Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Archive/Newsletter/2009-10-05

Outline Update - expanding the Outline of Knowledge - 2009-10-05
Time for some catching up...


 * Special award and thanks to Buaidh

Congratulations and kudos to Buaidh, the first recipient of the Wikipedia World Developer Award, and the first inductee into the Outline of Knowledge WikiProject's Hall of Fame.

The award was announced about 2 months agos on the WikiProject's talk page, and on Wikipedia's Community Bulletin Board.

Buaidh created the historical outlines for all of the U.S. States, the U.S. capital, and most of the U.S. insular areas. He has also worked indefatigably day after day, improving all of the outlines of the U.S. States, and the outlines of all of the countries of the world!


 * Who's been up to what?


 * Buaidh, working hard on the country outlines.
 * Highfields, MacMed, and I worked on the see also sections of the subject articles corresponding to the outlines (adding or updating the links to the relevant outlines and indexes).


 * Wiki-Zombies

Discussions can sure be frustrating - try getting a proposal through on a guideline's talk page sometime. Most of the time, it seems like the opposition is mindlessly following each other, like...

Zombies. (You've got to see this).


 * Outline of Knowledge

Yes, it's a proper noun. It's only proper, since we also have an article called Outline of knowledge which is about knowledge generically.


 * OOK expansion!

After a couple month vacation, I'm ready to slam the gas pedal to the floor. Are you?

Things are speeding up!

Take a look...


 * New to the OOK

The following outlines have been added to the OOK within the past couple of months or so. Some of them were renames, some of them brand new, and some of them recently discovered after sitting in article space for awhile as orphans.


 * 1) Outline of knowledge - yes, your eyes do not deceive you!
 * 2) Outline of birds
 * 3) Outline of regression analysis
 * 4) Outline of water - Highfields
 * 5) '''Outline of string theory
 * 6) '''Outline of quantum theory
 * 7) '''Outline of evidence law in the United States
 * 8) Outline of libertarianism
 * 9) Outline of radio
 * 10) Outline of painting history
 * 11) Outline of hydrology
 * 12) Outline of rights
 * 13) Outline of tort law
 * 14) Outline of parapsychology

Here's some more pages that have been renamed to outlines even more recently, but that need to be converted to OOK format:
 * 1) Outline of project management
 * 2) Outline of production
 * 3) Outline of counseling
 * 4) Outline of sustainable agriculture
 * 5) Outline of human-computer interaction
 * 6) Outline of video gaming
 * 7) Outline of neuroscience
 * 8) Outline of Boolean algebra
 * 9) Outline of Green politics
 * 10) Outline of vaccines
 * 11) Outline of noise
 * 12) Outline of mathematical logic
 * 13) Outline of circles
 * 14) Outline of linear algebra
 * 15) Outline of number theory
 * 16) Outline of organic gardening and farming
 * 17) Outline of futurology
 * 18) Outline of group theory
 * 19) Outline of clinical research
 * 20) Outline of electrical engineering
 * 21) Outline of rail transport
 * 22) Outline of genetic genealogy
 * 23) Outline of environmental studies
 * 24) Outline of U.S. chemical weapons
 * 25) Outline of puzzles
 * 26) Outline of industrial archaeology
 * 27) Outline of graph theory
 * 28) Outline of numeral systems
 * 29) Outline of set theory
 * 30) Outline of partitions
 * 31) Outline of U.S. biological weapons
 * 32) Outline of real analysis
 * 33) Outline of fishing
 * 34) Outline of abstract algebra
 * 35) Outline of eggs
 * 36) Outline of network theory
 * 37) Outline of obstetrics
 * 38) Outline of complex analysis
 * 39) Outline of Lie groups
 * 40) Outline of numerical computational geometry
 * 41) Outline of functional analysis
 * 42) Outline of computability and complexity
 * 43) Outline of order theory
 * 44) Outline of commutative algebra
 * 45) Outline of polynomials
 * 46) Outline of combinatorial computational geometry


 * 1) Outline of pseudoscience
 * 2) Outline of curves
 * 3) Outline of geometric topology
 * 4) Outline of dynamical systems and differential equations
 * 5) Outline of ancient Egypt
 * 6) Outline of computer vision
 * 7) Outline of differential geometry
 * 8) Outline of triangles
 * 9) Outline of general topology
 * 10) Outline of algebraic topology
 * 11) Outline of topology
 * 12) Outline of recreational number theory

The following pairs of pages are content forks and need to be merged:
 * Lists to merge into outlines:


 * 1) List of probability topics --> Outline of probability
 * 2) List of software engineering topics --> Outline of software engineering
 * 3) List of nanotechnology topics --> Outline of nanotechnology
 * 4) List of calculus topics --> Outline of calculus
 * 5) List of geometry topics --> Outline of geometry
 * 6) List of community topics --> Outline of community
 * 7) List of futurology topics --> Outline of futurology
 * 8) List of American Civil War topics --> Outline of the American Civil War
 * 9) List of computer programming topics --> Outline of computer programming
 * 10) List of entertainment industry topics --> Outline of entertainment
 * 11) List of health sciences topics --> Outline of health science


 * Not sure what to rename these to:
 * 1) List of noncommutative topics in mathematics
 * 2) List of MCAT topics (another ook!)


 * Rough outlines, renamed/moved to draft space:
 * 1) List of information technology management topics --> WikiProject Outline of Knowledge/Drafts/Outline of information technology management
 * 2) List of human resource management topics --> WikiProject Outline of Knowledge/Drafts/Outline of human resource management
 * 3) List of suggested topics for computer networking research --> WikiProject Outline of Knowledge/Drafts/Outline of computer networking


 * Lists that can be structured into decent outlines:
 * 1) List of exponential topics
 * 2) List of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics
 * 3) List of multivariable calculus topics
 * 4) List of factorial and binomial topics
 * 5) List of permutation topics
 * 6) List of algorithm general topics
 * 7) List of stochastic processes topics

Only a few hundred more to go. :)

The Transhumanist 04:46, 5 October 2009 (UTC)