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
[edit]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
[edit]"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)
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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
2024 in science |
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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 2024 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]Articles for deletion
- 06 Sep 2024 – Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Star Mississippi (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 06 Sep 2024 – Indrajit Prasad (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Badbluebus (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 06 Sep 2024 – Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, Michigan State University (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ElKevbo (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 05 Sep 2024 – Mobile panic (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by TGcoa (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 05 Sep 2024 – Interesting Engineering (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Justiyaya (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 03 Sep 2024 – Mohammed Tharwat Hassan (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 02 Sep 2024 – Airnav.com (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Kingsmasher678 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 01 Sep 2024 – Essense club (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Cabayi (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 31 Aug 2024 – IBM Master Inventor (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Historyexpert2 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
- 28 Aug 2024 – Phenomenology (general science and discourse) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Fram (t · c) was closed as delete by Sandstein (t · c) on 05 Sep 2024; see discussion (6 participants)
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Categories for discussion
- 07 Sep 2024 – Category:Ethically disputed research practices (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Sep 2024 – Category:Empirical evidence (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 03 Sep 2024 – New Providence Shale (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Borden Formation by Scope creep (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Aug 2024 – Muslim world (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ummah by HudecEmil (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Aug 2024 – A1GP Powered by Ferrari car (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix season by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Jul 2024 – Motion silencing illusion (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to silencing by Adam78 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Jun 2024 – Precision cut lung slices (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Precision cut tissue slices by Beland (t · c); see discussion
- 12 May 2024 – Hylistics (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Hyleme by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 11 May 2024 – Single Best Answer (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Multiple choice by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Mar 2024 – All American Grand Touring (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Grand Touring Experimental by A7V2 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 06 Sep 2024 – Draft:Proplyd 133-353 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 71.147.38.124 (t · c)
- 04 Sep 2024 – Draft:Stanley Inhorn (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Nilotumben (t · c)
- 03 Sep 2024 – Draft:Naomi Miller (lighting scientist) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mgolden515 (t · c)
- 03 Sep 2024 – Draft:Antentor Hinton, Jr. (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kneikirk (t · c)
- 02 Sep 2024 – Draft:Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jyon-DM (t · c)
- 30 Aug 2024 – Draft:Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering (Mendez Principles) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Legitimacy Matters (t · c)
- 30 Aug 2024 – Draft:Lee Kunwoo (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hyoshin cho (t · c)
- 29 Aug 2024 – Draft:Roberto G. Carbone (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Wikishovel (t · c)
- 26 Aug 2024 – Draft:World Endoscopy Organization (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ines V (t · c)
- 19 Aug 2024 – Draft:Institute of Life Sciences (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by IndiaScience (t · c)
- (48 more...)
Statistics
[edit]Science articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||
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2 | 2 | |||||
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3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 17 | ||
B | 14 | 25 | 21 | 101 | 34 | 195 | |
C | 15 | 46 | 66 | 740 | 218 | 1,085 | |
Start | 4 | 52 | 94 | 1,510 | 691 | 2,351 | |
Stub | 12 | 21 | 890 | 1 | 1,083 | 2,007 | |
List | 4 | 20 | 23 | 95 | 97 | 239 | |
Category | 2 | 1 | 3,984 | 3,987 | |||
Disambig | 17 | 17 | |||||
File | 8 | 8 | |||||
Portal | 176 | 176 | |||||
Project | 32 | 32 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 3 | 8 | 37 | 236 | 285 | |
Template | 250 | 250 | |||||
NA | 2 | 8 | 10 | ||||
Other | 2 | 444 | 446 | ||||
Assessed | 43 | 161 | 238 | 3,391 | 5,156 | 2,123 | 11,112 |
Unassessed | 11 | 7,200 | 7,211 | ||||
Total | 43 | 161 | 238 | 3,402 | 5,156 | 9,323 | 18,323 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 28,751 | Ω = 5.08 |
Categories
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Members
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Parentage and related WikiProjects
[edit]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
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[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)
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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
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