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[edit] Project overview
This project focuses on creating and improving content related to the history of science, science studies, STS, HPS, etc. This includes the philosophy of science, as well as history of technology, mathematics and medicine. The project also focuses on improving the categorization of History of Science-related articles and maintaining Portal:History of science.
- Parent projects: Wikipedia:WikiProject History and Wikipedia:WikiProject Science
- Child project: Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Biology
[edit] To do
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The current History of Science Collaboration of the Month is History of scientific method. |
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The History of Science Collaboration is in danger of fading away without more nominations and votes. |
- Identify unmarked history of science stubs and add {{sci-hist-stub}} to them, or expand history of science stubs into full articles.
- Grab your favorite reference work and identify missing articles on notable scientists for the Missing scientist articles list, and/or create articles for them.
- Add the project template {{HistSci}} to the talk pages of history of science articles, and rate articles according to their quality and importance.
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This article is part of the History of Science WikiProject, an attempt to improve and organize the history of science content on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. You can also help with the History of Science Collaboration of the Month. |
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[edit] Participants
- Ragesoss (talk • contribs) -- physical sciences, biological sciences, technology
- dantheox (talk • contribs)
- Xuanwu (talk • contribs)
- Fastfission (talk • contribs) -- esp. modern physical and biological sciences
- Linas (talk • contribs) -- limited to history of physics
- Karol Langner (talk • contribs)
- Pjacobi (talk • contribs)
- Laurascudder (talk • contribs) -- history of physics and medicine
- Heron (talk • contribs)
- Ancheta Wis (talk • contribs)
- Chaiken (talk • contribs) -- physics, materials science, electrical engineering
- Kripkenstein (talk • contribs) -- history of philosophy and science in the Middle Ages
- Eric Forste (talk • contribs) -- esp. chemistry, thermodynamics, biology
- AppleRaven (talk • contribs) -- US Astronomy and Astronomical Observatories
- deeptrivia (talk • contribs) -- mechanics, physics, engineering, thermodynamics, mathematics. I'll also help ensure that the perspective remains global rather than Eurocentric.
- Tonymaric (talk • contribs)
- DonSiano (talk • contribs) -- Industrial Revolution
- Petaholmes (talk • contribs) -- biology esp. botany and genetics
- Samsara (talk • contribs) -- biology, esp. translations of German articles
- Joke137 (talk • contribs) -- cosmology, particle physics, general relativity. I don't know much, but I do what I can.
- JackyR (talk • contribs) -- whatever I can remember from college HPS, but I might be good on local Cambridge stuff.
- KSchutte (talk • contribs) -- history of natural philosophy, psychology, neuroscience
- Peterlewis (talk • contribs) -- history of engineering
- Lacatosias (talk • contribs) -- history of physics, math, logic.
- Cugel (talk • contribs) -- psychology (anything to do with the scientific discipline)
- Leinad-Z (talk • contribs) -- esp. medieval science, and the relationship between science and religion.
- Sayeth (talk • contribs) -- biology, esp. neuroscience and molecular biology
- Carboxen (talk • contribs) -- history of chemistry and geology, translations from German
- Maestlin (talk • contribs) -- astronomy to Kepler/Galileo, Sci. Revolution, religion and science
- Apwoolrich (talk • contribs) -- History and biography of historic mechanical engineering and invention; Industrial Revolution; Admin on Wikisource
- Deditos (talk • contribs) -- Meteorology, climatology, oceanography and bits of other Earth science.
- IanWills (talk • contribs) -- Engineering related including invention and the history of technology. Particularly interested in Edison and late nineteenth century American inventors.
- Ricochet17 (talk • contribs) -- genetics, history of science 17th-19th centuries
- SOPHIA (talk • contribs) -- History of astronomy, telescope manufacturers and astrophysics
- Wijnand (talk • contribs) -- History of mathematics and its applications in technology, mainly 19th century
- MikeMorley (talk • contribs) -- History of physics, mostly - will work elsewhere if can contribute. Undergrad Physicist, 'minored' in History and Philosophy of Science in 2nd year.
- Beland (talk • contribs) -- Studied STS at MIT.
- Dumarest (talk • contribs) -- M.D. Ph.D. biochemistry, research career in Sickle Cell Disease, now retired, and with time on my hands.
- Sina2 (talk • contribs) -- Mathematics, Computing, Information
- SteveMcCluskey (talk • contribs) -- History of Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy, Medieval Science
- Goclenius (talk • contribs) -- natural philosophy, esp. 17th century and late Aristotelian; mathematics
- General Eisenhower (talk • contribs)
- Museumfreak (talk • contribs) -- HCI/informatics/history of computing, history of anthropology, science technology society, history of public health
- TheGodEmperor (talk • contribs) -- limited mid-HS knowledge, but will help if I can
- TedE (talk • contribs) -- PhD in statistics, currently teaching genetics.
- Alexei Kouprianov (talk • contribs) -- PhD in History of Science, history of natural history, science in Russia. Background: M.Sc. biology.
- Science History (talk • contribs)
- WillowW (talk • contribs) -- Sincere dilettante; enjoys translating old texts
- Bwi410 (talk • contribs)
- Reswik (talk • contribs) -- science studies / sociology of science
- Rusty Cashman (talk • contribs) -- Biology, Paleontology
- hapagrrl1 (talk • contribs) -- MA in Victorian Studies
- Curtius (talk • contribs) -- Ancients
- Bakterius (talk • contribs) -- Computer Science, Psychology, Translation (en,de,es)
- Jpbowen (talk • contribs) -- Science museums, history of computing
- Fred.e (talk • contribs) -- review as reader of science; know a bit of fringe stuff; NPOV
- Aleta (talk • contribs) -- esp. geology (which I didn't see listed in the navbar!?)
- Eperotao (talk • contribs) -- MA zoology, excellent general knowledge of biology, biology writer/editor
- Brassratgirl (talk • contribs) -- librarian in a science & engineering library; working on sources for historical scientist biographies (my notes)
- Shyamal (talk • contribs) -- biology, natural history, science ...
- Albie34423 (talk • contribs)
- Anonymous Dissident (talk • contribs)
- Carcharoth (talk • contribs) -- history and philosophy of science, chemistry, physics, biographies
- davimre (talk • contribs)-- philosophy of technology, sound studies, early modern studies, Jesuits
- Grimhelm (talk • contribs) -- Working on ancient and medieval Science, and History of science in China at the moment; especially providing citations to articles.
- Quarl (talk • contribs)
- Madcoverboy (talk • contribs) -- Working on United States technological and industrial history and History of MIT, BS Mechanical Engineering & BS STS
- Michelferrari (talk • contribs) -- Ph.D. in Psychology
- Thony C. (talk • contribs)-- history and philosophy of science and mathematical sciences 1400 to 1700
- GeoWriter (talk • contribs) -- geology, volcanoes
- Reddi (talk • contribs) -- Most history, Western and Middle East; Weak on Asian
[edit] Current goals
Current goals for the project include:
- Identify and create missing history of science content
- Organize and maintain the History of Science Collaboration of the Month
- Improve the categorization and organization of history of science material
- Gather interest and participation in a history of science community within Wikipedia, including a History of Science Collaboration project
- Maintain and improve the History of Science Portal.
- Create summaries for biweekly selected articles.
- Find history of science related images for the weekly selected pictures.
- Update the Did you know? section with interesting history of science trivia.
- Create entries for the planned anniversaries section. Today's entry is Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/April 8.
[edit] Possible projects
Suggest something for participants to work on. Older suggestions will be archived; to see what work others have requested, go to the /Projects subpage.
- I just started a child project, Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Biology to help sort out problems with articles like Monera and Ernst Haeckel. It seems that most of the participants in this current wikiproject lean toward history of the physical sciences, and it might be worthwhile to assemble a more focused group to help deal with problems in articles such as these two. --arkuat (talk) 03:10, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
- I have been working over the past couple of months to expand and organize the hypothetical astronomical objects category, especially hypothetical Objects of the Solar System. There is a lot of cleanup and sourcing that needs to be done, as well as research and general copyediting. It's a facinating study and it might warrent its own wikiproject. We need some help here, so anyone with a little time on their hands should visit these pages and check them out. Mrwuggs 21:20, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Categorization and media
- Wikipedia: Monitor the broad history of science categories and keep them clean by replacing overly broad categories with more specific ones.
- Commons: Ensure that history of science-related images are properly categorized, especially in relevant history of science subcategories. Many history of science images are very poorly categorized, making it very difficult to find all the files on a given topic actually present.
- Wikisource: Upload public domain content related to the history of science and ensure that existing content is properly categorized. There is currently very little marked history of science content on Wikisource.
[edit] Writing and Editing
[edit] Articles in need of expansion
- Timeline of scientific discoveries - needs a lot of expansion and improvement; each time you work on another subject, check to see if relevant discoveries are present in the timeline
- History of materials science
- Atomic theory
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Lise Meitner
- Natural philosophy
- History of optics - work in progress - needs medieval to modern coverage
- Natural history - very bare, with some dubious information
- History of biology - still needs work
- History of genetics - expand timelines into prose
- Heredity - is currently very poor, very short, and does not go back into concepts of heredity before the late 19th century in any appreciable sense.
- Max Delbrück
- History of zoology, post-Darwin - partly from EB 1911, in bad shape; needs copyediting as well. Now included in the Zoology navigation template; high priority, needs to incorporate the other good history of biology articles where appropriate
- History of zoology (before Darwin) - partly from EB 1911, in bad shape; needs copyediting as well. High priority; in Zoology navigation template
- The relationship between religion and science - partially historical. Needs a stronger framework, discussion of different models for the relationship (conflict thesis, NOMA, etc.) and either a link to a historical main article or a signficant expansion of the historical part.
- science studies
- Silent Spring - needs section on historical significance, and better description of its contents; the only two sections of prose after the intro are currently Criticism and Vindication?, neither of which has much, if anything, worth keeping.
- History of science in the Renaissance (links from history of science box)
- History of molecular biology (see also molecular biology and Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids
- Conflict thesis (aka, warfare model, Draper-White thesis) - The idea of a war between science and religion, which common in the historiography of sciece from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, and is still common among non-historians.
- Henri Becquerel
- Sofya Yanovskaya
- History of paleontology - new article needs help from 19th century on
- Biochemist Marianne Grunberg-Manago
- United States technological and industrial history - Overlaid a table of contents and headers, but mostly empty as original article was largely abandoned as a stub
[edit] Requested Articles
[edit] Missing scientist articles
[edit] Fields and disciplines
- History of environmental science (links from history of science box)
- History of earth science
- History of virology (see Virology)
- History of bacteriology (see Bacteriology)
- History of public health (see Public health)
- History of accelerator physics or similar (see Particle physics and particle accelerator)
[edit] Other
- Patronage in the Renaissance (see Patronage)
- Book of Nature
- Aristotelian Physics
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- Would this be "Aristotle's views on what we today call physics"? We have an article on Aristotle's Physics but I'm not sure that's what is meant. --Fastfission 18:31, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
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- As in (I assume), the system of physics based on Aristotle's work, that was common in some form basically until Newton. Natural motion, natural place and the elements, violent motion, etc.--ragesoss 21:12, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
- Aristotelian Mechanics (maybe just one of these, I'm not sure of the relationship)
- Just one, I think; the main separation in Aristotle seems to be life sciences/physics Maestlin 08:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- If the distinction is between Aristotelian natural philosophy (based on the Physics, Generation and corruption, Meteora and the biological works) and the tradition based on the Problemata mechanica attributed to Aristotle (and the various pseudo-Problemata that appeared in the Medieval period), then I think that separate pages are historically justified. —Goclenius 03:16, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Gravity theory
- I think we need to separate Gravity from Gravity theory, but I'm not at all an expert on this. KSchutte 19:14, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
- Tetrabiblos - There is a discussion right now on Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities under "Ptolemy" about the fact that it was redirecting. A stub article is needed as a placeholder.
- Project Cosmic[1]
- phage group - the informal group of biologists led by Max Delbrück working with bacteriophage
- PaJaMo experiment - landmark molecular biology work by Arthur Pardee, François Jacob, and Jacques Monod
- Three-Man Paper - an influential work on the physical nature of the gene by Hans Zimmer, Max Delbrück, and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky
- "Quantum theoretical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations" - a landmark 1925 paper by Heisenberg, Pauli and Born that is also known as the "three man paper".
- Articles listed under Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Article requests
[edit] Articles in need of heavy copyediting
- Science in Persia - needs copyediting for tone, style and grammar. Sangak 16:32, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Gottfried Leibnitz - hagiographic, massively too big and still growing
- Nuclear arms race
- Scientific Revolution
- Galileo affair
- Genealogy of theoretical physicists, survived AfD, but needs work
- John Harrison - lots of decent text, but needs structure
- Islamic science
- Galileo's Daughter - As of 30 May 2006, reads like a freshman book review
- Nicole Oresme - Relies largely on one
self-publishedsource - see discussion - Alchemy - Quality varies widely; ignores much of the extensive literature on the History of Alchemy.
- Rudolf Diesel -
as explained on User talk:AQUA212, we should maybe first let this newcomer change their comments to edits, but(someone removed the comments) it'd be good if an expert checked the claimed errors too. --Espoo 14:13, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
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This below is transcluded from Wikipedia:Pages needing attention/History of science.
[edit] History of science
- Portals
- WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science
- Categories covered
- (in addition to those on the portal)
- Category:Obsolete scientific theories
- Category:Historiography of science
- Stubs
- No known specific categories, but anything under Category:Science stubs probably needs expansion to cover historical aspects.
- Cleanup needed (updated by bot)
- 132 - Aether theories, Ancient Egyptian medicine, Ancient Medicine, Anecdotal cognitivism, Anthony Fauci, Antiscience, Aquatic adaptation, Architectural history, Architectural style, Astrology and astronomy, Babylonian influence on Greek astronomy, Basement show, Biolumanetics, Blog, Causal chain, Causality, Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies, Charles Apgar, Chinese star maps, Coherentism, Compatibilism and incompatibilism, Constructivist epistemology, Contextualism, Critical discourse analysis, Critical international relations theory, Cynic, Dean drive, Devico, Dialectical monism, Digital cinema, Doxa, E-Inclusion, E. O. Wilson, Eastern epistemology, Eclecticism, Economic calculation problem, Egocentric predicament, Electronic literature, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Evolution of multicellularity, Exceptionalism, Extraterrestrial hypothesis, Factory Managers, Fatalism, Gaia hypothesis, Game nou, Gaston Bachelard, Geber, Gene Matlock, Genpet, Gettier problem, Glenn T. Seaborg, Haymarket Riot, History of special relativity, History of street lighting in the United States, History of the periodic table, HomeRF, Hypokeimenon, ITT Corporation, Indeterminacy (Philosophy), Institute of Water Modelling, James Hansen, James McCanney, James Spudich, James Van Allen, Jero N° 9 Antwerpen 1911, John M. Cowley, Kybalion, Lexicon technicum, Libertarianism (metaphysics), List of critical theory topics, List of discredited substances, Livio Catullo Stecchini, Marginalism, Meridian (Chinese medicine), Milorad Bojic, Monism, Negentropy, Neuro-linguistic programming, New Age, New evil demon, North American smallpox epidemic, ODAM, Objectivity (philosophy), Onmyodo, Ontological reductionism, Organon, Peripatetic axiom, Phenomenon, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Pierre Duhem, Planetary Society, Pragmatism, ProSpace, Programming the Universe, Propaganda, Pseudoarchaeology, Quantum evolution (alternative), Quantum mechanics, philosophy and controversy, Quantum mind, Ramsey-Lewis method, Rationalist movement, Relativism, René Viénet, Research Consortium on Nearby Stars, Richard Lindzen, Robert Watson (scientist), Rupert Sheldrake, Sassanid architecture, Scientific evidence (law), Scientific skepticism, Skepticism, Social Darwinism, Space elevator economics, Spindle of Necessity, Spiritual evolution, Stanley Falkow, State of Fear, Sydney Brenner, Talk:Gerardus 't Hooft, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Time in physics, Traditional Chinese star names, Turkish think tanks, Underdetermination, Underground culture, Vernon L. Smith, Vulcan of the alchemists, Walter Heitler, William Allen (Quaker), Wright Brothers flights of 1909, Écriture féminine
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- 30 - Akira Ogata, Architectural mythology, Constantino Tsallis, Detlev Buchholz, Dot-com bubble, History of classical mechanics, History of optics, History of science in the Renaissance, Islamic medicine, Joseph E. Stiglitz, L5 Society, List of minority-opinion scientific theories, List of publications in philosophy, Logic in China, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Michael Stuart Brown, Nancy Stokey, Oldest railroads in North America, Positivism, Pramana, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Social constructionism, Sublime (philosophy), Talk:Clinton Davisson, Talk:Dieter Lüst, Talk:Gustaf Dalén, Talk:Hans Georg Dehmelt, Talk:Ivar Giaever, Talk:Riccardo Giacconi, Theodorus Janssonius van Almeloveen
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- Neutrality in question (updated by bot)
- 39 - Alternative hip hop, Anti-metrication, Antonio Meucci, Applied kinesiology, Chi Machine, Critical Mass, Digital cinematography, Dysgenics, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Ex-gay, Extra-sensory perception, Gerson therapy, History of astronomy, History of the Wave Structure of Matter, Hypatia of Alexandria, Indeterminacy in computation, Interdimensional hypothesis, Ionized bracelet, Islamic science, Muslim flat-earth theories, Neuro-linguistic programming, Nobel Prize controversies, Parapsychology, Parental alienation syndrome, Physiognomy, Popular psychology, Pseudoscience, Radiesthesia, Reiki, Richard Lindzen, Robert Lomas, Scientific community metaphor, Space Foundation, Standard Oil, Transcendental Meditation, Truth, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Whiteness studies
- To be merged or split (updated by bot)
- 48 - Archimedes' screw, Autism (incidence), Blast furnace, Caput mortuum, Catasterismi, Classical planets, Coalbrookdale, Contact electrification, Contact tension, Creationism, Cyberpathy, Diagnostic kinesiology, Digital books, Duhem–Quine thesis, Early flight, Energy vampire, First flying machine, Four humours, Frequency of autism, Gender studies, H-index, H Index (life sciences), History of technology, Homeopathy, Human zoo, Humorism, Intragenomic conflict, Jeane Dixon effect, Meta-, Morse code, Naked eye planets, Old Furnace, Ironbridge, Ottawa Health Research Institute, PiHKAL, Positivism (philosophy), Psi ball, Psionics, Rail zeppelin, Research Station, Silvery River, Skyhook (concept), Social studies of finance, Stopping power, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Timeline of Fundamental Physics Discoveries, Unity of science, Vivisection and experimentation debate, Vulgarism
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[edit] Portals
- Science portal
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[edit] Collaborations
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[edit] External sites
- STS Wiki, a professional-oriented wiki on science and technology studies that coordinates improvement of Wikipedia content, especially poorly-covered STS content.
