User:AdamRetchless
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New project, please help
Check out the Wikibate demo site, I've put a lot of work into it (so have others).
To Do after Comps (Graduate school)
Convert new knowledge into Wikipedia articles...
- Photosynthesis
- Bacteriophage (Modern Microbial Genetics)
- Cyanobacteria
- Proposal for macroevolution and microevolution, especially as treated in evolution
- Read Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age and summarize it.
Role of experts in Wikipedia
Premise:
- Encyclopedias exist to inform novices, and are written by (relative) experts
- Experts are often busy expanding their expertise, and don't have a lot of time to contribute to projects like Wikipedia. This is compounded by edit conflicts and slow servers that make Wikipedia writing and editing less productive than other uses of expert time.
- Laymen experts (hobbiests and evangelists) dominate the content of wikipedia
Conclusion:
- Experts should minimize the actual writing and editing of articles
- Experts should seek to guide the laymen experts in writing the article
- Starting articles
- Citing in-depth, publicly available resources that can be understood by laymen experts but not novices
Photographs
I've added a bunch of unidentified flowers to the Flower album, please help me identify them.
All of my photos are here: User:AdamRetchless/Photos
Note to self
(issues and topics to address)- [1] (http://reason.com/0105/fe.hs.citadels.shtml) Anarchism in the English tradition
- Ashanti Alston--trip to CMU [2] (http://www.pittnews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/28/4222ada7244df?in_archive=1)
[3] (http://www.pittnews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/25/421ecaef655b0?in_archive=1)
- Dig up that page with lists of anarchists...[4] (http://www.anarchy-movement.org/anarchists_list.php)
- Add standard free energy to citric acid cycle table.
- Organization of evolution
- Organization of working class and proletariant
- Is it appropriate to compare prions and chaperones. Need more about the behavior of prion proteins. Find about heterkaryon incompatibility?
- developmental biology, zygote, cellular differentiation, cell type, embryogenesis
- list of gene families- The definitions need to be cleared up and the list expanded. See gene family.
- Are microsatellites really an example of selfish DNA?
- Can I add something about chromosome/genome structure
- Post-translational modifications of histones can be inherited. Document and make this clear in relevant articles: evolution(talk), biological inheritance
- electrolysis of water
- Evolution, Altruism: I'm not comfortable with defining evolution from a population genetics perspective. Does that perspective imply a selfish gene perspective?
- Resurrected proteins: Sleeping Beauty Transposon (Mouse), and Benner's work (Nature 425, 285). These should be mentioned in molecular evolution, and maybe also in the transposon article. Jermann (1995) article about reconstructing putative ancestral RNAses.
- Elaborate on the uses of transposons in the lab.
- Add description of How to Practice for Tenzin Gyatso
- Developmental biology: elaborate on model organisms
- Aldous Huxley add the book
- Huxley make a disambiguation page (for searches)?
- DNA needs to be touched up, but I'm scared to get involved.
- Restriction enzymes: What are the types? Different types of recognition sequences?
- RNA world hypothesis: early development of the idea
- Fermi paradox needs some editing
- self: this isn't very helpful
- PLoS Primer: Current Approaches to the Study of Movement Control (http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.0000050): would this be good for any articles? Is ther an article about how animals coordinate their movements?