- Project news
- Article assessment for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team is progressing well. As of writing this, 370 of the 572 articles carrying the {{HistSci}} banner have now been assessed. About 70 new articles have been tagged with the banner, though there are no doubt many relevant articles that remained untagged. Once again, please help identify and 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.
- Member news
- The project has currently 85 members, with twelve new members since the May newsletter: Sdsds, MarcoTolo, AlphaEta, Jagged 85, Maias, Insomniduck, Bryce268, Macdonald-ross, dhaluza, Bulldog123, djsmitherman, and Gavantredoux.
- Editing news
- Three history of science-related articles have reached Featured Article status lately:
- Galileo Galilei was demoted after a lengthy Featured Article Review. David Wilson and others improved it considerably, however, working to cite the content on Galileo and related articles such as Two New Sciences and Galileo affair.
- I've been working on a series of new articles on the history of molecular evolution: Jack Lester King, Thomas H. Jukes, Emile Zuckerkandl (from a stub), and Morris Goodman. I've also helped to bring Rachel Carson to Good Article status.
- Awadewit has been working extensively on Joseph Priestley.
- Rusty Cashman has brought history of paleontology to GA status and is working toward FA-level.
- JFD has been working on history of physics, into which some content previously from physics was merged.
- Fowler&fowler has been working on Indian mathematics.
- Peta has written articles on geologist Edwin Sherbon Hills, geneticist Evelyn M. Witkin, and zoologist Georgina Sweet.
- SteveMcCluskey has created a helpful list of commons misconceptions in the history of astronomy, dispelling common historical myths and exaggerations, and would like help with improving it.
- History of evolutionary thought improved considerably through the Collaboration of the Month(s), though it's still quite a beast.
- JayHenry and others brought Nature (journal) to Good Article status.
- Reddi, with PericlesofAthens and others, has significantly expanded maritime history.
- Jagged 85, Sadi Carnot and others have worked to salvage the list of people known as the father or mother of something, which was nearly deleted. (Actually, deleted, restored out of process, deleted again, then restored with instructions to trim and refocus it.) It still has a ways to go; many hands make light work.
- Modern evolutionary synthesis has been the focus of some intense editing and discussion. After considerable expansion, it was reverted back to an earlier version. Since then, a number of editors have been working to reintegrate the best parts of the previous expanded version.
- User:Macdonald-ross has improved Thomas Henry Huxley even more since the last newsletter.
- Madeleine created a nice vector illustration of the Luria-Delbrück experiment.
- [If you've been working on an article that would benefit from the attention of other project members, or other project-related stuff that you're proud of, list it here. This list was created mainly by checking members' talk pages to see what they've been up to recently, and it only reports a small amount of the work that's been going on with history of science and related areas.]
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- Collaboration of the Month
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- About this newsletter
Welcome to the third 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.
--ragesoss, Editor
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- 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.
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- 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 Laboratory Life, the influential anthropological study of scientific practice by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar.
- The history of biological sciences challenge is Caltech Division of Biology, an historically important and somewhat unique institution. Previous unanswered challenges are PaJaMo experiment and Gunther Stent.
- The history of physical sciences challenge is Book of Nature, and important concept, especially in early-modern science.
- The history of medicine challenge is to create any medicine-related article that begins with History of..., based on historical literature. Previous unanswered challenges are history of endocrinology and History of public health.
- The history of technology challenge is to create any technology-related article that begin History of..., based on historical literature. Previous unanswered challenges are history of the microscope and technological sublime.
 Laurascudder created a stub for the previous general challenge: Leviathan and the Air Pump and a nice article for the physical science challenge, the famous paper "Quantum theoretical re-interpretation of kinematic and mechanical relations".
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