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The science article where the approach is described in detail is this one: "A Gene Wiki for Community Annotation of Gene Function", http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060175 It has just come out in PLoS Biology, - an open access journal. The researchers/wikipedians have constructed a script called "Protein box bot" that runs on (the real) Wikipedia. It creates images and writes text, for example links to NCBI. The bot can do this both for existing articles, such as this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR2A, or it can create new articles with a the box, a small summary and references. The "gene wiki" is making an impact on the science part of Wikipedia. I counted the number of outbound scientific citations from Wikipedia, and the new ones that the bot has created are now the majority. The details of this count are here: http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/views/publication_details.php?id=5666