Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy

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This WikiProject aims to better organize information in articles related to Anatomy, and improve their overall quality. Please feel free to help, add yourself to the participants; or leave a message on the talk page!

16 edits	Extracellular fluid
11 edits	Frontal lobe
7 edits	Cranial root of accessory nerves
6 edits	Eye color
6 edits	Amygdala
6 edits	Lens capsule
5 edits	Labia minora
4 edits	Calcaneus
4 edits	Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
4 edits	Leonardo da Vinci

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 27 August 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

Scope

This particular project supports all articles on human anatomy.

Getting started

Head over to Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Open Tasks for a list of projects that are easy to get into and need help!
Don't forget to engage in discussion as well as give feedback at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anatomy!

Related WikiProjects

Data for this project is managed at:

Wikidata:WikiProject Medicine

Participants

Project assessment

Add {{WikiProject Anatomy|class=Start|importance=mid}} to the talk pages of all articles within the scope of this project. For more information about class and importance, see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment
If an article needs a picture, add {{Photo requested|anatomy}} to the talk page. The article will be automatically added to the requested images of anatomy category.
The rater tool may be enabled to more easily set and view the ratings of articles. For information about enabling this tool, see User:Kephir/gadgets/rater. This is best used in conjunction with the 'display assessment' tool enabled on preferences/gadgets.

Discipline

The anatomical discipline (or field) of an article can also be set using the field parameter: {{WikiProject Anatomy|class=Start|importance=mid|field=x}}

This allows us to provide easy-to-access lists to contributors and professional and easily facilitate inter-project and intra-wiki collaboration.
The following values for 'field' are valid: animal, embryo, gross, meta, micro, NA, neuro, organs, systems
meta refers to subjects about the field of anatomy itself, including biographies, journal articles, organisations, definitions and articles relating to the history of anatomy.
Please mark all redirects as "NA" to reduce clutter in categories

Article assessment statistics

Articles assessed for quality: 100% complete

More information Anatomy articles by quality and importance, Quality ...

Anatomy articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1		2	2			5
FL		1		1			2
FM					33		33
GA	5	19	13	3			40
B	10	48	80	49		2	189
C	24	205	535	191		11	966
Start	3	68	968	881	1	33	1,954
Stub			596	1,406		39	2,041
List	5	17	28	8	10	25	93
Category					625		625
Disambig					535		535
File					8		8
Portal					4		4
Project					15		15
Redirect	1	4	71	154	14,718		14,948
Template					189		189
Other					5		5
Assessed	49	362	2,293	2,695	16,143	110	21,652
Total	49	362	2,293	2,695	16,143	110	21,652
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 26,527			Ω = 5.11

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Index · Statistics · Log

FA-Class: 5
A-Class: 0
GA-Class: 40
B-Class: 189
C-Class: 966
Start-Class: 1,954
Stub-Class: 2,041
FL-Class: 2
List-Class: 93

Top-importance: 49
High-importance: 362
Mid-importance: 2,293
Low-importance: 2,695
Bottom-importance: 0
NA-importance: 16,147
Unknown-importance: 111

1.8% List-Class
38.6% Stub-Class
36.9% Start-Class
18.3% C-Class
3.6% B-Class
0.8% GA-Class
0.1% FA-Class

Goals

Wikipedia Anatomy has the potential to be a world-class resource for anatomical information. To this end, we're working towards these three goals:

80 GA-class articles: 50% complete

250 B-class articles: 75.6% complete

Reduce number of stubs from 2,500 to less than 2,000: 91.8% complete

More information Article assessment by month, Month ...

Article assessment by month

**Article assessment over time**
Month	Total articles	Good articles	B-class articles	C-class articles	Start-class articles	Stub-class articles
December 2013	9,333	5	70	315	1,006	3,082
June 2014	9,916	9	94	527	1,395	2,554
December 2014	10,419	14	100	552	1,485	2,472
May 2015	12,766	15	102	589	1,543	2,459
December 2015	13,318	16	112	610	1,567	2,443
May 2016	19,719	19	116	617	1,570	2,383
October 2016	19,828	20	116	615	1,580	2,377
July 2017	20,108	25	120	673	1,585	2,353
January 2018	20,179	29	129	687	1,595	2,344
June 2018	20,417	32	141	777	1,611	2,298
Dec 2019	20,608	33	148	839	1,664	2,308
August 2020	20,671	37	154	851	1,666	2,289
May 2021	20,833	41	157	877	1,705	2,258
October 2021	20,921	42	154	884	1,771	2,206
September 2023	21,244	42	163	911	1,902	2,207

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Tools

To provide a link to images stored on WikiCommons, use {{Commons category|name of wikicommons category}}. Place this in the 'see also' section.
To provide a link to Wiktionary, use {{wiktionary|article name}}. Place this in the 'see also' section.
To provide a link to a summary of anatomical terminology, use {{Anatomy-terms}}. Place this in the 'see also' section.

Article Alerts
Our entry on the WikiProject Directory: here

WikiProject Anatomy has a newsletter, sent out to all editors on the mailing list (click to add). The current edition is here.

Editions:

Getting the project started again (December 2013)
Places for editing (March 2014)
Simplifying anatomical terminology, released in conjunction with this essay: WP:ANATSIMPLIFY (November 2014)
Technical changes underlying our project (July 2015)
How far we've come (November 2016)
WikiProject Anatomy and Anatomy on Wikipedia
Anatomy and featured articles (September 2020) (current)

Recent changes

Recent changes in WP:Anatomy

All project articles (including talks)
All project non-articles (including talks)
500 Most popular pages

List overview · Lists updated: 2018-01-31 · This box:

A list of recent changes in all pages under the project's scope can be found here: To put this box on your user page, use this template: {{Recent changes in Anatomy}}

Popular pages

Wikipedia:WikiProject Anatomy/Popular pages

Cleanup listing

Article alerts

Redirects for discussion

12 Feb 2026 – Intestinal paralysis (talk · edit · hist) →Gastrointestinal tract was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

03 Mar 2026 – Cementoenamel junction (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Cervical margins by Adam78 (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
14 Jun 2022 – Transverse cervical artery (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by LR0725 (t · c); see discussion

Templates

User Template

You can add this banner to your page by inserting {{User WPAnatomy}} on your user page:

This user is a member of
WikiProject Anatomy.

To welcome editors of anatomy articles, copy and paste this template (with the signature):

{{subst:WPANATOMY welcome}} ~~~~

Navigation templates

Other templates

{{Anatomical diagram requested}} puts an article in Category:Wikipedia requested anatomical diagrams

Project templates

{{Medicine navbox doc}}
{{Anatomy navbox doc}} - basic documentation for use in anatomy navbox templates, do not subst.
{{WikiProject Anatomy}}
{{Recent changes in Anatomy}} - shows the box with recent changes link (all Anatomy pages)

Barnstar

Two barnstars are available for use to celebrate contributions or contributors: {{The Anatomist Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~|alt}}

		The Anatomist Barnstar
		put your message here ~~~~

For a customised Anatomy barnstar, use {{subst:WPANATOMY-barnstar}}

		The Golden Galen barnstar
		You have been awarded the prestigious Golden Galen barnstar for your contributions to Wikipedia's anatomy articles. Thank you for your contributions and well done!

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