Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Information
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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
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
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
— 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:
- 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
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
- Answer requests for comments
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- Expand
2021 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 2020 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 alerts
Articles for deletion
- 27 Jan 2021 – Aircraft systems ( talk · · hist) was AfDed by Amanuensis Balkanicus ( t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 25 Jan 2021 – Noometry ( talk · · hist) was AfDed by Bondegezou ( t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- 25 Jan 2021 – Angela Gronenborn ( talk · · hist) was AfDed by Blablubbs ( t · c); see discussion (14 participants)
- 25 Jan 2021 – Thagomizer ( talk · · hist) was AfDed by Hemiauchenia ( t · c); see discussion (14 participants)
- 22 Jan 2021 – Syeda Hira Fatima Naqvi ( talk · · hist) was AfDed by Kj cheetham ( t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 18 Jan 2021 – Razgar Rahimi ( talk · · hist) AfDed by Kj cheetham ( t · c) was closed as delete by Nosebagbear ( t · c) on 25 Jan 2021; see discussion (12 participants)
- 15 Jan 2021 – Myriam Heiman ( talk · · hist) AfDed by Aeffenberger ( t · c) was closed as delete by The Earwig ( t · c) on 23 Jan 2021; see discussion (10 participants)
- 04 Jan 2021 – CRC for Spatial Information ( talk · · hist) AfDed by Fgnievinski ( t · c) was closed as merge by Vanamonde93 ( t · c) on 21 Jan 2021; see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
- 31 Dec 2020 – Cathy Tie ( talk · · hist) AfDed by Falcon Kirtaran ( t · c) was closed as keep by Rosguill ( t · c) on 22 Jan 2021; see discussion (10 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 20 Jan 2021 – Case-based evidence ( talk · · hist) was PRODed by Ilumeo ( t · c): No relevance. The term was invented by Georg Rainer Hofmann. The german page was deleted as well
Good article nominees
- 29 Nov 2020 – Relationship science ( talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Jacquelinecp16 ( t · c); start discussion
Articles to be merged
- 03 Jan 2021 – Human science ( talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Humanities by White227b ( t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jan 2021 – Humanities ( talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Human science by White227b ( t · c); see discussion
- 11 Oct 2020 – Ubiquitin bacterial ( talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Prokaryotic ubiquitin-like protein by Artoria2e5 ( t · c); see discussion
- 05 Sep 2020 – Olke Uhlenbeck ( talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Olke C. Uhlenbeck by Tassedethe ( t · c); see discussion
- 25 Aug 2020 – List of participants in the dialogue of religion and science ( talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to List of scholars on the relationship between religion and science by 207.161.86.162 ( t · c); see discussion
- 02 Aug 2020 – Field experiment ( talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Field research by Fgnievinski ( t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jul 2020 – Event sampling methodology ( talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Diary studies by Daask ( t · c); see discussion
- 23 May 2020 – Chinese Science Citation Database ( talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Web of Science by Postconfused ( t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 11 May 2017 – Science and technology studies ( talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rhododendrites ( t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jul 2016 – Adaptive clinical trial ( talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 ( t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 26 Jan 2021 – Two-chances-system tournament ( talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mathecrat ( t · c)
- 25 Jan 2021 – Venkatesh Ramaiah ( talk · · hist) (initially Venkatesh Ramaiah, MD, FACS) has been submitted for AfC by Zaqaz123 ( t · c)
- 23 Jan 2021 – Society of Catholic Scientists ( talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Evrik ( t · c)
- 23 Jan 2021 – Renaud Fabre ( talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Loukigeronimo.richou ( t · c)
- 21 Jan 2021 – Florent Krzakala ( talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BatYote. ( t · c)
- 21 Jan 2021 – Arctoris ( talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sirotcra2016 ( t · c)
- 14 Jan 2021 – Marc E. Rothenberg ( talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MarcRothenberg ( t · c)
- 13 Jan 2021 – Jean-Philippe Ansermet ( talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BatYote. ( t · c)
- 11 Jan 2021 – Regular Process ( talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Zipper tyle ( t · c)
- 10 Jan 2021 – Schaffhausen Institute of Technology ( talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Muminpoll ( t · c)
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Statistics
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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1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
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3 | 1 | 9 | 13 | |||
B | 8 | 15 | 16 | 27 | 10 | 76 | |
C | 9 | 34 | 47 | 162 | 59 | 311 | |
Start | 2 | 53 | 84 | 541 | 314 | 994 | |
Stub | 2 | 22 | 32 | 468 | 1 | 115 | 640 |
List | 4 | 15 | 15 | 55 | 38 | 127 | |
Book | 7 | 7 | |||||
Category | 2,334 | 2,334 | |||||
Disambig | 18 | 18 | |||||
File | 5 | 5 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 26 | 26 | |||||
Redirect | 71 | 71 | |||||
Template | 77 | 77 | |||||
Other | 88 | 88 | |||||
Assessed | 30 | 142 | 195 | 1,264 | 2,628 | 536 | 4,795 |
Unassessed | 173 | 173 | |||||
Total | 30 | 142 | 195 | 1,264 | 2,628 | 709 | 4,968 |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 10,318 | Ω = 5.06 |
Categories
Members
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 Science
- 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
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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)
Collaboration of the Month (inactive)
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