Wikipedia:WikiProject Organismal Biomechanics

Welcome to WikiProject Organismal Biomechanics! This WikiProject aims to expand organise Wikipedia's collection of entries about biomechanics, predominantly at the level of the organism, but also including musculoskeletal tissues and organs.

Parentage
This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life


 * WikiProject Science.
 * WikiProject Biology
 * WikiProject Tree of Life
 * WikiProject Animals

As well as Wikiproject Physics, WikiProject Chemical and Bio Engineering and Wikiproject Anatomy.

Criteria for inclusion
Any significant aspect of biomechanics is up for inclusion, including species-specific and obscure concepts. The only thing that is discouraged is data-dumps - discuss frog jumping, but don't actually specify that the ankle joint of Rana moves 120 degrees during the course of the jump.

Structure
At the current time, no overarching structure is needed - filling in information is more pressing. Please include references whenever possible, link new articles so they do not become orphans, and link all relevant pages back to this one.

Contents
Try to include as much information as possible, but make it accessible. IME, one of the great strengths of this field is the ease of accessibility by the layman. At the very least, be sure the intro section of the article contains a succinct, readable summary which is not overly technical.

How you can help?

 * Adopt an article! Chose an article which you can contribute to in the list . There are important stub and start articles that have the potential to be excellent articles. Categories containing these kind of articles are listed in  and . Some articles are needing urgent improvement. See them in.


 * Help to reduce anthropocentrism in the articles listed in . Do this by including nonhuman-biased informations relative to a diverse array of animal taxa.


 * Add images to articles listed in . Your illustrations will be very useful to more easily explain the phenomena.


 * Request a missing article here! You may have failed to find information about a subject related to biomechanics but still absent in Wikipedia. This is the place to request this project a new article.


 * Recruit members. Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in biomechanics to contribute to Wikipedia. Invite good editors to join us. There are good nonmembers working in biomechanics' articles. Invite them too!

Participants
Please add your name to the list and watch this page.

- Limbless locomotion, frog jumping, and muscle physiology.

- Human biomechanics, motion capture, instrumentation and photography.

- Continuum biomechanics.

- Feeding Biomechanics, Motor control, Evolution and Development, Neuroscience, Brain evolution, Visual Perception.

- Skeletal muscle physiology, mouse models, isolated muscle testing.

Inactive
- Feeding biomechanics, muscle physiology, motor control.

- Locomotor biomechanics, muscle physiology, bio-robotics, mathematical modeling.

- Enthusiastic, perhaps under-qualified contributor

Participant Userboxes
Please feel free to add these userboxes to your user page, signifying your participation in the project.

Talk
Place OBTalk at the top of an article's talk page. This will allow for assessment and make editors aware of the project.

Categories
At the moment, there are no distinct categories. This will change once the general articles are in less of a sorry state.

Awards
One day...

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
 * Most Edited Pages - Displays the most-edited pages over various time intervals.
 * Most Viewed Pages - Monthly list of most-viewed pages.