RiceWiki:About

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RiceWiki, a project of IC4R (Information Commmons for Rice) as well as a component of ScienceWikis, is a wiki-based, publicly editable and open-content platform for community curation of genes and Omics Knowledge in rice, viz., a community-curated resource of rice knowledge. Unlike conventional biological databases based on expert curation, RiceWiki harnesses collective intelligence to collect, edit and annotate information about rice, quantifies users' contributions in each annotated gene and provides explicit authorship for each contributor to encourage more participation from the whole scientific community. Welcome to join us !

Slogan

  • Share your knowledge, advance our science. - Zhang Zhang in ScienceWikis
  • Nothing great is ever accomplished in isolation. – Yo-Yo Ma

Purpose & Aims

The purpose of RiceWiki is as follows.

  • Establish a community-based system for rice gene annotation.
  • Provide up-to-date, comprehensive, and professional annotations for rice.
  • Build related wiki extensions to ease content accessibility, 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 the “100-Talent Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y1SLXb1365).