It was established to transfer information from scientific resources to Wikipedia stub articles.
Approximately half of human genes have assigned function, therefore the total number of articles seeded by the Gene Wiki project would be expected to be in the range of 10,000–15,000.
approximately 11,000 articles have been created or augmented to include Gene Wiki project content.
[citation needed] Once seed articles have been established, the hope and expectation is that these will be annotated and expanded by editors ranging in experience from the lay audience to students to professionals and academics.
Stubs for the Gene Wiki project are created by a bot and contain links to the following primary gene/protein databases: A report found that between 2013 and 2017, the content which Gene Wiki contributed to Wikipedia got crowdsourced development over time.