Wikipedia:WikiProject Science

For a directory of science-oriented WikiProjects, see: WikiProject Council: Directory – Science

 Wikiproject Science Topics list Target articles Guidelines Templates Members 

WikiProject Science

Stylized Lithium atom
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

"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."

— Albert Einstein, in "Physics and Reality" (1936); later published in Out of My Later Years (1950)

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 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

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 22 Nov 2024 – List of tornadoes causing 100 or more deaths (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by EF5 (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 22 Nov 2024 – X-ray nanoprobe (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bunnypranav (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 21 Nov 2024 – List of molecules by year of discovery (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Pygos (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 20 Nov 2024 – Drift (navigation) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mathglot (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 20 Nov 2024 – George M. Murray (scientist) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Scope creep (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 19 Nov 2024 – Working load limit (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Darcyisverycute (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 18 Nov 2024 – Chin Gouk (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 15 Nov 2024 – Americanoid (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PersusjCP (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
• 14 Nov 2024 – Kanawha people (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 11 Nov 2024 – 2023 Wynne–Parkin tornado (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by EF5 (t · c); see discussion (7 participants; relisted)

(8 more...)

Proposed deletions

• 23 Nov 2024 – Brownian motion of sol particles (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by WeirdNAnnoyed (t · c): concern and endorsed by Synpath (t · c) on 24 Nov 2024
• 18 Nov 2024 – SCSI contingent allegiance condition (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by HyperAccelerated (t · c): concern
• 18 Nov 2024 – SCSI diagnostic pages (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by HyperAccelerated (t · c): concern
• 15 Nov 2024 – Nagarjuna G. (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by HyperAccelerated (t · c) was deleted
• 14 Nov 2024 – Dynamic provisioning environment (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Brandon (t · c) was deleted
• 14 Nov 2024 – Spatial reconnaissance (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Turtlecrown (t · c) was deleted

Redirects for discussion

• 21 Oct 2024 – 3rd Planet (talk · edit · hist) →Earth was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – Third planet (talk · edit · hist) →Earth was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – 3rd planet (talk · edit · hist) →Earth was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Oct 2024 – Planet Three (talk · edit · hist) →Earth was RfDed by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 19 Nov 2024 – Bowie Municipal Airport (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bowie, Texas by Carguychris (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Sep 2024 – Bongaigaon Thermal Power Station (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to NTPC Limited by Thewikizoomer (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Sep 2024 – Ferris Red Oak Muni Heliport (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ferris, Texas by Carguychris (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Sep 2024 – New Providence Shale (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Borden Formation by Scope creep (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 24 Nov 2024 – Draft:Mathematical Research Institute MATRIX (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by NumbersNerd (t · c)
• 23 Nov 2024 – Draft:Yuri Sergeevich Shabarov (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LavrNow (t · c)
• 22 Nov 2024 – Draft:Test4Pay (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Retanfeil (t · c)
• 21 Nov 2024 – Draft:Leszek S. Czarnecki (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Fakturyok (t · c)
• 21 Nov 2024 – Draft:Elestor (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Lstr1 (t · c)
• 21 Nov 2024 – Draft:Ghulam Muhammad Memon (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Izmaiqbalmemon (t · c)
• 21 Nov 2024 – Draft:State analysis of internal natural convection (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Riziuzi (t · c)
• 20 Nov 2024 – Draft:David M. L. Sills (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ChadHicks (t · c)
• 20 Nov 2024 – Draft:Tecar Therapy (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Rsjaffe (t · c)
• 19 Nov 2024 – Draft:Inbal Nahum-Shani (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Izzysbees (t · c)

(44 more...)

Statistics

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	12			17
B	14	25	22	103		39	203
C	15	49	65	751		233	1,113
Start	4	51	94	1,546		725	2,420
Stub		12	21	901	1	1,080	2,015
List	4	21	24	97		101	247
Category					4,734		4,734
Disambig					16		16
File					8		8
Portal					176		176
Project					32		32
Redirect	1	3	8	38	266		316
Template					296		296
NA					10		10
Other					485		485
Assessed	43	164	237	3,449	6,024	2,178	12,095
Unassessed				10		7,030	7,040
Total	43	164	237	3,459	6,024	9,208	19,135
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 29,285			Ω = 5.07

Categories

Category puzzle

Science

Branches of science

Scientific disciplines

Scientists

Science in society

Science and technology

Scientific terminology

Works about science

Science-related lists

Science books

Scientific buildings

Scientific classification

Scientific comparisons

Empiricism

Scientific exploration

Fringe science

History of science

Scientific instruments

Metascience

Scientific method

Natural history

Science occupations

Open science

Scientific organizations

People in science

Scientific phenomena

Science pioneers

Scientific problems

Quotations from science

Scientific speculation

Time in science

Women and science

Images by scientific discipline

Science stubs

Wikipedia categories named after science projects

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:

• 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 Weather
• WikiProject Women scientists

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)

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)

Tools

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