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'''RiceWiki''', a sub-project of [http://www.sciencewikis.org ScienceWikis], is a wiki-based system for rice gene annotation. Unlike conventional biological databases based on expert curation, RiceWiki exploits the full potential of the whole scientific community to collaboratively add, edit, and update information about rice by harnessing collective intelligence and measuring users' contributions.   
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'''RiceWiki''', a sub-project of [http://www.sciencewikis.org ScienceWikis], is a wiki-based system for rice gene annotation. Unlike conventional biological databases based on expert curation, RiceWiki harnesses collective intelligence to collaboratively add, edit, and update information about rice and quantifies users' contributions to encourage more participations from the whole scientific community.   
 
 
RiceWiki is supported by by the “100-Talent Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y1SLXb1365).
 
  
 
==Purpose & Aims==
 
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==Statistics==
 
==Statistics==
 
RiceWiki is run off of [http://www.mediawiki.org Mediawiki] version {{CURRENTVERSION}} and currently has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} pages. You can view other statistics on [[Special:Statistics]].
 
RiceWiki is run off of [http://www.mediawiki.org Mediawiki] version {{CURRENTVERSION}} and currently has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} pages. You can view other statistics on [[Special:Statistics]].
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==Funding==
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RiceWiki is supported by by the “100-Talent Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y1SLXb1365).

Revision as of 14:19, 5 July 2012

RiceWiki, a sub-project of ScienceWikis, is a wiki-based system for rice gene annotation. Unlike conventional biological databases based on expert curation, RiceWiki harnesses collective intelligence to collaboratively add, edit, and update information about rice and quantifies users' contributions to encourage more participations from the whole scientific community.

Purpose & Aims

The purpose of RiceWiki is as follows.

  • Establish a community-based website for rice gene annotation.
  • Provide up-to-date, comprehensive, and professional annotations for rice.
  • Build related wiki extensions to ease content accessibliy, adding, and editing.
  • Measure users' contributions and give explicit authorship.

Content

The majority of the rice information was initially seeded with a subset of information from NCBI RefSeq and Ensembl.

Statistics

RiceWiki is run off of Mediawiki version 1.30.0 and currently has 116,328 pages. You can view other statistics on Special:Statistics.

Funding

RiceWiki is supported by by the “100-Talent Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y1SLXb1365).