The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) announces an international competition to improve the coverage on Wikipedia of any aspect of computational biology. A key component of the ISCB's mission to further the scientific understanding of living systems through computation is to communicate this knowledge to the public at large. Wikipedia has become an important way to communicate all types of science to the public. The ISCB aims to further its mission by increasing the quality of Wikipedia articles about computational biology, and by improving accessibility to this information via Wikipedia. The competition is open to students and trainees at any level either as individuals or as groups.
The prizes for the best article provided by the ISCB will be:
1st prize - $500 (USD) and 1 year membership to the ISCB.
2nd prize - $250 (USD) and 1 year membership to the ISCB.
3rd prize - $150 (USD) and 1 year membership to the ISCB.
How to Enter
Deadline: 12th January 2015
The competition will officially start on the 1st September 2014 and finish four months later on the 12th January 2015. For each article that is entered in the competition, the difference in article quality between these two dates will be reviewed. Contributions made before the 1st September or after the 12th January will not be counted. To enter, you should select the article or articles you intend to work on and record that along with your Wikipedia user name at the Competition Entries web page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Computational Biology/ISCB competition entries_2014). If a group of authors intend to contribute to the same article, all Wikipedia user names should be listed. Articles should be chosen in the area of computational biology. The Computational Biology WikiProject have selected over 1,200 articles that it considers within the scope of Computational Biology. Any article in this collection would be an excellent starting point for an entry. Here is a list of articles within scope of Computational Biology ordered by quality: Category:Computational Biology articles by quality. and here are list of a few articles that are considered of good quality and would be good examples to follow:
If you plan to start a new article, please contact WikiProject Computational Biology to make sure the article would be considered within the scope of the project.
About WikiProject Computational Biology:
WikiProject Computational Biology is aimed at improving and organising articles on computational biology, bioinformatics,systems biology and related topics. More broadly, the WikiProject aims to increase participation of computational biology researchers in English Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, as well as cultivate Wikipedia-related initiatives with academic publishers and learned societies.
Goals
The overall goal of the project is to improve the article quality of Wikipedia articles within the scope. The WikiProject will assist this goal by:
Identifying specific areas for improvement within existing articles
Simulation, modelling and analysis of biological systems (as in systems biology) of any scale (molecular structure, gene regulation, metabolism, protein interactions, cell physiology, cell populations, tissue organisation, organ modelling)
Centers and institutions of global prominence in the field
Categories
The WikiProject aims to implement meaningful and useful categorisation of articles within the scope of WikiProject Computation Biology. Here are some current categories of interest, feel free to edit this list:
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) announces an international competition to improve the coverage on Wikipedia of any aspect of computational biology. A key component of the ISCB's mission to further the scientific understanding of living systems through computation is to communicate this knowledge to the public at large.
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