March 06, 2008

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).

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June 01, 2007

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.

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March 01, 2007

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.

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August 23, 2006

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.

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June 14, 2006

Harvester Wiki



Hwiki is a new bioinformatics wiki at EMBL.

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