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WikiProject Science

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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

• Integrate relatively new scientific knowledge and findings (major studies reported on by RS) into relevant articles
  • You can also go through this list of items that were nearly/not included in the last Year in science article to find studies to integrate elsewhere (many of these contain notable info, you can filter them by field and many rows have a likely relevant article already wikilinked in the last column)
  • Complete requests of other editors on the talk pages of science-related articles (examples)
• Expand 2024 in science and/or other articles for science-related topics of the year (in the box on the right)
  • Create new articles for items of this article, mostly articles relating to new scientific fields/topics/findings (the page does not use redlinks anymore but you will quickly identify possible new articles when reading it; here you can find a version with over 60 redlinked examples)
  • Some of the lists' items have not yet been integrated into their wikilinked articles; if you add a study there it should also be relevant to at least one other article
  • Maybe this could be done as part of an organized effort
• Find^[how?] studies published under a compatible open license (like CC BY 4.0) and upload the studies' images with descriptions from the study and add these images to articles if they are relevant and useful there
  • When a study with a useful image is published under an incompatible or unclear license (or the image is published not in a study but elsewhere), you could contact its authors (Twitter/Mail) and ask them to give you the permission to upload them under CC BY 4.0 (or whether they could upload the image/s under a compatible license)
  • You can also think about whether images would be useful as you read a science-related article and then search for such images:
    • if they already exist add them (if already on WMCommons) or upload them (if the license is ok) or ask their authors for permissions
    • if they don't, you could create (or request) them

Did you know

• 22 Dec 2023 – Heat Flow Experiment (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Seddon (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 29 Jan 2024 – Hatem Zeine (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Joe Roe (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 29 Jan 2024 – Douglas Torr (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Chris troutman (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 28 Jan 2024 – Sahat Manaor Panggabean (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by SunDawn (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 28 Jan 2024 – Dihydroxyamine (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Graeme Bartlett (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 25 Jan 2024 – Hanul Science Museum (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Toobigtokale (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 23 Jan 2024 – Man-eater (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
• 23 Jan 2024 – AMC Institute (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Royal88888 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 19 Jan 2024 – Barber Airport (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
• 19 Jan 2024 – Fresh variable (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
• 11 Jan 2024 – Olaf Storaasli (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Rehsarb (t · c); see discussion (7 participants; relisted)

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Proposed deletions

• 29 Jan 2024 – Everest (Framework) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Jdcooper (t · c): Promotional article, entirely self-sourced. No evidence of independent sigcov to establish notability.
• 22 Jan 2024 – GM 6L80 transmission (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Musikgeniesser (t · c) was redirected to GM 6L transmission (talk · edit · hist)

Categories for discussion

• 22 Jan 2024 – Category:Science and technology in the Americas (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Place Clichy (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Jan 2024 – Category:American scientists by state (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• undated – Category:People of the Scientific Revolution (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed
• 16 Jan 2024 – Category:Dutch natural scientists (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Hugo999 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 21 Jan 2024 – Home Planet (talk · edit · hist) →Earth was RfDed by Tamzin (t · c); see discussion

Featured article reviews

• 07 Jan 2024 – Galaxy (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Greenish Pickle! (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 26 Jan 2024 – Eugene Gu (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 21 Jan 2024 – Aeolus Yixuan (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Aeolus Shine by Hangkawa (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Jan 2024 – Aeolus Haoji (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Aeolus Huge by Hangkawa (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 29 Jan 2024 – Spiculosis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Kerry Blue Terrier by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Jan 2024 – Veterinary prosthesis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to veterinary prosthetics and orthotics by Arlo Barnes (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Oct 2023 – Entropy of network ensembles (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Network entropy by SoundPhonon (t · c); see discussion
• 14 Sep 2023 – Lenovo ThinkPad Stack (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to ThinkPad#ThinkPad Stack (2015–current) by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Jul 2023 – Sustainability science (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sustainability studies by Bluerasberry (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Jun 2023 – Pathophysiology of autism (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Mechanism of autism by TempusTacet (t · c); see discussion
• 17 Jan 2024 – Cargo cult science (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Richard Feynman by Hemiauchenia (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles for creation

• 29 Jan 2024 – Draft:EssentialTech Centre (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Louep147 (t · c)
• 29 Jan 2024 – Draft:Gustaf Arrhenius (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kaede118 (t · c)
• 26 Jan 2024 – Draft:Bayo Aluko-Olokun (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Helloitsking (t · c)
• 26 Jan 2024 – Draft:Rolf Issels (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tiefenhyperthermie (t · c)
• 25 Jan 2024 – Draft:Alexander N. Guz (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Proksyma (t · c)
• 25 Jan 2024 – Draft:Lubang-Verde Passage Fault System (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by VonTheGreater26 (t · c)
• 24 Jan 2024 – Draft:Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MicrobiologyMarcus (t · c)
• 24 Jan 2024 – Draft:HBM Healthcare Investments (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Wickster12345 (t · c)
• 23 Jan 2024 – Draft:Alexander Greer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by OliverT715 (t · c)
• 22 Jan 2024 – Draft:Paul James Moughan (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Nighthawkez (t · c)

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Science articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	2		1			5
FL			2				2
GA	3	1	1	11			16
B	14	18	21	92		18	163
C	14	44	61	686		116	921
Start	2	51	96	1,424	1	429	2,003
Stub	1	14	22	851		926	1,814
List	4	20	23	92		49	188
Category			2		3,357		3,359
Disambig					17		17
File					8		8
Portal					168		168
Project					31		31
Redirect	1	3	9	35	193		241
Template					144		144
Other					455		455
Assessed	41	153	237	3,192	4,374	1,538	9,535
Unassessed				7		8,114	8,121
Total	41	153	237	3,199	4,374	9,652	17,656
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 25,104			Ω = 5.10

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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]

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