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Sea anemones from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms of Nature) of 1904.

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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Hot articles
52 edits Biological data visualization
28 edits Scientific method
27 edits List of common misconceptions
19 edits Natural History Museum, London
12 edits Gabriel A. Silva
11 edits Conservation status
11 edits Abiogenesis
9 edits Ciliogenesis
9 edits Glossary of cellular and molecular biology (M–Z)
7 edits Biology and sexual orientation

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 26 April 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

See also: WikiProject Biology/Popular pages

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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 – 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)

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

  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)

Categories without sub-categories

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:

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

Worklist

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Requests

See WikiProject Biology/Requests for details.

To do

  • 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)

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  1. CycoMa1
  2. Binamra Deb( talk) -Biology expert
  3. Chandrakant Sarkar ( talk) -Biology expert
  4. Robertgombos ( talk) 14:09, 31 July 2017 (UTC) - human anatomy, genetics, embryology, molecular biology. reply
  5. user:Raghunandan Dixit-Medicine projects.
  6. Obiwana( talk)-biology expert
  7. Ragesoss ( talk · contribs) - history of biology, portal maintenance
  8. John Carter 15:40, 28 April 2007 (UTC) - Kind of out of my depth here in terms of content, but have access to a number of good libraries. reply
  9. Supernerd 10
  10. Jet123 (Talk) 20:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC) reply
  11. Bendž| Ť 17:19, 29 May 2007 (UTC) reply
  12. -- Boku wa kage 20:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC) reply
  13. OcciMoron 20:28, 15 August 2007 (UTC) reply
  14. Delta 40 talk 04:56, 2 September 2007 (UTC) reply
  15. Richard001 23:07, 28 September 2007 (UTC) - Evolution and ecology, behavior, and a little of everything else reply
  16. Shyamal 04:10, 6 October 2007 (UTC) reply
  17. Manderson198 ( talk) 14:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC) - Biology and chemistry student reply
  18. Wisdom89 ( T / C) 00:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC) - Graduate student in Physiology and Biophysics. reply
  19.   Marlith (Talk)  00:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC) reply
  20. Razorflame assessment of articles
  21. Snellios - contributor; specialities genomics, biochemistry, pathology. Second year medical degree, Pathology MA student, Cambridge University, UK
  22. Pico del Teide ( talk) mainly ecology
  23. Gumbacious ( talk) 10:39, 22 June 2008 (UTC) interested in genetics, evolution, biotechnology, bioremediation, and biochemistry. reply
  24. Rex shock ( talk) 23:04, 29 June 2008 (UTC) interested in phytoplankton and especially diatoms reply
  25. Carbonrodney ( talk) 09:35, 21 July 2008 (UTC) - anything and everything reply
  26. Ian Cheesman interested and knowledgeable in many different areas of biology, more so in the areas of genetics, evolution, ecology, mammals, and fungi.
  27. Vuerqex
  28. Amit6 ( talkcontribs count global contribs)
  29. TedPavlicControl Systems engineer doing bio-inspired work, which includes some contributions to mathematical modeling in behavioral ecology
  30. Murphy2010 ( talk) 22:22, 20 December 2008 (UTC) reply
  31. Thompsma - recently revised and wrote most of Conservation Biology and Long-toed salamander Thompsma ( talk) 03:58, 5 January 2009 (UTC) reply
  32. Lord Shivan ( «T»| «C») 20:22, 31 January 2009 (UTC) - Biology student. reply
  33. Maxim Stoyalov
  34. Tyrol5 ( talk) 22:21, 6 February 2009 (UTC) - Biology and microbiology of the lungs and lung diseases specifically. reply
  35. Acullum 22:21, 6 February 2009 (UTC) - Physiology and evolutionary biology, plus interests in other areas. reply
  36. Ernstblumberg 23:14, 25 April 2009 (UTC) reply
  37. Nanowolf ( talk) 02:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC) - MIT bioengineer. reply
  38. Bueller 007 ( talk) 04:24, 25 June 2009 (UTC) - evolutionary biology and population genetics reply
  39. Fivestar9 - general biology
  40. Fences& Windows 23:41, 31 August 2009 (UTC) reply
  41. Macdonald-ross ( talk) 15:00, 24 September 2009 (UTC) reply
  42. Matt ( talk) 19:26, 18 November 2009 (UTC) reply
  43. ~ Ciar ~ (Talk) 02:15, 23 November 2009 (UTC) reply
  44. Twilight Helryx 15:24, 27 November 2009 (UTC) reply
  45. Colincbn ( talk) 05:33, 17 December 2009 (UTC) reply
  46. Shinryuu - molecular biology, microbiology and biomedicine, especially immunology, toxicology and oncology -- Shinryuu ( talk) 21:39, 20 June 2010 (UTC) reply
  47. Sepia officinalis - Evolution, ecology, ornithology, and marine science
  48. razorbelle ( talk) ( contribs)
  49. Mesoderm ( talk) 07:57, 24 January 2011 (UTC) -- Ecology, toxicology, bioinformatics reply
  50. kjspring1 ( talk) ( contribs) - Genome Evolution, Gene duplication, Ciliate, Protist, and Chilodonella uncinata
  51. Xarus - Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Synthetic Biology, Glycomics
  52. AshLin ( talk) 11:09, 2 July 2011 (UTC) reply
  53. Staticd ( talk) 11:53, 12 July 2011 (UTC) reply
  54. NickCT ( talk) 16:43, 13 July 2011 (UTC) - Proteomics, Epigenetics reply
  55. Pmrich 11:28, 11 August 2011 (UTC) reply
  56. Grapplequip (formerly LAR) ( talk) 19:34, 12 August 2011 (UTC) - Ecology, Evolution, sociobiology, ethology reply
  57. Drbogdan ( talk) 14:56, 2 June 2012 (UTC) - Molecular Biology, Biochemical Pharmacology, Clinical Chemistry reply
  58. Sainsf <^> Talk all words 08:32, 23 June 2012 (UTC) - Fungi, plants, antelopes mostly. reply
  59. Jkadavoor ( talk) 08:49, 16 July 2012 (UTC) - Plants, Insects. reply
  60. RexRowan - Natural History, Evolution, Genetics
  61. Daniel Mietchen 20:40, 6 August 2012 (UTC) - biophysics, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, biodiversity, taxonomy reply
  62. Sowlos ( talk) 07:24, 24 August 2012 (UTC) reply
  63. Universal Life ( talk) 17:37, 03 February 2013 (UTC) reply
  64. SMcCandlish ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ʌ≼ hominids, felids, caudates, ancestors of domestics generally, albinism & other coloration genetics, taxonomy & nomenclature standards, and system-wide cleanup/consistency. BA in anthropology.
  65. Oldcrookedjaw ( talk) 19:45, 12 March 2013 (UTC) - Systematics, Evolution, Ecology reply
  66. Kholhring Lalchhandama ( talk) Evolutionary biology, history of biology, parasitology
  67. Esox id tcontribs 15:20, 1 April 2013 (UTC) - Marine ecology, benthic ecology, marine biology, some taxonomy reply
  68. Qxukhgiels ( talk) 20:49, 11 March 2014 (UTC) The science, in general. reply
  69. Snow ( talk) 12:54, 28 April 2014 (UTC) reply
  70. siphonophora ( talk) 08:09, 8 August 2014 (UTC) Marine biology, marine invertebrates, zooplankton, evolution, ecology, conservation biology, biogeography, taxonomy reply
  71. Alistairirvine ( talk) 01:12, 25 August 2014 (UTC) reply
  72. Paleolithicus ( talk) 23:40, 30 August 2014 (UTC) reply
  73. Amanda Smalls 18:15, 24 October 2014 (UTC) reply
  74. User:Arvind asia 19:12, 4 November 2014 (UTC) reply
  75. Iztwoz ( talk) 20:24, 4 November 2014 (UTC) reply
  76. Sapientia42 ( talk) 02:06, 1 January 2015 (UTC) reply
  77. danielkueh ( talk) 01:54, 19 June 2015 (UTC) reply
  78. JLOPO ( talk) 01:56, 6 July 2015 (UTC) reply
  79. Tinm ( talk) 20:15, 30 July 2015 (UTC) reply
  80. Vanamonde93 ( talk) 17:29, 9 August 2015 (UTC) reply
  81. User:Ras Benjih 19:31, 27 August 2015 (UTC) reply
  82. Yonikasz ( talk) 13:08, 28 August 2015 (UTC) A high school biology student, interested on learning here, and contributing what I learn in school. reply
  83. Tektek111tek ( talk) 12:08, 26 November 2015 (UTC) reply
  84. Ankit2299 ( talk) 19:49, 5 December 2015 (UTC) reply
  85. DavidpBowman ( talk) 16:40, 20 December 2015 (UTC) Microbiology/general biology reply
  86. Sam ( talk) 06:56, 25 January 2016 (CET), Chemical biology
  87. Piterkeo ( talk) 13:35, 02 March 2016 (UTC) reply
  88. Constanstin
  89. NINTENPUG
  90. DerekELee ( talk) 08:56, 16 September 2016 (UTC) reply
  91. Vignyana ( talk)
  92. Joseph J ( talk)
  93. Maxim Stoyalov
  94. Devesh Pandey ( talk)
  95. RaptorChief ( talk) 05:43, 1 February 2018 (UTC) reply
  96. Biochemlife ( talk) 09:59, 5 May 2018 (UTC) reply
  97. Munchkaa ( talk)
  98. Editor897
  99. GreatSculptorIthas ( talk) 00:39, 11 April 2019 (UTC) reply
  100. Scrooosh ( talk) 18:09, 23 April 2019 (UTC) I'm interested in Biology and would love to help this project and Biology articles being the reason as to why I joined. Also, using some of my knowledge or if I forget, searching up the knowledge from one my Biology student's books to help reply
  101. Aven Az13 11:45, 1 May 2019 (UTC) reply
  102. Toby Brann 19:28, 22 May 2019 (UTC) - Medical genetics, immunology, parasites are my forte reply
  103. Sreenandhini ( talk) 18:46, 11 July 2019 (UTC) reply
  104. Booth Sift 02:43, 1 September 2019 (UTC) reply
  105. Charlotte Hutchings 16:49, 04 March 2020. Biology Undergraduate, Imperial College London.
  106. Huhny 14:30, 08 March 2020 (UTC) reply
  107. Lokeshwaran V R ( talk)
  108. User:Tanisha priyadarshini -A biology topper and expert.
  109. User:Informationdude420 Evolutionary biology, genetics, and pharmacology
  110. User:Tirock42, 20:57PM, 22 May 2020, (UTC)
  111. CounterintuitiveCyborg ( talk) 19:16, 3 August 2020 (UTC) reply
  112. Nihaal The Wikipedian ( talk) 12:19, 9 August 2020 (UTC) - Nutrition, Diseases,Physiology and Pharmacology. reply
  113. -- Fractally ( talk) 19:56, 18 December 2020 (UTC) reply
  114. Petrov Russia ( talk)PhD in Biochemistry,peer reviewed publications in Biochemistry, Biophysics, Biology and water Research Petrov Russia ( talk) 07:30, 10 January 2021 (UTC) reply
  115. Single Eukaryote T / C 00:10, 14 January 2021 (UTC) extreme protist nerd | microscopist | defender of under-represented organisms reply
  116. User:Iloveguppy, 12:25PM, 26th January 2021 (UTC) Currently doing IGCSE biology. Strong interest in the field of biology and chemistry.
  117. New Sheriff in Town ( talk) 02:06, 17 March 2021 (UTC) reply
  118. Yukōshe Tachyglossidae biology and associated Monotreme research.
  119. User:Lystrolaspis
  120. RDvor ( talk) 23:27, 1 January 2022 (UTC) | Currently working in infectious disease diagnostics -- I'll give you one guess as to which disease! reply
  121. Sgardner2 ( talk) 15:11, 4 January 2022 (UTC) Open access biology textbook editor and academic librarian. reply
  122. PHACELIAS ( talk) 23:09, 6 January 2022 (UTC) Cell biology, Evolutionary biology and lately very interested in Biophysics and Quantum biology reply
  123. Thy Pyrometer ( talk) 20:53, 29 January 2022 (UTC) Interested in Biology reply
  124. Gummycow moo milk 06:23, 24 February 2022 (UTC) reply
  125. MaastrichtBlue ( talk) 18:09, 17 March 2022 (UTC) reply
  126. Perverse Life, 12:30AM, 7 April 2022, (UTC) Bourletiella hortensis
  127. LRFtheLion ( talk) 22:49, 3 May 2022 (UTC) - Ecology, taxonomy, and misc. biology topics. Formal expertise in plant chemical ecology, but study eclectic biology topics autodidactically. reply
  128. casualdejekyll 02:43, 29 May 2022 (UTC) reply
  129. HeyElliott ( talk) 23:08, 11 July 2022 (UTC) reply
  130. The void century ( talk) 14:47, 25 July 2022 (UTC) - Biology Expert (degree) reply
  131. Wikipedian10282 ( talk) 21:57, 6 November 2022 (UTC) - Interest in biology; mostly about plants, amphibians, insects, fungi, and the human body. reply
  132. Wil540 art ( talk) 00:46, 6 December 2022 (UTC) reply
  133. Probably not a pigeon ( talk)
  134. *madKaela* ( talk) 23:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC) reply
  135. SamX ( talk) - Plants and forest ecology of the Pacific Northwest and related topics. I'm also interested in paleontology and wildlife biology, but I'm less knowledgeable about those topics.
  136. GalacticSimian ( talk) - Medical entomology, insects, evolutionary biology, speciation.
  137. Ktkvtsh ( talk) - General Biology
  138. Egg_grudge ( talk) - insects, ecology
  139. Citronnel ( talk) - molecular biology, evolutionary biology, ecology
  140. GF38storic ( talk) - microbiologist, molecular biologist, genetics
  141. NauticalFox ( talk) - conservation biology
  142. MariahKRogers ( talk)) - mycology
  143. Cutecurbit - plant pathology, fungal biology
  144. 20 upper - I'm in love with animal biology
  145. B82mo ( talk) 11:39, 2 March 2024 (UTC) - circadian biology, chronobiology, evolutionary biology reply

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