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.
- Cleanup 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 |
2008-07-16 : This week's articles are:
- Biographies: None this week.
- Articles: Hadron, Quasiparticle, Solid-state physics, Statistical physics, Solid
- Lists: List of physical quantities
Note: There are a bit less than usual since it's later in the week, and last week's articles didn't get much attention. Hopefully fewer articles means more attention.
2008-07-07 : Last week's articles were:
- Biographies: None this week.
- Articles: Individual quarks pages (Up quark, Down quark, Strange quark, Charm quark, Bottom quark, Top quark) Not all need work, but as they all are very closely related, might as well do them all together.
Delta baryon, Density, Electroweak interaction, Elementary charge, Experimental physics, Field_(physics), Geiger-Marsden_experiment (Rutherford's Experiment), Geophysics
- Lists: List of quasiparticles
- 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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| Quality | 7,014/9,013 | 77.82% | Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 01:32, 12 August 2008 (UTC) |
| Importance | 3,640/9,013 | 40.39% | Headbomb {ταλκ – WP Physics: PotW} 01:32, 12 August 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
Polls
- 2008-07-02 : 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.
Articles nominated for deletion
- There are currently no physics articles nominated for deletion
Articles currently under peer review
- Newton's theorem of revolving orbits Please help! :)
Featured articles
- 2008-06-27 : General Relativity is promoted to FA status.
- 2008-06-19 : General Relativity is nominated by Markus Poessel.
- 2008-04-17 : Force fails to meet the FA criteria. See how you can help by heading on the talk page, or by contacting ScienceApologist.
- 2008-04-08 : Force is nominated by ScienceApologist
- 2008-02-18 : Atom is promoted to FA status. Congratulations to RJH for leading the efforts.
- 2008-02-12 : Atom is nominated by RJH.
- 2008-02-12 : Plate tectonics is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-02-09 : Roche limit is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-01-04 : Carl Friedrich Gauss is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
Featured lists
- 2008-07-01 : List of baryons is promoted to FL status. Congratulations to Headomb who lead the efforts.
- 2008-06-26 : List of elements by stability of isotopes is nominated by Nergaal.
- 2008-06-18 : List of baryons is nominated for the second time by Headbomb.
- 2008-05-30 : List of baryons fails to meet the criteria for Featured List. See how you can help by heading on the talk page, or by contacting Headbomb.
- 2008-05-30 : List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein is promoted to Featured List status. Congratulations to WillowW who lead the efforts.
- 2008-05-16 : List of baryons is nominated by Headbomb.
- 2008-05-08 : List of scientific publications by Albert Einstein is nominated by Willow.
- 2008-02-11 : List of particles is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
Good articles
- 2008-08-03 : Newton's theorem of revolving orbits is nominated. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-08-06 : Ibn al-Haytham is nominated. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-08-03 : Crystallographic database is nominated. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-06-12 : Wernher von Braun is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-06-10 : Nuclear power is nominated. Head to the talk page to give comments and to see how you can help.
- 2008-05-28 : Cold fusion is promoted. Congratulations to Dank55 who lead the efforts.
- 2008-04-05 : Water cycle is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-03-09 : Luminiferous aether is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-02-10 : Atom is promoted.
- 2008-02-28 : Galileo Galilei is promoted.
- 2008-02-20 : Entropy is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-02-18 : Superconductivity is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-02-15 : Metric expansion of space is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-02-15 : Nova laser is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-02-15 : Schrödinger equation is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-02-13 : Isospin is demoted. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-02-01 : Linus Pauling fails to meet the GA criteria. Head to the talk page to see how you can help.
- 2008-01-22 : Electricity is promoted.
- 2008-01-12 : Clapotis is promoted.
Articles needing attention
- Black hole
- Colloid
- Dialysis tubing
- Gerald Schroeder
- Kirchhoff equations
- Magnet therapy
- Pedro Paulet
- Pulsar
- Roche Limit
- Transfer-matrix method (optics)
- Units of measurements
Miscellaneous
- 2008-06-08 : The MOSNUM—Units of measurements had a major rewrite. Head there to catch up on the latest guidelines on how to write units and how to disambiguate.
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.
- 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.
