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Project:WikiProject Biology

{{short description|Wikimedia subject-area collaboration on biological topics}}

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Welcome to WikiProject Biology, a WikiProject for discussing biology-related articles, editing issues, projects, and guidelines. The purpose of this project is to provide common ground for editors working in all biology-related projects, for seeking advice or requesting help from a broader community of biology editors, and for coordinating the categorization of biology articles. Please join us for discussion!

Overview

WikiProject Biology serves as a metaproject coordinating multiple subprojects. As a whole, WikiProject Biology and its subprojects maintain tens of thousands of articles, categories, templates, and other pages. However, WikiProject Biology itself only directly tags articles which pertain to the science of biology as a whole, which are relevant across many disciplines, or in some cases those which represent the field of biology as a whole to the public.

=Related WikiProjects=

WikiProject Biology is a daughter project of WikiProject Science. We serve as a meta-project with several subprojects under our purview. The organization of these is presented below in a cladogram. WikiProject Molecular Biology is a proposed merger of WP:BIOP, WP:COMBIO, WP:GEN, and WP:MCB and their taskforces into a single project. This and other merges may change this diagram in the future. See discussion here.

To see activity levels and active editors for these projects, see the Wikiproject Directory tool and look for the project in question. Clicking on a project will give further information.

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Statistics

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Anatomy

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Animal anatomy

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Ecology

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Ecoregions

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Evolutionary Biology

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Extinction

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Neuroscience

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Palaeontology

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Physiology

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Tree of Life

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MCB

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Genetics

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Computational Biology

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Biophysics

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Cell signaling

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=Article assessment=

  • Assessment{{spaced ndash}}the assessment unit, which provides information about Biology articles rated by quality and importance, and the project's criteria for article quality grading.

=Category maintenance=

(All stats updated August 15, 2023)

[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PetScan/en PetScan] results (union) for number of articles in English Wikipedia by depth (# subcats deep): 1, 1,580; 2, 15,681; 3, 66,174; 4, 446,785. There are deeper layers containing more articles

Many biology categories are in bad shape. They tend to fill up with articles on minor topics that are better placed in subcategories (or sub-subcategories, etc.). A little maintenance of the top category and 30 subcategories would go a long way towards keeping articles properly sorted. These are listed below.

Main category: Biology (39 C, 50 P)

::Contains over 445,000 articles in all as of August 15, 2023.

Subcategories:

Container categories - they have no articles, only categories

  1. Biology by continent (2 C)
  2. Biology by country (133 C)
  3. Biology by country subdivision (1 C)
  4. Biology by dependent territory (5 C)
  5. Biology by city (1 C)
  6. Biology in fiction (1 C)
  7. Works about biology (7 C)

Categories with sub-categories

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  1. Biocides (19 C, 22 P, 1 F)
  2. Biological censuses (1 C, 14 P)
  3. Biological classification (9 C, 48 P)
  4. Biological concepts (7 C, 20 P)
  5. Biologists (18 C, 3 P)
  6. Biology-related lists (15 C, 107 P)
  7. Biology awards (7 C, 121 P)
  8. Biology conferences (1 C, 21 P)
  9. Biology controversies (3 C, 20 P)
  10. Biology and culture (11 C, 29 P)
  11. Biological descriptions (3 C, 2 P)
  12. Biological waste (3 C, 6 P)
  13. Biology education (6 C, 20 P)
  14. Biology images (2 C, 7 F)
  15. Biology organizations (19 C, 43 P)
  16. Biology stubs (25 C, 214 P)
  17. Biological evolution (15 C, 38 P)
  18. Biological interactions (7 C, 39 P)
  19. Biological processes (12 C, 44 P)
  20. Biological records (6 C, 21 P)
  21. Biological rules (1 C, 14 P)
  22. Biological systems (3 C, 26 P)
  23. Biological techniques and tools (14 C, 81 P)
  24. Biology terminology (7 C, 138 P)
  25. Biotechnology (51 C, 420 P)
  26. :Category:Branches of biology (43 C, 42 P)
  27. Eukaryote biology (4 C, 5 P)
  28. History of biology (14 C, 46 P)
  29. Organisms (39 C, 5 P)
  30. Philosophy of biology (9 C, 40 P)
  31. Unsolved problems in biology (2 C, 7 P)

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Categories without sub-categories

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  1. Biomagnetics (5 P)
  2. Quantum biology (16 P)

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Deleted subcategories

  1. Biology software merged to Science software
  2. Bioscience education merged to Biology education
  3. Standardized tests for Biology merged to Standardized tests and Biology education

Other biology-related categories:

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  1. Biogeography (23 C, 155 P)
  2. Biology templates (31 C, 53 P)

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Resources

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  • {{tlx|Portal|Biology}} provides a direct link to the Biology Portal and is added to the See also section of all biology-related articles, which produces:

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  • {{tl|WikiProject Biology|class=|importance=}} is added to the top of talk pages of all biology-related articles, which produces:

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