Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Computational Biology/ISMB-ECCB 2017 Editathon

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is hosting a Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon at ISMB/ECCB 2017. ISCB is committed to furthering knowledge of computational biology to all. Wikipedia has been an important avenue for both scientists and the public alike to find out about our science. This editathon aims to bring Wikipedia to the bioinformaticians attending ISMB, in order to help improve the coverage of computational biology-related articles.

The editathon will follow a drop-in format. Throughout the day, the room will be open, with computers available, for conference attendees to come and contribute to Wikipedia articles in their field of expertise. To help attendees get familiar with Wikipedia and guide them through this process, there will be printed resources as well as experienced volunteers on hand. To ensure that attendees' minds are well fed, there will also be free snacks available!

Details
Date: Sunday 23 July 2017

Time: 10AM - 9PM

Venue: Room 2.1, Prague Congress Centre

All welcome, regardless of skill level! Snacks will be provided!



Participants
We encourage all attendees to register an account in advance and feel free to contact us!

To join, please add your signature by clicking "[Edit]" above and adding # ~ to the bottom of this list. We also encourage participants to join WikiProject Computational Biology.


 * 1) Amkilpatrick (talk) 09:58, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Kieran (talk) 21:09, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Ck841312 (talk) 08:17, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Antonipetrov (talk) 09:24, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) Madeleine ✉ ✍ 10:01, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) Maonao (talk) 10:49, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 7) Guideajau (talk) 11:27, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 8) Ngosalia (talk) 11:48, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 9) Alexbateman (talk) 12:22, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 10) Jsam356 (talk) 12:28, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 11) Erictleung (talk) 12:33, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 12) Marcrr (talk) 12:43, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 13) mar.esther23 (talk) 15:50, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 14) Sakeuriticus (talk) 14:42, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 15) Lrieber (talk) 16:02, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Guides
Darren Logan (faculty member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) has assembled a short training course for new Wikipedia editors: User:Rockpocket/Training.

There is also a PLOS Computational Biology article describing 10 Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia.

Edited articles
There will be a record of edited articles at Edited articles: each edited article is eligible for points and prizes (see Scoring).

Getting started editing
Take a look at the WikiProject_Computational_Biology/Popular_pages page for suggestions on where to start.

Volunteer signup / roster
The structure of the editathon is as a day-long drop-in, so that conference attendees can come and contribute as they find time. Our experience in the past is that attendees are pretty enthusiastic, but unfamiliar with Wikipedia. As such, we need experienced Wikipedians on hand to answer questions and guide volunteers. At minimum we need one volunteer present at any given time, but two to three would be ideal. If you are able to contribute, please sign up below. Here are the conference schedule and proceedings for reference.

Organizers

 * Alastair Kilpatrick (user page), Bioinformatician at the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Co-chair, ISCB Wikipedia Committee.
 * Kieran O'Neill (user page), Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia and Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre.

Funding
We are grateful to Wikimedia Foundation for their funding through a Wikimedia Rapid Grant.

Press coverage

 * 'Editathon' Looks to Improve Wikipedia for Computational Biology (Genome Web)