Wikipedia:WikiProject Science

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WikiProject Science

Stylized Lithium atom
Shortcuts	WP:SCIENCE, WP:WPSCI
Category	WikiProject Science
Portal	Science
Wikimedia Commons	Science
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 goals

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:

1. To attract Wikipedians to this project and focus the effort for maximum efficiency
2. To serve as a nexus and discussion area to build consensus on how to write good scientific articles.

Plan of approach

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 projects

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 help

"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)

Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Improve Wikipedia's coverage of science-related topics:

1. Identify articles related to science and tag talk pages with the project's banner: {{WikiProject Science}}
2. Improve and discuss the proposed structures of articles
3. Improve science articles
4. Sign the guestbook or place {{User WikiProject Science}} on your user page.
5. Add this page to your watchlist to see what's occurring here

Improve the bird's eye view

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):

1. What's missing?
2. Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
3. 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.

Other

• Answer requests for comments

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 06 Aug 2020 – Zirconian (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Jarred C Lloyd (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 03 Aug 2020 – Speeches by Michael Crichton (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Joel B. Lewis (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 03 Aug 2020 – Manzano Group (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Kent G. Budge (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 02 Aug 2020 – Palm Peak Formation (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Kent G. Budge (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 02 Aug 2020 – IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Kj cheetham (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 02 Aug 2020 – List of countries by number of Fields Medalists (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Boleyn (t · c); see discussion (14 participants)
• 28 Jul 2020 – JULES (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by P,TO 19104 (t · c); see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
• 30 Jul 2020 – Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Missvain (t · c) was closed as delete by Vanamonde93 (t · c) on 06 Aug 2020; see discussion (3 participants)
• 29 Jul 2020 – CuriosityStream (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by DGG (t · c) was closed as keep by Kj cheetham (t · c) on 02 Aug 2020; see discussion (8 participants)
• 27 Jul 2020 – Chris Fawkes (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Tacyarg (t · c) was closed as delete by Malcolmxl5 (t · c) on 03 Aug 2020; see discussion (4 participants)

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Proposed deletions

• 01 Aug 2020 – Speeches by Michael Crichton (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Joel B. Lewis (t · c) was deproded by Andrew Davidson (t · c) on 03 Aug 2020
• 30 Jul 2020 – Zirconian (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Jarred C Lloyd (t · c) was deproded by DGG (t · c) on 06 Aug 2020

Categories for discussion

• 30 Jul 2020 – Category:Films featuring anthropomorphic characters (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Shooterwalker (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 02 Aug 2020 – Discovery (observation) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Discovery by Anthony Appleyard (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 02 Aug 2020 – Field experiment (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Field research by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Jul 2020 – Event sampling methodology (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Diary studies by Daask (t · c); see discussion
• 23 May 2020 – Chinese Science Citation Database (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Web of Science by Postconfused (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Mar 2020 – Causal graph (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bayesian network by CFCF (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Jan 2020 – Computational engineering (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Computational science by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 11 May 2017 – Science and technology studies (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rhododendrites (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Jul 2016 – Adaptive clinical trial (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 23 Jul 2020 – Draft:Feeling Wheel (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Theseusstar (t · c)
• 15 Jul 2020 – Draft:Samuel L. Manzello (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DGG (t · c)
• 14 Jul 2020 – Draft:Michael Schutz (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Freakstie (t · c)
• 13 Jul 2020 – Draft:Code Ocean (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dyokomizo (t · c)
• 28 May 2020 – Draft:Kelly McLauchlin (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CrownOfSouls (t · c)
• 09 Jul 2020 – Draft:Mustafa Science and Technology Foundation (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Zahra Bkh (t · c) was declined by Robert McClenon (t · c) on 05 Aug 2020
• 01 May 2020 – Draft:Pegasus (workflow management) (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Catleaf (t · c) was moved to Pegasus (workflow management) (talk · edit · hist) by Timtrent (t · c) on 02 Aug 2020

Statistics

Science articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	2		1			5
FL				2			2
GA	3	1		7		2	13
B	8	15	15	22		11	71
C	9	34	45	146	2	57	293
Start	2	53	83	512	1	313	964
Stub	2	21	31	460		107	621
List	3	12	16	52		40	123
Book					7		7
Category				1	2,298		2,299
Disambig			3		18		21
File					8		8
Portal					3		3
Project					23		23
Redirect				2	67		69
Template				1	70		71
NA					1		1
Other				1	22		23
Assessed	29	138	193	1,207	2,520	530	4,617
Unassessed				2		140	142
Total	29	138	193	1,209	2,520	670	4,759
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 9,967			Ω = 5.06

Categories

▼ Science

► Scientists

► Matter

► Science-related lists

► Works about science

► Branches of science

► Scientific disciplines

► Science books

► Scientific buildings

► Scientific classification

► Scientific comparisons

► Science education

► Scientific exploration

► Scientific folklore

► Fringe science

► History of science

► Scientific instruments

► Scientific laws

► Metascience

► Scientific method

► Natural history

► Science occupations

► Open science

► Scientific organizations

► Scientific phenomena

► Phenomena

► Scientific problems

► Quotations from science

► Science and technology studies

► Science in society

► Scientific speculation

► Scientific terminology

► Scientific theories

► Time in science

► Women and science

► Images by scientific discipline

► Science stubs

► Wikipedia categories named after science projects

Members

To add your name to the list of members, please visit the Guest book.

Parentage and related WikiProjects

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 Women scientists

Related pages

Portal

•  Science portal

WikiProjects

• Environment WikiProjects
• Geographical WikiProjects
• Technology WikiProjects
• WikiProject Invention

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

Older project pages

• WikiProject Science – strategies: Includes project history

Scientific Peer Review

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.

Comments

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 Wikiversity

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)

Tools

• reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.