Wikipedia:WikiProject Invention

WikiProject Invention
	Article assessment; Peer review; To-do lists; Templates;
	Contents 1 About WikiProject Invention 1.1 Goals; 1.2 Scope; 1.3 Guidelines; ; 2 Ways to contribute 2.1 To-do list; ; 3 Members; 4 Articles 4.1 Featured articles and content 4.1.1 Featured article candidates; 4.1.2 Potential GA and FA candidates; ; 4.2 New articles; 4.3 External watchlist; ; 5 Review and assessment 5.1 Assessment; 5.2 Peer review; ; 6 Categories; 7 Templates 7.1 Project banner; 7.2 Invitation; 7.3 Invitation to WikiProject Invention; 7.4 Infoboxes; 7.5 Navigation bars; ; 8 Resources 8.1 Related WikiProjects; 8.2 Related portals; 8.3 Article alerts; ; 9 Tools;
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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to join!

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Welcome to WikiProject Invention, a collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Invention and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and view/contribute to the to-do list below.

About WikiProject InventionEdit

GoalsEdit

Goals of this project are to provide improved coverage on subjects related to invention, by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles on people, inventions, and ideas relevant to the principles of invention and inventive thinking.

Article coordination, organization and collaborations
Article creation, expansion and maintenance
Article categorization
Maintaining objectivity and neutral point-of-view in invention-related articles

ScopeEdit

This project focuses on all pages related to Invention, its history, branches, and people involved. These should all be included in the Category:Inventions or one of its subcategories. We hope to provide detailed and organized coverage of the subject.

GuidelinesEdit

Editing in accordance with Wikipedia's Manual of Style and coordinating the style of new articles.

Ways to contributeEdit

To-do listEdit

To edit this list, click here. Please feel free to add to this list.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : Tag and assess related article talk pages with the project's banner: {{WikiProject Invention|class= |importance= }}
Copyedit : Drip irrigation
Expand : Anatol Josepho, Creativity techniques, Discovery (observation), Dutch process chocolate, Dynamite, Inventors' Day, Patent model, World Intellectual Property Day
Maintain : Invention, Invention of radio, List of prolific inventors, Timeline of historic inventions
Stubs : Altekruse Puzzle, Bhāskara's wheel, Blow forward, Crescograph, Ebulliometer, Japanese typewriter, Plumber wrench, Segner wheel, Silicon–air battery, Teclu burner, Thermoscope
Update : Artificial kidney
Verify : Aerosani, Aeroscope, Anemometer, Artificio de Juanelo, Autoclaved aerated concrete, Bolt cutter, Carburetor, Chindōgu, Cross-flow turbine, Diving chamber, Drum memory, Dynamo, Electric clock, Espresso machine, Giesl ejector, Hansen Writing Ball, Hollander beater, Human torpedo, Invention, Jankó keyboard, K-202, Kaleidoscope, Kaplan turbine, Kerosene lamp, List of Dutch inventions and discoveries, Nagra, Porro prism, Propeller (marine), Quick release skewer, Refracting telescope, Ring binder, Surakarta (game), Sosrobahu, Tagliatelle, Vacuum flask, Wootz steel

–When a task is completed, please remove it from the list.

Project tasks:

Tag and assess articles
Finish creating article statistics
Create an Invention portal at Portal:Invention

Maintain the articles in the navigation box below:

MembersEdit

User box

To post the following user box on your user page,
copy {{WikiProject Invention user box}}, which creates:

This user is a member of
WikiProject Invention.

Please feel free to add yourself here, posting new entries at the end of the list, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

Invalch (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on any thing related to this project, I created it after all !)
Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs) 06:38, 29 August 2013
UseTheCommandLine patent policy
Wiki.Gunjan
Titodutta
Hamham31
SenatorSteve - observer and gentle participant
Edison (talk) 01:51, 7 September 2013 (UTC) Electrical, acoustic and optical inventions, in the 18th, 19th, and the first half of the 20th century.
Shirsakbc (talk) 01:35, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
LaurentianShield
JCO11163 (talk)
User:CJS9001 (I am very interested in mechanics and electronics, and I have engineering experience.)
Sony Vark XIII---I'm a designer of my own inventions looking for partners able to help build and research my inventions.
Jummals (talk) 21:47, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Adityavagarwal (talk) 18:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
econterms (talk) 03:03, 16 December 2017 (UTC) -- Historical aeronautics and aviation; history and economics of tech change; getting patent data standardized on Wikidata
Emoritz2017 -- Interested in Ancient and Modern Inventions
Invent1234
RichDiamondPlayz (talk 13:33 4 April 2020 (UTC) -- I love inventions and all of the sort, so i HAVE to join :)

ArticlesEdit

Article statistics
For detailed assessment statistics, see: (Index · Statistics · Log).

Invention articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FL	1						1
GA			2	1		2	5
B	6	7	6	6		7	32
C	6	8	16	44		27	101
Start	4	17	25	128	1	50	225
Stub		1	14	73		17	105
List	46	4	2	25		8	85
Category	1				175	1	177
Disambig			2		1		3
File					3		3
Project					9		9
Redirect					6		6
Template					10		10
Other					5		5
Assessed	64	37	67	277	210	112	767
Unassessed						59	59
Total	64	37	67	277	210	171	826
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 2,265			Ω = 4.84

Featured articles and contentEdit

See Featured articles – Engineering and technology
See Featured pictures for Engineering and technology: Electronics, Machinery, Weaponry and Others.

Featured article candidatesEdit

Waveguide filter - nominated as a featured article candidate on 7 August 2013 (UTC)
Nintendo DSi - nominated for FA on 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Potential GA and FA candidatesEdit

Please list developed articles with potential to reach Good article or Featured article status here.

New articlesEdit

Please list new invention-related articles here. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

External watchlistEdit

Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Invention

Review and assessmentEdit

AssessmentEdit

The project Assessment page

Peer reviewEdit

The project Peer review page

CategoriesEdit

Select [►] to view subcategories

▼ Inventions

► Inventions by century

► Inventions by continent

► Inventions by country

► Lists of inventions or discoveries

► Ancient inventions

► Devices to alter consciousness

► Discovery and invention controversies

► History of inventions

► Inventors

► Lost inventions

► Patents placed into the public domain

► Rolling stock innovations

► Shaker inventions

TemplatesEdit

Project bannerEdit

Placing {{WikiProject Invention}} on article talk pages creates the following project banner:

WikiProject Invention

(Rated NA-class)

v t e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Invention, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Invention on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
NA	This article has been rated as NA-Class on the project's quality scale.

InvitationEdit

To invite editors to join the project, add the following to a new section on user talk pages: {{subst:WikiProject Invention invitation}}, which automatically produces the following, (including the talk page section header, the recipient's name and your signature):

Invitation to WikiProject InventionEdit

Hello, WikiProject Invention. You are invited to join WikiProject Invention, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of inventions and invention-related topics. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. ~~~~

InfoboxesEdit

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{{Infobox machine}}

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Navigation barsEdit

Use {{Inventions}} to place this template in articles.

ResourcesEdit

Related WikiProjectsEdit

Related portalsEdit

Article alertsEdit

Articles for deletion

31 Dec 2020 – Noor Siddiqui (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Falcon Kirtaran (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)

Articles to be merged

02 Aug 2020 – Robert Huntsman (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to CleanFlicks by Lockley (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

19 Sep 2020 – Thinking outside the box (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lord Belbury (t · c); see discussion
22 Apr 2020 – Peter Madsen (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by CapnZapp (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

07 Jan 2021 – Draft:LaQ (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Naradice (t · c)
04 Dec 2020 – Draft:Creandum (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sardec (t · c)

ToolsEdit

Main tool page: toolserver.org

reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.