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This project aims to enable Wikipedians to cooperate, make suggestions and share ideas on the organization and improvement of the medicine coverage of Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to join in this endeavor.
Many such suggestions and guidelines have been developed since the project began. A particularly useful collection can be found in the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine), which contains a detailed discussion of issues related to writing medicine articles on Wikipedia.
However, it is important for all of us to remember that these are only suggestions: they should help to give us focus, and inspire our contributions, but no one should feel obliged to follow (or even read) them. This WikiProject is not prescriptive. The suggestions are intended to be helpful for those who are not sure what to write, or how they can contribute, but they should not distract anyone wanting to contribute from our main purpose: to write and improve medicine articles!
If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, or just look over the How you can help section below. Also of interest is the Medicine Portal associated with this project.
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[edit] Contacts
If you have a proposal or want to discuss an idea with us, you can either use the main discussion page.
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[edit] How you can help
Looking for something to do?
[edit] Improve articles
- The article worklist contains a list of all of the articles that have been identified as being of interest to the project, organized according to category and assigned an importance and quality grade.
- Adopt a stub! There are many, many stubby MED articles that have the potential to be excellent articles. Some good categories are Cat:Medicine stubs, ... .
- Contribute to a team effort by participating in the Collaboration of the Week, a weekly collaboration to improve medicine articles to featured article status.
- The article request is where members can go to ask for help in creating specific new articles or in completing particular tasks.
- Upgrade the infoboxes in protein articles to conform to our protein infobox style.
- The picture request is where members can go to ask for help in creating pictures, figures, or diagrams that do not yet exist, replacing those with restrictive copyrights. All images covered by a non-commercial uses disclaimer should be replaced by images generated by Wikipedia users themselves. For proteins, this can be done using the raw structural data from the Protein Data Bank, the contents of which are in the public domain. Please also see our discussion about how to standardize the depiction of proteins.
- Add references. Correct and reliable references are vital if the articles produced by this project are to be a verifiable source of information for our readers. Adding references is easy with this tool. Just submit the PubMed ID and copy and paste the resulting output (xxxx) into the page between <ref> xxxxx </ref> Alternatively, if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox (2.0+), then Wouterstomp's bookmarklet can automate this step from the PubMed abstract page.
[edit] Categorize the many medicine-related articles
- Label articles of interest to the project by putting the {{Wikiproject MCB}} template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to molecular and cellular biology.
- Categories:
- Stubs:
- Categorize protein articles by adding them to the list of types of proteins.
- Make sure that all articles about proteins are placed in the proteins category or one of its subcategories.
[edit] Direct our focus
- Join in discussing proposals, so that we can take our ideas off the drawing board and put them into action. Go there, choose a proposal, read it and add your two cents!
- The Medicine Portal always needs to be maintained!
[edit] Improve the project itself
- Help to develop the protein infobox templates. Protein information boxes can be included in each wikipedia article about a particular protein. Eventually, there should also be an information box about cell types.
- Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in molecular and cellular to contribute to Wikipedia.
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