User talk:Gacggt
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I made some pages that do not show up when you press the "search" button, but do show up if you press the "go" button. For example if you search for "TrkA", you do not get the page. But if you enter "TrkA" and press "go", you do get the page. How do I make the page visible by the "search function?
- This is the response to your help request. What you are looking for is redirects. Simply go to the page you think people might search for, and make it a redirect. I have created MuSK (without redirection) for you so you will have an example. Please limit these to pages that you think people would have a good likelihood for thinking might be the main article though. Thanks for making the new article :) if you ahve any other questions let us know. - cohesion 02:43, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
- Oops, you are asking about the difference in go vs. search. "Go" will take you to any pre-existing article, while "search" will as you expect search everything for the term. The search index is updated by the developers on their schedule, and it's not immediate. There is no way to update the index early. Sorry for the bad news. You can always use google to search wikipedia though, many people do. [1] - cohesion 03:22, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] image maps
This makes me think that it should be possible to make molecular pathway diagrams for Wikipedia with links in them. --JWSchmidt 01:33, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- I have been thinking about diagrams for articles about receptors, kinases, phosphatases, transcription factors and other signaling pathway components. Here is an example (Image:IKK.png) of the kind of diagram I tend to make to illustrate components of signaling pathways. I have been thinking that Wikipedia should probably have a standard format for such diagrams. There are people at the Molecular and Cellular Biology WikiProject who can probably provide some useful input on this. --JWSchmidt 14:05, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi... but what would be cool would be to have each gene in the image hyperlinked... so for example if you click on PDK in the figure, it will take you to the PDK page. Gacggt 18:46, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- I agree. The other feature that would be nice would be to have animated figures. Static figures that try to show dynamic events like phosphorylation have problems. --JWSchmidt 19:16, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Gacggt, pathway pages are definitely neglected... Speaking of animated pathways, are you thinking of Flash? Or good old GIFs? Flash would be easier to implement I think and pretty much everyone's browser should support it these days. Does any wikipedia article use it? It wouldn't be too difficult to provide a static image as well and link to it in the caption. If we could recruit some animators to help it would be great. I don't entirely agree with your choice of most obvious pathways though :) but everyone has his favourites. I'd say Ras/Raf/Mek/Erk etc is definitely the top priority - I'm pretty sure most introductory cell signaling courses at universities use it is a model (mine did). Peter Z.Talk 22:34, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi Peter, John,
The animation would be to illustrate stuff like phosphorylation, ubiquitination etc.
For example, it would be really cool to show that once you polyubiquitinate a protein, it gets shuttled to the proteasome and gets destroyed.
Or, when a protein is phosphorylated at a particular site, it then recruits a particular binding partner.
Or, in a case like FOXO, or NFAT, when it is dephosphorylated it translocates to the nucleus...
Stuff like that would seem to require something like Flash, or actually having a link to an mpeg...
And then the pathways themselves could be diagrams in which the proteins were hyperlinked...
those are just some ideas...
Gacggt 22:42, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- "Macromedia claims that over 97% of web users now have an SWF plugin installed [2]." A lot better than SVG, which is still not supported by IE and Safari. Peter Z.Talk 22:49, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bronx High School of Science
How does the fact that I'm a Stuyvesant High School alumnus bear on the historical fact that Science started with faculty from Stuyvesant? If you have a source that contradicts the City's report I cited, please note it on the talk page. I've cited my source in the article, as Wikipedia requires. RossPatterson 01:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I wasn't questioning the fact - I was questioning the importance of the fact and thus its placement in the history section. Saying in the first line that Bronx Science was started with a bunch of teachers from Stuyvesant makes it sound like an off-shoot of Stuyvesant, which is not accurate. I'm not the first person to note how odd that sentence sounded - in the discussion page another writer ntoed the same thing - that it was odd to reference the other school in that way, in the first sentence of the history of Bx Science. Therefore I hope you will accept the compromise, which is to keep the data-point, but having it moved down in the section (that is what I did). Gacggt 20:48, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] This month's WP:MCB Article Improvement Drive article
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[edit] This month's WP:MCB Article Improvement Drive article
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[edit] One more vote for the coordinator of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject
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[edit] Biological Value
I noticed you appear to be involved in biology articles or WikiProjects relating to biology and human processes. This article, on a method for evaluating biological utilizations rates of proteins in humans and animals, was started in August and is in need of the attention of an expert. We are having trouble locating one and the article desperately needs it. This method is used constantly in bodybuilding magazines and products and is the subject of much misinformation and half-truths. On the other hand it does appear to have some value. Please help if possible. In case you're wondering why I picked you I just looked through some Science WikiProjects and biology articles and your name appeared a lot in one or both categories. Incidentally if you decide not to do this for whatever reason there's no need to reply. I'll just take it you're busy or uninterested and leave it at that. Thanks. Quadzilla99 23:06, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Medicine Projects welcome
Hello Gacggt, and welcome to the Medicine projects!
Thanks for listing yourself, I hope you enjoy contributing to some of our projects. On the right are some pages you could keep an eye on. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me!
Enjoy wiki, --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 15:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
