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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
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
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
45 edits | List of common misconceptions |
38 edits | Csaba Szabo (pharmacologist) |
28 edits | Mark Walrod Harrington |
24 edits | Alfred Russel Wallace |
22 edits | What Is a Woman? |
17 edits | Adolescence |
16 edits | Mitochondrial Eve |
15 edits | Adult |
12 edits | Sophie G. Martin |
9 edits | Émile Maupas |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 22 July 2022 by HotArticlesBot.
See also: WikiProject Biology/Popular pages
Subproject Stat Tables
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Anatomy
Animal anatomy
Ecology
Ecoregions
Evolutionary Biology
Extinction
Neuroscience
Palaeontology
Physiology
Tree of Life
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Projects Being Merged
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MCB
Genetics
Computational Biology
Biophysics
Cell signaling
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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
(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
Article Alerts
Did you know
- 21 Jun 2022 – Rubicon (protein) (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by Prodigiousfool (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 17 Jul 2022 – Houseplant care (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Jonwilliamsl (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 17 Jul 2022 – Christian Pike (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Gusfriend (t · c); see discussion (8 participants)
- 15 Jul 2022 – Rosa 'Botticelli' (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Mangoe (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
Good article nominees
- 01 Jul 2022 – Last universal common ancestor (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start
Peer reviews
- 13 Jun 2022 – Life (talk · · hist) has been put up for PR by Interstatefive (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 01 Jul 2022 – Abiogenesis (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to Origin of life by Chiswick Chap (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 26 May 2022 – Stable isotope composition of amino acids (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture by Herravondure (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Sep 2021 – Chronobiology (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Samer Hattar by Truthanado (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 09 Jul 2022 – List of common misconceptions (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Blubabluba9990 (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Sep 2020 – Chronobiology (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lithopsian (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 18 Jul 2022 – Draft:Dario DiFrancesco (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DavidMolla (t · c)
- 12 Jul 2022 – Draft:Wisconsin Fast Plants (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CornholeLife (t · c)
- 07 Jul 2022 – Draft:NeoVentures Biotechnology (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Vas182979 (t · c)
- 30 Jun 2022 – Draft:Erich Bornberg-Bauer (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Limax Paper (t · c)
- 30 Jun 2022 – Draft:Fletchervirus (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Yirch (t · c)
- 19 Jun 2022 – Draft:Heteroclinic Channels (for robotic control) (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tasha2toes (t · c)
- 14 Jun 2022 – Draft:Eduardo Duro (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Anerdo (t · c)
- 12 Jun 2022 – Draft:AGC Biologics (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by IceMatcha (t · c)
- 11 Jun 2022 – Draft:Edward A. Adelberg (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ceoawaxx (t · c)
- 11 Jun 2022 – Draft:Hopping Hotspots (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Palaeolife (t · c)
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Requests
See WikiProject Biology/Requests for details.
To do
- 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
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
Sourcing
- Wikipedia:How to use primary sources (biological sciences)
- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library
- Wikipedia:Notability (academics)
Useful Pages
- Bibliography of biology
- Outline of life forms
- Bibliography of encyclopedias:_biology
- Index of biology articles
- List of biologists
- Outline of biology
Tools
- 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
{{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.