Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science/Newsletter

Project news

• Preparations are underway for an evolution and history of biology Main Page extravaganza on Darwin Day, February 12, 2009. It will be Darwin's 200th birthday, and 2009 also marks the 150th anniversary of Origin of Species. We hope to have the recently featured History of evolutionary thought (thanks Rusty Cashman and others!) as Today's Featured Article that day, and to have multiple Did You Know hooks from new articles related to the theme throughout the day. See Wikipedia:Did you know/Darwin Day 2009. We will also attempt to have a Darwin-related Featured Picture for the day. Later in the year we hope to bring Origin of Species to Featured Article status in time for its publication anniversary in November 2009.
• In the past 6 months, article assessment for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team has progressed considerably. As of writing this, 1048 articles (up from 761) carry the {{HistSci}} banner, 661 (up from 541) of which have been assessed. Many relevant articles, particularly biographies, remained untagged. Please help identify and assess more history of science articles.

Member news

• The project has currently 111 members, with 8 new members since the May newsletter: Davidlud, Pgrapi, JohnnyCalifornia, A.C. Norman, Tsourkpk, Awickert, DavidCBeck, and Ceramufary.

Editing news

• As mentioned above, History of evolutionary thought reached FA status.
• The article Zhang Heng—an Eastern Han Dynasty Chinese scholar who contributed to astronomy, mathematics and other fields—was promoted to FA status, thanks mainly to the work of PericlesofAthens.
• History of timekeeping devices also became a Featured Article.
• If you've been working on content that would benefit from the attention of other project members, or that you'd like to let others know about, please list it here.

Collaboration of the Month

• The new History of Science Collaboration for the next few months will be On the Origin of Species.

About this newsletter

This is the fifth issue of the History of Science WikiProject's newsletter, which is issued periodically to help keep participants up-to-date about Wikipedia goings on related to the histories of science, medicine and technology.

I encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

--ragesoss, Editor

Project volunteers

• Volunteers needed - if any members feel able to take on project tasks such as creating history of medicine or history of technology Task Forces, monitoring and maintaining the Announcements template, managing Assessment activity or anything else you believe needs special attention, please let me know.

Newsletter challenge

• Anyone who creates a new article that meets the Did You Know? criteria for the Darwin Day 2009 Main Page effort will be recognized in the next newsletter, and receive the adulation of readers the world over.