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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
[edit]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
[edit]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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Potential projects or work groups:
- WikiProject Reproduction
- WikiProject Developmental biology
- WikiProject Conservation biology
- WikiProject Animal behavior (ethology)
Related non-biology projects (automated list):
- WikiProject Agriculture
- WikiProject Biography/Science and academia
- WikiProject Environment
- WikiProject Forestry
- WikiProject Medicine
- WikiProject Women scientists
Statistics
[edit]Biology articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 | ||
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16 | 12 | 12 | 32 | 3 | 75 | |
B | 8 | 48 | 79 | 155 | 32 | 322 | |
C | 8 | 79 | 220 | 972 | 173 | 1,452 | |
Start | 8 | 189 | 1,891 | 426 | 2,514 | ||
Stub | 10 | 810 | 1 | 180 | 1,001 | ||
List | 1 | 3 | 23 | 51 | 9 | 87 | |
Category | 3,150 | 3,150 | |||||
Disambig | 23 | 23 | |||||
File | 26 | 26 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 21 | 21 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 253 | 291 | |
Template | 191 | 191 | |||||
Other | 2 | 168 | 170 | ||||
Assessed | 44 | 157 | 536 | 3,950 | 3,834 | 823 | 9,344 |
Unassessed | 2 | 40 | 42 | ||||
Total | 44 | 157 | 536 | 3,952 | 3,834 | 863 | 9,386 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 25,506 | Ω = 4.74 |
217 edits | Violence |
63 edits | Who We Are and How We Got Here |
47 edits | Messor structor |
34 edits | Biology of romantic love |
33 edits | Synthetic Cannabinoid Use Disorder |
28 edits | Oxygen |
27 edits | First universal common ancestor |
26 edits | Last universal common ancestor |
15 edits | Alexander von Humboldt |
13 edits | Binocular disparity |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 2 June 2025 by HotArticlesBot.
See also: WikiProject Biology/Popular pages
Projects Being Merged
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Article assessment
[edit]- Assessment – 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
[edit](All stats updated August 15, 2023)
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
- Biology by continent (2 C)
- Biology by country (133 C)
- Biology by country subdivision (1 C)
- Biology by dependent territory (5 C)
- Biology by city (1 C)
- Biology in fiction (1 C)
- Works about biology (7 C)
Categories with sub-categories
- Biocides (19 C, 22 P, 1 F)
- Biological censuses (1 C, 14 P)
- Biological classification (9 C, 48 P)
- Biological concepts (7 C, 20 P)
- Biologists (18 C, 3 P)
- Biology-related lists (15 C, 107 P)
- Biology awards (7 C, 121 P)
- Biology conferences (1 C, 21 P)
- Biology controversies (3 C, 20 P)
- Biology and culture (11 C, 29 P)
- Biological descriptions (3 C, 2 P)
- Biological waste (3 C, 6 P)
- Biology education (6 C, 20 P)
- Biology images (2 C, 7 F)
- Biology organizations (19 C, 43 P)
- Biology stubs (25 C, 214 P)
- Biological evolution (15 C, 38 P)
- Biological interactions (7 C, 39 P)
- Biological processes (12 C, 44 P)
- Biological records (6 C, 21 P)
- Biological rules (1 C, 14 P)
- Biological systems (3 C, 26 P)
- Biological techniques and tools (14 C, 81 P)
- Biology terminology (7 C, 138 P)
- Biotechnology (51 C, 420 P)
- Category:Branches of biology (43 C, 42 P)
- Eukaryote biology (4 C, 5 P)
- History of biology (14 C, 46 P)
- Organisms (39 C, 5 P)
- Philosophy of biology (9 C, 40 P)
- Unsolved problems in biology (2 C, 7 P)
Categories without sub-categories
- Biomagnetics (5 P)
- Quantum biology (16 P)
Deleted subcategories
- Biology software merged to Science software
- Bioscience education merged to Biology education
- Standardized tests for Biology merged to Standardized tests and Biology education
Other biology-related categories:
- Biogeography (23 C, 155 P)
- Biology templates (31 C, 53 P)
Worklist
[edit]Article Alerts
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Articles for deletion
- 01 Jun 2025 – Maria Cho (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Gheus (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 28 May 2025 – Iowa Blue (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by JMWt (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 28 May 2025 – Radheshyam Bishnoi (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Afstromen (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- 25 May 2025 – Toyota flowers (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mooonswimmer (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 19 May 2025 – Molecular Sciences Course (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
- 13 May 2025 – TATAA Biocenter (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Brucemyboy1212 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants; relisted)
- 22 May 2025 – CIPAMEX (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by UtherSRG (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 29 May 2025; see discussion (3 participants)
- 21 May 2025 – Nutrecul Agroforestry Project (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Fram (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 28 May 2025; see discussion (2 participants)
- 13 May 2025 – Maryam Matar (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Thenightaway (t · c) was closed as keep by Chippla360 (t · c) on 27 May 2025; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
Good article nominees
- 09 May 2025 – Symbiosis (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion
Good article reassessments
- 18 May 2025 – Aristotle (talk · edit · hist) nominated for GA reassessment by Psychastes (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Requested moves
- 11 Apr 2025 – Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Colossal Biosciences' Dire Wolf Project by Blockhaj (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 10 Mar 2025 – Cultural neuroscience (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Social neuroscience by JPxG (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 28 Apr 2025 – Organ (biology) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Just-a-can-of-beans (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Mar 2025 – Embryology (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Sep 2020 – Chronobiology (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lithopsian (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 30 May 2025 – Draft:Triangulation sensing (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by HansMueller321 (t · c)
- 26 May 2025 – Draft:Reduced-Impact Logging (RIL) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ForestLandscapeGovernance (t · c)
- 19 May 2025 – Draft:Roy Kishony (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gren991992 (t · c)
- 18 May 2025 – Draft:Carlos Belmonte Martínez (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Estermoyb (t · c)
- 12 May 2025 – Draft:Stephen James Mojzsis (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Inventive.iam (t · c)
- 07 May 2025 – Draft:William R. L. Anderegg (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Metalibrarian (t · c)
- 05 May 2025 – Draft:Applications of synthetic gene circuits in drug delivery (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 04 May 2025 – Draft:CERNO test (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Hsalamon (t · c)
- 01 May 2025 – Draft:Electro-responsive drug delivery (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 01 May 2025 – Draft:Viral Ribonucleoprotein (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2600:1700:76E1:6C60:6816:4ACB:B7FC:9B6E (t · c)
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Requests
[edit]See WikiProject Biology/Requests for details.
To do
[edit]- Change overview to overview, scope, and goals (still called overview)
- Fill in scope information
- Add short/mid/long-term goals
- Merge with the lede
- Fill out cladogram with useful info for each project (Talk, Alerts, Activity)
- Find a nicer way to list non-biology projects
- consider including GMCB projects in the cladogram with a dotted line and a bar labeled GMCB instead of current layout
- Sign up for discussions module
- Set up WPX participant system
- Port names over
- Send out some messages
- Turn see also into resources and flesh out
- Help finding sources
- Guides
- Tools/gadgets
- Getting started guide
- Sign up for suggestbot and get task lists
- Add maintenance schedule to main page
- Set up main page image rotation WIP
- Facelift to WPX layout with proper modules
- Fix template section
- Add a subsection in statistics for subprojects (html issues currently)
Participants
[edit]Feel free to add {{User WikiProject Biology}} to your userpage.
To join, just add your name at the end of the list at the /Members subpage.
For an automated list of active members of our WikiProject, use WikiProject Directory. For related WikiProjects, see all biology WikiProjects in the Directory tools.
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Resources
[edit]Sourcing
[edit]- Wikipedia:How to use primary sources (biological sciences)
- Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library
- Wikipedia:Notability (academics)
Useful Pages
[edit]- Bibliography of biology
- Outline of life forms
- Bibliography of encyclopedias:_biology
- Index of biology articles
- List of biologists
- Outline of biology
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Organisms
Tools
[edit]- User:Evad37/rater--Used for assessment of articles, see WikiProject Biology/Assessment for details
- Wikipedia:HotCat--Used for editing categories on articles
- Wikipedia:PetScan--Used for analyzing and working with categories (but not editing)
- Wikipedia:User scripts/List--A full list of userscripts.
- CladEd--Free tool for creating cladograms (like the one on this page!)
- User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/SpeciesHelper For species articles, automatically adds the short description, speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template.
Templates
[edit]{{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:
- {{WikiProject Biology}} is added to the top of talk pages of all biology-related articles, which produces:
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- {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology/Invitation}} can be used to invite users to the project.
- Template:User_WikiProject_Biology may be placed on a userpage to identify as a user of the WikiProject.