This page should coordinate the efforts of writing good Wikipedia articles for the course "Cellular Biochemistry". Please note that Wikipedia uses a Markup Language to create content, so unlike in Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org Writer you dont get what you see but what you mean. It is similar to HTML or LaTeX, some commands you know from there you will be able to use here again. If you are not familiar with Wikipedia markup language, you can always consult the Wikipedia:Cheatsheet.

Tutorial

The first thing you should do is read this tutorial carefully, just click on "show" and be sure to understand these points.

If you don't want to read it all, here is a short summary: Get an account by clicking on Log in / create account. If you want to experiment, the right place is the Wikipedia:Sandbox. Check what information Wikipedia already provides on your topic using a command like "mitochondrion inurl:en.wikipedia.org" in Google. Then start writing your article like described below in the section "Sample Article", write it according to Wikipedias guidelines and the ones given to you by the course instructor. Do NOT use your own made up theories or data, use only material that is already published, preferentially in a peer reviewed journal. Indicate your sources by referencing, see Wikipedia:Citing sources. Use internal and external links to make your article more understandable, the internal "wiki links" are one of the strongest advantages of Wikipedia, use them when appropriate but do not link every word ;-). Put external links at the end to the "external links" section. Start your article easy and understandable for the layperson. Try to think of the people that read the article, think about what you would want to know or what might be interesting. Write encyclopedic style, do not write Protein A is the best, I prefer it over protein B but rather write Protein A is important in cell cycle control and it is phosphorylated at Tyr43 by protein B.

If you want to learn how to make nice pictures using PyMol, use this tutorial.

How to Choose an Article

If you want to find an article to work on, you may want to visit the Wikipedia:MCB, they have a page for article requests. You can also search the articles for so called stubs (very short articles) which need expansion; you can find them in the categories top, high, mid and low importance. In the last section you may find the most articles and a lot of automatically created articles about human genes which need attention - be sure to select WikiText and not HTML as output since the latter will abort after 1000 articles.

You may also decide that you want to write a completely new article, just make sure that no article exists yet otherwise you might be doing some work twice!

How to create an article

Please read this tutorial.

Links and Tools

In case you need further help, you probably want to check these links to answer questions which might arise while you work on your article

These two tools might come in handy editing the article or creating correctly formatted references:

Pictures

The most important issue for images is their copyright status. Images in the public domain, or released under one of the free licenses compatible with Wikipedia, can be uploaded at will. In other cases, the uploader should own the copyright and be willing to release the image. The various issues surrounding image copyright on Wikipedia are discussed here and at the linked articles.
But you cannot just upload an image from a journal like Nature since these journals do not publish their material under a free license. One alternative is PLoS but you will not always find the picture you like in that journal. You can get permission from the journal to publish the picture on Wikipedia under one of the free licenses compatible with Wikipedia or make a picture yourself with GIMP or Adobe Illustrator, maybe using the picture you like as a guideline.

To include an image in an article, add the image file name between double square brackets, preceded by the word “Image:”, e.g., “[[Image:Proteasome.jpg]]". The image can be aligned with the right or left margin using those words as arguments, as in “[[Image:Proteasome.jpg|right]]"; right alignment is the default. Wikipedia's image policy strongly encourages using the 'thumbnail' size for most images, as in “[[Image:Proteasome.jpg|right|thumb]]", but an image that requires larger display, such as a map or diagram, can be scaled by specifying a pixel size, as in “[[Image:Proteasome.jpg|right|250px]]". Captions are desirable, and are added at the end, after another vertical bar, as in “[[Image:Proteasome.jpg|thumb|A three-dimensional image of the proteasome]]", which appears at right.

For more details, see the tutorials Wikipedia:Picture tutorial, Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials, and Wikipedia:How to improve image quality.

The syntax for images is described here.

Sample Article

If you are unsure where to begin or what your article should look like, you can consider looking at already existing articles to get a feeling of what is expected. Some examples are Sic1, eIF2 and cdc6. Now a sample article follows which you can just copy-paste and use as a template for your own article. Notice that you do not need to fill in all the fields of the protein template, they will just not appear if you leave them empty.

{{protein
| Name = 
| image = 
| width = 
| caption =
| Symbol = 
| AltSymbols =
| ATC_prefix=
| ATC_suffix=
| ATC_supplemental=
| CAS_number=
| CAS_supplemental=
| DrugBank=
| EntrezGene = 
| HGNCid =
| OMIM = 
| PDB =
| RefSeq = 
| UniProt = 
| ECnumber = 
| Chromosome = 
| Arm = 
| Band = 
| LocusSupplementaryData = 
}}


'''Sic1''' is a [[protein]] in the budding yeast ''[[Saccharomyces cerevisiae]]''. 
It is a [[cyclin-dependent kinase]] (Cdk) inhibitor ... 
<ref name ="Tripodi"> 
{{cite journal 
| author = F. Tripodi, V. Zinzalla, M. Vanoni, L. Alberghina, P. Coccetti 
| date = 2007
| title = In CK2 inactivated cells ...
| journal = Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication
| volume =  359 
| pages =   921-927
| pmid = 17574209 }}
</ref>

==Section 1==
[[Image:Sic1 fig1.jpg|thumb|400px|'''Fig. 1''' The diagram shows the role of Sic1]]

==Section 2==
===Subsection===
===Subsection===

==Section 3==
more information...

after the main text, your article should contain the following:


==See also==
*[[p27 (gene)|p27]]
*[[CDKN1B]]

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
[http://www.page1.ch Page of Sic1]

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Wikiprojects

Here are some places you might want to visit

Wikiproject 1 Portal:Gene Wiki
Wikiproject 2 WP:MCB