Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology
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Welcome to WikiProject Biology, a WikiProject for discussing biology-related articles, editing issues, projects, and guidelines. The purpose of this project is to provide common ground for editors working in all biology-related projects, for seeking advice or requesting help from a broader community of biology editors, and for coordinating the categorization of biology articles. Please join us for discussion!
Overview[edit]
WikiProject Biology serves as a metaproject coordinating multiple subprojects. As a whole, WikiProject Biology and its subprojects maintain tens of thousands of articles, categories, templates, and other pages. However, WikiProject Biology itself only directly tags articles which pertain to the science of biology as a whole, which are relevant across many disciplines, or in some cases those which represent the field of biology as a whole to the public.
Related WikiProjects[edit]
WikiProject Biology is a daughter project of WikiProject Science. We serve as a meta-project with several subprojects under our purview. The organization of these is presented below in a cladogram. WikiProject Molecular Biology is a proposed merger of WP:BIOP, WP:COMBIO, WP:GEN, and WP:MCB and their taskforces into a single project. This and other merges may change this diagram in the future. See discussion here.
To see activity levels and active editors for these projects, see the Wikiproject Directory tool and look for the project in question. Clicking on a project will give further information.
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Potential projects or work groups:
- WikiProject Reproduction
- WikiProject Developmental biology
- WikiProject Conservation biology
- WikiProject Animal behavior (ethology)
Related non-biology projects (automated list):
- WikiProject Agriculture
- WikiProject Biography/Science and academia
- WikiProject Environment
- WikiProject Forestry
- WikiProject Medicine
- WikiProject Women scientists
Statistics[edit]
Biology articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | ||
FL | 2 | 2 | |||||
GA | 13 | 9 | 8 | 27 | 57 | ||
B | 11 | 44 | 60 | 94 | 5 | 214 | |
C | 24 | 83 | 191 | 607 | 1 | 61 | 967 |
Start | 7 | 195 | 1,472 | 1 | 137 | 1,812 | |
Stub | 7 | 601 | 1 | 67 | 676 | ||
List | 3 | 22 | 47 | 72 | |||
Category | 1,659 | 1,659 | |||||
Disambig | 14 | 14 | |||||
File | 21 | 21 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 16 | 16 | |||||
Redirect | 175 | 175 | |||||
Template | 101 | 101 | |||||
NA | 21 | 21 | |||||
Other | 136 | 136 | |||||
Assessed | 56 | 152 | 486 | 2,849 | 2,147 | 270 | 5,960 |
Unassessed | 2 | 71 | 73 | ||||
Total | 56 | 152 | 486 | 2,851 | 2,147 | 341 | 6,033 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 17,699 | Ω = 4.74 |
44 edits | List of organisms named after works of fiction |
30 edits | List of common misconceptions |
28 edits | Intelligence in Nature |
26 edits | The Cosmic Serpent |
21 edits | Susan Lea (scientist) |
18 edits | Autism spectrum |
13 edits | Common descent |
11 edits | Two-domain system |
10 edits | Human–animal hybrid |
8 edits | Tirzepatide |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 18 May 2022 by HotArticlesBot.
See also: WikiProject Biology/Popular pages
Projects Being Merged
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MCB
Genetics
Computational Biology
Biophysics
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Article assessment[edit]
- Assessment – the assessment unit, which provides information about Biology articles rated by quality and importance, and the project's criteria for article quality grading.
Category maintenance[edit]
(All stats updated June 9, 2019) It is difficult to compile statistics for such a large category and its subcategories: however, PetScan revealed 56527 total articles going down to 3 subcategories (PSID 9644858). There are certainly even more than that, because many subcategories do extend well beyond 3 sublevels. The key is that there are far more articles under the scope of WikiProject Biology than just what is shown by the talk page banner or our stats table.
Many biology categories are in bad shape. They tend to fill up with articles on minor topics that are better placed in subcategories (or sub-subcategories, etc.). A little maintenance of the top category and 30 subcategories would go a long way towards keeping articles properly sorted. These are listed below.
Main category: Biology (30 C, 133 P)
- Contains well over 56,527 articles in all as of June 9, 2019.
Subcategories:
- Biology-related lists (9 C, 95 P)
- Category:Branches of biology (40 C, 37 P)
- Biologists (13 C, 3 P)
- Biology awards (7 C, 121 P)
- Biocides (19 C, 22 P, 1 F)
- Biological classification (6 C, 40 P)
- Biological records (4 C, 26 P)
- Biological systems (3 C, 15 P)
- Biology education (1 C)
- Biology software (5 C, 2 P)
- Biotechnology (49 C, 376 P)
- Biological censuses (1 C, 14 P)
- Biological concepts (7 C, 20 P)
- Biology and culture (10 C, 28 P)
- Bioscience education (3 C, 11 P)
- Eukaryote biology (4 C, 3 P)
- Biological evolution (15 C, 38 P)
- History of biology (15 C, 48 P)
- Biological interactions (7 C, 35 P)
- Philosophy of biology (9 C, 72 P)
- Biological processes (12 C, 39 P)
- Quantum biology (14 P)
- Standardized tests for Biology (1 P)
- Biological techniques and tools (9 C, 71 P)
- Biology terminology (10 C, 134 P)
- Unsolved problems in biology (2 C, 4 P)
- Biological waste (3 C, 5 P)
- Biology stubs (23 C, 238 P)
- Biology templates (26 C, 87 P)
Worklist[edit]
Article Alerts[edit]
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Articles for deletion
- 13 May 2022 – The Cosmic Serpent (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ජපස (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 13 May 2022 – Intelligence in Nature (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Slatersteven (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
- 12 May 2022 – Mel Young (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ari T. Benchaim (t · c); see discussion (9 participants)
- 21 Apr 2022 – Bull-type terriers (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Atsme (t · c) was closed as redirect by Liz (t · c) on 12 May 2022; see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
- 11 May 2022 – Mel Young (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Ploni (t · c) was deproded by Ari T. Benchaim (t · c) on 12 May 2022
Templates for discussion
- 18 May 2022 – Template:Hominins (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Jonesey95 (t · c); see discussion
Files for discussion
- 13 May 2022 – File:ETDEWEB subjects coverage.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Energy Technology Data Exchange) was FfDed by Ixfd64 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 25 Sep 2021 – Chronobiology (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Samer Hattar by Truthanado (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 24 Mar 2022 – Human milk immunity (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Scyrme (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Sep 2020 – Chronobiology (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lithopsian (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 15 May 2022 – Draft:MicroPublication Biology (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Neurogarg (t · c)
- 13 May 2022 – Draft:Oscar Marín (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tjjanabi1 (t · c)
- 13 May 2022 – Draft:David Blackbourn (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tblackb (t · c)
- 09 May 2022 – Draft:Cloud Laboratory (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Cglife.bmarcus (t · c)
- 03 May 2022 – Draft:Polystyrene (drug delivery) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Volcaresta (t · c)
- 02 May 2022 – Draft:Scancell (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BurbleOD (t · c)
- 30 Apr 2022 – Draft:Marc E. Rothenberg (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AmyLawton (t · c)
- 25 Apr 2022 – Draft:Antigenic Essence (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Steven Lichtenberg (t · c)
- 25 Apr 2022 – Draft:Nir Ben-Tal (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hila1324 (t · c)
- 24 Apr 2022 – Draft:Cytokine delivery systems (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MaddyVanBlunk (t · c)
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Requests[edit]
See WikiProject Biology/Requests for details.
To do[edit]
- Change overview to overview, scope, and goals (still called overview)
- Fill in scope information
- Add short/mid/long-term goals
- Merge with the lede
- Fill out cladogram with useful info for each project (Talk, Alerts, Activity)
- Find a nicer way to list non-biology projects
- consider including GMCB projects in the cladogram with a dotted line and a bar labeled GMCB instead of current layout
- Sign up for discussions module
- Set up WPX participant system
- Port names over
- Send out some messages
- Turn see also into resources and flesh out
- Help finding sources
- Guides
- Tools/gadgets
- Getting started guide
- Sign up for suggestbot and get task lists
- Add maintenance schedule to main page
- Set up main page image rotation WIP
- Facelift to WPX layout with proper modules
- Fix template section
- Add a subsection in statistics for subprojects (html issues currently)
Participants[edit]
Feel free to add {{User WikiProject Biology}} to your userpage.
To join, just add your name at the end of the list at the /Members subpage.
For an automated list of active members of our WikiProject, use WikiProject Directory. For related WikiProjects, see all biology WikiProjects in the Directory tools.
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Resources[edit]
Sourcing[edit]
- Wikipedia:How to use primary sources (biological sciences)
- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library
- Wikipedia:Notability (academics)
Useful Pages[edit]
- Bibliography of biology
- Outline of life forms
- Bibliography of encyclopedias:_biology
- Index of biology articles
- List of biologists
- Outline of biology
Tools[edit]
- User:Evad37/rater--Used for assessment of articles, see WikiProject Biology/Assessment for details
- Wikipedia:HotCat--Used for editing categories on articles
- Wikipedia:PetScan--Used for analyzing and working with categories (but not editing)
- Wikipedia:User scripts/List--A full list of userscripts.
- CladEd--Free tool for creating cladograms (like the one on this page!)
Templates[edit]
{{Portal|Biology}}
provides a direct link to the Biology Portal and is added to the See also section of all biology-related articles, which produces:
- {{WikiProject Biology}} is added to the top of talk pages of all biology-related articles, which produces:
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- {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology/Invitation}} can be used to invite users to the project.
- Template:User_WikiProject_Biology may be placed on a userpage to identify as a user of the WikiProject.