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A requested move discussion has been initiated for Rat genome database to be moved to Rat Genome Database. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 16:31, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
This abandoned draft needs to be merged into the existing 45,X/46,XY mosaicism stub, before the draft is deleted as stale. The draft contains far more detail than the mainspace stub. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 14:43, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Hello, genetics experts. Here's an old draft that will soon be deleted as stale unless someone takes an interest in it. Is this a notable topic?—Anne Delong (talk) 15:01, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
The GMO Wheat article is out of date. it looks like all references are from 2013.96.40.168.151 (talk) 20:40, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Identifying reliable sources#Using data from academic papers on genetics. Doug Weller (talk) 15:43, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm new to this project and to editing wikipedia articles in general. When I read through the exon article today, I noticed that it's rather short and that the introductory sentence is quite misleading, as was already discussed in the Talk page. However, I don't have a final good idea how to change the introductory sentence to make it more precise. In my opinion, exons encode genes (or rather, proteins/mRNA), and they are also encoded by the gene itself, since they are a part of it... So I thought, maybe someone else could give their opinion, as to how this should be settled? I think it's rather sad that this important article is having such issues and that it hasn't grown yet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilikelifesciences (talk • contribs) 09:12, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Category:Sequenced genomes, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming to "Category:Lists of sequenced genomes" with the deletion of all sub-categories. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:18, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
It would be helpful to have other views on the genetics related edit at [1] - see also the talk page for some context. Thanks. Doug Weller (talk) 19:21, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Not sure what to make of this article. The lead says "Genetic anthropology (Human genetics) is a branch of human genetics" and then says it's a "field of anthropology." I removed an unsourced section which said:
"There seems to be a divide in the academic community as to what is Genetic Anthropology and what is Molecular Anthropology. There are many universities that offer degrees in Genetic Anthropology or Anthropological Genetics, while others offer degrees in Molecular Anthropology, but all are considered to be under the umbrella of Evolutionary Anthropology. In most universities genetic anthropology is taught in conjunction with other anthropological areas such as paleoanthropology, primatology, human biology, Bioarchaeology and osteology."
IMHO this needs to be redirect or rewritten. Crossposting to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthropology Doug Weller (talk) 10:48, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
Hello I'm new to wikipedia and this project and would like to suggest a revision on the DNA Extraction article. My co-wokers and I are experts in salvia DNA extraction and would like to add more specifics about types of extraction into the current article. I suggest changing the "Special Types of DNA Extraction" to "Methods of DNA Extraction" or "Types of DNA Extraction" I would like to collaborate with others on the project who could give specifics about other methods of DNA extraction such as blood, microorganisms, ancient... etc. We'd be happy to write out the specifics of salvia DNA extraction and create a template for others to use. Let me know what you think of this idea and if you are someone who may be able to help. Thank you! Amh97 (talk) 15:35, 30 October 2015 (UTC) 'd
Dear genetics experts: This old draft has references, but they are not on line. The text read like a journal article. I haven't been able to find any copyright violation, but I don't have access to the right journals. Is this page worth keeping, or should it be deleted as a stale draft (which it can be if no one edits it).—Anne Delong (talk) 00:35, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for DNA to be moved to Deoxyribonucleic acid. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 20:29, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Can someone with non-coding RNA knowledge look at the article creations of Rcrzarg to see if they are salvageable. This is not my area, but to me they look like original research. For example, from Αr35 RNA: "To identify binding sites for other known transcription factors we used the fasta sequences provided by RegPredict" "This [Covariance Model] was used in a further search for new members of the αr35 family in the existing bacterial genomic databases". Thanks, 109.79.192.231 (talk) 12:49, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
There is a discussion here if that topic is of interest. It has been going on since Feb 26, but just wanted to make sure folks here are aware of it. Jytdog (talk) 18:06, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm trying to improve some of the articles on repeated sequences and thought it might be helpful if there was an infobox that could be used. There is already the very nice Template for Repeated sequences, but maybe some kind of Infobox would be nice? However, this should of course not overlap with the already existing template. Maybe it could contain information on the repeated sequence's propagation mechanism (copy/cut paste) and it's prevalence in specific organisms? Looking forward to any suggestions! Ilikelifesciences (talk) 11:50, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
Is the color, as described in the lead of Palomino horse, created the same way in the Palomino rabbit? Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:30, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Tinman gene about the wholesale replacement of the existing article content with the content from a draft. I object to such overwriting of good content and prefer to se a proper merge 9f the best of the old and new content. The editor who did the replacement is new so needs assistance from experienced editors familiar with the subject. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:44, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
I noticed that Sorangium cellulosum was missing, so I added it to List of sequenced bacterial genomes#Delta/epsilon subdivisions. It's interesting as the largest known bacterial genome (at least up to the date of publication, and none on the list are larger). Unfortunately I'm not knowledgeable about genetics or microbiology -- would someone check this over and make sure it looks right?
In particular, do I have the right strain and gene count? Is my citation OK?
CRGreathouse (t | c) 16:30, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Molecular_and_Cell_Biology#Transporter_classification_database Jytdog (talk) 22:12, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
Due to its major implications and because it's actively developing, gene drives should be presented in more detailed. Also the page should be rated "start" and "top" (or at least "high") importance in my opinion. (Tjulou (talk) 05:36, 15 May 2016 (UTC))
Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.
If you think auto-assessment might benefit this project, consider discussing it with other members here. For more information or to request an auto-assessment run, please visit User:BU RoBOT/autoassess. This is a one-time message to alert projects with over 1,000 unassessed articles to this possibility. ~ RobTalk 22:28, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
A merge discussion is taking place here to determine whether Gene and Genomic organization should be merged. Seems important. Best Regards,
A user (Yahadzija) has recently made a flurry of changes to the Epistasis page, splitting most of it off into Non-allelic gene interaction and adding their own content to expand the old epistasis page. I disagree with the distinction that they've tried to draw, however other genetics editors' opinions would be very helpful to see if I'm missing something. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 00:30, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
We are proposing a Wikimedia Project Grant (WikiFactMine) which will automatically scan the daily peer-reviewed scientific literature (up to 10000 articles /day) and extract genes (definable in Wikidata). We concentrate on genes which have high precision and recall, but with Wikidata-based dictionaries this can be extended to other well defined entities (e.g. cell types or diseases). These, with their citations, are then offered to Wikidata editors for potential inclusion/update. These can also alert Wikipedia editors to new citations. The project includes a Wikimedian in residence in the University of Cambridge. We'd be grateful for comments, endorsement and offers of help.Petermr (talk) 10:37, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
This project's feedback would be appreciated in this discussion, as this could greatly (and positively) affect biological citations! Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:53, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
This new article needs some help, the principal author, Dpaulbick, is new to WP. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:45, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
done DennisPietras (talk) 04:14, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
The WikiJournal of Medicine is a free, peer reviewed academic journal which aims to provide a new mechanism for ensuring the accuracy of Wikipedia's biomedical content. We started it as a way of bridging the Wikipedia-academia gap.[1] It is also part of a WikiJournal User Group with other WikiJournals under development.[2] The journal is still starting out and not yet well known, so we are advertising ourselves to WikiProjects that might be interested. |
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T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 10:33, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
@Akshaykatyura: Hi! I'm currently working my way from Z down to reclassify the unassigned articles. The Z-gene article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-gene is a stub about the lac z gene, which should be converted to a redirect to the lac operon, IMHO. Any objections? DennisPietras (talk) 03:58, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I've noticed that there are separate Transcription preinitiation complex and Mediator (coactivator) pages. I think that based on a 2015 review, http://www.nature.com/nrm/journal/v16/n3/box/nrm3951_BX3.html the pages should be merged. Comments? Thanks, DennisPietras (talk) 03:30, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
There were 19 articles listed as stub quality and NA importance. Almost all of them were redirect pages, and I decided to be bold and just remove the genetics project banner from those pages. In the "can you believe it" category, one of the pages that was redirected to was site directed mutagenesis, which didn't have a mention of CRISPR on it! So much to do, so little time. The 19 are still there as I write this, because the bot doesn't work in real time. DennisPietras (talk) 19:15, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
importScript('User:Kephir/gadgets/rater.js'); // [[User:Kephir/gadgets/rater]]
. It allows you to edit the class and importance of a page from the Article (without having to switch back and forth to the talk page), and auto-fills an edit summary describing the change so that it's easier to see when people look back through the history tab. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:14, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
@Evolution and evolvability: Much to my delight, I find that rater gives me the option to rate pages importance=bottom. I've been using that for books, etc. However, when I go back to look at the list you generated for me, the "bottom" articles are still listed. I'm going to go ahead and keep using that bottom rating at least until the "bot" (or whatever) problem we've been talking about is fixed. But, I'm wondering if the table "Genetics articles by quality and importance" needs to be modified to have a "bottom" row? DennisPietras (talk) 19:48, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I know where/how to get page view statistics for individual articles, but that would be frustrating, to say the least, for all artcles. Is there a way to produce a list of all articles in the genetics project sorted by page views, hopefully with number of page views listed next to the articles? I have a vague feeling that a SQL search could generate such a list, but my knowledge of SQL ended in the 1990's. Thanks, DennisPietras (talk) 17:30, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi! Currently, the task is:
Please help to assess the importance and quality of these unassessed articles
which is almost done. So, looking ahead, I suggest that the to do list read:
"There are currently 7 articles rated as stub-class and high-importance. They are, with the average daily number of page views listed after them
If you are interested in editing, please help improve these pages! Even if you are new to editing, don't worry about making mistakes. People will be watching and helping as needed."
Comments? Objections? DennisPietras (talk) 15:50, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
So, the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Genetics/Assessment gives guidance about how to rate the importance of articles. I wonder if we should let the community of wikipedia readers rate the importance of articles. That is, if a page averages more than 17 page views/day it becomes rated at least high importance. I set the level at 17 so that nuclear gene would stay at high importance. Heterogeneous ribonucleoprotein particle is a stub currently rated at mid importance, but it has 43 views/day. By my suggestion, it would become high importance, even though I don't think it qualifies by the current guideline of "High school students may have some familiarity, or else early undergraduate students should be very familiar with the subject." Believe me, I realize that this reclassification would be a lot of work, but the one person who has adopted gene delivery for a school project has re-energized me for the task. Comments? DennisPietras (talk) 04:19, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi again folks. I'm starting to gather up the references and courage to tackle improvements to Mediator (coactivator), which gets 63 views/day. I have 2 separate concerns.
@Fnielsen: et al. Does anybody object to me merging Asp... into MC1R and then making Asp... into a redirect to MC1R? DennisPietras (talk) 02:31, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
With a general remark: It seems that science beginning perhaps in the 1990s had great optimism regarding individual SNPs to explain a variety of behaviour and diseases. I have not so much followed the topic for the past years but it seems to me that "SNP-blaming" is not so much in fashion anymore. Later meta-analysis studies may have squashed hopes. Perhaps it is me that is not up to date? Should articles such as Melanocortin 1 receptor Asp294His be regarded as a fad of the 00s? — fnielsen (talk) 08:49, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
@FourViolas: I've disccovered that there is a page "genetics of cancer" which is only a "start" quality article. Meanwhile, "Oncogenomics" is B quality. I propose making genetics of cancer a simple redirect to oncogenomics. Comments, especially from FourViolas, who appears to be the only one recently watching c.o.g? Thanks, DennisPietras (talk) 20:40, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
Hi again. The mediator Subunit composition section begins "The Mediator complex is composed of up to at least 31 subunits in all eukaryotes studied:" which is only true because the editor included "up to" as in advertisements that state up to 75% off. The main question I have is this: Do we really want to list all of the subunits and include the table? My thought is to put links to subunits that have wp articles in a "see also" section and eliminate the table and "subunit composition" section entirely. I haven't checked completely (nor do I intend to) but the table was added in 2012 and I have to believe it is incomplete. Thanks for any comments. DennisPietras (talk) 21:02, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi again folks. Transcription factor gets about 700 views/day. General tf about 100. Is there any traction out there for merging the 2 articles? I came across those 2 while updating mediator (which is far from finished), and then clearly preinitiation complex is next for me. DennisPietras (talk) 02:42, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi again folks. I'd appreciate feedback on how I'm using enf's in Mediator (coactivator), particularly how I used it in enf d to direct folks to be able to see a reasonably-sized version of a copyrighted image that I can't put on the commons. Actually, I'd most appreciate some "way to go's", but if I'm violating wp community standards, it's better to know now. Thanks, DennisPietras (talk) 20:48, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi again folks. It seems like everytime I set out to update a genetics article it leads to 2 more that desperately need upgrading! It's like playing Whac-A-Mole for real! sigh. Is this a common experience? Can anybody suggest an alternative treatment to the one I use - eating party peanuts until I forget that I'm frustrated? Thanks, DennisPietras (talk) 20:19, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Opinions are requested at Talk:Expanded genetic code#mouse code about whether certain content is an acceptable use of primary sources. Thanks, Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 06:10, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
Hi folks! I've been working on revisions to the pioneer factor page on my sandbox, and I am done, IMHO, with the text as I envision it as of 3/14/17. Please review and/or edit User:DennisPietras/sandbox5 if you have time and let's try to reach a consensus on what the wp page should be, before transfering the sandbox to the mainspace. Thanks, DennisPietras (talk) 00:17, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Genetics! In infoboxes of gene/protein articles, there are small thumbnail images of RNA expression pattern. I proposed switching these small thumbnail to full size image, because Wikipedia/Mediawiki image system was changed. Since image data are recalled from Wikidata, I post the proposal at Wikidata page (wikidata:Property talk:P692#How about using full size image instead of small thumbnail?). I would like to get your thoughts on that. Thank you. --Was a bee (talk) 06:32, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
There is a page expressomics that was created by Jongbak in 2007. Transcriptomics is the current term, but transcriptomics is a simple redirect to transcriptome. I propose that expressomics become a simple redirect to transcriptome. Any objections? DennisPietras (talk) 21:39, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
Good idea. I added this proposal to each page. Discuss Talk:Transcriptome#Merge Expressomics page into Transcriptome — Preceding unsigned comment added by MangoldOrganizer (talk • contribs) 03:11, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
The journal group PLOS is extending its 'Topic Page' review format that was spearheaded by PLOS Computational Biology to also include PLOS Genetics. In this format, accepted articles are dual-published both in the journal, and as Wikipedia pages (see Wikipedia category).
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T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:26, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
Greetings to the Genetics project members! Kindly note my assessment in Talk:Russian Domesticated Red Fox#Popular book published in March 2017; further editing needed. I found the Russian Domesticated Red Fox page problematic (see my two edits), though I lack the scientific background to properly improve it. Is it correct that the more extensive description of the experimental project is found on the biographical page of the lead scientist, Dmitry Belyayev? Your help is most welcome, and I look forward to learning from others' further edits. -- Deborahjay (talk) 12:16, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hello WikiProject Genetics. I am here regarding the article Recombinase-mediated cassette exchange, and I'm hoping you can resolve an issue I'm seeing. A friendly reader contacted the Volunteer Response Team the other day (VRTS ticket # 2017071510006261) and pointed out that the two figures in that article are identical and that the caption to Figure 1 doesn't seem to make sense. I took a look and, indeed, the two figures, which have different captions that refer to different things, are both copies of File:RMCE2.PNG.
Now, I looked in the history of the article, and it appears in 2013, the article had another image, the now-deleted image File:RMCE.PNG. This file was deleted on the basis that the original uploader had uploaded an "updated" image, but it appears the "updated" image might have been mistaken to be File:RMCE2.PNG, an unrelated image. Perhaps File:RMCE.PNG should be undeleted and restored as Figure 1 in the article? But why was it removed in the first place? If necessary, I can provisionally undelete the image so that it can be reviewed. Mz7 (talk) 04:11, 17 July 2017 (UTC)
If you search for such subjects you are redirected / sent to Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia. Why not make a seperate article? I could start a stub article, but I worry there may be reason for the lack of such a page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darokrithia (talk • contribs) 19:27, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
New column which shows gene location is added to infobox gene. Feedback welcome at Module talk:Infobox gene#Gene location column added. Thanks! --Was a bee (talk) 11:43, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
Hi! I found that Wikipedia has almost no articles about SNPs (Single-nucleotide polymorphism). Although there are over 140 thousands SNPs in SNPedia, I found only 22 articles in Wikipedia. I categorized them according to their positions on human chromosomes e.g. Category:SNPs on chromosome 1, Category:SNPs on chromosome 11. I think more work should be done on expanding articles about this topic. Here is a list of over 140,000 SNPs, if anyone is interested in creating new SNPs articles. I also suggest starting a special Wikiproject for SNPs expansion. --Brainist (talk) 20:39, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
This is a controversial area on Wikipedia as some watching here may know. I have been editing it on and off for seven years and now that the dust has settled from the ARBCOM case I am hoping to get the content in this area organised and improved. I have just got Genetic Engineering to good article status so it is possible. I am happy to plod on by myself, but it is a big and complicated area so any help would be appreciated. There are also a lot of comments to talk pages at multiple venues so having a centralised area for these discussions could be useful. Do editors think a taskforce page would be useful. @Tryptofish, Kingofaces43, Smartse, Lfstevens, Dialectric, and Tsavage: AIRcorn (talk) 07:29, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
Here is a possibly relevant collection of pageview stats on what I think are some of the most viewed genetic engineering articles. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 11:02, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the consideration. I'm only on here rarely and randomly, lately. As for GE, it took just a refresher look at the language locked into a suite of GM articles by that ARBCOM, for me to want to have zero to do with the topic for the time being -- the consensus process seems too gameable and taxing to make contributing in any way satisfying (maybe later, whenever there are more broadly conclusive developments in the general subject area). Cheers! :) --Tsavage (talk) 13:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Genetics
Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 15:47, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi all,
I'm a 4th year Computer Science undergraduate student based out of India. I've been selected as an intern for Wikimedia under Round-15 of Outreachy. I'll be building a web tool called WikiCV (under the mentorship of Gergő Tisza and Stephen LaPorte), somewhat similar to your LinkedIn, StackOverflow or Github profile. Before starting with the project, I wanted inputs from users who are my target audience, that is you all! So thought of asking it over the talk page. (My mentors pointed me to this page as here many ardent users are present.)
We came up with this project because we feel that Wikipedia needs a powerful force to draw new editors to the project and allow existing editors to spend more time on it without harming their career; unfortunately, due to the highly collaborative nature of Wikipedia, the value of one's participation is hard to measure for an outsider, which makes it very hard for contributors to take credit for value added to Wikipedia.
Hence, we want to create a contribution summarizing tool which (unlike the existing ones that focus on statistics and are hard to interpret for someone not familiar with Wikipedia editing) highlights contributions in an easy-to-understand manner.
I want your inputs on:
1. What all things would you like to see in your CV for Wikipedia contributions?
2. In what way should we present the data/ contribution summary so that it is understandable by a non-Wikipedia user?
3. What are the benefits/problems of the current tools that summarize the contribution of a user (like Xtools)?
4. The CV will definitely reflect your contribution, but would it be better if it shows your current standing with respect to other users? For example, reputation points in Stack Overflow reflect how good you are relatively. One idea that I thought was - Imagine a tool that tells someone is in the top 1% of editors. Would it be nice? If yes, what would you consider a good basis for that statement?
Also, I prepared a mockup for the CV to give a rough idea as to what we are thinking of. Please check it out as well.
Apart from this, I thought of presenting the contributions in a manner similar to Github. I've prepared a tool for that. Kindly have a look at that as well and give your reviews about it.
My work is largely dependent on your inputs, so please pour in your comments/views. Your help will be quite appreciated!
Anyone can reach out to me through mail(meghasharma4910@gmail.com) as well.
Eagerly waiting for your inputs :)
Meghasharma213 (talk) 15:56, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
References
Thanks a lot T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) for your comments. Quite insightful, I must say! Will keep you updated about the project. Meghasharma213 (talk) 14:32, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
Could someone have a look at Draft:Human Disease Modifier Gene and see if its sourcing is reliable enough for it to be moved to mainspace? Many thanks! – Uanfala (talk) 17:16, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
There may be a hundred or so genetics-related articles which contain bad links to DAB pages. User:DPL bot logs them; I can find them; you need do no searching; I think I know enough about genetics to know when not to guess; any help would be appreciated (most of all, by our readers).
In this list, search for "disam" in the text as displayed. If you solve a problem, remove ((dn)) from the article and add ((done)) here. It's possible that some of them may need appropriate redlinking (we all know that there are gaps in Wiki).
That's just an initial batch. Thanks in advance for any help. Narky Blert (talk) 22:49, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
There appears to be a close relationship between these two articles which probably requires a summary section and wikilinks at both ends. The maternal effect is complex and debatable, and telegony antique, so the situation demands some expertise. I'd be glad of any assistance. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:19, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 10 – 12 March 2018
Milestone for mix'n'matchAround the time in February when Wikidata clicked past item Q50000000, another milestone was reached: the mix'n'match tool uploaded its 1000th dataset. Concisely defined by its author, Magnus Manske, it works "to match entries in external catalogs to Wikidata". The total number of entries is now well into eight figures, and more are constantly being added: a couple of new catalogs each day is normal. Since the end of 2013, mix'n'match has gradually come to play a significant part in adding statements to Wikidata. Particularly in areas with the flavour of digital humanities, but datasets can of course be about practically anything. There is a catalog on skyscrapers, and two on spiders. These days mix'n'match can be used in numerous modes, from the relaxed gamified click through a catalog looking for matches, with prompts, to the fantastically useful and often demanding search across all catalogs. I'll type that again: you can search 1000+ datasets from the simple box at the top right. The drop-down menu top left offers "creation candidates", Magnus's personal favourite. m:Mix'n'match/Manual for more. For the Wikidatan, a key point is that these matches, however carried out, add statements to Wikidata if, and naturally only if, there is a Wikidata property associated with the catalog. For everyone, however, the hands-on experience of deciding of what is a good match is an education, in a scholarly area, biographical catalogs being particularly fraught. Underpinning recent rapid progress is an open infrastructure for scraping and uploading. Congratulations to Magnus, our data Stakhanovite! Links
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Behavioural genetics, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 09:48, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place that may be of interest to some members of this project at Talk:Hepatitis_D#Merger_proposal. — soupvector (talk) 13:42, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
I work at a genomics company called Clear Labs. I have disclosed my conflict of interest on the Talk page of the Clear Labs article and offered a proposed replacement of the article that is much shorter, less promotional, less out-of-date, better-sourced, etc. here. It’s been a couple weeks with no response on the article’s Talk page, so I wanted to see if anyone here had a minute to review my proposed draft and let me know if I was doing anything inappropriate COI-wise. Mark Bajus at Clear Labs (talk) 22:33, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Done Natureium (talk) 17:27, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Any interest in rescuing this abandoned draft? Espresso Addict (talk) 01:25, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 11 – 9 April 2018
The 100 Skins of the OnionOpen Citations Month, with its eminently guessable hashtag, is upon us. We should be utterly grateful that in the past 12 months, so much data on which papers cite which other papers has been made open, and that Wikidata is playing its part in hosting it as "cites" statements. At the time of writing, there are 15.3M Wikidata items that can do that. Pulling back to look at open access papers in the large, though, there is is less reason for celebration. Access in theory does not yet equate to practical access. A recent LSE IMPACT blogpost puts that issue down to "heterogeneity". A useful euphemism to save us from thinking that the whole concept doesn't fall into the realm of the oxymoron. Some home truths: aggregation is not content management, if it falls short on reusability. The PDF file format is wedded to how humans read documents, not how machines ingest them. The salami-slicer is our friend in the current downloading of open access papers, but for a better metaphor, think about skinning an onion, laboriously, 100 times with diminishing returns. There are of the order of 100 major publisher sites hosting open access papers, and the predominant offer there is still a PDF. From the discoverability angle, Wikidata's bibliographic resources combined with the SPARQL query are superior in principle, by far, to existing keyword searches run over papers. Open access content should be managed into consistent HTML, something that is currently strenuous. The good news, such as it is, would be that much of it is already in XML. The organisational problem of removing further skins from the onion, with sensible prioritisation, is certainly not insuperable. The CORE group (the bloggers in the LSE posting) has some answers, but actually not all that is needed for the text and data mining purposes they highlight. The long tail, or in other words the onion heart when it has become fiddly beyond patience to skin, does call for a pis aller. But the real knack is to do more between the XML and the heart. Links
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Hi folks, it seems like this page used to be automatically archived by lowercase sigmabot III, but that stopped about a year and a half ago when we switched to the sleeker talk page heading at the top. I don't quite understand how the new talk navbox works, but is there a way to set up automatic talk page archiving again (alternatively, is that something folks want?)? Thanks Ajpolino (talk) 18:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Exome and Coding region are nearly synonymous. You could argue "coding region" might refer specifically to a single gene whereas "exome" is global, but wouldn't it be more logical to put them both together? I'd personally argue Exome is a more up to date descriptor, plus the exome consists of many coding regions, and is in fact the coding region of the entire genome.Harveyjamesm (talk) 21:51, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 12 – 28 May 2018
ScienceSource fundedThe Wikimedia Foundation announced full funding of the ScienceSource grant proposal from ContentMine on May 18. See the ScienceSource Twitter announcement and 60 second video.
The proposal includes downloading 30,000 open access papers, aiming (roughly speaking) to create a baseline for medical referencing on Wikipedia. It leaves open the question of how these are to be chosen. The basic criteria of WP:MEDRS include a concentration on secondary literature. Attention has to be given to the long tail of diseases that receive less current research. The MEDRS guideline supposes that edge cases will have to be handled, and the premature exclusion of publications that would be in those marginal positions would reduce the value of the collection. Prophylaxis misses the point that gate-keeping will be done by an algorithm. Two well-known but rather different areas where such considerations apply are tropical diseases and alternative medicine. There are also a number of potential downloading troubles, and these were mentioned in Issue 11. There is likely to be a gap, even with the guideline, between conditions taken to be necessary but not sufficient, and conditions sufficient but not necessary, for candidate papers to be included. With around 10,000 recognised medical conditions in standard lists, being comprehensive is demanding. With all of these aspects of the task, ScienceSource will seek community help. Links
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Facto Post – Issue 13 – 29 May 2018
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Facto Post enters its second year, with a Cambridge Blue (OK, Aquamarine) background, a new logo, but no Cambridge blues. On-topic for the ScienceSource project is a project page here. It contains some case studies on how the WP:MEDRS guideline, for the referencing of articles at all related to human health, is applied in typical discussions. Close to home also, a template, called ((medrs)) for short, is used to express dissatisfaction with particular references. Technology can help with patrolling, and this Petscan query finds over 450 articles where there is at least one use of the template. Of course the template is merely suggesting there is a possible issue with the reliability of a reference. Deciding the truth of the allegation is another matter. This maintenance issue is one example of where ScienceSource aims to help. Where the reference is to a scientific paper, its type of algorithm could give a pass/fail opinion on such references. It could assist patrollers of medical articles, therefore, with the templated references and more generally. There may be more to proper referencing than that, indeed: context, quite what the statement supported by the reference expresses, prominence and weight. For that kind of consideration, case studies can help. But an algorithm might help to clear the backlog.
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Facto Post – Issue 14 – 21 July 2018
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Officially it is "bridging the gaps in knowledge", with Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town paying tribute to the southern African concept of ubuntu to implement it. Besides face-to-face interactions, Wikimedians do need their power sources. Facto Post interviewed Jdforrester, who has attended every Wikimania, and now works as Senior Product Manager for the Wikimedia Foundation. His take on tackling the gaps in the Wikimedia movement is that "if we were an army, we could march in a column and close up all the gaps". In his view though, that is a faulty metaphor, and it leads to a completely false misunderstanding of the movement, its diversity and different aspirations, and the nature of the work as "fighting" to be done in the open sector. There are many fronts, and as an eventualist he feels the gaps experienced both by editors and by users of Wikimedia content are inevitable. He would like to see a greater emphasis on reuse of content, not simply its volume. If that may not sound like radicalism, the Decolonizing the Internet conference here organized jointly with Whose Knowledge? can redress the picture. It comes with the claim to be "the first ever conference about centering marginalized knowledge online".
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Facto Post – Issue 15 – 21 August 2018
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To grasp the nettle, there are rare diseases, there are tropical diseases and then there are "neglected diseases". Evidently a rare enough disease is likely to be neglected, but neglected disease these days means a disease not rare, but tropical, and most often infectious or parasitic. Rare diseases as a group are dominated, in contrast, by genetic diseases. A major aspect of neglect is found in tracking drug discovery. Orphan drugs are those developed to treat rare diseases (rare enough not to have market-driven research), but there is some overlap in practice with the WHO's neglected diseases, where snakebite, a "neglected public health issue", is on the list. From an encyclopedic point of view, lack of research also may mean lack of high-quality references: the core medical literature differs from primary research, since it operates by aggregating trials. This bibliographic deficit clearly hinders Wikipedia's mission. The ScienceSource project is currently addressing this issue, on Wikidata. Its Wikidata focus list at WD:SSFL is trying to ensure that neglect does not turn into bias in its selection of science papers.
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This is a request for comments regarding the relevance of Denny (hybrid hominin) as it relates to human interspecies breeding. The link to the discussion is at: Talk:Human evolution#A curious discovery, but not really on-topic. Cheers, Rowan Forest (talk) 16:37, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
Opinions are needed on the following: Talk:Sexual differentiation in humans#"A baby’s sex is determined at the time of conception." citing 17th edition of Harrison's. The discussion concerns how to add material such as females typically having two X chromosomes (XX), and other material. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 21:24, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
Please see WP:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Primary_genetics_studies. Jytdog (talk) 23:40, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
This is an interesting article with reliable sources SebaSebaBukh (talk) 21:24, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 16 – 30 September 2018
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In an ideal world ... no, bear with your editor for just a minute ... there would be a format for scientific publishing online that was as much a standard as SI units are for the content. Likewise cataloguing publications would not be onerous, because part of the process would be to generate uniform metadata. Without claiming it could be the mythical free lunch, it might be reasonably be argued that sandwiches can be packaged much alike and have barcodes, whatever the fillings. The best on offer, to stretch the metaphor, is the meal kit option, in the form of XML. Where scientific papers are delivered as XML downloads, you get all the ingredients ready to cook. But have to prepare the actual meal of slow food yourself. See Scholarly HTML for a recent pass at heading off XML with HTML, in other words in the native language of the Web. The argument from real life is a traditional mixture of frictional forces, vested interests, and the classic irony of the principle of unripe time. On the other hand, discoverability actually diminishes with the prolific progress of science publishing. No, it really doesn't scale. Wikimedia as movement can do something in such cases. We know from open access, we grok the Web, we have our own horse in the HTML race, we have Wikidata and WikiJournal, and we have the chops to act.
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directly in the draft. Thank you. Sam Sailor 19:06, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 17 – 29 October 2018
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Around 2.7 million Wikidata items have an illustrative image. These files, you might say, are Wikimedia's stock images, and if the number is large, it is still only 5% or so of items that have one. All such images are taken from Wikimedia Commons, which has 50 million media files. One key issue is how to expand the stock. Indeed, there is a tool. WD-FIST exploits the fact that each Wikipedia is differently illustrated, mostly with images from Commons but also with fair use images. An item that has sitelinks but no illustrative image can be tested to see if the linked wikis have a suitable one. This works well for a volunteer who wants to add images at a reasonable scale, and a small amount of SPARQL knowledge goes a long way in producing checklists. It should be noted, though, that there are currently 53 Wikidata properties that link to Commons, of which P18 for the basic image is just one. WD-FIST prompts the user to add signatures, plaques, pictures of graves and so on. There are a couple of hundred monograms, mostly of historical figures, and this query allows you to view all of them. commons:Category:Monograms and its subcategories provide rich scope for adding more. And so it is generally. The list of properties linking to Commons does contain a few that concern video and audio files, and rather more for maps. But it contains gems such as P3451 for "nighttime view". Over 1000 of those on Wikidata, but as for so much else, there could be yet more. Go on. Today is Wikidata's birthday. An illustrative image is always an acceptable gift, so why not add one? You can follow these easy steps: (i) log in at https://tools.wmflabs.org/widar/, (ii) paste the Petscan ID 6263583 into https://tools.wmflabs.org/fist/wdfist/ and click run, and (iii) just add cake.
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Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:50, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi WP Genetics members, is Cytohet notable enough for its own article in your opinion? Genetics is not my strong point, but it is currently tagged ((notability)). Thanks! --TheSandDoctor Talk 19:25, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
PLOS Genetics has now joined PLOS Computational Biology in its Topic Pages initiative. As part of this, an article was drafted, peer reviewed and published in PLOS Genetics and has now been copied over to the Selfish genetic element wikipedia page. Comments and suggestions welcome! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 00:41, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 18 – 30 November 2018
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GLAM ♥ data — what is a gallery, library, archive or museum without a catalogue? It follows that Wikidata must love librarians. Bibliography supports students and researchers in any topic, but open and machine-readable bibliographic data even more so, outside the silo. Cue the WikiCite initiative, which was meeting in conference this week, in the Bay Area of California. In fact there is a broad scope: "Open Knowledge Maps via SPARQL" and the "Sum of All Welsh Literature", identification of research outputs, Library.Link Network and Bibframe 2.0, OSCAR and LUCINDA (who they?), OCLC and Scholia, all these co-exist on the agenda. Certainly more library science is coming Wikidata's way. That poses the question about the other direction: is more Wikimedia technology advancing on libraries? Good point. Wikimedians generally are not aware of the tech background that can be assumed, unless they are close to current training for librarians. A baseline definition is useful here: "bash, git and OpenRefine". Compare and contrast with pywikibot, GitHub and mix'n'match. Translation: scripting for automation, version control, data set matching and wrangling in the large, are on the agenda also for contemporary library work. Certainly there is some possible common ground here. Time to understand rather more about the motivations that operate in the library sector.
Account creation is now open on the ScienceSource wiki, where you can see SPARQL visualisations of text mining.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:20, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
The page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiR-324-5p was developed as part of course on science communication at the University of Cincinnati. It has not been rated yet for importance or quality. It would be great if someone could help with that. thanks! TMorata (talk) 12:27, 11 December 2018 (UTC)TMorata
PLOS Genetics just published its second Topic Pages article. As with the previous one on selfish genetic elements, it was drafted, peer reviewed and published in PLOS Genetics and has now been copied over to the Micropeptide wikipedia page. Comments, suggestions, edits and updates welcome! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:45, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
Facto Post – Issue 19 – 27 December 2018
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Zotero is free software for reference management by the Center for History and New Media: see Wikipedia:Citing sources with Zotero. It is also an active user community, and has broad-based language support. Besides the handiness of Zotero's warehousing of personal citation collections, the Zotero translator underlies the citoid service, at work behind the VisualEditor. Metadata from Wikidata can be imported into Zotero; and in the other direction the zotkat tool from the University of Mannheim allows Zotero bibliographies to be exported to Wikidata, by item creation. With an extra feature to add statements, that route could lead to much development of the focus list (P5008) tagging on Wikidata, by WikiProjects. There is also a large-scale encyclopedic dimension here. The construction of Zotero translators is one facet of Web scraping that has a strong community and open source basis. In that it resembles the less formal mix'n'match import community, and growing networks around other approaches that can integrate datasets into Wikidata, such as the use of OpenRefine. Looking ahead, the thirtieth birthday of the World Wide Web falls in 2019, and yet the ambition to make webpages routinely readable by machines can still seem an ever-retreating mirage. Wikidata should not only be helping Wikimedia integrate its projects, an ongoing process represented by Structured Data on Commons and lexemes. It should also be acting as a catalyst to bring scraping in from the cold, with institutional strengths as well as resourceful code.
Diversitech, the latest ContentMine grant application to the Wikimedia Foundation, is in its community review stage until January 2.
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It seems to be a one man band, started off as a tourist site and the site owner became interested in genetics. Doug Weller talk 20:31, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
((u|Mark viking)) {Talk}
20:56, 10 January 2019 (UTC)Facto Post – Issue 20 – 31 January 2019
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Recently Jimmy Wales has made the point that computer home assistants take much of their data from Wikipedia, one way or another. So as well as getting Spotify to play Frosty the Snowman for you, they may be able to answer the question "is the Pope Catholic?" Possibly by asking for disambiguation (Coptic?). Headlines about data breaches are now familiar, but the unannounced circulation of information raises other issues. One of those is Gresham's law stated as "bad data drives out good". Wikipedia and now Wikidata have been criticised on related grounds: what if their content, unattributed, is taken to have a higher standing than Wikimedians themselves would grant it? See Wikiquote on a misattribution to Bismarck for the usual quip about "law and sausages", and why one shouldn't watch them in the making. Wikipedia has now turned 18, so should act like as adult, as well as being treated like one. The Web itself turns 30 some time between March and November this year, per Tim Berners-Lee. If the Knowledge Graph by Google exemplifies Heraclitean Web technology gaining authority, contra GIGO, Wikimedians still have a role in its critique. But not just with the teenage skill of detecting phoniness. There is more to beating Gresham than exposing the factoid and urban myth, where WP:V does do a great job. Placeholders must be detected, and working with Wikidata is a good way to understand how having one statement as data can blind us to replacing it by a more accurate one. An example that is important to open access is that, firstly, the term itself needs considerable unpacking, because just being able to read material online is a poor relation of "open"; and secondly, trying to get Creative Commons license information into Wikidata shows up issues with classes of license (such as CC-BY) standing for the actual license in major repositories. Detailed investigation shows that "everything flows" exacerbates the issue. But Wikidata can solve it.
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Facto Post – Issue 21 – 28 February 2019
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Systematic reviews are basic building blocks of evidence-based medicine, surveys of existing literature devoted typically to a definite question that aim to bring out scientific conclusions. They are principled in a way Wikipedians can appreciate, taking a critical view of their sources. Ben Goldacre in 2014 wrote (link below) "[...] : the "information architecture" of evidence based medicine (if you can tolerate such a phrase) is a chaotic, ad hoc, poorly connected ecosystem of legacy projects. In some respects the whole show is still run on paper, like it's the 19th century." Is there a Wikidatan in the house? Wouldn't some machine-readable content that is structured data help? Most likely it would, but the arcana of systematic reviews and how they add value would still need formal handling. The PRISMA standard dates from 2009, with an update started in 2018. The concerns there include the corpus of papers used: how selected and filtered? Now that Wikidata has a 20.9 million item bibliography, one can at least pose questions. Each systematic review is a tagging opportunity for a bibliography. Could that tagging be reproduced by a query, in principle? Can it even be second-guessed by a query (i.e. simulated by a protocol which translates into SPARQL)? Homing in on the arcana, do the inclusion and filtering criteria translate into metadata? At some level they must, but are these metadata explicitly expressed in the articles themselves? The answer to that is surely "no" at this point, but can TDM find them? Again "no", right now. Automatic identification doesn't just happen. Actually these questions lack originality. It should be noted though that WP:MEDRS, the reliable sources guideline used here for health information, hinges on the assumption that the usefully systematic reviews of biomedical literature can be recognised. Its nutshell summary, normally the part of a guideline with the highest density of common sense, allows literature reviews in general validity, but WP:MEDASSESS qualifies that indication heavily. Process wonkery about systematic reviews definitely has merit.
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