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; Project news
- Article assessment for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team is progressing well. As of writing this, 370 of the 572 articles carrying the {{tl|HistSci}} banner have now been assessed. About 70 new articles have been tagged with the banner, though there are no doubt many relevant articles that remained untagged. Once again, please help identify and 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. For instructions, see the Assessment page.
; Member news
- The project has currently 85 members, with twelve new members since the May newsletter: Sdsds, MarcoTolo, AlphaEta, Jagged 85, Maias, Insomniduck, Bryce268, Macdonald-ross, dhaluza, Bulldog123, djsmitherman, and Gavantredoux.
; Editing news
- Three history of science-related articles have reached Featured Article status lately:
- British naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace thanks to the effort led by Rusty Cashman.
- Shen Kuo, a Chinese scientist of the Song Dynasty, thanks to PericlesofAthens and others.
- The iconic painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, thanks particularly to Yomangani
- Galileo Galilei was demoted after a lengthy Featured Article Review. David Wilson and others improved it considerably, however, working to cite the content on Galileo and related articles such as Two New Sciences and Galileo affair.
- I've been working on a series of new articles on the history of molecular evolution: Jack Lester King, Thomas H. Jukes, Emile Zuckerkandl (from a stub), and Morris Goodman. I've also helped to bring Rachel Carson to Good Article status.
- Awadewit has been working extensively on Joseph Priestley.
- Rusty Cashman has brought history of paleontology to GA status and is working toward FA-level.
- JFD has been working on history of physics, into which some content previously from physics was merged.
- Fowler&fowler has been working on Indian mathematics.
- Peta has written articles on geologist Edwin Sherbon Hills, geneticist Evelyn M. Witkin, and zoologist Georgina Sweet.
- SteveMcCluskey has created a helpful list of commons misconceptions in the history of astronomy, dispelling common historical myths and exaggerations, and would like help with improving it.
- History of evolutionary thought improved considerably through the Collaboration of the Month(s), though it's still quite a beast.
- JayHenry and others brought Nature (journal) to Good Article status.
- Reddi, with PericlesofAthens and others, has significantly expanded maritime history.
- Jagged 85, Sadi Carnot and others have worked to salvage the list of people known as the father or mother of something, which was nearly deleted. (Actually, deleted, restored out of process, deleted again, then restored with instructions to trim and refocus it.) It still has a ways to go; many hands make light work.
- Modern evolutionary synthesis has been the focus of some intense editing and discussion. After considerable expansion, it was reverted back to an earlier version. Since then, a number of editors have been working to reintegrate the best parts of the previous expanded version.
- User:Macdonald-ross has improved Thomas Henry Huxley even more since the last newsletter.
- Madeleine created a nice vector illustration of the Luria-Delbrück experiment.
- [If you've been working on an article that would benefit from the attention of other project members, or other project-related stuff that you're proud of, list it here. This list was created mainly by checking members' talk pages to see what they've been up to recently, and it only reports a small amount of the work that's been going on with history of science and related areas.]
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