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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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Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 15 | ||
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16 | 10 | 12 | 28 | 1 | 67 | |
B | 8 | 47 | 73 | 137 | 20 | 285 | |
C | 8 | 77 | 202 | 921 | 114 | 1,322 | |
Start | 8 | 194 | 1,830 | 274 | 2,306 | ||
Stub | 11 | 808 | 1 | 132 | 952 | ||
List | 3 | 23 | 51 | 4 | 81 | ||
Category | 1 | 2,445 | 2,446 | ||||
Disambig | 22 | 22 | |||||
File | 24 | 24 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 20 | 20 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 232 | 266 | |
Template | 164 | 164 | |||||
NA | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | |||
Other | 138 | 138 | |||||
Assessed | 41 | 153 | 519 | 3,810 | 3,050 | 546 | 8,119 |
Unassessed | 3 | 151 | 154 | ||||
Total | 41 | 153 | 519 | 3,813 | 3,050 | 697 | 8,273 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 23,525 | Ω = 4.75 |
18 edits | Lawrence M. Page |
17 edits | Competition |
17 edits | Lee Spetner |
12 edits | List of common misconceptions |
10 edits | Robert Lue |
9 edits | Mimesis (biology) |
9 edits | Plant |
7 edits | Shyamala Gopalan |
7 edits | Australophile |
6 edits | Preadolescence |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 16 August 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
See also: WikiProject Biology/Popular pages
Projects Being Merged
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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 August 15, 2023)
PetScan results (union) for number of articles in English Wikipedia by depth (# subcats deep): 1, 1,580; 2, 15,681; 3, 66,174; 4, 446,785. There are deeper layers containing more articles
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 (39 C, 50 P)
- Contains over 445,000 articles in all as of August 15, 2023.
Subcategories:
Container categories - they have no articles, only categories
- Biology by continent (2 C)
- Biology by country (133 C)
- Biology by country subdivision (1 C)
- Biology by dependent territory (5 C)
- Biology by city (1 C)
- Biology in fiction (1 C)
- Works about biology (7 C)
Categories with sub-categories
- Biocides (19 C, 22 P, 1 F)
- Biological censuses (1 C, 14 P)
- Biological classification (9 C, 48 P)
- Biological concepts (7 C, 20 P)
- Biologists (18 C, 3 P)
- Biology-related lists (15 C, 107 P)
- Biology awards (7 C, 121 P)
- Biology conferences (1 C, 21 P)
- Biology controversies (3 C, 20 P)
- Biology and culture (11 C, 29 P)
- Biological descriptions (3 C, 2 P)
- Biological waste (3 C, 6 P)
- Biology education (6 C, 20 P)
- Biology images (2 C, 7 F)
- Biology organizations (19 C, 43 P)
- Biology stubs (25 C, 214 P)
- Biological evolution (15 C, 38 P)
- Biological interactions (7 C, 39 P)
- Biological processes (12 C, 44 P)
- Biological records (6 C, 21 P)
- Biological rules (1 C, 14 P)
- Biological systems (3 C, 26 P)
- Biological techniques and tools (14 C, 81 P)
- Biology terminology (7 C, 138 P)
- Biotechnology (51 C, 420 P)
- Category:Branches of biology (43 C, 42 P)
- Eukaryote biology (4 C, 5 P)
- History of biology (14 C, 46 P)
- Organisms (39 C, 5 P)
- Philosophy of biology (9 C, 40 P)
- Unsolved problems in biology (2 C, 7 P)
Categories without sub-categories
- Biomagnetics (5 P)
- Quantum biology (16 P)
Deleted subcategories
- Biology software merged to Science software
- Bioscience education merged to Biology education
- Standardized tests for Biology merged to Standardized tests and Biology education
Other biology-related categories:
- Biogeography (23 C, 155 P)
- Biology templates (31 C, 53 P)
Worklist
[edit]Article Alerts
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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 Aug 2024 – Time dilation creationism (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by ජපස (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- 13 Aug 2024 – Chinese long-haired wolfdog (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fram (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 12 Aug 2024 – Cyber-Enhanced Working Dog (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mccapra (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 06 Aug 2024 – Homogeneity and heterogeneity (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Fgnievinski (t · c) was closed as keep by Liz (t · c) on 13 Aug 2024; see discussion (6 participants)
- 04 Aug 2024 – Marin Jukic (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Klbrain (t · c) was closed as delete by CactusWriter (t · c) on 11 Aug 2024; see discussion (5 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 10 Aug 2024 – Tokogeny (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Mccapra (t · c) was deproded by Rich Farmbrough (t · c) (author) on 12 Aug 2024
Redirects for discussion
- 14 Aug 2024 – Infantile (talk · edit · hist) →Infant was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Aug 2024 – Great-children (talk · edit · hist) →Child was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Aug 2024 – Sproggen (talk · edit · hist) →Child was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Aug 2024 – Young human (talk · edit · hist) →Child was RfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 05 Jun 2024 – Precision cut lung slices (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Precision cut tissue slices by Beland (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Mar 2024 – Bioprocess engineering (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Biochemical engineering by Hanif Al Husaini (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 08 Jul 2024 – List of common misconceptions (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by WhatamIdoing (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Sep 2020 – Chronobiology (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lithopsian (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 12 Aug 2024 – Draft:Annamalai University Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ahamedpno (t · c)
- 08 Aug 2024 – Draft:Mikhail Kudryashev (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Misha Kudr (t · c)
- 08 Aug 2024 – Draft:Alpine Entomology (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 1AmNobody24 (t · c)
- 07 Aug 2024 – Draft:Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Editorialalex (t · c)
- 31 Jul 2024 – Draft:Arylacetamide deacetylase like 2 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Eldijanalilic (t · c)
- 30 Jul 2024 – Draft:SysMod (Systems Modeling) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Bhanwar puniya (t · c)
- 30 Jul 2024 – Draft:WDR88 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Oj0124 (t · c)
- 26 Jul 2024 – Draft:CT-996 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Catalizator (t · c)
- 25 Jul 2024 – Draft:Wildlife Conservation Initiative (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Coyote3395 (t · c)
- 24 Jul 2024 – Draft:Biotium (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jonibologni (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
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Organisms
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!)
- User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/SpeciesHelper For species articles, automatically adds the short description, speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template.
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.