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Human Genome Organization Proposed Project
Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) is one of the oldest international genome organisations in the world. Established in 1988 by a consortium of some of the world's leading human geneticists, the primary ethos of HUGO is to promote and sustain international collaboration in the field of human genetics and genomics. HUGO is entering the 20th year of its history by making an inflection in its direction, with the human genome sequenced, HUGO is seeking the biological meaning of its information content.

We at HUGO would like to start up a new WikiProject to work on HUGO’s Wikipedia article. We hope to provide both the scientific community and the general public with accurate yet impartial information about our involvement with the Human Genome Project and about our current standing as a non-profit, charitable organisation aiming to better global health through genomic medicine and research by focusing on the medical implications of genomic knowledge. Moving forward, HUGO is also working to enhance the genomic capabilities in the emerging countries of the world. The excitement and interest in genomic sciences in Asia, Middle East, South America, and Africa are palpable and the hope is that these technologies will help in national development and health. We know that Wikipedia’s goal is to have a comprehensive encyclopedic, quality source of information, a goal that we could like to help editors achieve.

We’re very excited with the prospect of helping out with a WikiProject on HUGO, as we can assist and allow access to information about our organisation with greater ease. Please do take a look at our Declaration of Interest on our user page (user:HUmanGenomeOrg) and let us know if we can help in any way. Thanks!

help: 12-step orgs!
The various 12-step organizations have colonized wikipedia. From what I can tell, most 12-step organizations have about a dozen categories, mostly very redundant of one another; they were using categories as keywords or tags, I think. I'm trying to go through to make sure that each one is first of all in the following categories as relevant:
 * Twelve-step programs
 * Addiction and substance abuse organizations
 * Organizations established in YEAR

And deleting parent categories that are redundant of those, including
 * Alcohol abuse
 * Drug rehabilitation
 * Psychology
 * Substance-related disorders
 * Health organizations

At some point we'll want to look at all the categories that are set up that are basically redundant of each other, such as Category:Positive psychology and Category:Psychosocial rehabilitation.

--Lquilter (talk) 17:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

United Nations Parliamentary Assembly FAC
Hello, if anyone is interested in the proposed global assembly of legislators (along the lines of Europarl), you may want to check out United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, which, by the way, is up for Featured Article Candidacy. Thanks, Sarsaparilla (talk) 20:15, 16 December 2007 (UTC)