This Wikiproject aims to organize efforts to improve microbiology-related articles on Wikipedia.

If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, or have a look at the How you can help section below. You don't need to know anything about microbiology to help!

Scope

This project aims to cover all areas of microbiology including: bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, viruses, microbiologists, microbiological methods and concepts, microbiology equipment, microscopy, and other microbiology-related topics.

Microbiology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	5	4					9
FM					11		11
GA	8	11	6	9			34
B	33	48	46	76			203
C	22	92	284	671		1	1,070
Start	10	90	351	1,360		21	1,832
Stub		16	136	11,772			11,924
List	3	4	10	41			58
Category					873		873
Disambig					38		38
File					15		15
Portal					2		2
Project					13		13
Redirect				269	664		933
Template					143		143
Other					21		21
Assessed	81	265	833	14,198	1,780	22	17,179
Unassessed				1		16	17
Total	81	265	833	14,199	1,780	38	17,196
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 85,666			Ω = 5.68

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Improve articles

• We have over 10,000 articles listed as "stubs", pick your favorite and start adding more info!
• Nearly 20% of all Microbiology articles are tagged with some concern! These mark areas for improvement. Feel free to post on the talk page if you need a hand!
• Improve articles to GA!
• Check new articles added to our project!

Start new articles

• Pick your favorite protein/microbe/microbiology-related thing and start a new article! If you need a hand, post on the talk page!

Discuss

• Join in discussing proposals on the talk page. Any ideas are always welcome!

Improve the project itself

• Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in microbiology to contribute. A bot-generated list of users active on microbiology pages is here!

Categorise microbiology related articles

• Label articles of interest to the project by putting the banner template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to microbiology.
• Categorise articles by adding them to the appropriate microbiology categories as shown to right.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Cleanup : Sterilisation (microbiology), Escherichia coli, Lactobacillus Expand : Antimicrobial, Colony-forming unit, Microbiologist, Lactobacillus, Lactic acid bacteria, Escherichia coli, Indicator bacteria, Yersinia pestis Merge : Bacterial cellular morphologies: ( Coccus, Diplococcus, Coccobacillus, Bacilli, etc) Coliform Index into Faecal coliforms Merge and redirect all Alga stub basionyms Stubs : Clostridium botulinum, Telonemia, Serratia, Morganella morganii, Chaetoceros coarctatus, Roseofilum reptotaenium, Rhabdosphaera clavigera Other : Get to GA class: Mould, Yersinia pestis Get to FA class: Escherichia coli, Yeast

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Template type	What to type	What it makes
Userbox {{ User WikiProject Micro}} This user is a member of WikiProject Microbiology. Barnstar {{ Microbiology Barnstar}} Microbiology barnstar {{{1}}} Stub Microbiology {{ Microbiology-stub}} This microbiology-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e Stub Bacteria {{ Bacteria-stub}} This bacteria-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e Stub Archaea {{ Archaea-stub}} This archaea-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e Stub Yeast {{ Yeast-stub}} This yeast-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e Stub Protist {{ Protist-stub}} This Eukaryote-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e Stub Virus {{ Virus-stub}} This virus-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e Taxobox {{ Automatic taxobox}} click here to see how to use

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This article is within the scope of WikiProject Microbiology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Microbiology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MicrobiologyWikipedia:WikiProject MicrobiologyTemplate:WikiProject MicrobiologyMicrobiology articles Project This article has been rated as Project-Class on the project's quality scale.

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