[GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

[Dana Roth]

I share Stevan's concern  ....  As an aside, WikiProteins apparently is not a journal (the link given by Peter is to the journal ... Genome Biology).

The Genome Biology web page has a link to WikiProteins which is self-described as a 'community database' ... at:  http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/5/R89#sec2    and is still in beta.

"WikiProteins enables community annotation in a Wiki-based system. Extracts of major data sources have been fused into an editable environment that links out to the original sources. Data from community edits create automatic copies of the original data. Semantic technology captures concepts co-occurring in one sentence and thus potential factual statements. In addition, indirect associations between concepts have been calculated. We call on a 'million minds' to annotate a 'million concepts' and to collect facts from the literature with the reward of collaborative knowledge discovery. The system is available for beta testing at http://www.wikiprofessional.org webcite<http://www.webcitation.org/query.php?url=http://www.wikiprofessional.org&refdoi=10.1186/gb-2008-9-5-r89>. "

Dana L. Roth
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From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf Of Peter Murray-Rust
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 6:35 AM
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Subject: [GOAL] Re: Wikipedia founder to help in [UK] government's research scheme

I very much welcome this appointment. He is no stranger to scholpub - here is an example of him publishing  Wikiproteins, in a peer-reviewed journal (with a high imact factor for those who worry):

http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/5/R89

And dare we say - he has built a repository that people *want* to put things into ( including me.). Wikipedia is not rubbish and it is maturing all the time.




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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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