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Overview
There are many active biology WikiProjects. The purpose of this project is to provide common ground for editors in these projects, for seeking advice or requesting help from a broader community of biology editors, and for coordinating the perpetual problem of categorization of biology articles. (For some time, this page was redirected to Portal:Biology, where the talk page served that purpose.)
Related WikiProjects
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- Parent: Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
- Daughter projects: See Category:WikiProject Biology
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Human Anatomy
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Neuroscience
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Paleontology
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Physiology
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life, a metaproject for articles on organisms. Subprojects include (among others):
- Potential projects or work groups:
Article Alerts
- Good article reassessments
- 16 Mar 2014 – History of malaria (talk · · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Sbalfour (t · c); see discussion
- Peer reviews
- 09 Mar 2015 – Gaseous signaling molecules (talk · · hist) has been put up for PR by Роман Беккер (t · c); see discussion
To do
- Improve this page and make it more useful for biology editors
- Advertise the existence of this project
Requests
- Article requests: Natural sciences – Biology
- Photo requests: Requested biology photographs
- Template:Tree list/doc Would someone please translate the section "Cladogram" from French to English. (A knowledge of biological terminology is more important than a knowledge of French). -- drafted Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:43, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
- Subtitle for marine species
Hello all, I am working on editing pages on marine species on the French and English version. I have faced issues with the French administrators regarding the common name of marine species to be added to the page. It was, so far, written on the top of the taxobox, but a (French) consensus recently decided that the taxobox should include only scientific names and not common names. The solution was then to add the common name as a subtitle of the page (example can be seen here: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryaninops_yongei). This solution is fine since there are often more than just one common name per language and, most of all, that it uses a markup easily identified as being a common name (rather than just bold found in the introduction). So, I would need to be able to do the same in the English version but I cannot find the right way to do it. If anyone could help me on that, I would be more than grateful. Thank you--BUWF (talk) 05:05, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
Article assessment
- 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
Many biology categories are in a bad way. They tend to fill up with articles on minor topics that are better placed in subcategories (or sub-subcategories, etc.).
(Statistics compiled June 22, 2007)
- Category:Biology - with 60 subcategories, it could use some reorganization. It also accumulates articles rapidly, so it needs regular attention.
- Category:Anatomy - 137 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Biochemistry - 160 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Botany - 107 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Developmental biology - 278 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Diseases and disorders - 121 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Ecology - 263 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Evolutionary biology - 333 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Genetics - 561 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Medicine - 128 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Molecular biology - 553 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Category:Neuroscience - 305 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
- Total: 2946 articles, as of July 27th, 2012.
Participants
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See also
References
- ^ Carl R. Woese, Otto Kandler, Mark L. Wheelis: "Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 87(12):4576-9. doi:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4576
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