Article assessment for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team continues apace. About one third of the nearly 500 articles carrying the {{HistSci}} banner have now been assessed. Once again, please help assess more history of science articles; this is especially important for determining which articles will be included in upcoming static (e.g., DVD) releases of Wikipedia. For instructions, see the Assessment page.
With the concerted efforts of a number of editors from the History of Science project and beyond, history of biology reached Good Article status followed in short order by Featured Article status.
We have a new article on the phage group that could do for some expansion.
A new user, Macdonald-ross, has dramatically expanded Thomas Henry Huxley; some help with copy-editing and formatting from experienced users could probably bring the article to a high standard in short order.
Nuclear programme of Iran is a hot topic that could use more attention from those wise in the ways of STS.
The history section of Equipartition theorem has been developing as editors of that article push for Featured Article quality.
Mostly fruitless discussion has been ongoing for several months over physics, especially about the lead, but the history section could use a total rewrite to avoid the names and dates, one damn fact after another style of history.
Though WikiProject Pseudoscience has been fairly quiet lately, the battle against nonsense continues apace. It seems that WikiProject Paranormal has become the active center for discussing the wide spectrum of fringe theories.
[If you've been working on articles that would benefit from the attention of other project members, list them here.]
Collaboration of the Month
The History of Science Collaboration has been put on hold due to lack of nominations. It will resume when any nomination has four votes. Please, nominate future collaborations and vote for the next selection. Some of the past collaborations have been very successful.
About this newsletter
Welcome to the second issue of the History of Science WikiProject's newsletter! This newsletter 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.
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
The first person to start each article gets lasting fame and a mention in the next newsletter. This edition's general article creation challenge is Leviathan and the Air Pump.
