User talk:Caromk

2005 Research on Wikipedia

Feel free to contact me here about my research project!

Questions

If I left a note on your discussion page, the questions I am interested in are:

Answer only as far as you are comfortable, even if it's just a yes/no on question 1. Any information you send me will be stripped of any identifying information in my final report.

(1) Do you have domain specific knowledge related to the topic of the article you edited or AI/Neurobiology (depending on the topic of the article) in general?

(2) What is your educational and work background?

You can use the "E-mail this user" link to answer.

Reply

1. Yes. I have a particular interest in AI and machine learning, as applied to mathematical modelling and mathematical games.
2. Degree in mathematical physics, and post-graduate computer science degree. Work background has centered around use of computers and mathematical methods in a variety of fields.

-- The Anome 12:30, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

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1. Regarding dopamine and long term potentiation: my domain specific knowledge comes from having taken three college-level classes in molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry, as well as reading on my own. At one point I was planning to take up graduate level work in molecular biology, but I didn't.
2. Ph.D. in Mathematics, Masters in Computer Science; teaching mathematics at a college.

AxelBoldt 18:36, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

reply to your e-mail

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Caromk wrote:
>
> Hi PFHLai,
>
> I am a student at Stanford University doing a research project on
> Wikipedia.  Specifically, I am looking at a handful of articles with
> domain specific knowledge and analyzing how they have been created and
> maintained.
>
> You were edited two of these articles, Long-term potentiation and
> dopamine.
>
> I am sending emails to those who contributed with a couple questions.
> Any information you send me will be stripped of any identifying
> information in my final report.
>
> Answer only as far as you are comfortable, even if it's just a yes/no
> on question 1.
>
> (1) Do you have domain specific knowledge related to Long-term
> potentiation and dopamine or Neurobiology in general?
>
> (2)What is your educational and work background?
>
> Thank you,

Hi Caromk,

I am also a student. Of course, I should help a fellow student. :-)

I don't have specific knowledge related to Long-term potentiation (long forgotten after undergrad...), but I do know Protein Kinase A, one of the foci of my MSc thesis. My edit at the "Long-term potention" page was to fix the link to the page about Protein Kinase A [1].

I do know a bit about dopamine, but I did not add my knowledge to the dopamine page. My edit on this page was merely a categorization. [2] -- I was grouping neurotransmitters at the time.

Neurobiology ? I don't know too much, just bits and pieces from university courses taken before. My edits in the two pages were simply "housekeeping", no specific knowledge in the title topic is required.

My background ? I have a BSc and an MSc in Pharmacology. Currently, I am working on my PhD thesis on endothelial gene expression.

Hope this helps. Good Luck on your research.

TakeCare
PFHLai 01:44, 2004 Nov 21 (UTC)

the current questions I'm asking Wikipedians

(1)Is Support Vector Machines on your watchlist?

(2)How often do you check your watchlist?

(3)In what situations do you edit articles on Wikipedia?

(4)What guidelines/rules do you follow when you edit a Wikipedia article?

(5)Have you ever read any of Wikipedia's style guidelines? If so, what parts did you read?

(6)What other ways have you learned the rules of editing in Wikipedia?

(7)Do you have an audience in mind when you edit a technical article? If so, what is that audience?