are some links:
Signaling in Heat Shock Proteins
Trying to pick a broad topic, I thought that maybe HSP would be an interesting thing to play around with. Wikipedia says that the page is a start-class, and it is of mid importance (which I agree with). However, there is much more information that could be added to this field--especially the fact that the HSP are involved in several modes of signaling. Topics relating the types of signaling and functions they serve in cells (both animal and plant) may be an interesting subject to explore for Wikipedia as well as the class lecture.
Here are some links:
Let me know what you think when you get the chance. . . I know I'll talk to you more outside of class, but I think I'd be interested in trying to incorporate as much as I can with not only ubiquitin, but something involving aspects of immunology. But again, we can discuss this in your office. MChapman5 (talk) 07:44, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
As you know, I'd like to focus on glutathione's contribution to the world of signal transduction. To that end, I've identified three potential articles to edit for my project: Glutathione, Glutathione S-transferase, and Bacterial glutathione transferase (in descending order of class, from B-class to none at all; they are all ranked as being of low importance). I think the most useful to the community and the scope of our project would be Glutathione S-transferase; Glutathione is too broad and already filled with information not relevant to our class, while Bacterial glutathione transferase is too narrow and still not wholly relevant. Below are some journal articles that have already proven to be useful references and address the topics of the aforementioned candidate articles:
[5] Apoptosis and glutathione: beyond an antioxidant
[6] Glutathione depletion is necessary for apoptosis in lymphoid cells independent of reactive oxygen species formation.
[7] Glutathione transferases: a structural perspective
[8] Role of glutathione in cancer pathophysiology and therapeutic interventions.
[9] The central role of glutathione in the pathophysiology of human diseases.
[10] Glutathione transferases as mediators of signaling pathways involved in cell proliferation and cell death
Jnims (talk) 22:04, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
My vision for a project would be to work with something I am already somewhat familiar with and to further enhance my knowledge on a broader scale. Due to this I have decided to work with Adhesion-GPCRs and then add to other topics that relate to it as well. I am open to any suggestions and changes that need to be made.
Adhesion-GPCRs There is a lot of empty space and plenty of areas where information can be added. I would like to also combine it with the following three links. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22333914
Crosstalk (biology) I would like to add more about GPCRs here. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jessenmirsky/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Glia-2011-Arthur-Farraj.pdf
GPR126 Add details about this adhesion GPCR. http://dev.biologists.org/content/138/13/2673.long http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2856697/?tool=pubmed
ErbB Add more details about this Receptor Tyrosine Kinase pathway. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20832498 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3267053/
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Hakkinen2013 (talk • contribs) 01:24, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
These are my potential articles for this assignment in my Signal Transduction course and my reasoning for my choices. I based most of my choices off of the research with which I am currently helping. This research involves working to produce vaccines for antigens specific to breast cancer cells. If you have any suggestions in relation to these articles, I am more than willing to take your recommendations or criticism. Thank you for your consideration.
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Wnt Signaling Pathway |
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Janus Kinase |
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IL-2 receptor |
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Gpruett2 (talk) 07:23, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
1. DiMeo, T. A. (1 July 2009). "A Novel Lung Metastasis Signature Links Wnt Signaling with Cancer Cell Self-Renewal and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Basal-like Breast Cancer". Cancer Research. 69 (13): 5364–5373. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-4135. ((cite journal))
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2. Gilbert, Scott F. (2010). Developmental biology (9th ed. ed.). Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates. ISBN 9780878933846. ((cite book))
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3. Castle, J. C. (11 January 2012). "Exploiting the Mutanome for Tumor Vaccination". Cancer Research. 72 (5): 1081–1091. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-11-3722. ((cite journal))
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4. Ding, Li (15 April 2010). "Genome remodelling in a basal-like breast cancer metastasis and xenograft". Nature. 464 (7291): 999–1005. doi:10.1038/nature08989. ((cite journal))
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5. Correale, P. (19 February 1997). "In Vitro Generation of Human Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes Specific for Peptides Derived From Prostate-Specific Antigen". JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 89 (4): 293–300. doi:10.1093/jnci/89.4.293. ((cite journal))
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Hi Dr. Ogilvie. I learned the general mTOR pathway in a physiology class, and thought it was interesting in its implications for cancer, aging, Alzheimer's disease, and life expectancy to name a few. I looked at the wikipedia page regarding mTOR and found that there was tremendous potential for improving knowledge about this topic. It seems that somebody has already put in some effort in regards to its implications with Alzheimer's but other areas seem to have only general knowledge regarding the signaling of this protein. The article seems to not yet have a rating on the Cell Signaling scale, but is considered a start class article of middle importance on the Molecular and Cell Biology scale. Here are some articles regarding mTOR.
Akt-dependent and independent mechanisms of mTOR regulation in cancer.[12]
mTOR signalling: the molecular interface connecting metabolic stress, aging and cardiovascular diseases. [13]
Mammalian target of rapamycin as a rational therapeutic target for breast cancer treatment. [14]
Potential anti-aging agents suppress the level of constitutive mTOR- and DNA damage- signaling. [15]
mTOR in aging, metabolism, and cancer. [16]
Maximus155 (talk) 06:30, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
Instead of using User:Biolprof/Signal Transduction Spring 2013 Revisions it might be easier to just leave invisible editing notes (example: <!-- Revise to say X, Y, and Z-->
) into User:Biolprof/Signal Transduction Spring 2013 for next time. Biosthmors (talk) 17:40, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Biolprof, remember me? I helped run these classes, and we collaborated a bit on producing the course pages, before last Spring semester started. I'm very curious how your semester went. I'm going to invite your OA, my professor, and our other OA here to chat and compare notes, if it is okay with you (maybe there's a better place?). Klortho (talk) 01:25, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, Dr. O!
I see that you changed my reference. Your formatting does look closer to what references ought to look like, so thank you for fixing that. I did see that my page was tagged for "possible self promotion on user page. I didn't know that could be a potential issue on Wikipedia. Do you think I should remove mention of my high school and college?
Thanks, Estephe9 (talk) 16:21, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
We've started working on "editor campaigns", a system that we expect will eventually be able to replace our current Education Program extension (and be useful for many other purposes as well). The early work with that project will focus on a system for signup up new editors for editing campaigns (such as courses, but also edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.). Because of that, progress will be slow on the current course page system. However, we have several improvements that should be available within the next few weeks.
As part of the effort to make course pages behave more like regular wiki pages, we've enabled editing of course pages by anyone. Users who currently have the right to edit courses will have access to all the fields (so that they can change the start/end dates, and change the enrollment token). Users who currently cannot edit courses will be able to edit only the "page text" portion. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
We've considerably simplified the interface for editing course pages, removing the options to rename courses. Changing the title of a course would also move the course page, creating confusion and leading to a number of bugs. Several other parts of the course editing interface were not very useful, so we've removed them to make it easier on newcomers. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
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Hi, I see you may be having some issues with reference formatting e.g. 1. They can be painful. Here are links to a few tools that might help: Help:Citation_tools. I tend to use the "Cite" option at the top of the page I'm editing. From "Templates" select "cite journal", drop a Pubmed ID into the correct field and hit the magnifying glass. All the fields should be automatically filled for you, hit "Insert" and you're done. I hope this helps! --Paul (talk) 22:36, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
You're invited to join this local wiki-event on July 6, 2014: St Louis Wiknic.--Pharos (talk) 14:54, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello! I would like to invite you to a Wikipedia editathon about WWI and Dissent on November 22 at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Join us for the U.S. branch of this international event as we write more social history from the era around WWI into Wikipedia! All editors are welcome, contributors to topics around WWI other than Dissent also encouraged! Food and drinks will be supplied by the WWI museum, Sadads (talk) 21:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hello! Biolprof,
I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 21:11, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
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Hello! This coming Sunday, July 10th, a group of local Wikipedia contributors are getting together for the 2016 St. Louis Wiknic at Laumeier Sculpture Park. It's a low-key social event to chat with other Wikipedians. Grab a dish (or not, that's cool too) and join us!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/St._Louis/Wiknic/2016
If you know other folks in the area (including your students!) who might be interested, feel free to pass this along. We're hoping to gather an active and diverse local community of wiki editors.
Hope to see you there! —Verbistheword (talk) 15:41, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. 1989 (talk) 02:19, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
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