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Biology Week! Go here and sign up to help plan our big "open house" for biologists! The Biology Workgroup's Workgroup Week.	Contents 1 High priority articles 1.1 Biography 1.2 Anatomy 1.3 Biochemistry 1.4 Biophysics 1.5 Botany 1.6 Cell biology 1.7 Developmental biology 1.8 Ecology 1.9 Evolutionary biology 1.10 Genetics 1.11 Microbiology 1.12 Molecular biology 1.13 Neuroscience 1.14 Physiology 1.15 Systems biology 1.16 Taxonomy 1.17 Virology 1.18 Zoology 2 Core article 3 Tree-of-life subgroup 3.1 Naming convention 3.2 Taxoboxes 4 Major topics from wikipedia biology portal 5 Tools
How you can help Please participate in the Naming conventions discussion. There is an online poll here. Also look at the proposal from Noel of separating pagenames (i.e. location) and article names (i.e. title). See the forum thread here for more details (read the whole thread for context).
Proposed subgroups The organisation we inherited from Wikipedia is subdivided into disciplines within biology, however, we do not have to follow such a format. We can move forward with subgroups that seem more natural, and I imagine some subgroups will include several related disciplines. We can discuss this more on the subgroups thread, in the biology forum, as we reach a critical mass of editors and authors. Relevant lists and headers from Wikipedia are shown at the bottom of this section. Also, the list of high priority articles in the next section are currently categorized by discipline. List of biology disciplines General subfields within biology Anatomy | Astrobiology | Biochemistry | Bioinformatics | Botany | Cell biology | Ecology | Developmental biology | Evolutionary biology | Genetics | Genomics | Marine biology | Human biology | Microbiology | Molecular biology | Origin of life | Paleontology | Parasitology | Pathology | Physiology | Taxonomy | Zoology

High priority articles

This list of articles is not complete but it can be used as a starting point for writing new articles or focus our efforts towards getting more articles approved. Articles in bold are regarded as a higher priority. Those struck through are considered as low priority.

Core article

The list below is adapted from the high priority articles above and the small list that has already started at CZ:Core_Articles#Biology. These are articles that we deem vital to get the biology section going. Please add and delete from this list. We are restricted to 198 articles that we think are needed now.

For a more comprehensive list search for the red links in the CZ:Biology_Workgroup/list or CZ:Biology_Workgroup/concepts.

Just to clarify, I combined the list the concepts and the core article we already had. I then edited for duplicates and removed items that did not seem to fit the core concept. We now have 300 articles. Feel free to add topics that are missing. Also feel free to group articles into topic related concepts, although this alphabetical list is probably OK for those wanting to see what is missing from CZ. Chris Day (talk) 16:33, 27 September 2007 (CDT)

Tree-of-life subgroup

A major part of the articles in the biology workgroup can be categorized under the concept of Tree of Life. All article about a species, genus or any other taxonomic level are part of this subgroup.

Naming convention

To be decided. Online poll is here. Also look at the proposal from Noel of separating pagenames (i.e. location) and article names (i.e. title). See the forum thread here for more details (read the whole thread for context).

Options:

• If page address and page title are not required to be identical
  • Address and title of an article could be handled independently, as proposed by J. Noel Chiappa and already done at Special:Wantedpages whose title is "Wanted pages".

• If page address and page title are required to be identical

1. Only common name: "Giant Panda"

Example: The giant panda (Scientific name Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a species of bear...

Pros: May be more user friendly, as most users are unfamiliar with the scientific name.

Cons: Lacks consistency, as there are no common names for some organisms. Also, if a bot is eventually used to fill out taxoboxes, it requires that the scientific name always redirect to the common name, which may not always be the case.

2. Only scientific name: "Ailuropoda melanoleuca"

Example: Ailuropoda melanoleuca, commonly known as the giant panda, is a species of bear...

Pros: More suited to bot farming of taxonomy. Avoids confusion where a common name doesn't exactly line up with a taxonomic division.

Cons: Less user friendly – would require redirects from the common name, as few users know the scientific name.

3. Both names, scientific one in parentheses: "Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)"

Example: The Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a species of bear...

Pros: Includes all information in title. This presentation of the information is fairly standard, so it is likely that users will recognize that the information in parentheses is the scientific name.

Cons: Name is long. Would require redirects from the common name, as few users know the scientific name. Poorly suited to bot farming of taxonomy. Also, the page will have to be moved if the common name OR the scientific name is changed.

4. Both names, common one in parentheses: "Ailuropoda melanoleuca (Giant Panda)"

Example: Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda) is a species of bear...

Pros: Includes all information in title.

Cons: Name is long. Would require redirects from the common name, as few users know the scientific name. Poorly suited to bot farming of taxonomy. Also, the page will have to be moved if the common name OR the scientific name is changed.

Taxoboxes

Taxoboxes facilitate the navigation through the Tree-of-Life and each taxon is required to have one using the Template:Taxobox.

Major topics from wikipedia biology portal

General	Life | species | biology
Ecology	Biomass | food chain | indicator species | extinction | habitat | species distribution | Gaia theory
Conservation	Biodiversity | biodiversity hotspot | nature reserve | edge effect | Allee effect | corridor | fragmentation | pollution | invasive species | in situ - ex situ | seedbank | environmental economics
Evolution	Natural selection | genetic drift | sexual selection | speciation | mutation | gene flow
Tree of life	Animals | plants | fungi | protists | bacteria | archaea | prokaryote | eukaryote | three-domain system | angiosperms | insects | nematodes | viruses
Development	Tissues | fertilization | embryogenesis | gastrulation | neurulation | organogenesis | differentiation | morphogenesis | metamorphosis | ontogeny
Life cycle	reproduction | ploidy | spermatogenesis | alternation of generations | oogenesis | parasitism | evolution of sex | meiosis | DNA replication
The cell	Cell wall | cell membrane | cytoskeleton | mitochondrion | chloroplast | nucleus | endoplasmic reticulum | Golgi apparatus | cell cycle | mitosis | metabolism | cell signaling | protein targeting
Biochemistry	DNA | RNA | protein | enzyme | protein folding | carbohydrate | lipid | glycolysis | citric acid cycle | electron transport chain | oxidative phosphorylation | photosynthesis | protein structure
Genetics	Gene | genome | karyotype | transcription | translation | recombination | chromosome | Mendelian inheritance | phenotype | genotype | epigenetics | splicing | mutation | genetic fingerprint | chromatin | classical genetics | ecological genetics | molecular genetics | population genetics | quantitative genetics
Techniques	Genetic engineering | transformation | gel electrophoresis | chromatography | centrifugation | cell culture | DNA sequencing | DNA microarray | green flourescent protein | vector | Enzyme assay | Protein purification | Western blot | Northern blot | Southern blot | restriction enzyme | polymerase chain reaction | two-hybrid screening
Other fields	Anatomy | astrobiology | botany | bioengineering | bioinformatics | human biology | microbiology | origin of life | paleontology | parasitology | pathology | pharmacology | phylogenetics | physiology | marine biology | systems biology | taxonomy | zoology
Classification of man	Primate | mammal | vertebrate | craniata | chordate | deuterostome | animal
History of biology	Natural history | geography | ecology | molecular biology | evolutionary biology | Great Chain of Being

Tools

See also Category:Technical_Help

• To wikify scientific references (via Google Scholar). Sample search for "biology next mathematics".
• To find related articles (in Pubmed). Sample search (based on the first paragraph of Life). The site is slow, though, and thus perhaps only of good use if you are looking for references outside your primary field of expertise.
• To find Open Access biomedical images. Sample search for "amygdala"
• Top 10 Ways to Search Wikipedia - much of this is useful here, too
• Biological definitions at the Biology-Online dictionary
• Universal reference formatter
• Zotero (bibliographic management)
• Webcitation.org - a tool that archives webpages so that they can be cited in the form they had when visited