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

2020 2021 in science 2022

Fields Archaeology Paleontology Space Spaceflight Biotechnology Quantum computing and communication Computing

Extraterrestrial environment Discovered exoplanets Asteroid close approaches

Terrestrial environment Environment and environmental sciences Climate change Tornadoes Earthquakes

Other/related 2021 Birding/ornithology Science fiction film Literature Philosophy History of technology by type List of science timelines

• 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

• 22 Apr 2021 – Pseudoscience (physics) ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by LaundryPizza03 ( t ·  c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 20 Apr 2021 – May 2016 North American storm complex ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Daask ( t ·  c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 19 Apr 2021 – Holeum ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Tercer ( t ·  c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 19 Apr 2021 – Helvetium ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Nanahuatl ( t ·  c); see discussion (7 participants)
• 19 Apr 2021 – IILM Academy of Higher Learning ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Vincentvikram ( t ·  c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 18 Apr 2021 – Udwadia–Kalaba equation ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Tercer ( t ·  c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 18 Apr 2021 – Enhancement or quenching of QD, Q-wire and QW radiations ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by LaundryPizza03 ( t ·  c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 16 Apr 2021 – Hindustan College of Science and Technology ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Vincentvikram ( t ·  c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 15 Apr 2021 – Meridian Bioscience ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Star Mississippi ( t ·  c); see discussion (0 participants)
• 13 Apr 2021 – Auxiliary field ( talk ·   ·  hist) was AfDed by Coin945 ( t ·  c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)

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Redirects for discussion

• 07 Apr 2021 – Globe (Earth) ( talk ·   ·  hist) → Earth was RfDed by 86.23.109.101 ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 03 Apr 2021 – Taxonomy (general) ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for merging to Taxonomy (general) by Shhhnotsoloud ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 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
• 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

• 20 Apr 2021 – Early Excellence in Science Awards ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Selanna13 ( t ·  c)
• 18 Apr 2021 – Office for Life Sciences ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by SW1APolitico ( t ·  c)
• 15 Apr 2021 – Jane Blazeby ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Peanutbuttercambridge ( t ·  c)
• 15 Apr 2021 – Thrombosis Research Award ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Selanna13 ( t ·  c)
• 08 Apr 2021 – Tia Sáng (1991 magazine) ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Linh24 ( t ·  c)
• 26 Mar 2021 – Norberto M. Grzywacz, PhD ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Scottalessi ( t ·  c)
• 26 Mar 2021 – Mars Moon eXploration (MMX) rover ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hspace314 ( t ·  c)
• 24 Mar 2021 – Ghafour Youssefiani ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by مهرداد یوسفیانی ( t ·  c)
• 23 Mar 2021 – Regular Process ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Zipper tyle ( t ·  c)
• 23 Mar 2021 – Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by MemphisMoleculeRobots ( t ·  c)

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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		9			13
B	8	15	16	30		10	79
C	9	35	47	182		60	333
Start	2	53	88	560		316	1,019
Stub	2	22	32	474	1	121	652
List	4	15	15	56		38	128
Book					7		7
Category					2,371		2,371
Disambig					18		18
File					5		5
Portal					1		1
Project					27		27
Redirect				1	77	2	80
Template					86		86
Other					122		122
Assessed	30	143	199	1,314	2,715	547	4,948
Unassessed						181	181
Total	30	143	199	1,314	2,715	728	5,129
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 10,606			Ω = 5.05

Categories

Members

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Parentage and related WikiProjects

WikiProject Science is parent of the WikiProjects below:

Related pages

Portal

•   Science portal

WikiProjects

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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)

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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