Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics
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This WikiProject exists to improve the quality of existing articles related to Physics, to create articles to cover a broader range of physics topics, and to categorize and link them in appropriate ways. The result of this work should be articles that are accessible to the lay reader and yet are also useful to the professional working in the field. Some articles will be of interest to grade-school students, others only to advanced graduate students and post-docs: all such communities should be served.
If you plan to be active in editing articles relating to physics, please add your name and your interests to the participants list. Concrete proposals, suggestions and activities are discussed on the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics page, and any and all interested parties are encouraged to join up and participate.
Please be aware that the caliber of the current participants is quite high: many, if not most of the active participants of this project are either graduate students in physics, or are practicing professionals and academics. This is stated not to discourage membership, but to encourage it: we need a few more amateurs to tell us when the articles have become too obtuse and difficult to understand, and a few more professionals to oversee the accuracy of the content in assorted subfields. Either way, when you talk here, you'll be talking with peers.
The scope of WikiProject Physics is basically anything on Wikipedia that is related to physics. As of June 2008, about 9,000 articles have been identified as being physics-related.
Our particular interest are issues dealing with core physics concepts and issues. In particular:
- Bringing every physics article as close to Featured Article or Featured List status as possible.
- Maximizing MoS compliance.
- Cleaning up tagged articles.
- Organization of categories in at every level of Category:Physics.
- Making sure all articles are properly referenced.
- Watching out for pseudoscience in physics articles and categories (see the list of these topics).
- Keeping the Physics Portal in good shape.
- Keeping the WikiProject Physics community active, growing, and well-supported.
- Discussing the content of physics articles on Wikipedia and what direction WikiProject Physics should take (see talk page).
If you can help with any of these topics, please add your name to the third column
| I need help with | Try | Or alternatively, try contacting |
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| Bots | Bot policy and subpages | |
| Copy-editing | League of Copyeditors | Headbomb |
| Content dispute | Requesting for comments |
WikiProject Physics participants |
| Editing a protected page | Placing {{editprotected}} on the article's talk page | SCZenz, Mike Peel |
| General Assistance | Editor Assistance | |
| General Feedback | WikiProject Physics talk page |
WikiProject Physics participants |
| Getting around WikiProject Physics | WikiProject Physics talk page | Headbomb |
| Images (creating) | Graphic Lab | |
| Images (uploading) | Wikimedia Commons | Mike Peel |
| Improving an article | Using the Reviewing Cheatsheet |
WikiProject Physics participants |
| Vandalism | Administrator intervention against vandalism | SCZenz, Mike Peel |
| Templates | Template messages and subpages | Mike Peel, Headbomb |
- See also: Template:Physics and Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Cleanup listing
- This table is automatically updated by Oleg Alexandrov's WP 1.0 bot. See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Physics articles by quality log for the latest changes.
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| Assessment | Assessed/Total | Percentage | Updated |
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| Quality | 10,407/11,124 | 93.55% | 16:20, 20 December 2008 (UTC) |
| Importance | 5,764/11,150 | 51.82% | 16:20, 20 December 2008 (UTC) |
Pages needing attention
Stubs
- Physics stubs
- Physicist stubs
- Atomic, molecular, and optical physics stubs
- Classical mechanics stubs
- Condensed matter stubs
- Nuclear and atomic physics stubs
- Optics stubs
- Particle physics stubs
- Quantum physics stubs
- Relativity stubs
- Thermodynamics stubs
Others
- List of participants
- List of templates
- Alternative, speculative and disputed theories - volunteers needed to watch fringe science.
- Worklist of central experiments - Help to create GA class articles on all foundational experiments in Physics.
- Scientific citation guidelines for WikiProject Physics to write readable and well referenced articles.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Cleanup listing for articles tagged with various cleanup tags
Article Alerts
- Proposed deletion
- 28 Dec 2008 – PROD tag removed from Velo-Zwanziger problem (talk).
- 24 Dec 2008 – PROD tag removed from No-go theorem (talk).
- 24 Dec 2008 – PROD tag removed from Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics (talk).
- 18 Dec 2008 – Jaqueline Priestman (talk) has been deleted.
- Articles for deletion
- 29 Dec 2008 – Introduction to entropy (talk) was kept (see discussion).
- 29 Dec 2008 – Time is grainy (talk) has been deleted (see discussion).
- 28 Dec 2008 – Vapor quality (talk) was kept (see discussion).
- 26 Dec 2008 – Gauge gravitation theory (talk) nominated for deletion by Silly rabbit (see discussion).
- 26 Dec 2008 – Predictability (talk) nominated for deletion by Headbomb (see discussion).
- 26 Dec 2008 – Wratten 47B (talk) was kept (see discussion).
- 25 Dec 2008 – Trotec (talk) was kept (see discussion).
- 22 Dec 2008 – Terminal velocity (derivations) (talk) nominated for deletion by Headbomb (see discussion).
- Good article nominations
- 4 Dec 2008 – Optical properties of carbon nanotubes (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by NIMSoffice; see discussion.
- 14 Nov 2008 – Electron (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by RJHall; see discussion.
- Featured article candidates
- 21 Dec 2008 – Kilogram (talk) is not promoted; see discussion.
- 14 Dec 2008 – Plutonium (talk) is nominated by Mav; see discussion.
- 12 Dec 2008 – Quark (talk) is nominated by Anonymous Dissident; see discussion.
- 3 Dec 2008 – Gerard K. O'Neill (talk) is nominated by Wronkiew; see discussion.
- Featured article reviews
- 26 Dec 2008 – Isaac Newton (talk) is nominated by Headbomb; see discussion.
- 14 Dec 2008 – Hubble Deep Field (talk) is nominated by Ceranthor; see discussion.
- 10 Nov 2008 – Photon (talk) is nominated by RJHall; see discussion.
- Peer review
- 26 Dec 2008 – Peer review for List of mesons (talk) closed.
- Requests for comments
- 29 Dec 2008 – RFC (maths, science, and technology) opened for List of pseudosciences and pseudoscientific concepts (talk).
- 31 Oct 2008 – RFC (biographies) opened for Heinrich Hertz (talk).
Miscellaneous
- 2 Jul 2008 – There is currently a poll about WikiProject Physics in general. Please take some time to answer it (or part of it), as it will help coordinate and guide the future efforts of the Project.
- 8 Jun 2008 – The MOSNUM—Units of measurement had a major rewrite. Head there to catch up on the latest guidelines on how to write units and how to disambiguate.
Articles needing attention
Other things you can do
- Update Portal:Physics.
- Update Portal:Gravitation.
- Tag physics-related articles with {{physics}}.
- Check that ratings of physics articles are appropriate, and suggest possible improvements to articles.
- Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of physics subjects
- Update and improve this list!
Portals
Other physics Wikiprojects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Acoustics
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Elements
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Fluid dynamics (currently inactive)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Pseudoscience
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Relativity
Related WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry
- Wikipedia:Missing science topics
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- Part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. Has a list of missing physics articles.
