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The goals of WikiProject Physics are 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 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.
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.
Physics
articles |
Importance |
| Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
None |
Total |
| Class |
 FA |
8 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
|
17 |
| A |
6 |
8 |
1 |
|
|
15 |
 GA |
7 |
13 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
26 |
| B |
38 |
80 |
40 |
18 |
37 |
213 |
| Start |
8 |
52 |
44 |
49 |
155 |
308 |
| Stub |
1 |
12 |
17 |
28 |
2804 |
2862 |
| Unassessed |
|
2 |
|
1 |
4643 |
4646 |
| Total |
68 |
172 |
108 |
99 |
7640 |
8087 |
|
The scope of this project is basically everything on Wikipedia that is concerned with physics. Please be aware that, as of November 2005, there are over 11,000 articles on mathematics and physics (See Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity), and so this scope is very broad.
Of particular interest are issues dealing with core physics concepts and issues. In particular:
- Organization of categories in the top level Category:Physics
- General physics discussions, e.g. concerning the content of physics articles on Wikipedia (use the talk page).
- Watching out for pseudoscience in physics articles and categories (see the list of these topics).
- Helping to keep the Physics Portal in good shape.
A dedicated volunteer is needed to set up and operate a page similar to Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Current activity. This will make the monitoring and review of new physics articles much easier to manage.
[edit] Participants
If you plan to be active in editing articles relating to physics, please add your name and your interests to the participants list!
[edit] Key articles
There is a list of articles sorted by quality and importance at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Physics articles by quality, which is automatically created by Oleg Alexandrov's Mathbot. To add an article to the list, simply add the WikiProject template to the talk page of the article with the following parameters:
- {{physics | importance=XXX | class=YYY}}
where class is chosen from this assessment scale, and importance is the importance within physics according to this scale.
Key articles should be the first articles added to this organizational system, but it can be used for any article.
[edit] Subpages
[edit] Project templates
- See also: :Category:Physics templates
[edit] Main pages
| What to type |
What it makes |
Description |
| {{Physics-footer}} |
|
A footer for important physics pages. |
[edit] Talk pages
| What to type |
What it makes |
Description |
| {{Physics}} |
 |
This page is within the scope of WikiProject Physics, which collaborates on articles related to physics. |
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Project notice, to be placed on the talk pages of relevent articles. |
[edit] User pages
[edit] Related projects
- See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Science
[edit] Within physics
[edit] Not within physics
[edit] Space exploration
[edit] Portals
[edit] Pages needing attention
To add articles to one of the automatically updated lists, add the appropriate tag from Wikipedia:Cleanup resources, and make sure is it in a category on the "Categories covered" section, or an immediate subcategory thereof. (Feel free to add categories there if you think articles in that category and its immediate subcategories should be listed here.) There also still some manually-updated lists.
- Portals
- WikiProjects
- Manually updated lists
- Stubs
- For individual articles needing attention, see a subfield-specific list, (which may be below).
[edit] Scientific Peer Review - Recent requests for review
This is a list of articles that have been nominated for scientific peer review. i.e. by scientists with expertise in the topic. Please contribute by adding new requests at the top.
Reviews of articles that have been nominated for review and the review completed are archived here.
[edit] See also
