Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/BioDatabases

The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The resulting WikiProject was not created

Description

This project aims to create an article for all the Biological databases that have been described in the academic world, using the Template:infobox biodatabase.Those databases have been described in pubmed, in the Database issue of Nucleic Acids Research and are listed the following (incomplete) list: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/nar/database/cap . Nevertheless, due to the high number of those databases (more than 1000) it is difficult for the biologists to find the one that will fulfill their needs (Is it still active ? Does it have a web service ? is it possible to download its data ? etc...) Later, using the infoboxes, the categories and the mediawiki API a tool could be created to quickly browse the existing databases Plindenbaum (talk) 16:39, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Tools

The following XSLT stylesheet (https://gist.github.com/768553) pubmed4biodb.xsl can be used to quiclky create a draft from an article in Pubmed. e.g with Xsltproc:

 xsltproc --novalid pubmed4biodb.xsl "http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=17090579&retmode=xml"
 
 {{infobox_biodatabase
 |title = ECRbase: database of evolutionary conserved regions, promoters, and transcription factor binding sites in vertebrate genomes.
 |logo =
 |description = ECRbase: database of evolutionary conserved regions, promoters, and transcription factor binding sites in vertebrate genomes.
 |scope =
 (...)

Support

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

Plindenbaum (talk) 16:39, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Would you consider incorporating this effort into the Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology? It's a large and active community with more people who are likely to contribute.--Paul (talk) 17:32, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Parul I've no problem with that and I already made an announce there:

moreover, it's not clear to me if (and how ) it is possible to create it as a subproject or as a wikipedia task force. Any help or suggestion about this is welcomed :-) --Plindenbaum (talk) 18:21, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. My advice would be to try and tap the largest and most active relevant WikiProject(s). You're more likely to get contributors that way. We decided to roll the RNA WikiProject back into MCB because of this. --Paul (talk) 20:09, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I also think your best course of action is to join one of the existing WikiProjects. WP:WikiProject Academic journals might be another reasonable target. WhatamIdoing (talk) 23:17, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do you still need information about creating a task force? WP:MED has a page that outlines a step-by-step process. Ping me on my talk page if you need more information. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:12, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.