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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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
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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 approach Edit
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 Edit
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
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"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 view Edit
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.
Other Edit
- Answer requests for comments
2023 in science |
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Fields |
Technology |
Social sciences |
Paleontology |
Extraterrestrial environment |
Terrestrial environment |
Other/related |
- Integrate relatively new scientific knowledge and findings (major studies reported on by RS) into relevant articles
- You can also go through this list of items that were nearly/not included in the last Year in science article to find studies to integrate elsewhere (many of these contain notable info, you can filter them by field and many rows have a likely relevant article already wikilinked in the last column)
- Complete requests of other editors on the talk pages of science-related articles (examples)
- Expand 2023 in science and/or other articles for science-related topics of the year (in the box on the right)
- Create new articles for items of this article, mostly articles relating to new scientific fields/topics/findings (the page does not use redlinks anymore but you will quickly identify possible new articles when reading it; here you can find a version with over 60 redlinked examples)
- Some of the lists' items have not yet been integrated into their wikilinked articles; if you add a study there it should also be relevant to at least one other article
- Maybe this could be done as part of an organized effort
- Find[how?] studies published under a compatible open license (like CC BY 4.0) and upload the studies' images with descriptions from the study and add these images to articles if they are relevant and useful there
- When a study with a useful image is published under an incompatible or unclear license (or the image is published not in a study but elsewhere), you could contact its authors (Twitter/Mail) and ask them to give you the permission to upload them under CC BY 4.0 (or whether they could upload the image/s under a compatible license)
- You can also think about whether images would be useful as you read a science-related article and then search for such images:
- if they already exist add them (if already on WMCommons) or upload them (if the license is ok) or ask their authors for permissions
- if they don't, you could create (or request) them
Article alerts Edit
Did you know
- 28 Sep 2023 – Life (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by FormalDude (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 30 Sep 2023 – Danila Medvedev (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by 30Four (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 29 Sep 2023 – October 1997 North American storm complex (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by WeatherWriter (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 26 Sep 2023 – Materials World (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Darling (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 26 Sep 2023 – Newcleo (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Shushugah (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 18 Sep 2023 – Andrew Miller (physician) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by UtherSRG (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
- 17 Sep 2023 – Dimitar Paskov (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Clarityfiend (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
- 21 Sep 2023 – Shahriar Afshar (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Jähmefyysikko (t · c) was closed as redirect by Extraordinary Writ (t · c) on 28 Sep 2023; see discussion (11 participants)
- 21 Sep 2023 – Conclusion-making (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by AndyTheGrump (t · c) was closed as delete by Vanamonde93 (t · c) on 30 Sep 2023; see discussion (6 participants)
- 11 Sep 2023 – Findability Sciences (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by CharlieMehta (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 25 Sep 2023; see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
- 25 Aug 2023 – Beond (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Robert McClenon (t · c) was closed as draftify (deleted) by Liz (t · c) on 01 Oct 2023; see discussion (30 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 01 Oct 2023 – PhotoPad (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Deauthorized (t · c): concern
- 30 Sep 2023 – GroupOne Health Source (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by 162 etc. (t · c): concern
- 24 Sep 2023 – October 1997 North American storm complex (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by 108.58.51.130 (t · c) was deproded by Kvng (t · c) on 28 Sep 2023
- 23 Sep 2023 – Italdesign Machimoto (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Moriwen (t · c) was deproded by Kvng (t · c) on 28 Sep 2023
- 21 Sep 2023 – Dibromide (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by A.Sergeev1313 (t · c) was deproded by GB fan (t · c) on 26 Sep 2023
Categories for discussion
- 26 Sep 2023 – Category:Science occupations (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Fayenatic london (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Sep 2023 – Category:Science centers in Taiwan (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Sep 2023 – Category:Science centres in India (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Sep 2023 – Category:Science centers (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 21 Sep 2023 – Allot (talk · edit · hist) move request to Allot (company) by Hameltion (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 23 Sep 2023 – Cargo cult science (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pseudoscience by ReyHahn (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Sep 2023 – Lenovo ThinkPad Stack (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to ThinkPad#ThinkPad Stack (2015–current) by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
- 06 Jul 2023 – Sustainability science (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sustainability studies by Bluerasberry (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Jun 2023 – Advance market commitments (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Social impact bond by A455bcd9 (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jun 2023 – Pathophysiology of autism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Mechanism of autism by TempusTacet (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Jun 2023 – March for Science Seattle (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to March for Science by SounderBruce (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Apr 2023 – Ethyl lauroyl arginate hydrochloride (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ethyl lauroyl arginate by Uncle Spock (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Apr 2023 – Onion diagram (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Onion model by Crunchydillpickle (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 25 Apr 2023 – Research (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 29 Sep 2023 – Draft:Gustaf Arrhenius (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kaede118 (t · c)
- 28 Sep 2023 – Draft:Weiqiang Qian (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qj20050110 (t · c)
- 28 Sep 2023 – Draft:William B. Muchmore (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 64.98.118.139 (t · c)
- 27 Sep 2023 – Draft:James Taylor Tanner (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Nicleotidez (t · c)
- 27 Sep 2023 – Draft:Quantitative Aquatics (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Valenruizl (t · c)
- 27 Sep 2023 – Draft:John David Cooper (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 26 Sep 2023 – Draft:Ovine Forestomach Matrix (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ketheric Bryan (t · c)
- 26 Sep 2023 – Draft:Aroa Biosurgery (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ketheric Bryan (t · c)
- 24 Sep 2023 – Draft:Philip W. Ireland (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 22 Sep 2023 – Draft:Antonio Rangel (neuroeconomist) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ecsit (t · c)
- (116 more...)
Statistics Edit
Science articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||
FL | 2 | 2 | |||||
GA | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 16 | ||
B | 12 | 16 | 21 | 79 | 14 | 142 | |
C | 17 | 46 | 58 | 520 | 94 | 735 | |
Start | 3 | 53 | 96 | 1,221 | 367 | 1,740 | |
Stub | 1 | 15 | 23 | 702 | 2 | 928 | 1,671 |
List | 4 | 20 | 24 | 89 | 39 | 176 | |
Category | 1 | 2,976 | 2,977 | ||||
Disambig | 19 | 2 | 21 | ||||
File | 7 | 7 | |||||
Portal | 168 | 168 | |||||
Project | 31 | 31 | |||||
Redirect | 6 | 12 | 156 | 174 | |||
Template | 111 | 111 | |||||
Other | 1 | 501 | 502 | ||||
Assessed | 43 | 153 | 232 | 2,636 | 3,971 | 1,444 | 8,479 |
Unassessed | 8 | 9,091 | 9,099 | ||||
Total | 43 | 153 | 232 | 2,644 | 3,971 | 10,535 | 17,578 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 21,927 | Ω = 5.13 |
Categories Edit
Members
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To add your name to the list of members, please visit the Guest book.
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 pages Edit
Portal Edit
WikiProjects Edit
Subpages Edit
- List of all subpages of this page
Older project pages Edit
- WikiProject Science – strategies: Includes project history
Scientific Peer Review Edit
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 Edit
- 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 Edit
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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Tools Edit
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