Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
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- For a directory of science-oriented WikiProjects, see: WikiProject Council: Directory – Science
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Shortcuts | WP:SCIENCE, WP:WPSCI |
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Category | WikiProject Science |
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Wikimedia Commons | ![]() |
Project banner template | {{WikiProject Science}} |
Userboxes | {{User WikiProject Science}} {{User WikiProject Science2}} |
Helps organise child projects? | No |
Has goals? | Yes |
Assessment | Wikipedia:WikiProject Science/Assessment |
Scope and goalsEdit
This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate the efforts of Wikipedians interested in science in an effort to improve popular science-related articles. It is motivated by the belief that a good scientific article should be both understandable by the "general public" and interesting to the scientifically inclined. This is important because many popular articles are about science, so contributing to them brings us the satisfaction that it will be appreciated by many.
The goals of this WikiProject are:
- To attract Wikipedians to this project and focus the effort for maximum efficiency
- To serve as a nexus and discussion area to build consensus on how to write good scientific articles.
Plan of approachEdit
The approach is to start with the most popular scientific articles, then focus on the more specific ones. The most popular scientific articles are the ones that are most referenced by other articles (as Google does).
Other science projectsEdit
Additional science projects are listed at this directory page: WikiProject Council: Directory – Science. See the current Science portal for examples of how science articles can be arranged topically and linked to and from related WikiProjects and Portals. Outline of the scientific method is also a useful article.
How you can helpEdit
"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."
— Albert Einstein, in "Physics and Reality" (1936); later published in Out of My Later Years (1950)
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Improve Wikipedia's coverage of science-related topics:
- Identify articles related to science and tag talk pages with the project's banner: {{WikiProject Science}}
- Improve and discuss the proposed structures of articles
- Improve science articles
- Sign the guestbook or place {{User WikiProject Science}} on your user page.
- Add this page to your watchlist to see what's occurring here
Improve the bird's eye viewEdit
The Outline of science and its branch outline articles are intended to summarize all of the sciences. These are in turn part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems. Please look it and its branches over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.
While analyzing the outlines, please consider (and fix as needed):
- What's missing?
- Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
- Does the outline help convey the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?
The overall purpose of the outlines is to help readers comprehend science. The science outline provides a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject. It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan and develop science-related material. Outlines are a hub from which to organize scientific topics.
The concept of "reverse outlines" is a very relevant example. Reverse outlines provide a structural model overview, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal gaps in coverage and other weaknesses for revision purposes. Please help improve the Outline of science article, which is this project's bird's eye view.
OtherEdit
- Answer requests for comments
2022 in science |
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Extraterrestrial environment |
Terrestrial environment |
Other/related |
- Expand 2022 in science and other articles for science-related topics of the year (in the box on the right)
- Help adding items of this article to other articles that should contain information on the studies – most items (events) of articles in this article-series have at least one article linked which should contain such
- Add relevant images to the article (see the task below)
- Create new articles for items of this article (the page does not use redlinks anymore but you will quickly identify possible new articles when reading its items and here you can find over 60 redlinked examples)
- Systematically monitor new scientific events / reports to routinely add them to the list (examples here)
- The above tasks for items of articles for previous years (like 2021 in science) and studies requested to be discussed or included (examples))
- Find[how?] studies published under a compatible open license – like CC BY 4.0 – and upload the study's images with descriptions from the study and add these images to articles if relevant
- When a study with a useful image is published under an incompatible or unclear license, you could contact authors and ask them to give you the permission to upload them under CC BY 4.0 or to upload the image/s under a compatible license
Article alertsEdit
Did you know
- 07 May 2022 – Empirical limits in science (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Airstarfish (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 26 May 2022 – Epsilon number (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 23 May 2022 – Triple Science (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Slywriter (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 21 May 2022 – List of Jewish astronauts (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RandomCanadian (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 20 May 2022 – Fermat's Last Theorem in fiction (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- 19 May 2022 – Before We Ruled the Earth (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
- 16 May 2022 – Evacuate Earth (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by TenPoundHammer (t · c) was closed as keep by Qwaiiplayer (t · c) on 24 May 2022; see discussion (7 participants)
- 15 May 2022 – Optical field (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Spinningspark (t · c) was closed as redirect by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 23 May 2022; see discussion (5 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 17 May 2022 – Prehistoric Megastorms (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by TenPoundHammer (t · c) was deleted
Categories for discussion
- 15 May 2022 – Category:Condensed matter (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Forbes72 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Featured article reviews
- 01 May 2022 – Planet (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Artem.G (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 22 May 2022 – Optoform (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Optical cage system by Srleffler (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 13 Jan 2022 – Climate Mirror (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Data rescue by 130.225.33.98 (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Apr 2021 – International Council for Science (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to International Science Council by Finell (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 27 Apr 2022 – Radiogenomics (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Charles Matthews (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Apr 2022 – Science and technology in the United States (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Mrbeastmodeallday (t · c); see discussion
- 24 Jun 2021 – Hydrological code (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 27 May 2022 – Draft:William R. Wiley (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Berg04 (t · c)
- 27 May 2022 – Draft:Valentín Pillet (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Alamo NM (t · c)
- 27 May 2022 – Draft:Natasha Billson (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Archaeologist108 (t · c)
- 27 May 2022 – Draft:Monday Sunday Adiaha (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Space23e (t · c)
- 25 May 2022 – Draft:Gary Dell (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Cogscilangprod (t · c)
- 25 May 2022 – Draft:Fashion MNIST (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 169.234.235.148 (t · c)
- 25 May 2022 – Draft:Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mcampany (t · c)
- 24 May 2022 – Draft:Amit Awasthi (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Akshay.binayke (t · c)
- 23 May 2022 – Draft:CoastalME (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Andres Payo (t · c)
- 23 May 2022 – Draft:Axel Behrens (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 17Lauren21 (t · c)
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StatisticsEdit
Science articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||
FL | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
GA | 3 | 1 | 11 | 15 | |||
B | 12 | 19 | 20 | 40 | 10 | 101 | |
C | 17 | 37 | 49 | 246 | 67 | 416 | |
Start | 2 | 55 | 96 | 691 | 2 | 330 | 1,176 |
Stub | 2 | 16 | 27 | 505 | 1 | 128 | 679 |
List | 5 | 17 | 21 | 72 | 1 | 33 | 149 |
Category | 2,555 | 2,555 | |||||
Disambig | 16 | 16 | |||||
File | 7 | 7 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 29 | 29 | |||||
Redirect | 4 | 94 | 98 | ||||
Template | 93 | 93 | |||||
Other | 2 | 418 | 420 | ||||
Assessed | 43 | 147 | 214 | 1,573 | 3,217 | 568 | 5,762 |
Unassessed | 1 | 196 | 197 | ||||
Total | 43 | 147 | 214 | 1,574 | 3,217 | 764 | 5,959 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 11,946 | Ω = 5.00 |
CategoriesEdit
MembersEdit
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WikiProject Science is parent of the WikiProjects below:
- WikiProject Academic Journals
- WikiProject Anthropology
- WikiProject Archaeology
- WikiProject Astronomy
- WikiProject Biology
- WikiProject Chemistry
- WikiProject Cognitive science
- WikiProject Computer science
- WikiProject Cosmology
- WikiProject Engineering
- WikiProject Forestry
- WikiProject Futures studies
- WikiProject Geology
- WikiProject Glass
- WikiProject History of Science
- WikiProject Linguistics
- WikiProject Mathematics
- WikiProject Medicine
- WikiProject Meteorology
- WikiProject Physics
- WikiProject Philosophy/Science
- WikiProject Pseudoscience
- WikiProject Psychology
- WikiProject Royal Society
- WikiProject Skepticism
- WikiProject Soil
- WikiProject Spaceflight
- WikiProject Statistics
- WikiProject Systems
- WikiProject Time
- WikiProject Weather
- WikiProject Women scientists
Related pagesEdit
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SubpagesEdit
- List of all subpages of this page
Older project pagesEdit
- WikiProject Science – strategies: Includes project history
Scientific Peer ReviewEdit
Peer review at this project is no longer active and scientific articles should be directed to the general Wikipedia peer review. Reviews of articles that were completed are archived here.
CommentsEdit
- As noted at Talk:Environmental chemistry please do any work in consensus with other editors. Removing large sections leaving bare headings is not the right way to proceed. Velella Velella Talk 08:50, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
A refereed journal on WikiversityEdit
I think I posted this on an archived discussion and will look for a better place to post--Guy vandegrift (talk) 09:49, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
According to this survey, the prime disincentive against making scholarly contributions to Wikipedia is that it will not advance careers. Wikiversity:First Journal of Science will be a peer-reviewed journal that should alleviate this problem for recent college graduates who are not expected to have published in the established scholarly journals.
The word "First" in the title is intended to suggest that we need more journals like this. The Wikiversity:First Journal of Science was patterned after the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, but will have a somewhat more informal flavor, consistent with this new journal's intent to focus on teaching at the undergraduate college level. Wikiversity:First Journal of Science will attribute with bylines that list usernames only, in contrast with the use of real names by the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine
Another unique feature of Wikiversity:First Journal of Science is that edited versions of Wikipedia articles are welcome, and are presented as Wikipedia articles on the Wikiversity journal via permalinks to the history of Wikipedia articles. This is currently accomplished in a rather awkward fashion, by moving the Wikipedia article into the editor's user space, and after proper attribution, deleting all that extraneous prose that Wikipedia articles tend to acquire. An example of this shown in one of the three "pseudo-articles" that were used to create a mockup issue. Of the three "pseudo-articles" in this mockup, I consider only one to be suitable for publication. It is Wikipedia's Introduction to quantum mechanics. Note how the logo was inserted into the "pseudo-accepted" version without permission of the article's current editors. In other words, all of Wikipedia's 5 million articles are candidates for publication in this journal, and in a manner of speaking, have already effectively submitted their manuscripts to Wikiversity:First Journal of Science for review--Guy vandegrift (talk) 05:24, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Collaboration of the Month (inactive)Edit
The current science collaboration of the month article is: Chemistry Please help improve this article to featured article quality standards.
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