Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Archive/Old page
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Wikipedia's goal is to provide knowledge. But knowledge is only useful if you can find it. The main limitation of a search box is that it can only help you find what you already know exists. Our mission is to show what exists and provide easy access to that knowledge.
The system is far from complete. So keep in mind that recruiting more people to join this effort is currently as important as the effort itself. If you know anyone who loves Wikipedia, please tell them about this WikiProject!
By the way, do you use Firefox? If so, Linky is an invaluable add on. You'll also need WP:AWB (an auto page-loader) which works with Internet Explorer. I've found these two tools essential for working on multiple topic outlines. If you know of even better tools, please let me know.
The Transhumanist 03:33, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
Goals
- Finish drafting the Wikipedia:Outlines guideline for the project
- Increase awareness of readers of the existence of the outlines on Wikipedia
- Complete the existing outlines
- Create an outline for every subject that is extensive enough to benefit from having an outline (core subjects and major or extensive fields). There are thousands of these.
- Recruit more editors
- Get the major outline subject areas displayed on the Main Page (in place of or in addition to the portal links at the top of the page)
- Increase the Wikipedia Outline of Knowledge (OoK) to higher quality than Britannica's (published in its Propaedia volume).
Project scope
- This project covers all outlines, and all links leading to them.
- And since this is a reverse outline, one benefit is that it uncovers problems in the publication it outlines (Wikipedia). We generally clean up those problems as we encounter them (things like lack of standard naming for pages in page sets, poorly formatted page sets, missing redirects, etc.).
What's missing???
Please take a look at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and then tell us here what subjects should be added next.
Outreach
- Main article: OOK outreach
The outreach department is for attracting and encouraging editors to join this project.
An invitation is under development.
Procedures and tips
Outline creation
This project's main procedure is the creation of outline articles. The creation template is called Template:Topic outline. Instructions on how to use it is included with it. (Another template exists called Template:Topic outline country which was used to create a topic outline for every country of the World (unless we missed some). The country topic outlines are all listed below, further down this page).
If you create a topic outline list in article space, be sure to place a {{under construction}} template at the top of it. Otherwise, you run the risk that someone will come along and nominate the page for deletion after you barely get started. For example, the Outline of Canada was nominated for deletion at AfD when it only included a few links. Someone had to jump in and develop it fast in order to save it. The same thing happened to Outline of mining.
A safer approach is to create new topic outlines in this WikiProject's space, starting the page title with "Wikipedia:WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Outline of ". One must have a compelling reason to delete a draft, since it is by definition under development, which means all problems are subject to being discussed on its talk page before it gets moved to article space. There are lists of drafts under development, below.
Outline maintenance
Information may become out of date, and when it does it needs to be updated. For example, the population and area figures presented in the country outlines.
Wikipedia is constantly expanding, and as coverage on a subject expands, so too should its topic outline. For each topic outline, a search for articles on its subject should be conducted periodically, and links to topics added to the outline. If there are too many of a particular type of link, for example, the cities in a particular country, a link should be provided to a list of them rather than listing them all in the outline itself.
Volunteers
If you would like to work with this team on Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge and receive task assignments and updates, please add your name below:
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![]() | This page in a nutshell: Here, we build outlines! To supplement searches, for when the search box isn't enough. |
![A tree structure.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Fat_tree_network.svg/400px-Fat_tree_network.svg.png)
Outlines are hierarchically structured topics lists.
If you like one or more of the following:
- to organize subjects' topics into a tree structure
- to make site maps
- structured lists
- tables of contents
- classified indexes
Then, you've come to the right place! For, Wikipedia's outlines are all of the above.
We're mapmakers, metaphorically speaking
Wikipedia's goal is to provide knowledge. But knowledge is only useful if you can find it and make sense of it. The main limitation of a search box is that it can only look for what you already know exists: it is not a map. Like with a map, the function of an outline, and the mission of this WikiProject, is to show readers what exists and help them get to where it is — except that, in this case, the destinations are Wikipedia articles rather than physical locations. Outlines serve as site maps of Wikipedia, by subject. And while maps help navigate the landscape, outlines show the knowledgescape of a subject.
More metaphors
An outline is also like a table of contents or a menu, except that, instead of listing chapter titles in a book or food dishes in a restaurant, outlines present the topics in a subject.
Another useful metaphor is that each page in Wikipedia is a teleportation chamber. To use the search box for teleporting, you specify your destination subject. An outline is a teleportation chamber with its own destination registry. Each outline lists the available target topics, and clicking on one instantly takes you there. You don't need to know where you are going in advance — the list helps you choose.
Outlines are tree structures
Outlines present the topics belonging to a subject as a tree structure, using sections, subsections, and indented item entries to signify branching of the tree. As tree structures, outlines provide the following benefits:
- They can help the user see how a particular topic fits into the whole subject.
- They also show how topics are related to each other: what belongs to what, and what topics fall into the same sections.
- Having a subject laid out on one page saves time. Split up as categories, a 76-section subject would require visiting 76 different category pages to see all the subject's topics, which entails a lot of back-tracking. Scrolling down an outline page is much more convenient and faster.
- The bird's eye view provided by outlines allows users to see patterns in the information in a relatively painless way.
- Through how they are organized, outlines help users find individual pages, even when they don't know precisely what they are looking for, or exactly what it is called.
- Outlines reveal gaps in their subjects' coverage that need to be filled in with new articles.
Examples of well-developed outlines
Outline of lichens (featured list)
- Outline of the Israel–Hamas war
- Outline of Abraham Lincoln
- Outline of the American Civil War
- Outline of the American Revolutionary War
- Outline of ancient Rome
- Outline of architecture
- Outline of Bábism
- Outline of Barcelona
- Outline of the Beatles
- Outline of Bob Marley
- Outline of canoeing and kayaking
- Outline of the Catholic Church
- Outline of cell biology
- Outline of chess
- Outline of chocolate
- Outline of the Cold War
- Outline of community
- Outline of Dresden
- Outline of Earth sciences
- Outline of forestry
- Outline of geography
- Outline of geology
- Outline of globalization
- Outline of Iceland
- Outline of Japan
- Outline of journalism
- Outline of meteorology
- Outline of Middle-earth
- Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling
- Outline of oceanography
- Outline of science
- Outline of science fiction
- Outline of scientific method
- Outline of sharks
- Outline of sociology
- Outline of software development
- Outline of theatre
- Outline of thought
- Outline of tort law
- Outline of tropical cyclones
- Outline of underwater diving
- Outline of video games
- Outline of water
- Outline of wind energy
Lists of outlines
- Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines
- Category:Wikipedia outlines
- Outlines listed on All pages with prefix (this only shows the outlines with titles that start with "Outline of ")
Scope
Each outline article is a list of a subject's topics arranged hierarchically to show the relationships between them: those that are the most important, general entries and those that give more specialist detail. Outlines show the structure of articles about a subject, opening another way besides searching, for navigating it. They could be considered Wikipedia's equivalent to Brittanica's Propædia.
Each outline is intended to help the reader become familiar with the subject it presents, and also serves as a table of contents or site map to that subject's coverage on Wikipedia. Outlines are different from portals or indexes. While a portal focuses solely on well-developed featured content, an outline's main purpose is to direct readers through a subject's related articles. Indexes are intended to be comprehensive alphabetical lists of articles related to subject, but finding something in an alphabetical index can be difficult if one does not know the article title (and if one does, one hardly needs the index). Outlines might not list every article in a subject, and often their links lead to lists or other outlines to provide further detail. For an example, compare Portal:Japan, Index of Japan-related articles, and Outline of Japan.
Announcements
Another outline has made it to Featured List status!
Many outline drafts are approaching their time limit
If a draft goes six months without an edit, it is subject to routine deletion. To learn when each draft was last edited, see this WikiProject's draft tracker.
Latest additions
These are new outlines, and while they are past the stub stage, they still need development:
- Outline of advertising (moved from draft space on July 24, 2024)
- Outline of classical music
Outline of the week!
The outline of the week is:
Please help improve it.
Article alerts
This project is served by Article alerts, which can be seen in this section directly below, or at Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Article alerts. This lets us to know about any AfDs (Articles for deletion discussions) on outlines, requested moves, or other outline-related discussions without having to rely on manual notifications. To have the alerts show up on your user page or user talk page, include this code on that page: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Article alerts}}
Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Archive/Old page/Article alerts
Advice
- Tips
- Related guidelines
- Wikipedia:Lists talk -
- Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists talk -
- Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates talk -
- Related projects
Create outline drafts in userspace
It's best to create outline drafts as sub-pages of your user page, such as in your sandbox, and not in the draft namespace. That's because drafts in the draft namespace disappear after a certain period of time with no edit activity.
How to watch over the outlines
The outlines need watchdogs, to keep an eye on them and make sure they are secure and well maintained. Here are some tips for effective monitoring of this valuable resource:
Tip 1: Place article alerts on your talk page
Place this project's articles alerts template on your talk page in such a way that it floats at the bottom, so that you see it every time you read a message there. To do so, copy and paste this code near the top of your talk page:
<ref>{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Article alerts}}</ref>
This will allow you to easily keep track of outline deletion discussions at AfD, requested moves, featured list nominations, and other formally tagged outline-related nominations.
Note: Article alerts doesn't catch everything, like page edits and untagged discussions. For those, we have watchlists...
Tip 2: Use this WikiProject's watchlist
There's a comprehensive outline-related watchlist at Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Watchlist using Related changes.
Follow the instructions at the top of that page.
Also feel free to keep that page up to date by adding new outline-related pages to it.
Tip 3: Related changes can also be used on outline lists
In the desktop view of Wikipedia, one tool available to monitor activity on outlines is related changes. To use it on outlines, go to Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines and click on "Related changes" in the tools menu.
In order for this to work on all outlines, Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines must be kept up to date.
Beware: "Related changes" looks a lot like "Recent changes", and it is easy to accidentally use the latter by mistake.
Tip 4: Use the outline categories for monitoring...
Related changes works on the various Category:Wikipedia outlines pages, too.
Open tasks
Here are some things you can do to help (listed directly below, and in the subsections that follow):
- Scour the outlines for the best ones, to present them in the example list in the lead section at the top of this page.
- Maintain links to topic outlines: each article of the corresponding topic should have a link to its topic outline in its see also section. Periodically check each see also section, as the links sometimes get removed. Snap Links comes in handy for this.
- Place outlines on your watchlist and check it every time you log on. This link or a FF addon can be used alternatively. This needs to be done in order to prevent against vandalism and possibly AfD's.
- Place a WikiProject banner at the top of the talk pages of all lists of basic topics, leading here. Use
{{subst:BLT|topic uncapitalized|topic capitalized}}
. - Place a coverage banner at the top of the talk pages of all articles matching the subjects in the titles of topic outlines, leading to the corresponding list. Use
{{[[Template:Outline of knowledge coverage|Outline of knowledge coverage|subject}}
.- the coverage banner template needs to be designed
Add entries missing from Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines
Sometimes, when an outline is created, the author forgets to add its title, and a description, to the main list of outlines. You can help by placing them there, in the appropriate section.
Here are the titles missing from Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines:
- Outline of Prem Rawat
- Outline of Slavic history and culture
- Outline of parapsychology
- Outline of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
- Outline of the Yemeni Crisis, revolution, and civil war (2011–present)
- Outline of tourism
- Outline of working time and conditions
- Outline of animation
- Outline of cannabis
- Outline of consulting
- Outline of counseling
- Outline of machine learning
- Outline of management
- Outline of metalworking
- Outline of organizational theory
- Outline of radio science
- Outline of smoking
Outlines needing reformatting and/or renaming
Outlines here need to be converted to the standard outline format. Only after a page has been converted to outline format should it be renamed to Outline of . Otherwise, others may assume the formatting is correct, and emulate it.
Add pictures
Examples of outlines with good picture support include:
Start a new outline
To start a new outline...
- See also: Helpful tips (read it!)
- First, decide which topic you'd like to outline. It could be as broad as Outline of mathematics, or as narrow as Outline of chocolate and start the page. The title should be in the format of Outline of
- Write a little introduction before outlining to get warmed up, this will also become the introductory paragraph of the outline.
- Start listing articles on your topic. You can find them by using Special:PrefixIndex and a site allintitle Google search.
- Organize links in a way that is accessible so that people can find the articles linked to. You might use an {{Outline generator}} template, like this: {{subst:Outline generator|topic uncapitalized|topic capitalized}} or, if you're outlining a specific country, {{subst:Template:Outline country|country name}}.
- After that, you can add a few pictures to make the outline look nicer. Try using different ones than the ones on the article by searching on Wikimedia Commons.
- Once you've finished, take a look back and see if you were able to outline the subject successfully and then post your work here so that other editors are aware it exists and can review it.
Work on an existing outline
Most outlines are incomplete, because subjects change over time, and so does Wikipedia's coverage of them.
See Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines, and choose a subject that interests you, and start adding links.
Create drafts
The outlines that have been deleted over the years need to be developed from the ground up in draftspace.
- Draft:Outline of Akrotiri and Dhekelia
- Draft:Outline of Big Science
- Draft:Outline of Florence
- Draft:Outline of cricket
- Draft:Outline of formal science
- Draft:Outline of nutrition
- Draft:Outline of Roget's Thesaurus
- Draft:Outline of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Draft:Outline of transhumanism
Work on drafts
- Note: If a draft goes six months without an edit, it is subject to routine deletion. To learn when each draft was last edited, see this WikiProject's draft tracker.
Priority one outline drafts
- Draft:Outline of the arts (major branch of knowledge lacking an outline!)
Outline drafts very near completion
Please see if you can finish these up:
Outline drafts over half-way done
- Draft:Outline of Chicago
- Draft:Outline of bodybuilding
- Draft:Outline of dogs
- Draft:Outline of God
- Draft:Outline of JavaScript
Outline drafts well underway
- Draft:Outline of agricultural science
- Draft:Outline of American football
- Draft:Outline of animal science
- Draft:Outline of applied mathematics
- Draft:Outline of armed forces
- Draft:Outline of art history
- Draft:Outline of astrobiology
- Draft:Outline of astrophysics
- Draft:Outline of biogeography
- Draft:Outline of bowling
- Draft:Outline of boxing
- Draft:Outline of business ethics
- Draft:Outline of climatology
- Draft:Outline of cognitive psychology
- Draft:Outline of constructed languages
- Draft:Outline of deep learning
- Draft:Outline of Donald Trump
- Draft:Outline of encyclopedias
- Draft:Outline of erotica and pornography
- Draft:Outline of existentialism
- Draft:Outline of families
- Draft:Outline of fire
- Draft:Outline of geothermal power
- Draft:Outline of gridiron football
- Draft:Outline of gymnastics
- Draft:Outline of hip hop music
- Draft:Outline of homelessness
- Draft:Outline of horror fiction
- Draft:Outline of housing
- Draft:Outline of human physiology
- Draft:Outline of human resource management
- Draft:Outline of information technology management
- Draft:Outline of Jerusalem
- Draft:Outline of Marvel Comics
- Draft:Outline of meat
- Draft:Outline of mechanical engineering
- Draft:Outline of meditation
- Draft:Outline of memory
- Draft:Outline of modern history
- Draft:Outline of museums
- Draft:Outline of mythology
- Draft:Outline of natural satellites
- Draft:Outline of numbers
- Draft:Outline of occupational safety and health
- Draft:Outline of ontologies
- Draft:Outline of planets
- Draft:Outline of prehistory
- Draft:Outline of recreation
- Draft:Outline of recreational drug economy
- Draft:Outline of renewable energy
- Draft:Outline of rock music
- Draft:Outline of rugby
- Draft:Outline of rugby league
- Draft:Outline of San Diego
- Draft:Outline of San Jose, California (lots of red links)
- Draft:Outline of spy fiction
- Draft:Outline of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
- Draft:Outline of the French Revolution
- Draft:Outline of the LGBT community
- Draft:Outline of the Olympic Games
- Draft:Outline of the Russian Revolution
- Draft:Outline of the World Wide Web
- Draft:Outline of time
- Draft:Outline of tinea
- Draft:Outline of Victoria, Australia
- Draft:Outline of volcanoes
Mostly bare-bones outline draft starts
- Draft:Outline of beans
- Draft:Outline of bread
- Draft:Outline of biomedical engineering
- Draft:Outline of Canadian football
- Draft:Outline of computer networking
- Draft:Outline of constitutional law
- Draft:Outline of crime
- Draft:Outline of crime fiction
- Draft:Outline of criminal law
- Draft:Outline of dairy farming
- Draft:Outline of dairy products
- Draft:Outline of DC Comics
- Draft:Outline of disease
- Draft:Outline of Doctor Who
- Draft:Outline of dyslexia
- Draft:Outline of earthquakes
- Draft:Outline of entrepreneurship
- Draft:Outline of extinction
- Draft:Outline of felines
- Draft:Outline of fire safety
- Draft:Outline of freight transport
- Draft:Outline of fruits
- Draft:Outline of geoengineering
- Draft:Outline of grains
- Draft:Outline of hills
- Draft:Outline of hockey
- Draft:Outline of humans
- Draft:Outline of hydropower
- Draft:Outline of ice hockey
- Draft:Outline of juggling
- Draft:Outline of Julius Caesar
- Draft:Outline of lacrosse
- Draft:Outline of legumes
- Draft:Outline of magic (illusion)
- Draft:Outline of Mahatma Ghandi
- Draft:Outline of maritime transport
- Draft:Outline of mass communication
- Draft:Outline of money
- Draft:Outline of morality
- Draft:Outline of mountains
- Draft:Outline of outer space
- Draft:Outline of prostitution
- Draft:Outline of reference works
- Draft:Outline of research
- Draft:Outline of road transport
- Draft:Outline of role-playing games
- Draft:Outline of romance fiction
- Draft:Outline of safety
- Draft:Outline of secondary education
- Draft:Outline of ships
- Draft:Outline of sleep
- Draft:Outline of stars
- Draft:Outline of street art
- Draft:Outline of supernovas
- Draft:Outline of the American Indian Wars
- Draft:Outline of the food industry
- Draft:Outline of the universe
- Draft:Outline of typography
- Draft:Outline of wave power
- Draft:Outline of welfare
- Draft:Outline of Western fiction
- Draft:Outline of world history
Templates
- {{Outline footer}} - placed at bottom of all Outlines
- For talkpages
- {{WikiProject Outlines}} - placed on the talk page of all Outlines
- For building outlines
- {{Outline generator}} - for outline creation
- {{Outline country}} - for outline creation
- {{Outline U.S. State}} - for outline creation
- {{Annotated link}} - for automatically annotating a link with its short description
- Userboxes
Other project subpages
Participants
If you'd like to get involved, and help with outline-related tasks, please add your username below:
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See also: Category:WikiProject Outlines participants
Userboxes
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Award templates
To award editors who've made significant contributions to Outlines and/or the Outlines WikiProject, here are some award templates you could use. Other awards work well too. Feel free to use your imagination.
- {{subst:The Outline Barnstar|1=message ~~~~}}
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The Outline Barnstar | |
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Hall of Recognition
Below are awards and thanks received by editors for special contributions to the outlines and thereby to the encyclopedia as a whole. Without further ado, here they are...
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The "I'm Really Impressed" Barnstar Barrage! |
For graphic design, workin' hard, and diligent relentless non-stop editing week after week on the contents pages of Wikipedia, including but not limited to Contents, Overviews, Fields, Glossaries, Basic topics, Topics, Tables, Portals, and Categories... Quiddity is hereby awarded this fireworks display of barnstars! On behalf of the Wikipedia community, thank you. – The Transhumanist 09:34, 22 October 2006 (UTC) |
- Note: Outlines used to be called "Lists of basic topics" and "Lists of topics", and some are still called the latter.
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The "I'm Really Impressed" Barnstar Barrage! |
For graphic design, workin' hard, and diligent relentless non-stop editing week after week on the contents pages of Wikipedia, including but not limited to Contents, Overviews, Fields, Glossaries, Basic topics, Topics, Tables, Portals, and Categories... RichardF is hereby awarded this fireworks display of barnstars! On behalf of the Wikipedia community, thank you. |
- Note: Outlines used to be called "Lists of basic topics" and "Lists of topics", and some are still called the latter.
(To The Transhumanist)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
I, Diligent Terrier, award you this "Tireless Contributor Barnstar" for your work in starting the List of basic American Civil War topics article from scratch. Great Job! DiligentTerrier • talk |sign here 22:17, 12 January 2008 (UTC) |
- Note: Later renamed to the Outline of the American Civil War.
(To The Transhumanist)
List of basic space exploration topics
Hi there TTH, Just wanted to thank you for your labors on this page, which is a great resource for us. Bill Wwheaton (talk) 17:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Note: It has since been renamed to Outline of space exploration.
(To The Transhumanist)
Nice work -- I will withdraw the AfD nom. – ukexpat (talk) 00:55, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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The Barnstar of Recovery | |
For saving List of basic Canada topics from being deleted, I - Milk's Favorite Cookie hereby award you this Barnstar! Congrats! - Milk's Favorite Cookie 01:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC) |
- Note: Was later renamed to Outline of Canada.
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The Bio-star | |
is hereby awarded to Earthdirt for doing an outstanding job producing the List of basic cell biology topics, and for going far beyond expectations by including a definition for each presented topic. Thank you for creating such a useful resource for newcomers to this subject. It's fantastic! The Transhumanist 03:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC) |
- Note: the current name for the "List of basic cell biology topics" is the Outline of cell biology.
Hi Transhumanist, I wanted to note that I saw all of your work on the List of Basic France topics, and I appreciate it! Lazulilasher (talk) 02:12, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
- Note: It was later renamed to Outline of France.
(To The Transhumanist)
I think......you need a barnstar for all of the hard work you have put into the WP:WPOOK!
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The Barnstar Barnstar | |
You deserve two! at-210 discovered elements ∞ what am I? 20:21, 14 June 2009 (UTC) |
- Note: The WP:WPOOK was later renamed to WikiProject Outlines.
Transhumanist my friend,
It's about time you deserve a barnstar for all your contributions to outlines on Wikipedia, and also for being the promoter that you are for outlines. If it wasn't for you we might not have outlines as they are, so it is my honor to present to you the Special Barnstar because no other barnstar could merit what you do for outlines on Wikipedia. :-) Burningview (talk) 03:42, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar | |
This barnstar is presented to Transhumanist for all the hard work, contributions, coordination, and promotion he does in advancing the idea, coverage, content, and quality of Outlines on Wikipedia. For this he deserves a Special Barnstar Burningview (talk) 03:42, 8 August 2009 (UTC) |
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The Teamwork Barnstar | |
is hereby awarded to Penubag for working so well with everyone on the OOK WikiProject, in the utilization of feedback on graphics creations, and jumping in to help wherever needed. Thank you! The Transhumanist 21:54, 16 June 2009 (UTC) |
- Note: the Outlines WikiProject used to be called the "OOK WikiProject" (for "Outline of Knowledge").
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The Geography Barnstar | |
is hereby awarded to Tiamut for exemplary development work on the Outline of Palestine. The Transhumanist 23:18, 25 July 2009 (UTC) |
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The Wikipedian known as Buaidh is hereby recognized by his peers as a Wikipedia World Developer, for his exemplary and extensive work on the outline articles of every country of the world and of every state of the United States (including the creation of a historical outline for every state), and for greatly improving Wikipedia's Outline of Knowledge.
Presented on this, the 4th day of August 2009, by — The Transhumanist , penubag , Willscrlt, NW, Gimme danger, Minnecologies, Stefan, Sswonk, –Juliancolton, MacMed, +sj+, Highfields, Tarheel95, Rich Farmbrough, The Earwig, Quiddity, and at-210 |
- Note: The historical outlines were later merged into the corresponding state outlines, and still exist therein.
(To The Transhumanist)
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The Special Barnstar | |
This award is in appreciation of the excellent work you have done supporting the development of Outlines on Wikipedia Thruxton (talk) 18:59, 5 December 2010 (UTC) |
(To The Transhumanist)
I just wanted to tell you (probably not the 1st ^^ ) that your are an incredible wikipedia member, your userpage is simply amazing and your contribution is...gigantic? huge? Incredible? not for the number edits (still high) but rather over the appropriateness of the things that you have created, especially the outline project. I wont give you another award, you already have billions, but simply a modest "Bravo!". -- Offiikart (Talk) 05:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
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The Geography Barnstar | |
By expanding the Outline of Quebec and creating lists of landforms, mountain ranges, and hospitals in Quebec, Offiikart has improved Wikipedia's navigation system, helping its readers to virtually tour the world. He is hereby awarded The Geography Barnstar. The Transhumanist 10:49, 29 June 2011 (UTC) |
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The WikiProject Barnstar | |
To The Transhumanist who created the outline project and tirelessly continues to improve it. A special thanks for your help and your recognition. OffiikartTalk 13:54, 29 June 2011 (UTC) |
(To The Transhumanist)
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The Chess Barnstar | |
Awarded for many contributions to chess articles, especially the Outline of chess. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 16:34, 18 October 2011 (UTC) |
(To The Transhumanist)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thanks so much for your work on the Outline of domestic violence, it is so much better that it's astounding how far it's come along. Thanks for making my first outline "sing"! CaroleHenson (talk) 11:11, 21 November 2011 (UTC) |
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What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar | |
is hereby awarded to Carole Henson for creating and developing the Outline of domestic violence, a hub of knowledge that many will no doubt find very relevant and helpful in times of personal crisis. I commend you, Carole, on making such a valuable resource available to the public worldwide. Kudos to you. Sincerely, The Transhumanist 23:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC) |
(To The Transhumanist)
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
Thanks for the ndashes on the Apple outline article. Zach Vega (talk) 00:58, 13 April 2012 (UTC) |
You've done a fantastic job so far creating the outline of globalization.
Keep up the excellent work. It's a damn nice addition to the outline collection: you're filling in a gap that badly needs filling. I look forward to reading the outline as you develop it to completion.
For an example of the progression of development of an outline, view the edit history of Outline of cell biology, and look at every 10th version, starting with the first version.
If you need my help with anything concerning outlines, or if you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Sincerely, The Transhumanist 06:33, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
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is hereby awarded to Meclee, for the creation and development of Outline of globalization. — The Transhumanist 15:23, 6 November 2023 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
For your efforts on updating, improving and organising Outline of human anatomy LT910001 (talk) 06:39, 2 January 2014 (UTC) |
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The Bio-star | |
is hereby awarded to TheProfessor for creating and developing the Outline of evolution. Thank you, and keep up the good work! The Transhumanist 07:00, 8 January 2015 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
For your work on "Outline of space science" Tetra quark (don't be shy) 05:55, 18 January 2015 (UTC) |
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Is hereby awarded to Mindfrieze for creating the Outline of sailing, which is now in article space. Keep up the good work! The Transhumanist 00:26, 12 July 2016 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
Is hereby awarded to Marikafragen for creating the Outline of adoption, which is now in article space. Thank you for creating this outline! The Transhumanist 22:43, 12 July 2016 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to CSJJ104 for creating the Outline of the Cold War, which is now in article space. Thank you for making such a good start in filling this gap in the navigation system! The Transhumanist 05:06, 15 July 2016 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to Broter for creating and developing the Outline of Joseph Smith. A very fine job indeed. The Transhumanist 19:14, 10 August 2016 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to PKT for creating and developing the Outline of New Brunswick. Well done. Thank you. The Transhumanist 04:33, 12 August 2016 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to Lakun.patra for creating and developing the Outline of Assam. A very nice addition to the collection. Keep up the good work. Thank you. The Transhumanist 08:14, 21 August 2016 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
Great work with the Outlines :) Pratyush (talk) 21:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC) |
(To The Transhumanist)
Love the outlines
Hi there! I just wanted to let you know that I think your planet outlines are really cool. I have long thought it was a shame that only Wikipedians seem to know about Books or Portals, because they are really great tools for structuring knowledge (while everyone loves diving down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, we could really do with some better content organization). The outlines strike me as a great way to bring that sort content organization to mainspace, where it will actually reach a large number of readers. I notice that I am the first one to edit them besides yourself, and I hope you know that I do so with love.
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Great idea with the outline articles - a great solution to a need for better mainspace-based content structuring! I see from WP:Outlines that you actually came up with this concept some years ago, but this is the first I've noticed it. A2soup (talk) 02:46, 8 February 2017 (UTC) |
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The Portal Barnstar | |
is hereby awarded to Certes for enhancements to the entire portal system in the form of the templates Transclude lead excerpt and Transclude random excerpt. With great anticipation, I look forward to your future contributions to portals. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 06:32, 2 May 2018 (UTC) |
- Note: Template:Transclude lead excerpt is also applicable to outlines.
- Congratulations, Certes! A well-earned barnstar! RockMagnetist(talk) 14:33, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
- Excellent job, Certes! Arman (Talk) 04:30, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
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The Cannabis Outline Barnstar | |
is hereby awarded to Bri for creating and developing the Outline of cannabis. A very interesting topic, indeed, with much coverage on Wikipedia that this outline makes easier to find and navigate. Keep up the good work. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 22:15, 30 November 2018 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
message Ambuj Shukla 19:16, 2 November 2019 (UTC) |
You have made immense contributions to outlines over the years, and have encouraged many more Wikipedians to follow your lead. The impact of your contributions are great. Keep doing the good work! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ambujshukla2004 (talk • contribs) 19:16, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar | |
The article you created, Outline of the wars of the Three Kingdoms, is very useful. Thanks for contributing a great outline. // Timothy :: talk 18:39, 5 August 2020 (UTC) |
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The Outline Barnstar | |
is hereby awarded to XTheBedrockX, for incredible attention to detail in the creation, development, and maintenance of Outline of the Iraq War. Keep up the great work! — The Transhumanist 01:41, 6 November 2023 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to TimothyBlue, for the creation and monitoring of Outline of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. Keep up the excellent work! — The Transhumanist 01:47, 6 November 2023 (UTC) |
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The Outline Barnstar and Featured List Medal | |
are hereby awarded to MeegsC, for improving Outline of lichens to featured list status. The outline has earned a star, and now, so have you! Keep up the great work. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 01:53, 6 November 2023 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to Jerium, for the creation of The Outline Barnstar, which provides the Outlines WikiProject the increased capability of awarding editors who have contributed to the improvement of outlines and outline coverage on Wikipedia. Thank you. Sincerely, — The Transhumanist 02:24, 6 November 2023 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to Pbsouthwood, for the creation, development, and maintenance of:
for work on: and for extensive work on: Keep up the excellent work! — The Transhumanist 08:35, 6 November 2023 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to Cote d'Azur, for the creation of the following multitude of city outlines:
And for extensive work on:
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The Outline Barnstar |
is hereby awarded to Epipelagic, for the creation and development of the collosal Outline of fishing, parts of which were split off to become the Outline of the fishing industry and Outline of fisheries. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 08:17, 8 November 2023 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to Marikafragen, for annotating the entirety of the Outline of fishing. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 08:18, 8 November 2023 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to Minnecologoies, for extensive work on the Outline of forestry. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 08:37, 8 November 2023 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to DASonnenfeld, for extensive work on the Outline of forestry. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 08:39, 8 November 2023 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to Thruxton, for creation and development of the Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 08:52, 8 November 2023 (UTC) |
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is hereby awarded to Guywan for saving the Outline of natural language processing from deletion, after it was already deleted, by taking the matter before Deletion Review. — The Transhumanist 11:50, 10 November 2023 (UTC) |
Cool template
...which is now in use on over 8,200 pages. Nicely done.
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is hereby awarded to Pbsouthwood, for the creation and development of the Annotated link template, which enables significant enhancement and ease of construction to embedded lists, including those in outlines. Kudos. — The Transhumanist 13:02, 10 November 2023 (UTC) |
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Hello The Transhumanist, you are receiving this award for the creation and continued dedication to WikiProject Outlines. You deserve this barnstar more than anyone. Jerium (talk) 19:18, 12 November 2023 (UTC) |
For a job wonderfully done...
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The Classical Music & Outline Barnstar |
is hereby awarded to Gor1995, for the creation and development of the comprehensive Outline of classical music, providing a much needed navigation aid for this extensive subject and a valuable expansion to the outline system. Thank you. — The Transhumanist 15:36, 19 January 2024 (UTC) |
History of outlines on Wikipedia
- Note: this section is a work in progress. Feel free to expand it.
- 25 June 2024 – Outline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe became the second outline to receive Featured list status.
- During November 2023, most of the deleted outline drafts were restored.
- 29 October 2023 – Outline of lichens became the first outline to receive Featured list status.
Note: To keep this list up-to-date, inactive editors are periodically removed.
To join this WikiProject's advanced wiki-tools team, contact The Transhumanist.
Previous discussions
See List of discussions concerning outlines.
Projected outline
There are still gaps in this collection. We need outlines to fill those gaps. The projected outline is for identifying needed outlines and creating them.
Please go over the projected outline and add any extensive topics that are missing.
Tasks
- Maintain links to topic outlines: each article of the corresponding topic should have a link to its topic outline in its see also section. Periodically check each see also section, as the links sometimes get removed. Linky comes in handy for this.
- Build new topic outlines. See Template:Topic outline.
- Maintain existing topic outlines
- Please place them on your watchlist and check your watchlist every time you log on or use this link. The lists need to be monitored for vandalism and new mistakes.
- Improve existing topic outlines
- Add missing links
- Match the structure of the subject (outline it)
- Place a WikiProject banner at the top of the talk pages of all lists of basic topics, leading here
- Place a coverage banner at the top of the talk pages of all articles matching the subjects in the titles of topic outlines, leading to the corresponding list.
- the coverage banner template needs to be designed
Unfinished
- Once an outline has been sufficiently filled-in or fleshed out, please add its link to the base outline page and mark it as
Done below:
- Outline of anthropology
- Outline of automation
- Outline of automobiles
- Outline of Big Science
- Outline of biology
- Outline of biotechnology
- Outline of cartography
- Outline of chemical engineering
- Outline of computer engineering
- Outline of construction
- Outline of dentistry
- Outline of design
- Outline of ecology
- Outline of education
- Outline of energy development
- Outline of energy storage
- Outline of epistemology
- Outline of ergonomics
- Outline of family and consumer science
- Outline of forensics
- Outline of forestry
- Outline of free software
- Outline of genetics
- Outline of rights
- Outline of industrial machinery
- Outline of information technology
- Outline of the Internet
- Outline of life extension
- Outline of machines
- Outline of manufacturing
- Outline of marketing
- Outline of meteorology
- Outline of nuclear technology
- Outline of nutrition
- Outline of parapsychology
- Outline of sharks
Done Please review and add stuff
- Outline of sinology
- Outline of software engineering
- Outline of space exploration
Done
- Outline of telecommunication
- Outline of transport
- Outline of vehicles
The hunt for hidden outlines
They hide in two ways:
- By not being hooked included in Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge, or
- By not having "outline of" in their titles
Such outlines tend not to be in our standard OOK formats, and usually need conversion.
By the way, we need outline hunters! How many hidden outlines can you find?
When you find them, add them to the subsections below. Be sure to include your sig (that way, we'll know who the best hunters are).
Outlines needing rename and/or reformatting
Those marked converted have been converted to an OOK format. Those marked placed have been added to Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge.
- List of energy topics - TT --> Outline of energy - converted and placed
- List of Dewey Decimal classes - TT --> Outline of Dewey Decimal classes - placed (no conversion needed: the topic is an outline)
- Library of Congress Classification - TT --> placed (no conversion needed: the topic is an outline)
- List of spirituality-related topics- TT
- List of Sikhism-related topics- TT
- List of counseling topics- TT
- List of neuroscience topics- TT
- List of statistics topics
- List of transgender-related topics --Gimme danger
- List of Ayyavazhi-related topics --Gimme danger (talk)
- List of Caribbean-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of topics related to Cornwall - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of patent related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of electrical engineering topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of Advaita Vedanta-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of autism-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of topics related to Black and African people - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of British pornography topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of information technology management topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of production topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of calculus topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of child-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of clinical research topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of combinatorics topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of formal language and literal string topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of community topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of computer programming topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of computer vision topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of democracy and election-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of environmental studies topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of environmental organisations topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of basic organic chemistry topics - TT
- List of futurology topics - rename to Outline of futurology and merge List of basic futurology topics into it - TT
- List of basic futurology topics (see directly above)
- List of basic tort law topics - TT
- List of basic libertarianism topics - TT
- User:Paleorthid/Sandbox/Article Nursery/List of basic soil topics - TT
- List of topics related to ancient Rome - TT
- List of topics in industrial organization - TT
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - TT
- List of Middle-earth articles by category - TT
- List of fishing topics by subject - GD
- List of functional programming topics - GD
- List of organic gardening and farming topics - GD
- List of genetic genealogy topics - GD
- List of guitar-related topics - GD
- List of Harry Potter related topics - GD
- List of Hinduism-related topics - GD
- List of human resource management topics - GD
- List of human-computer interaction topics - GD
- List of industrial archaeology topics - GD
- List of intellectual property-related topics - GD
- List of Jesus-related articles - GD
- Talk:Jesus/Related articles - GD
- List of Latter Day Saint movement topics - GD
- List of martial arts-related topics - GD
- Topics in cryptography - TT
- Political topics in New Zealand - TT
- Areas of mathematics - article uses the AMS Mathematics Subject Classification - the Dewey decimal system of math - GD
- List of abstract algebra topics - GD
- List of Boolean algebra topics - GD
- List of category theory topics - GD
- List of commutative algebra topics - GD
- List of group theory topics - GD
- List of Lie group topics - GD
- List of representation theory topics - GD
- List of linear algebra topics - GD
- List of complex analysis topics - GD
- List of functional analysis topics -GD
- List of integration and measure theory topics - GD
- List of harmonic analysis topics - GD
- List of real analysis topics - GD
- List of triangle topics - GD (not sure about this one)
- List of circle topics - GD
- List of general topology topics - GD
- List of differential geometry topics - GD
- List of algebraic geometry topics - GD
- List of algebraic topology topics - GD
- List of geometric topology topics - GD
- List of graph theory topics - GD
- List of network theory topics - GD
- List of mathematical logic topics - GD
- List of set theory topics - GD
- List of number theory topics - GD
- List of recreational number theory topics - GD
- List of dynamical systems and differential equations topics - GD
- List of numerical analysis topics - GD
- List of partial differential equation topics - GD
- List of mathematical topics in classical mechanics - GD
- List of mathematical topics in quantum theory - GD
- List of mathematical topics in relativity - GD
- List of computability and complexity topics - GD
- List of combinatorial computational geometry topics
- List of numerical computational geometry topics - GD
- List of probability topics - GD
- List of wine-related topics - GD --> Outline of wine - converted need much more work
- List of Vietnam War-related topics - GD
- List of vaccine topics - GD
- List of United Nations-related topics - GD
- List of sustainable agriculture topics - GD
- List of skiing topics - GD
- List of software engineering topics - GD
Outlines to merge
When an outline for the subject already exists, redundant outlines generally get merged into them.
Those marked merged have been merged into and redirected to an outline listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge.
- List of finance topics- TT
- List of software engineering topics- TT
- List of marketing topics- TT
- List of management topics- TT
- List of Ireland-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of Botswana-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of Taiwan-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of Nepal-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of Philippines-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of Bangladesh-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of Morocco-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of England-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
- List of politics-related topics - Gimme danger (talk) (merge with Outline of political science)
- User:Weston.pace/Sandbox/List of basic math articles - TT
- List of software engineering topics - TT
- List of Afghanistan-related topics - TT
- List of Andorra-related topics - TT
- List of Bahrain-related topics - TT
- List of Belarus-related topics - TT
- List of Benin-related topics - TT
- List of Bermuda-related topics - TT
- List of Bosnia and Herzegovina-related topics - TT
- List of Brunei-related topics - TT
- List of Burundi-related topics - TT
- List of Chad-related topics - TT
- List of East Timor-related topics - TT
- List of Finland-related topics - TT
- List of Indonesia-related topics - TT
- List of Iran-related topics - TT
- List of Laos-related topics - TT
- List of Malaysia-related topics - TT
- List of Maldives-related topics - TT
- List of Mauritius-related topics - TT
- List of Mayotte-related topics - TT
- List of Moldova-related topics - TT
- List of Monaco-related topics - TT
- List of New Zealand-related topics - TT
- List of Niger-related topics - TT
- List of Qatar-related topics - TT
- List of Romania-related topics - TT
- List of Rwanda-related topics - TT
- List of São Tomé and Príncipe-related topics - TT
- List of Seychelles-related topics - TT
- List of Singapore-related topics - TT
- List of South Africa-related topics - TT
- List of Spain-related topics - TT
- List of Sudan-related topics - TT
- List of Sweden-related topics - TT
- List of Tunisia-related topics - TT
- List of Western Sahara-related topics - TT
- List of Yemen-related topics - TT
- List of Zambia-related topics - TT
- List of geometry topics - GD
- List of health sciences topics - GD
- List of science topics - TT (each section needs to be merged with relevant outline)
- List of scientific method topics - GD (is there a generic science outline?)
Topic outline formatting
Most of the topic outlines are presented in single-column, and this makes the pages long. These should be converted to a multi-column format, as has been done in Topic outline of geography, or as dash-separated lists, as has been done for some of the lists, or a combination of both, or some other scheme that looks good and is easy to use (see the basic concepts section of Topic outline of painting, for example). Here is a list of the pages which need to be converted from single-column format:
- Once a list has been nicely formatted, please remove that page from this list:
Geographical topics – Subnational entities
Self – Biology – Psychology – Relationships
Philosophy – Ethics – Epistemology – Humanism – Logic – Metaphysics – Philosophical theories – Philosophical theories – Thinking – Transhumanism
Physical science – Astronomy – Biochemistry – Biology Chemistry Ecology – Earth sciences – Geology – Meteorology – Oceanography –
Major social sciences – Archaeology – Business – Cognitive science Community – Critical theory – Economics Education – Finance – Law – Linguistics Management – Marketing – Parapsychology – Politics – Psychology – Public affairs – Relationships – Sociology
Technology – Aerospace science – Artificial intelligence – Agriculture – Architecture – Cartography – Communication – Energy development – Engineering – Health science Industry – Library and information science – Manufacturing – Military science – Transport
Categories
- Category:Outlines
- Category:Articles belonging to WikiProject Outline of knowledge - a second category showing all articles with the {{WikiProject TO}} tag.
Templates
- Template:WikiProject Outline of knowledge
- Template:Topic outline - to use, type this on a new page and save: {{subst:BLT|topic uncapitalized|topic capitalized}}
- Template:Outline of knowledge coverage - to use, place this on the top of an outline's corresponding subject article's talk page: {{Outline of knowledge coverage|subject}}