VisWiki

A Wikipedia mashup.

Mass Spectrometry Hits on Wikipedia

Mass spectrometry on Wikirank

A graphical representation of the popularity of the Wikipedia page on mass spectrometry.

RNA Biology to Require Wikipedia Publication

Starting in 2009, the journal RNA Biology will require that authors submitting to their RNA Families section also submit a Wikipedia page summarizing the work. Both will be peer reviewed. For example, Jones, et al. RNA Biology 6, 1-4 (2009) has a corresponding Wikipedia page SmY RNA (via).

Wikipedia Statistics

Here is a site that produces a graph of hit counts for Wikipedia articles. For example mass spectrometry had 43319 hits in February, about one to two thousand hits per day (via).

Wikipedia Hegemony

This Reason Magazine article only mentions mass spectrometry tangentially, but illustrates one of the points I tried to make in this poster: Wikipedia can't be ignored if it's the first Google hit in your topic area.

Mass Spectrometry Wikiality

Along with Wikipedia's mass spectrometry entry, which has risen to become the number one Google hit for mass spectrometry, there are a few other noteworthy Wikimedia projects: mass spectrometry photos and diagrams in Wikimedia Commons, mass spectrometry defined in Wictionary, and mass spectrometry section in a Wikibooks selection on proteomics.

Mass Spectrometry Terms Final Draft

The third and final draft (PDF) of the Standard Definitions of Terms Relating To Mass Spectrometry document is up on the MS Terms website. This draft is currently undergoing peer review and will be the last draft before publication. It will also be presented as a poster (PDF) next week in Prague at the International Mass Spectrometry Conference.

Harvester Wiki

Hwiki is a new bioinformatics wiki at EMBL.