User:Ben Moore/Reviewed content

Below are some notes for a short section of the Wikipedia tutorial at ISMB 2014

English Wikipedia's main page gets over 10 million views most days, and almost all of the content shown there is reviewed content. This encompasses featured articles and pictures, the best material on the encyclopaedia as judged by editors, as well as a did you know? section which highlights both newly-written articles and good articles. There's also in the news and a couple of other things.

Having your work featured on the main page can be a great incentive to write high-quality content and it'll reach far more viewers than the average talk or paper — help inform and inspire an international audience about your scientific interests!

DYK

Did you know? DYK is a section on the main page featuring "hooks" that ask a "did you know..." question in order to bring viewers to your article (kind of click-baiting!), there's a competitive side to it where the number of hits your hook received can be recorded in a table at Did you know/Statistics. This is a relatively easy way to have your work featured on the main page and potentially have thousands of visitors reading the article you've worked on. Here's todays DYKs, as you can see the topics covered are pretty varied: Badge from a The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy video game ... that feelies (example pictured) have been used for everything from copy protection to sexual roleplay? ... that in 1959, Henri Claireaux claimed that a reduction to a subsidy to Saint Pierre and Miquelon had devolved the territory into "a state bordering on poverty"? ... that both Tim Walz and JD Vance were accused of sanewashing in the 2024 vice presidential debate? ... that Kazimierz Sakowicz spent three years recording the murder of tens of thousands in his diary, which was published decades later? ... that Rust Red Hills is being sold to renovate student housing, a court-approved move that museum associations say violates the ethics of deaccessioning? ... that Amaury du Closel founded the Forum Voix Etouffées to revive music that was suppressed by 20th-century totalitarian regimes? ... that 38 per cent of Welsh university students in 1900 were women? ... that Johnny Fripp was described as "a bundle of football-toting dynamite"? ... that Big Motor employees hit cars with socks stuffed with golf balls as part of an insurance-fraud scheme? The DYK criteria are slightly complicated, but in summary the article needs to be: New — written in the last seven days and at least a few paragraphs of text (1500 characters), translations count! Greatly expanded — if you find a stub and expand it more than five-fold, it's eligible for DYK New GA — articles that have gained GA status within the last week can now also be included in DYK

GA

Good articles Good articles (GAs) are well-written, fairly comprehensive and have sufficient references to back up factual claims. Articles reach GA status after being reviewed, normally by a single editor, against the GA criteria. Of course, a GA must abide by standard WP policies like NPOV, V and NOR. At the time of writing there are 6 articles covered by the WikiProject that have attained GA status: Genome-wide association study Multiple sequence alignment European Nucleotide Archive Metagenomics Circular permutation in proteins Erez Lieberman Aiden Good articles take some work but the reviewer will often help guide the improvement of your article. It's a great way to learn about writing high-quality articles, WikiProject members may be available to help with the review or give feedback on an article you're thinking of nominating. As scientists, you possess specialised knowledge of niche topics which can be used to bring an existing article up to GA status. Newly promoted GAs are eligible to be added to the DYK section on the main page, putting your topic of interest in front of millions of eyes!

FA

Featured articles Featured content represents "the best that Wikipedia has to offer". To get promoted an article faces a rigourous review by any number of interested parties at Feature Article Review. The criteria are listed here, but promotion is determined via a consensus-forming discussion rather than simply checking the criteria. The WikiProject currently has two FA-class articles in scope, take a look for an idea of the quality required: Rosetta@home Folding@home (Surprisingly their similarity in subject appears to be a coincidence, the articles were developed by different editors and promoted four years apart!)

ITN

In the news Wikipedia is not a news source, but articles are listed on ITN as background reading for current issues. This is usually less relevant when editing scientific articles. The only ITN I've been involved with was… …hmm!

Peer review

Peer review Wikipedia also uses the concept of peer review! Here you can ask for advice on improving an article before a GA or FA nomination, or just for feedback in general. Currently there's a backlog of review requests — you could also help out by reviewing other people's submissions!