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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

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.

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:

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

• Expand 2023 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 2022 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

Articles for deletion

• 28 Jan 2023 – Jenia Meng ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Liz ( t ·  c); see discussion (14 participants)
• 27 Jan 2023 – Gotland enigma ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Elmidae ( t ·  c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 25 Jan 2023 – Sachiko Tsuruta ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by BoyTheKingCanDance ( t ·  c); see discussion (10 participants)
• 25 Jan 2023 – List of important publications in geology ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Hemiauchenia ( t ·  c); see discussion (14 participants)
• 09 Jan 2023 – Activity cycle diagram ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Ruud Buitelaar ( t ·  c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
• 06 Jan 2023 – Chr. Michelsen Institute ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Corriebertus ( t ·  c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
• 27 Jan 2023 – Iodosilane ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Mast303 ( t ·  c) was closed by Sammi Brie ( t ·  c) on 28 Jan 2023; see discussion (5 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 24 Jan 2023 – Iodosilane ( talk ·   ·  hist) PRODed by Mast303 ( t ·  c) was deproded by Phil Bridger ( t ·  c) on 24 Jan 2023

Redirects for discussion

• 20 Jan 2023 – 1000000000000000000000000 (number) ( talk ·   ·  hist) → Metric prefix was RfDed by Randi Moth ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 20 Jan 2023 – 1000000000000000000000 (number) ( talk ·   ·  hist) → Metric prefix was RfDed by Randi Moth ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 21 Jan 2023 – Élodie Chabrol ( talk ·   ·  hist) → Pint of Science#International RfDed by Turktimex3 ( t ·  c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 29 Jan 2023 – Table of divisors for Gaussian integers ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for merging to Table of Gaussian integer factorizations by Apocheir ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 18 Jan 2023 – Climate apocalypse ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for merging to Climate crisis by InformationToKnowledge ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 04 Dec 2022 – Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for merging to Starmus Festival by Grorp ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 03 Sep 2022 – Matrix-M ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for merging to ISCOM by Liebeskind ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 20 Jun 2022 – Fringe science ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for merging to Fringe theory by Piotrus ( 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

• 29 Jan 2023 – Draft:Yafang Cheng ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by SusanneBenner ( t ·  c)
• 27 Jan 2023 – Draft:Calcium sulphoaluminate ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by KGUO ( t ·  c)
• 26 Jan 2023 – Draft:Anbio Biotechnology ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by MichaelLau0117 ( t ·  c)
• 26 Jan 2023 – Draft:Pisces Submarine VI ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by CristinaDolores ( t ·  c)
• 25 Jan 2023 – Draft:Alexandre Antonelli ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pyrrorhiza ( t ·  c)
• 24 Jan 2023 – Draft:Brian Buma ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Explorat ( t ·  c)
• 24 Jan 2023 – Draft:Cloud Space Station ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by MagpieJJones ( t ·  c)
• 24 Jan 2023 – Draft:Nondestructive Evaluation 4.0 ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Nathanida ( t ·  c)
• 24 Jan 2023 – Draft:Clostridium vulturis ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by SkylarGrace2k ( t ·  c)
• 23 Jan 2023 – Draft:Georgios Mikellides ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ieromaxos ( t ·  c)

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Science articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	2		1			6
FL			2				2
GA	3	1	1	11			16
B	13	17	21	52		12	115
C	16	42	53	286		78	475
Start	2	54	98	769	2	345	1,270
Stub	2	15	26	520	1	127	691
List	5	18	23	76	1	35	158
Category					2,749		2,749
Disambig					18		18
File					7		7
Portal					1		1
Project					29		29
Redirect			1	4	109		114
Template					100		100
Other				1	432		433
Assessed	44	149	225	1,720	3,449	597	6,184
Unassessed				2		316	318
Total	44	149	225	1,722	3,449	913	6,502
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 12,773			Ω = 4.96

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WikiProject Science is parent of the WikiProjects below:

Portal

•   Science portal

WikiProjects

• Environment WikiProjects
• Geographical WikiProjects
• Technology WikiProjects
• WikiProject Invention

Subpages

• List of all subpages of this page

• WikiProject Science – strategies: Includes project history

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 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 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 reply

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

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