Project:WikiProject Glossaries

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Welcome to the Glossary WikiProject. The goal here is to create glossaries on various subjects for inclusion in the encyclopedia (see WP:Manual of Style/Glossaries). Glossaries are a type of list, which in turn is a type of article (or article section) on Wikipedia.

Goals and scope

Goals:

Check and establish the proposed Wikipedia:Manual of Style (glossaries)
Maintain and improve Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries (and all its transcluded subpages:)
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Culture and the arts
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Geography and places
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Health and fitness
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/History and events
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Intro
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Mathematics and logic
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Natural and physical sciences
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/People and self
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Philosophy and thinking
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Reference
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Religion and belief systems
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Society and social sciences
Wikipedia:Contents/List of glossaries/Technology and applied sciences
Coordinate the relevant policy/guideline pages (where relevant):
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Glossaries
Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary#Wikipedia is not a usage guide
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a dictionary
Wikipedia:Lists#Types of lists
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists
Keep an eye on Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Lists

Scope:

This project applies to glossaries, but not to word lists. (Needs expansion)

Participants

Please enter your name below, followed by the glossary or glossaries you are most interested in (existing yet or otherwise).

The Transhumanist -- Glossary of philosophy
SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 20:33, 20 November 2008 (UTC) – principal author of WP:Manual of Style/Glossaries, and {{tl|Glossary}} and the rest of the template-structured glossary system. The actual glossary I've spent the most time on is Glossary of cue sports terms, the one used as the model for developing most of that.
Quiddity -- all
Jordantrew (talk) 21:55, 4 May 2010 (UTC) Glossary of cue sports terms
PKM (talk) 20:32, 14 June 2010 (UTC) Started Glossary of sewing terminology (working on references); expanding Glossary of textile manufacturing
Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs -- Glossary of scientific terms related to sleep and dreams--correogsk (talk) 06:11, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Brad7777 -- :Category:Glossaries on mathematics Brad7777 (talk) 16:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC) Currently: Glossary of areas of mathematics Brad7777 (talk) 16:12, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
User:Pbsouthwood -- Glossary of underwater diving terminology and any others that may fall under the scope of Portal:Underwater diving or ••• Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 09:29, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Chursaner -- Glossary of probability and statistics
Jenniferz -- Glossary of cooking terms
Timothy -- Glossary of terms associated with historiography
Afkirby -- General maintenance and utilisation of glossaries.

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Collaboration of the month

This month's (May's) collaboration is: Glossary of communication disorders

Missing and incomplete major topic glossaries

Unfortunately, there are large gaps in the coverage of Wikipedia's glossaries. Below is a list of major topics that do not yet have complete glossaries. Those in blue have been started, but not yet completed. Those in red represent completely missing glossaries -- to create one, click on the redlink. There are many more major topics that lack glossaries, but the following list has so many gaps that it's a big enough list to keep us busy for quite a long time. The Transhumanist 00:05, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Caveat: if a new glossary has only a few definitions, or it only lists terms without definitions, then it will likely be nominated for deletion. To prevent this from happening, build up the number of defined terms quickly, and either develop it initially as an embedded list in the topic's main article, or make it a subpage of your user page until, it has enough terms to be a stand-alone glossary that won't be a target of deletion. (The number is entirely subjective, but 30 or more terms is probably a good start for a stand-alone glossary).