Wikipedia:WikiProject Viruses

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WikiProject Virus Restoration Effort!
Some Wikipedians from the WikiProject MCB, seeing that a wikiproject devoted to such an important topic has become inactive, have decided to assist in restoring it.
If you would like to help us bring this project back to life, you can start by adding your name to the list of participants!

[edit] News

  • Rotavirus is a Featured Article.--GrahamColmTalk 12:37, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Rotavirus achieved a Good Article rating last month and now is being edited intensely to prepare it for a nomination for Featured Article. Its importance is rated High. --Una Smith (talk) 18:38, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Virus was improved greatly during its peer review in June 2006, and will soon be listed as a candidate for a Featured Article. The archived changed can be found at Wikipedia:Peer review/Virus/archive1.
  • Currently looking to increase our exposure around Wikipedia - if you know an editor with an interest in viruses please consider dropping them a friendly message about our work here.
  • Virus has been included in the Wikipedia:Version 0.5 release! This means that it has reached a point where it may be considered in the future for the Wikipedia CD.
  • International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses is now complete and provides a solid companion to viral classification.

[edit] Aims

This WikiProject aims to help organise and contribute to the growing collection of articles about biological viruses. This can be achieved by:

  • Using consistent nomenclature and orthography in naming viruses
  • Including taxoboxes on all virus articles
  • Adding information to existing articles
  • Validating information and seeking references
  • Placing articles in correct categories
  • Identifying articles in need of work
  • Organising information as clear and easy to read as possible

[edit] Parentage

This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Science.
WikiProject Tree of Life
WikiProject Viruses

Although viruses are not typically considered to be living, we believe that virus articles could benefit from having a project like the tree of life descendants to represent the taxonomy and relationships of different viruses.

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[edit] FAQ

1) I'm not a scientist, can I help?

Most definitely. If you have an artistic flair, you could clean up a messy page or create a new template. You could also help to proof-read edits to give scientists feedback on how easy their writing is to understand from a layman's point of view. You could tag messy articles for the project, identify new stubs or even just spread the word about this WikiProject!

2) How can I get involved?

If you feel like participating in this WikiProject, please sign your name over at the members page and check out the Open Tasks to be completed.

3) At what level is it worth having a separate Wikipedia article for a particular virus?

Simply put, any level you like. If we write individual articles for all the viruses known to man, it may take a while; However, if you feel like writing an article about some particularly obscure virus that most people have never even heard of, go for it! The more the merrier :-) As a general guideline though, combine several species or subspecies into a single article when there isn't enough text to make more than short, unsatisfying stubs otherwise. If the article grows large enough to deserve splitting, that can always be done later. It's always a good idea to avoid creating articles that are doomed to be stubs.

4) What about eradicated viruses?

Like smallpox? Sure, why not! There seems to be no reason to exclude any viruses as long as somebody's willing to write an article for it.

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WikiProject Viruses


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Coronavirus is a genus of animal virus belonging to the family Coronaviridae. Coronaviruses are enveloped viruses with a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome and a helical symmetry. The genomic size of coronaviruses ranges from approximately 16 to 31 kbp, extraordinarily large for an RNA virus.
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[edit] Participants

Here is a list of Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject members, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.

User name Talk page Comments or Special Interests Joined
A.Ou Talk Interested in helping to expand on redlinks in List of viruses 23 January 2007
bellamorbida Talk Medical coder, undergrad college student majoring in biology, general geek. Interested in viruses/bacteria in general and adding more ICD-9/10 codes to medical entries. 31 October 2007
Braindamaged Talk Molecular biologist, worked on influenza and ready to contribute here. 19 July 2007
Ciar Talk I'm really an immunologist and molecular biologist, but as my work drifts more and more into the world of viruses, I'm happy to help and learn here! 29 May 2007
David Ruben Talk General Practitioner - happy to help out with general (human) disease aspects of viruses, copyediting, cite.ref implementation and template coding etc 28 October 2006
EarthRise33 Talk Biomedical microbiology student here, willing to do what's necessary. 19 June 2007
Enlil Ninlil Talk Hay why not, give me something to do and I will do my best. 7 June 2006
Espresso Addict Talk Knowledgeable on HIV & have access to virology texts 17 August 2006
Frazzydee Talk 19 March 2005
Gorton k Talk 2nd year biochemistry and molecular biology, and cell and developmentlal biology student. Phage! I've done quite a lot to lambda... but it's ongoing. 15 February 2008
GrahamColm Talk I am a clinical virologist and have professional expertise with many human viruses. 13 October 2007
Jarretinha Talk Ph. D. student working with genetics and dynamics of "simple" life forms, including viruses. 31 July 2007
Joelmills Talk I've been working for a few weeks on animal viruses. Glad to see this project has been reactivated. 13 June 2006
Jumping cheese Talk I'm somewhat knowledgeable regarding viruses, but nowhere near an expert level. I'll work on tagging articles with this wikiproject. 10 December 2006
Liam Skoda Talk Medical student, primarily interested in viruses that cause human disease, particularly lyssaviruses and filoviruses. 23 September 2007
ManVhv Talk Computer scientists with an interest in viruses. Specializing in amateur Herpesviridae systems biology. 3 Jun 2007
MarcoTolo Talk Contributor to numerous virology-related articles - probably should have joined long ago. 24 Jul 2007
Million Moments Talk Plant Pathologist 16 Jan 2007
MadScientistVX Talk Undergrad in Pharmaceutical Chemistry/Pre-Medicine; interested in helping out in any way. Starting by trying to fix red-links in List of viruses. 23 Feb 2007
mysteryman90 Talk Taking a biology class. Interested in posting new material being taught. 5 April 2007
OcciMoron Talk Undergraduate in both Biology and History, with a strong interest in infectious diseases and global health 15 August 2007
Orangemarlin Talk Last took a virology class in 1983. Just here to make sure that Homeopathy and urban myths don't show up in articles. 25 May 2007
PhD Dre Talk A panel board reviewer for the CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research), Institute of Infection and Immunity. 15 November 2007
Random Nonsense Talk I'm a History undergrad with an interest in environmental history, and I thought I might be able to help out in that area. I'll be doing a I research project on rinderpest next year, so I look forward to adding to that article. 2 June 2007
Read-write-services Talk Hello, I am a writer and editor with a Diploma in Human Biology. I am interested in Marburg, Ebola and Hantavirus. I would be delighted to help with editing anything. 14 September 2006
RelentlessRouge Talk Hello, all. I am far from a Ph.D. or an M.D. but I will definately attempt to help the virology part of Wikipedia. Cheers! 14 June 14 2006
SaritaMackita Talk I like science, but I studied foreign languages... I was originally appalled by the blatant inaccuracy of the Canine Distemper article. I've changed it some, but it still obviously needs a lot of work. Thought I'd also lend a hand with whatever! 18 March 2008
Schu1321 Talk MD/PhD Student at the University of Minnesota. Beginning 3rd year of program and working for a PhD in Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology. 06 October 2007
Serephine Talk I look forward to cleaning up many of the virus articles ☺ I'm particularly interested in Ebola 13 June 2006
Snellios Talk Biochemical virology, epidemiology, virus/host interaction. Medical student MB, Pathology BA 12 May 08
Spawn Man Talk Not a scientist, but will do his best!!! 2 November 2005
Sperber Talk Hi there, I'm currently working on my PhD in Virology, and am looking forward to contribute (my special interest is Ebola virus, I work with it since four years) 11 July 2006
spilki Talk Veterinarian, MSc in Animal Virology, PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology; interested in animal viruses and general virology 19 July 2007
TariStar Talk Wildlife Science/Zoology student, interest in Bearded Dragon, Working on Agamid Adenovirus 1 as of March 2008. 17 March 2008
Tim Vickers Talk Hi. I'm a molecular biologist and interested in virology. 10 January 2007
Tyciol Talk Hi, I'm a biology student and find viri' potential to help gene therapy appealing. 01 June 2008
ViralQuest Talk I, too, am somewhat knowledgeable regarding viruses (primarily plant viruses), but hesitate to use "expert" in the same sentence. Happy to lend a hand in this Viruses WikiProject. 14 June 2007
Watchingeye Talk Just about anything that gets my attention 12 September 2007
Wedian Talk Hi all. I'm a graduate student in microbiology. Hope to work with you as much as i can. 28 October 2006
wikiwiki1950 Talk I am a new user looking to join a random Wikiproject. If there are better options, tell me so. 24 November 2006
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