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Welcome to the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject!

We're a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia articles about molecular and cellular biology.

We'll help you contribute to these articles and collaborate with other editors.


Asking for help[edit]

The aim of our WikiProject is to develop more and better articles about molecular and cellular biology.
We'll do our utmost to help you, even if you're not an official member of our WikiProject.

Our success stories[edit]

Featured Articles (FAs) are the highest quality articles on Wikipedia. They receive careful vetting from the community and must satisfy rigorous criteria regarding their comprehensiveness, accuracy, neutrality, referencing, and writing quality. Only FAs may appear as "Today's Featured Article" on the Main Page, which has 4 to 7 million page views each day.

Examples of Featured Articles in molecular and cellular biology (click "show")

Good Articles (GAs) are vetted less rigorously than Featured Articles and, hence, are typically of lesser quality. Although some GAs are developed further FAs, this is not always appropriate. Independent evaluations suggest that GAs in the sciences are of reliably high quality.

We also maintain a list of our most viewed articles, which may help you choose which article(s) to work on.

How to contribute[edit]

The following suggestions focus on article contributions. However, there are vast areas of contribution unrelated to this. For example, there is Wikipedia:WikiProject Copyright Cleanup that addresses plagiarism, the Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit that helps remove obvious vandalism, and the Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard, where editors go to ask questions about sourcing. In other words, we are just giving you the tip of the iceberg!

Easy contributions
Medium contributions
  • Organize or reorganize articles
  • Improve or create the lead section of articles
  • Create and reference new sections of articles
Major contributions
  • Expand articles by adding and referencing multiple sections
  • Design media (diagrams, animations, etc.)
  • Revise/begin an entire article, achieving Good Article and/or Featured Article status
  • Improve a set of articles spanning a particular topic, creating a Featured Topic

Our most active members[edit]

The following table lists some of our most active members, along with their interests and and their contributions to articles in molecular and cellular biology (abbreviated "MCB"). The last two columns highlight the number of Featured Articles ("FAs") and Good Articles ("GAs") that they have helped to develop. The table can be sorted by clicking on the arrows at the top of each column.

User Interests #MCB Edits First MCB edit Last MCB edit FAs GAs
TimVickers (talk · contribs) Enzymes, enzyme kinetics, enzyme inhibition and pathogens.
Metabolism of parasites, detoxification and antioxidants.
47912 2006-06-17 2009-06-07 13 Enzyme
GrahamColm (talk · contribs) Mainly virology 8656 2007-09-15 2009-06-07 4 Virus
DO11.10 (talk · contribs) Graduate student immunology topics, immune system, etc. 7953 2006 2009-06-07 1 Immune system
Emw2012 (talk · contribs) Bioinformatics, protein structure prediction, protein design 1149 2008-06-30 2009-06-07 1 Rosetta@home
AndrewGNF (talk · contribs) Bioinformatics, gene expression analysis; interested in creating a wikipedia page for every mammalian gene using the ProteinBoxBot 3971 2007-03-09 2009-06-06 0
Diberri (talk · contribs) Biochemistry and cell signaling, also template tools 11340 2004-01-05 2009-06-06 0
Ciar (talk · contribs) Molecules and cells of the immune system. 6056 2006-08-16 2009-05-22 0

For a full list of our members, click here. To add yourself, please click here and fill in the "username" and "interests" blanks.

Latest news[edit]

Redirects for discussion

Featured article reviews

Requested moves

  • 09 Apr 2024 – 3α-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to AKR1C4 by SilverLocust (t · c); see discussion
  • 05 May 2024Gastric acid (talk · edit · hist) move request to Gastric juice by Iztwoz (t · c) was not moved; see discussion

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