The Rfam group coordinates the annotation of Rfam data in
Wikipedia. This motif is described by a Wikipedia entry entitled
Stem-loop.
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The wikipedia text that you see displayed on our web site is a download
from
Wikipedia. This means that the information we display is a copy of
the information from the Wikipedia database. The button above
("Edit wikipedia entry") takes you to the edit page for the
article directly within wikipedia. You should be aware you are not
editing our local copy of this information. Any changes that you make
to the Wikipedia article will not be displayed by our site until we next
download the article from Wikipedia. We currently download new content
on a nightly basis.
Before you edit for the first time
Wikipedia is a free, online encyclopedia. Although anyone can edit or
contribute to an article, Wikipedia has some strong editing guidelines
and policies, which promote the Wikipedia standard of style and
etiquette. Your edits and contributions are more likely to be accepted
(and remain) if they are in accordance with this policy.
You should take a few minutes to view the following pages:
Things you should know
How your contribution will be recorded
Anyone can edit a Wikipedia entry. You can do this either as a new user
or you can register with Wikipedia and log on. When you click on the
"Edit Wikipedia entry" button, your browser will direct you to
the edit page for this entry in Wikipedia. If you are a registered user
and currently logged in, your changes will be recorded under your
Wikipedia user name. However, if you are not a registered user or are
not logged on, your changes will be logged under your computer’s IP
address. This has two main implications. Firstly, as a registered
Wikipedia user your edits are more likely seen as valuable contribution
(although all edits are open to community scrutiny regardless).
Secondly, if you edit under an IP address you may be sharing this IP
address with other users. If your IP address has previously been
blocked (due to being flagged as a source of 'vandalism') your edits
will also be blocked. You can find more information on this and creating
a user account at Wikipedia.
If you have problems editing a particular page, contact us at
rfam-help@ebi.ac.uk
and we will try to help.
Information we would like to see added
We would value contributions that are referenced directly to the primary
literature. Information on structure and function will be especially
valuable.
Adding references is made much easier by
this tool.
For a good example of what is possible in wikipedia, look at the
Hammerhead Ribozyme entry.
Does Rfam agree with the content of the Wikipedia entry ?
Rfam has chosen to create Wikipedia entries for all of our RNA families
and to open them up to community annotation. While the original
Wikipedia article that we import was (in most cases) generated from Rfam
annotations, the Wikipedia article you see now may bear little
resemblance to that original text. The Wikipedia community does monitor
edits to try to ensure that (a) the quality of article annotation
increases, and (b) vandalism is very quickly dealt with. However, we
would like to emphasise that Rfam does not curate the Wikipedia entries
and we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information on the
Wikipedia page.
Contact us
The community annotation is a new facility of the Rfam web site. If you
have problems editing or experience problems with these pages please
contact us.
If you are interested in contributing to a wide range of articles relating
to RNA, see the Wikiproject RNA page.
This page is based on a
wikipedia article. The text is available under the
Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
