Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to join! |
- For a directory of science-oriented WikiProjects, see: WikiProject Council: Directory – Science
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Shortcuts | WP:SCIENCE, WP:WPSCI |
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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[edit]
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:
- To attract Wikipedians to this project and focus the effort for maximum efficiency
- To serve as a nexus and discussion area to build consensus on how to write good scientific articles.
Plan of approach[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
— Albert Einstein, in "Physics and Reality" (1936); later published in Out of My Later Years (1950)
Improve Wikipedia's coverage of science-related topics:
- Identify articles related to science and tag talk pages with the project's banner: {{WikiProject Science}}
- Improve and discuss the proposed structures of articles
- Improve science articles
- Sign the guestbook or place {{User WikiProject Science}} on your user page.
- Add this page to your watchlist to see what's occurring here
Improve the bird's eye view[edit]
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):
- What's missing?
- Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
- 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[edit]
- Answer requests for comments
Article alerts[edit]
Articles for deletion
- 22 Oct 2019 – Dowling-Neven law (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ariadacapo (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 19 Oct 2019 – Zidan’s Model of Quantum Computing (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ymblanter (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 16 Oct 2019 – Pappigerus (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Sun Creator (t · c) was closed as redirect by RL0919 (t · c) on 23 Oct 2019; see discussion (9 participants)
- 13 Oct 2019 – Michele Alesia Johnson (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by StarryGrandma (t · c) was closed as delete by RL0919 (t · c) on 20 Oct 2019; see discussion (7 participants)
- 09 Oct 2019 – Concepts of Physics (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by MarkH21 (t · c) was closed as delete by Sandstein (t · c) on 17 Oct 2019; see discussion (7 participants)
- 08 Oct 2019 – Yivsam Azgad (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Saff V. (t · c) was closed as delete by Jo-Jo Eumerus (t · c) on 23 Oct 2019; see discussion (12 participants; relisted)
- 30 Sep 2019 – Niche adaptation (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Polyamorph (t · c) was closed as merge by Sandstein (t · c) on 17 Oct 2019; see discussion (10 participants; relisted)
Articles to be merged
- 05 Jun 2019 – Research group (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Research center by Jmertel23 (t · c); see discussion
- 30 May 2019 – Science studies (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Science and technology studies by Wikiman2718 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 11 May 2017 – Science and technology studies (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rhododendrites (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Jul 2016 – Adaptive clinical trial (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 12 Aug 2019 – Draft:Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Fond za nauku (t · c)
- 25 Jun 2019 – Draft:Citizen Science Global Partnership (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DGG (t · c)
- 27 Mar 2019 – Draft:International Network for Government Science Advice (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pamakaranete (t · c)
Statistics[edit]
Science articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||
FL | 2 | 2 | |||||
GA | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 13 | ||
B | 8 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 59 | |
C | 9 | 34 | 40 | 105 | 2 | 51 | 241 |
Start | 2 | 52 | 83 | 430 | 304 | 871 | |
Stub | 2 | 20 | 32 | 436 | 95 | 585 | |
List | 5 | 11 | 16 | 41 | 37 | 110 | |
Book | 7 | 7 | |||||
Category | 1 | 2,121 | 2,122 | ||||
Disambig | 3 | 17 | 20 | ||||
File | 8 | 8 | |||||
Portal | 3 | 3 | |||||
Project | 9 | 9 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 63 | 64 | ||||
Template | 1 | 64 | 65 | ||||
Other | 11 | 1 | 12 | ||||
Assessed | 31 | 135 | 187 | 1,039 | 2,305 | 499 | 4,196 |
Unassessed | 1 | 141 | 142 | ||||
Total | 31 | 135 | 187 | 1,040 | 2,305 | 640 | 4,338 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 8,687 | Ω = 5.11 |
Categories[edit]
Members[edit]
To add your name to the list of members, please visit the Guest book.
[edit]
WikiProject Science is parent of the WikiProjects below:
- WikiProject Academic Journals
- WikiProject Anthropology
- WikiProject Archaeology
- WikiProject Astronomy
- WikiProject Biology
- WikiProject Chemistry
- WikiProject Cognitive science
- WikiProject Computer science
- WikiProject Cosmology
- WikiProject Engineering
- WikiProject Forestry
- WikiProject Futures studies
- WikiProject Geology
- WikiProject Glass
- WikiProject History of Science
- WikiProject Linguistics
- WikiProject Mathematics
- WikiProject Medicine
- WikiProject Meteorology
- WikiProject Physics
- WikiProject Philosophy/Science
- WikiProject Pseudoscience
- WikiProject Psychology
- WikiProject Royal Society
- WikiProject Skepticism
- WikiProject Soil
- WikiProject Spaceflight
- WikiProject Statistics
- WikiProject Systems
- WikiProject Time
- WikiProject Women scientists
Related pages[edit]
Portal[edit]
WikiProjects[edit]
Subpages[edit]
- List of all subpages of this page
Older project pages[edit]
- WikiProject Science – strategies: Includes project history
Scientific Peer Review[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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)[edit]
The current science collaboration of the month article is: Chemistry Please help improve this article to featured article quality standards.
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Tools[edit]
- reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.