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About WikiProject Microbiology

This Wikiproject aims to organize efforts to improve microbiology-related articles on Wikipedia.

If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, or have a look at the How you can help section below. You don't need to know anything about microbiology to help!

Scope

This project aims to cover all areas of microbiology including: bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, viruses, microbiologists, microbiological methods and concepts, microbiology equipment, microscopy, and other microbiology-related topics.

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How you can help

Improve articles

We have over 10,000 articles listed as "stubs", pick your favorite and start adding more info!
Nearly 20% of all Microbiology articles are tagged with some concern! These mark areas for improvement. Feel free to post on the talk page if you need a hand!
Improve articles to GA!
Check new articles added to our project!

Start new articles

Pick your favorite protein/microbe/microbiology-related thing and start a new article! If you need a hand, post on the talk page!

Discuss

Join in discussing proposals on the talk page. Any ideas are always welcome!

Improve the project itself

Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in microbiology to contribute. A bot-generated list of users active on microbiology pages is here!

Categorise microbiology related articles

Label articles of interest to the project by putting the banner template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to microbiology.
Categorise articles by adding them to the appropriate microbiology categories as shown to right.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : Sterilisation (microbiology), Escherichia coli, Lactobacillus
Expand : Antimicrobial, Colony-forming unit, Microbiologist, Lactobacillus, Lactic acid bacteria, Escherichia coli, Indicator bacteria, Yersinia pestis
Merge :
- Bacterial cellular morphologies: (Coccus, Diplococcus, Coccobacillus, Bacilli, etc)
- Coliform Index into Faecal coliforms
- Merge and redirect all Alga stub basionyms
Split : Mycoplasma
Stubs : Category:Microbiology stubs, but also... Telonemia, Morganella morganii, Chaetoceros coarctatus, Roseofilum reptotaenium, Rhabdosphaera clavigera
Other :
- Get to GA class: Mould, Yersinia pestis, Category:B-Class Microbiology articles
- Get to FA class: Escherichia coli, Yeast, Category:GA-Class_Microbiology_articles

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Portal:	Biology Portal
Shortcuts:	WP:MICRO
Project template:	{{WikiProject Micro}}
Member userbox:	{{User WikiProject Micro}}

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Microbiology articles by quality statics

Microbiology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	5	5					10
FM					15		15
GA	9	14	7	18		1	49
B	36	55	56	106		6	259
C	22	98	321	832		48	1,321
Start	6	78	361	1,716		97	2,258
Stub		10	115	11,712	3	38	11,878
List	3	5	13	44	1	4	70
Category					1,051		1,051
Disambig					35		35
File					17		17
Portal					2		2
Project					14		14
Redirect		3	19	464	806		1,292
Template					4,843		4,843
NA					2		2
Other		1			29		30
Assessed	81	269	892	14,892	6,818	194	23,146
Unassessed						26	26
Total	81	269	892	14,892	6,818	220	23,172
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 88,717			Ω = 5.62

Microbiology articles by quality log

July 10, 2026

Assessed

Finegoldia magna (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Triacetin (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
Tributyrin (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
Tripropionin (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

July 9, 2026

Assessed

Draft:Barry P. Rosen (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

July 8, 2026

Reassessed

Branching order of bacterial phyla (Genome Taxonomy Database, 2018) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

Chordicoccus (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Enterobacter hormaechei (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Porcincola (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Prevotella communis (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Prevotella lacticifex (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Prevotella ruminicola (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Ruminococcus flavefaciens (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

July 7, 2026

Assessed

SpudCell (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

July 6, 2026

Removed

Template:Taxonomy/Fiscullina (talk) removed.

Writing guides

Taxon names

Candidatus higher taxa should not have the word Candidatus (or the abbreviation Ca.) in their names. For example, "Hodarchaeales" is the correct usage while "Candidatus Hodarchaeales" or "Ca. Hodarchaeales" are wrong. Candidatus genera and species should have Candidatus in their names. Other taxa should not have Candidatus in their names.

Article titles

Articles about taxa should not have quotes or Candidatus in their titles.

Participants

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Bacteria

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Archaea

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Yeast

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Protist

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Virus

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	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Microbiology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Microbiology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MicrobiologyWikipedia:WikiProject MicrobiologyTemplate:WikiProject MicrobiologyMicrobiology
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology

About WikiProject Microbiology

Scope

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How you can help

Improve articles

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Discuss

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Categorise microbiology related articles

Microbiology articles by quality statics

Microbiology articles by quality log

July 10, 2026

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July 9, 2026

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July 8, 2026

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July 7, 2026

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July 6, 2026

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