Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Molecular Biology/Molecular and Cell Biology/Statistics

message: I added something called the "Weighted Completion Index" to the bottom of each table, which is a value representative of the total progress of the articles in that table. The calcular is simple, and is analogous to the calculation of a GPA: each article is assigned a point value according to its importance and class, and the product of these two values is the "individual completion index" of that particular article. The individual completion indices are summed, and divided by the sum of the importance values of each article, giving an initial value between 0 and the value for an FA. The percentage shown is simply this value divided by the FA value times 100. See? Simple. ;) – ClockworkSoul 00:16, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weighted completion index 

message: Why is blood on our worklist? I was under the impression that blood was counted as an organ, which is rather out of our area. What about replacing blood with some of the blood cell type pages, such as Red blood cell or White blood cell? I've tagged these pages with our project template, but don't know what level of importance we should give them. TimVickers 16:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. I've removed the  tag and added gradings to the tags that you placed on red blood cell and white blood cell, the latter of which can in particular afford a some editorial love. – ClockworkSoul 17:52, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Blood?

message: I was bold, created a history section and moved a few articles into it. TimVickers 05:36, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History section

message: There are a few articles in the top category now that are stubs. These include: biochemical cascade, biological membrane, carbon fixation, cell type, chemotroph, cohesion (chemistry), compartmentalization (biology), cytotoxicity, endomembrane system, gamete, germ cell/germline (merge?), hydrophile, hypotonic/isotonic (merge into tonicity together with hypertonic?), monomer, organic life/carbon-based life (merge?), phototroph, RNA silencing, semipermeable membrane, somatic cell, sterol, substrate (biochemistry), zygote. - tameeria 06:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm adding some more recently accessed stubs to the list. - tameeria 03:17, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  top importance stubs 

message: One more question: How is the worklist table updated? Is it automatic, or does it need to be done by hand? I haven't touched it yet as I don't know the proper procedure. (Plus, there are now close to 4000 articles tagged with MCB templates, so I'm not sure if it's even pratical to include them all.) - tameeria 06:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The worklist used to be updated by ClockworkSoul using a script that got its data from this version, which is automatically updated once a day. Clockwork's been kind of busy in real life lately and might not have been updating regularly. I'm not sure if anyone else has a copy of his script, and I'm not sure how he did the topic classifications, but the enormous growth in the bot-updated list suggests to me that it might be best to either keep this page for the most important articles, or split it into topic subpages. TimVickers has done some of the administrative stuff in Clockwork's absence; he might have a better idea of how the updating worked. Opabinia regalis 17:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Hm, I'm following you around ;) I think I might have been imagining things, but I could've sworn someone else had that script. I left a note for Willow too. Opabinia regalis 17:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Wow... I've get distracted for a little while, and look what happens (in a good way). I'll start updating the table again, and as soon as I get the chance I'll figure a way to reorganize it so it's not so... well... vast. I just did a merge of the now ten subpages, and it's so huge that it won't even preview. Wow. Just... wow. – ClockworkSoul 16:28, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm going to filtering from the list everything with a "low" priority, at least for now as a temporary measure until I can create something more managable. – ClockworkSoul 16:30, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm more or less alive again. Stupid alien abductions. We now have far too many articles under our domain to inlclude here by a factor of about ten. What's worse is that the script I used to use went poof with my late hard drive. However, I've been coding up a storm lately, and I can easily incorporate this functionality into the new WikiProject tool I've been working on (recently dubbed "Igor". Thanks Tim!). Expect to start seeing updates within the next couple of weeks. – ClockworkSoul 18:52, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  updating the table? 

message: I have been wanting to get involved, and because I have a background in the subject, I was interested in doing major work to the Oncogene page.  I noted that it was part of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Project, so I thought it might make sense to sound out this group on the most constructive way to begin. (I have been reading the general Wikipedia Guidelines.) 128.249.96.251 17:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We are a very non-hierarchical and loose organisation, so the right way to get involved is simply to start editing. I'd advise you to write for the non-expert audience and aim for a similar structure and format as some of our featured articles such as enzyme, immune system and proteasome. Adding references is easy with this tool. Just submit the PubMed ID and copy and paste the resulting output (xxxx) into the page between  xxxxx  I hope you enjoy editing. TimVickers 18:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  the Right Way to Get Involved 

message: Hi all, I've got a question... I was going through unassessed articles to rate them and found this one: Cell disruption by nitrogen decompression. According to the talk page (and a quick googling of some phrases), it's a copy/paste job from Parr Instrument Company, apparently by their webmaster and authorized by the COO. Is this kind of thing ok on Wikipedia? There are no references and the two external links are both commercial in nature. - tameeria 23:38, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy/paste from company website? 

message: The following top importance articles were marked as needing attention (in case anyone is looking for something do to):
biological membrane, central dogma of molecular biology, genetically modified organism, isotonic, neurotransmitter, sexual reproduction, somatic cell
- tameeria 20:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top importance articles needing attention 

message: I've been working on some merges, but I don't have time to do them all. So I thought I'd start a "to do" list here with proposed merges from the backlog that might be of interest to editors in this project. Some are clear-cut merge candidates, others are controversial and may benefit from a few more discussion comments. Here are those I found in the backlog that were tagged before May 2007:
*Oligomeric proanthocyanidin - Proanthocyanidin
*P300/CBP - EP300
*Chemotropism - Tropism
*RNA polymerase control by chromatin structure - RNA polymerase II
*Visual cycle - Visual phototransduction
*Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy - X-ray tomography
*17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency - Male pseudohermaphroditism due to 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency
*Carbon-based life - Organic life
*Aortic annulus - Fibrous rings of heart
*C syndrome - Trigonocephaly
*Gastrulation - Epiboly - Gastrula
*Genophore - Nucleoid
*Genotype - Genotyping
*Glutamate dehydrogenase - Glutamate dehydrogenase 1
*Hexoaminidase - Hexosaminidase
*Pyruvate decarboxylation - Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex
*Photosynthetic Pigments - Photosynthetic pigment
*SCF complex - SCF-complex
*Urocortin - Urocortin II - Urocortin III
- tameeria (talk) 19:56, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merges