Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science/Newsletter/March 2007

Project news

• The History of Science project recently became part of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. The project banner {{HistSci}} now supports "importance" and "class" parameters for rating each article's quality and overall importance for the history of science. There are currently 427 article talk pages that carry the banner, most of which have not been assessed. There are many more history of science-related articles that do not carry the banner. Please help assess more history of science articles; this is especially important for determining which articles will be included in upcoming static (e.g., DVD) releases of Wikipedia. Make sure the articles you care about are accurately assessed. For instructions, see the Assessment page.

Member news

• The project has currently 69 members, and continues to grow slowly but steadily. There are also 11 members of the History of Biology WikiProject.

Project volunteers

• Volunteers needed - if any members feel able to take on project tasks such as creating history of medicine or history of technology Task Forces, monitoring and maintaining the Announcements template, managing Assessment activity or anything else you believe needs special attention, please let me know.

Newsletter challenge

• The first person to start each article gets lasting fame and a mention in the next newsletter. This edition's general article creation challenge is Society for Social Studies of Science.
• The history of biological sciences challenge is the PaJaMo experiment.
• The history of physical sciences challenge is the Great Comet of 1577.
• The history of medicine challenge is History of public health.
• The history of technology challenge is technological sublime.

About this newsletter

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the History of Science WikiProject's newsletter! Following the lead of the innovative Novels WikiProject, this newsletter will be issued periodically to help keep participants up-to-date about Wikipedia goings on related to the histories of science, medicine and technology.

I encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

--ragesoss, Editor

Collaboration of the Month

• The February/March History of Science Collaboration has been History of scientific method. The collaboration is in danger of fading out or going on hiatus. Please, nominate future collaborations and vote for next month's selection. Some of the past collaborations have been very successful.