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The Pros and Cons of Wiikpedia Alex Bateman Anyone can edit - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Pros and Cons of Wiikpedia Alex Bateman Anyone can edit - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
The Pros and Cons of Wiikpedia Alex Bateman Anyone can edit anything! By David S. Goodsell Nature (1992) 357:543-544. My personal scientific goal: to completely and accurately classify all proteins The Pfam Protein Families Database
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By David S. Goodsell
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Nature (1992) 357:543-544.
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My personal scientific goal: “to completely and accurately classify all proteins”
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http://pfam.sanger.ac.uk
The Pfam Protein Families Database
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- T. thermophilus - Ramakrishnan, Cell, 2002
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A database of non-coding RNA elements
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Curating annotation is the bottleneck!
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Community Annotation
Databases, data tombs and dust in the wind. Wren and Bateman. Bioinformatics. 2008
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The Masterplan
MCB Wikiproject is awesome!
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Community Annotation
- We chose to embrace Wikipedia
– Saves us implementing a wiki – Vast audience – Low barrier to entry – The Google factor
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Who is editing wikipedia pages?
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- As of 12th April - 1001 users - 7,645 edits
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Vandalism
- User 203.59.66.54 added this line on 3rd June 2007, removed
17th June
- Plausible because Ribwiches did appear in Simpsons in 2003
- Most vandalism is reverted in minutes
- Vandalism only made it onto Rfam website once
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Getting scientists to edit
- 10 simple rules article in PLoS CB
– Help scientists understand how to get started
- December 2008 we struck a deal with RNA Biology.
- RNA families track created
- RNA families articles require:
– Paper describing family – Stockholm formatted alignment – Wikipedia article
- Paul Gardner acts as Editor
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The problem with scientists
Knowledge
- f subject
Knowledge
- f Wikipedia
Wikipedia Pedants Ignorant Scientists
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Vanity
- Most scientists gravitate to writing articles about
themselves, their groups or projects
- This is an obvious conflict of interest and is
discouraged by Wikipedia
- However, writing about a subject you are an
expert in is not!
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:An_article_
about_yourself_is_nothing_to_be_proud_of
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Example 1
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Example 1
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Example 1
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Example 2
- User Alexm1313 create page on Frozen
Ark on 19th July.
- Page rapidly grows
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Example 2
Lots of discussions later …
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Attribution
- Many scientists are worried about lack of
attribution
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Attribution
- Scientists still want to know what do I get
- ut of editing Wikipedia
- Do tenure committees consider this, etc…
- This rather misses the point
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