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The 5th ISCB Wikipedia Competition: Coming to a Classroom Near You?

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  • International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) runs the competition in collaboration with WikiProject Computational Biology, a group of around 130 editors overseeing the roughly 1,300 computational biology-related articles on Wikipedia

  • Launched in 2012, Wikidata plays an increasingly important role in communicating all types of science to the public, and the inclusion of a Wikidata component in the competition aims to improve data content related to computational biology

  • Tutors, and lecturers to use the competition in their courses, with contributions to relevant Wikipedia or Wikidata content as part of a class assignment

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Introduction

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the 5th ISCB Wikipedia Competition. The competition has been run annually since 2012 and awards students and trainees for the best contributions to computational biology-related articles [1]. ISCB runs the competition in collaboration with WikiProject Computational Biology, a group of around 130 editors overseeing the roughly 1,300 computational biology-related articles on Wikipedia.

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