Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Organismal Biomechanics


 * The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The resulting WikiProject was created at WikiProject Organismal Biomechanics

Description
A coherent effort to improve or create articles relating to organismal biomechanics. Many articles on the subject are absent, severely lacking, or omit crucial information (for instance, the muscle article lacked any mention of the force-length or force-velocity relationships). I can handle the brain-dumps, but I'm awful at wikify-ing stuff, and would definitely appreciate some help.

Support

 * 1) Mokele (talk) 01:56, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) Nicolharper (talk) 23:18, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Philcha (talk) 16:28, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 4) Julzes (talk) 17:26, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Discussion
Ok, so I'm not really sure what to do here. On one hand, it's pretty clear by this point that this project isn't going to garner any substantial interest in the next few months, in spite of me promoting it everywhere I can think of. But on the other, this is a major field of science with dozens of researchers which has been utterly neglected. I'm doing brain dumps on my own, but I lack the skill at wikifying things, formatting them, etc., and progress is slow (after all, the fact that I work in this field means I need to actually do work). Plus, once I get beyond terrestrial systems, my knowledge begins to decrease sharply.

I'm tempted to just go ahead and make the Project pages and such, in part because I think once I start tagging pages, I'll begin accumulating project members (however slowly). I realize that this is unusual, but it's a rather odd disconnect between reader interest (many pages in the project's scope have 10,000+ hits per month, even if truly awful), editor interest (some pages have less than a few dozen edits in 4+ years), and scientific interest (hundreds of faculty working in this area alone).

So, any thoughts? Mokele (talk) 21:36, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Project created! Thanks to everyone who supported it~ Mokele (talk) 04:09, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Support

 * Certainly an area with very sparse coverage on WP. I'd love to see this project get off the ground, and would be happy to help out where I can - although my experience of the subject is somewhat limited. Martin  (Smith609 – Talk)  19:22, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I've found biomechanics a relatively easy way to understand and explain organisms - from the speed (or otherwise) of Tyrannosaurus to the LEGO systems of arthropods and the waterflow management techniques of sponges. --Philcha (talk)
 * This would be a wonderful daughter project (or at least task force) of the Tree of Life WikiProject. Go for it! Bob the Wikipedian (talk • contribs) 16:46, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Neutral

 * I agree that the field lacks comprehensive and coherent coverage on any larger wiki (not just this one) but I'm afraid that the fact that it is rather academic in nature may keep it from getting off the ground here for quite some time, and thus I'd prefer to start such a project directly on a scholarly inclined wiki like Citizendium or Scholarpedia where I feel more comfortable to work on such topics. However, since the vote is on starting it here, I abstain. Daniel Mietchen (talk) 16:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * ''The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.