Aim 4: Patient-aligned crowdsourcing

Posted by on Sep 5, 2013 in citizen science, crowdsourcing, Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, mark2cure | 8 comments This is the fifth and final blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. Crowdsourcing is all about motivating large groups of individuals to collaboratively achieve some shared vision. For example, the Wikipedia crowd primarily uses volunteerism as a motivation. Other recent initiatives motivate crowds of gamers using fun and enjoyment1. In this aim, we will target a...
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Aim 3: Centralized Model Organism Database

Posted by on Aug 6, 2013 in Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal | 2 comments This is the fourth blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. Our plans to build a Centralized Model Organism Database (CMOD) is the one that we discussed most openly as we were drafting our proposal. So you should feel free to read our previous blog post on this subject, but this post is a slightly expanded and refined version. The Gene Wiki is a crowdsourcing mechanism...
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Aim 2: Outreach

Posted by on Aug 1, 2013 in Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal | Comments Off on Aim 2: Outreach This is the third blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. review of essay writing services As a crowdsourcing initiative, the Gene Wiki project is entirely based on community contributions and participation. One key early decision we made was to position the Gene Wiki within Wikipedia where “the crowd” already existed. This design choice differentiated us...
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Aim 1: Diseases and drugs

Posted by on Jul 31, 2013 in Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, wikipedia | Comments Off on Aim 1: Diseases and drugs This is the second blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. The first funding period focused on crowdsourcing knowledge on human genes in Wikipedia. And that effort has largely been successful. The ~10,000 gene articles are collectively viewed 68 million times per year, and our bot ensures that the “infobox” content is up-to-date and accurate. But the use...
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Gene Wiki progress report

Posted by on Jul 30, 2013 in BioGPS, Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, grant, NIH, usage stats | 0 comments This is the first blog post in a series on our Gene Wiki renewal. More details below. First, let’s recap a bit of history on our Gene Wiki project. We originally proposed the Gene Wiki as one aim of our NIH grant to develop BioGPS, an crowdsourced online portal for aggregating gene-centric information. As part of a Master’s student’s thesis project, we created ~7500 Wikipedia...
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The future of the Gene Wiki

Posted by on Jul 29, 2013 in Gene Wiki, GeneWikiRenewal, grant, NIH | Comments Off on The future of the Gene Wiki My group recently submitted a grant proposal to the NIH (a “competing renewal”) to continue our work developing the Gene Wiki. In case you haven’t been following, the goal of the Gene Wiki is to create a collaboratively-written, community-reviewed, and continuously-updated review article for every human gene. Currently the Gene Wiki exists in the form of ~10,000 Wikipedia...
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