Wikipedia:WikiProject Science Information

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WikiProject Science

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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

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

2022 in science
2021 2023
Fields
Archaeology Paleontology Space Spaceflight Biotechnology Senescence research Quantum computing and communication Computing Sustainable energy research Paleoanthropology Transportation technology
Extraterrestrial environment
Discovered exoplanets Asteroid close approaches
Terrestrial environment
Environment Environmental sciences Climate change Tornadoes Wildfires Earthquakes Weather
Other/related
Science fiction film Literature Philosophy History of technology by type List of science timelines

• Expand 2022 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 2021 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

Did you know

• 21 Jun 2022 – Rubicon (protein) ( talk ·   ·  hist) was nominated for DYK by Prodigiousfool ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 15 Jun 2022 – Mary Manhein ( talk ·   ·  hist) was nominated for DYK by MaryMO (AR) ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 07 May 2022 – Empirical limits in science ( talk ·   ·  hist) was nominated for DYK by Airstarfish ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 28 Jun 2022 – Electrical polarity ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Tigerzeng ( t ·  c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 25 Jun 2022 – Thermotunnel cooling ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by ReyHahn ( t ·  c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 24 Jun 2022 – Skeptics with a K ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by TipsyElephant ( t ·  c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 24 Jun 2022 – Drupad K Trivedi ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Headbomb ( t ·  c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 23 Jun 2022 – Raja Selvakumar ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Ploni ( t ·  c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 20 Jun 2022 – Radiance Protection Factor ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by PianoDan ( t ·  c) was closed as delete by Premeditated Chaos ( t ·  c) on 27 Jun 2022; see discussion (8 participants)
• 17 Jun 2022 – Xerosydryle ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Graeme Bartlett ( t ·  c) was closed as delete by Liz ( t ·  c) on 24 Jun 2022; see discussion (8 participants)
• 14 Jun 2022 – Etron Technology, Inc. ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Mcmatter ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by Guerillero ( t ·  c) on 29 Jun 2022; see discussion (5 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 18 Jun 2022 – Netpark ( talk ·   ·  hist) PRODed by Retswerb ( t ·  c) was deleted

Redirects for discussion

• 11 Jun 2022 – 🫥 ( talk ·   ·  hist) → Invisibility was RfDed by Rosguill ( t ·  c); see discussion

Featured article reviews

• 01 May 2022 – Planet ( talk ·   ·  hist) was put up for FA review by Artem.G ( t ·  c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 13 Jun 2022 – Life ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been put up for PR by Interstatefive ( t ·  c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 22 May 2022 – Optoform ( talk ·   ·  hist) move request to Optical cage system by Srleffler ( t ·  c) was moved to Optical cage system ( talk ·   ·  hist) by Mellohi! ( t ·  c) on 23 Jun 2022; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 20 Jun 2022 – Fringe science ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for merging to Fringe theory by Piotrus ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 13 Jan 2022 – Climate Mirror ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for merging to Data rescue by 130.225.33.98 ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 27 Apr 2022 – Radiogenomics ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for splitting by Charles Matthews ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 26 Apr 2022 – Science and technology in the United States ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for splitting by Mrbeastmodeallday ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 24 Jun 2021 – Hydrological code ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 28 Jun 2022 – Tetiana Mitchenko ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Alexandr14 ( t ·  c)
• 28 Jun 2022 – Science Equity ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by TerryAble ( t ·  c)
• 27 Jun 2022 – Tom Mustill ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by OtisSpanner ( t ·  c)
• 26 Jun 2022 – Glenn Edmond Shaw ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Duct tape ( t ·  c)
• 25 Jun 2022 – IET Smart Cities ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Fellow007 ( t ·  c)
• 24 Jun 2022 – National institute of oceanography and applied geophysics ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Marinadalessa ( t ·  c)
• 23 Jun 2022 – Ethypharm ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by LNPE ( t ·  c)
• 22 Jun 2022 – Wonder Women Tech Foundation ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Schlameel ( t ·  c)
• 17 Jun 2022 – Research Quality Plus (RQ+) ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by POEV Evaluation ( t ·  c)
• 16 Jun 2022 – Savvas Learning Company ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Stevefleischer ( t ·  c)

( 90 more...)

Statistics

Science articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	2		1			5
FL			1	1			2
GA	3	1		11			15
B	13	19	19	41		10	102
C	16	37	52	254		71	430
Start	2	55	96	703	3	330	1,189
Stub	2	16	26	508	1	126	679
List	5	17	21	74	1	33	151
Category					2,570		2,570
Disambig					16		16
File					7		7
Portal					1		1
Project					29		29
Redirect			1	4	95		100
Template					94		94
Other				2	423		425
Assessed	43	147	216	1,599	3,240	570	5,815
Unassessed				1		204	205
Total	43	147	216	1,600	3,240	774	6,020
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 12,070			Ω = 4.99

Categories

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:

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)[ reply]

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)[ reply]

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)[ reply]

Collaboration of the Month (inactive)

The current science collaboration of the month article is: Chemistry Please help improve this article to featured article quality standards. Last month's collaboration was European science in the Middle Ages. To propose future collaborations, please  contribute here! v t e

Tools

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

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