Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Archive/Old page

Wikipedia's goal is to provide knowledge. But knowledge is only useful if you can find it. The main limitation of a search box is that it can only help you find what you already know exists. Our mission is to show what exists and provide easy access to that knowledge.

The system is far from complete. So keep in mind that recruiting more people to join this effort is currently as important as the effort itself. If you know anyone who loves Wikipedia, please tell them about this WikiProject!

By the way, do you use Firefox? If so, Linky is an invaluable add on. You'll also need WP:AWB (an auto page-loader) which works with Internet Explorer. I've found these two tools essential for working on multiple topic outlines. If you know of even better tools, please let me know.

The Transhumanist 03:33, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Goals

 * 1) Finish drafting the Outlines guideline for the project
 * 2) Increase awareness of readers of the existence of the outlines on Wikipedia
 * 3) Complete the existing outlines
 * 4) Create an outline for every subject that is extensive enough to benefit from having an outline (core subjects and major or extensive fields).  There are thousands of these.
 * 5) Recruit more editors
 * 6) Get the major outline subject areas displayed on the Main Page (in place of or in addition to the portal links at the top of the page)
 * 7) Increase the Wikipedia Outline of Knowledge (OoK) to higher quality than Britannica's (published in its Propaedia volume).

Project scope

 * This project covers all outlines, and all links leading to them.
 * And since this is a reverse outline, one benefit is that it uncovers problems in the publication it outlines (Wikipedia). We generally clean up those problems as we encounter them (things like lack of standard naming for pages in page sets, poorly formatted page sets, missing redirects, etc.).

What's missing???
Please take a look at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge and then tell us here what subjects should be added next.

Outreach

 * Main article: OOK outreach

The outreach department is for attracting and encouraging editors to join this project.

An invitation is under development.

Outline creation
This project's main procedure is the creation of outline articles. The creation template is called Template:Topic outline. Instructions on how to use it is included with it. (Another template exists called Template:Topic outline country which was used to create a topic outline for every country of the World (unless we missed some). The country topic outlines are all listed below, further down this page).

If you create a topic outline list in article space, be sure to place a under construction template at the top of it. Otherwise, you run the risk that someone will come along and nominate the page for deletion after you barely get started. For example, the Outline of Canada was nominated for deletion at AfD when it only included a few links. Someone had to jump in and develop it fast in order to save it. The same thing happened to Outline of mining.

A safer approach is to create new topic outlines in this WikiProject's space, starting the page title with "Wikipedia:WikiProject Topic outline/Drafts/Outline of ". One must have a compelling reason to delete a draft, since it is by definition under development, which means all problems are subject to being discussed on its talk page before it gets moved to article space. There are lists of drafts under development, below.

Outline maintenance
Information may become out of date, and when it does it needs to be updated. For example, the population and area figures presented in the country outlines.

Wikipedia is constantly expanding, and as coverage on a subject expands, so too should its topic outline. For each topic outline, a search for articles on its subject should be conducted periodically, and links to topics added to the outline. If there are too many of a particular type of link, for example, the cities in a particular country, a link should be provided to a list of them rather than listing them all in the outline itself.

Volunteers
If you would like to work with this team on Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge and receive task assignments and updates, please add your name below:

Participants

 * The Transhumanist
 * Buaidh
 * penubag
 * Highfields
 * Juliancolton
 * NuclearWarfare
 * Minnecologies
 * Thehelpfulone
 * Stefan
 * Quiddity


 * Gimme danger
 * Sj
 * Tarheel95
 * Offiikart
 * Mandsford
 * Robert Skyhawk
 * Geekdiva
 * AstroHurricane001


 * Greg Bard
 * cymru lass
 * Thruxton
 * cReep-cReep
 * Toshio Yamaguchi
 * RockMagnetist
 * CaroleHenson
 * Gamewizard71
 * WeijiBaikeBianji

Note: To keep this list up-to-date, inactive editors are periodically removed.

To join this WikiProject's advanced wiki-tools team, contact The Transhumanist.

Previous discussions
See List of discussions concerning outlines.

Projected outline
There are still gaps in this collection. We need outlines to fill those gaps. The projected outline is for identifying needed outlines and creating them.

Please go over the projected outline and add any extensive topics that are missing.

Tasks

 * Maintain links to topic outlines: each article of the corresponding topic should have a link to its topic outline in its see also section.  Periodically check each see also section, as the links sometimes get removed.  Linky comes in handy for this.
 * Build new topic outlines. See Template:Topic outline.
 * Maintain existing topic outlines
 * Please place them on your watchlist and check your watchlist every time you log on or use this link. The lists need to be monitored for vandalism and new mistakes.
 * Improve existing topic outlines
 * Add missing links
 * Match the structure of the subject (outline it)
 * Place a WikiProject banner at the top of the talk pages of all lists of basic topics, leading here
 * Place a coverage banner at the top of the talk pages of all articles matching the subjects in the titles of topic outlines, leading to the corresponding list.
 * the coverage banner template needs to be designed

Unfinished

 * Once an outline has been sufficiently filled-in or fleshed out, please add its link to the base outline page and mark it as ✅ below:


 * Outline of anthropology
 * Outline of automation
 * Outline of automobiles
 * Outline of Big Science
 * Outline of biology
 * Outline of biotechnology
 * Outline of cartography
 * Outline of chemical engineering
 * Outline of computer engineering
 * Outline of construction
 * Outline of dentistry
 * Outline of design
 * Outline of ecology
 * Outline of education
 * Outline of energy development
 * Outline of energy storage
 * Outline of epistemology
 * Outline of ergonomics
 * Outline of family and consumer science
 * Outline of forensics
 * Outline of forestry
 * Outline of free software
 * Outline of genetics
 * Outline of rights
 * Outline of industrial machinery
 * Outline of information technology
 * Outline of the Internet
 * Outline of life extension
 * Outline of machines
 * Outline of manufacturing
 * Outline of marketing
 * Outline of meteorology
 * Outline of nuclear technology
 * Outline of nutrition
 * Outline of parapsychology
 * Outline of sharks ✅ Please review and add stuff
 * Outline of sinology
 * Outline of software engineering
 * Outline of space exploration ✅
 * Outline of telecommunication
 * Outline of transport
 * Outline of vehicles

The hunt for hidden outlines
They hide in two ways:


 * 1) By not being hooked included in Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge, or
 * 2) By not having "outline of" in their titles

Such outlines tend not to be in our standard OOK formats, and usually need conversion.

By the way, we need outline hunters! How many hidden outlines can you find?

When you find them, add them to the subsections below. Be sure to include your sig (that way, we'll know who the best hunters are).

Outlines needing rename and/or reformatting
Those marked converted have been converted to an OOK format. Those marked placed have been added to Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge.


 * List of energy topics - TT --> Outline of energy - converted and placed
 * List of Dewey Decimal classes - TT --> Outline of Dewey Decimal classes - placed (no conversion needed: the topic is an outline)
 * Library of Congress Classification - TT --> placed (no conversion needed: the topic is an outline)
 * List of spirituality-related topics- TT
 * List of Sikhism-related topics- TT
 * List of counseling topics- TT
 * List of neuroscience topics- TT
 * List of statistics topics
 * List of transgender-related topics --Gimme danger
 * List of Ayyavazhi-related topics --Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of Caribbean-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of topics related to Cornwall - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of patent related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of electrical engineering topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of Advaita Vedanta-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of autism-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of topics related to Black and African people - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of British pornography topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of information technology management topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of production topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of calculus topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of child-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of clinical research topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of combinatorics topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of formal language and literal string topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of community topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of computer programming topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of computer vision topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of democracy and election-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of environmental studies topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of environmental organisations topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of basic organic chemistry topics - TT
 * List of futurology topics - rename to Outline of futurology and merge List of basic futurology topics into it - TT
 * List of basic futurology topics (see directly above)
 * List of basic tort law topics - TT
 * List of basic libertarianism topics - TT
 * User:Paleorthid/Sandbox/Article Nursery/List of basic soil topics - TT
 * List of topics related to ancient Rome - TT
 * List of topics in industrial organization - TT
 * List of topics characterized as pseudoscience - TT
 * List of Middle-earth articles by category - TT
 * List of fishing topics by subject - GD
 * List of functional programming topics - GD
 * List of organic gardening and farming topics - GD
 * List of genetic genealogy topics - GD
 * List of guitar-related topics - GD
 * List of Harry Potter related topics - GD
 * List of Hinduism-related topics - GD
 * List of human resource management topics - GD
 * List of human-computer interaction topics - GD
 * List of industrial archaeology topics - GD
 * List of intellectual property-related topics - GD
 * List of Jesus-related articles - GD
 * Talk:Jesus/Related articles - GD
 * List of Latter Day Saint movement topics - GD
 * List of martial arts-related topics - GD
 * Topics in cryptography - TT
 * Political topics in New Zealand - TT
 * Areas of mathematics - article uses the AMS Mathematics Subject Classification - the Dewey decimal system of math - GD
 * List of abstract algebra topics - GD
 * List of Boolean algebra topics - GD
 * List of category theory topics - GD
 * List of commutative algebra topics - GD
 * List of group theory topics - GD
 * List of Lie group topics - GD
 * List of representation theory topics - GD
 * List of linear algebra topics - GD
 * List of complex analysis topics - GD
 * List of functional analysis topics -GD
 * List of integration and measure theory topics - GD
 * List of harmonic analysis topics - GD
 * List of real analysis topics - GD
 * List of triangle topics - GD (not sure about this one)
 * List of circle topics - GD
 * List of general topology topics - GD
 * List of differential geometry topics - GD
 * List of algebraic geometry topics - GD
 * List of algebraic topology topics - GD
 * List of geometric topology topics - GD
 * List of graph theory topics - GD
 * List of network theory topics - GD
 * List of mathematical logic topics - GD
 * List of set theory topics - GD
 * List of number theory topics - GD
 * List of recreational number theory topics - GD
 * List of dynamical systems and differential equations topics - GD
 * List of numerical analysis topics - GD
 * List of partial differential equation topics - GD
 * List of mathematical topics in classical mechanics - GD
 * List of mathematical topics in quantum theory - GD
 * List of mathematical topics in relativity - GD
 * List of computability and complexity topics - GD
 * List of combinatorial computational geometry topics
 * List of numerical computational geometry topics - GD
 * List of probability topics - GD
 * List of wine-related topics - GD --> Outline of wine - converted need much more work
 * List of Vietnam War-related topics - GD
 * List of vaccine topics - GD
 * List of United Nations-related topics - GD
 * List of sustainable agriculture topics - GD
 * List of skiing topics - GD
 * List of software engineering topics - GD

Outlines to merge
When an outline for the subject already exists, redundant outlines generally get merged into them.

Those marked merged have been merged into and redirected to an outline listed at Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge.


 * List of finance topics- TT
 * List of software engineering topics- TT
 * List of marketing topics- TT
 * List of management topics- TT
 * List of Ireland-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of Botswana-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of Taiwan-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of Nepal-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of Philippines-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of Bangladesh-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of Morocco-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of England-related topics - Gimme danger (talk)
 * List of politics-related topics - Gimme danger (talk) (merge with Outline of political science)
 * User:Weston.pace/Sandbox/List of basic math articles - TT
 * List of software engineering topics - TT
 * List of Afghanistan-related topics - TT
 * List of Andorra-related topics - TT
 * List of Bahrain-related topics - TT
 * List of Belarus-related topics - TT
 * List of Benin-related topics - TT
 * List of Bermuda-related topics - TT
 * List of Bosnia and Herzegovina-related topics - TT
 * List of Brunei-related topics - TT
 * List of Burundi-related topics - TT
 * List of Chad-related topics - TT
 * List of East Timor-related topics - TT
 * List of Finland-related topics - TT
 * List of Indonesia-related topics - TT
 * List of Iran-related topics - TT
 * List of Laos-related topics - TT
 * List of Malaysia-related topics - TT
 * List of Maldives-related topics - TT
 * List of Mauritius-related topics - TT
 * List of Mayotte-related topics - TT
 * List of Moldova-related topics - TT
 * List of Monaco-related topics - TT
 * List of New Zealand-related topics - TT
 * List of Niger-related topics - TT
 * List of Qatar-related topics - TT
 * List of Romania-related topics - TT
 * List of Rwanda-related topics - TT
 * List of São Tomé and Príncipe-related topics - TT
 * List of Seychelles-related topics - TT
 * List of Singapore-related topics - TT
 * List of South Africa-related topics - TT
 * List of Spain-related topics - TT
 * List of Sudan-related topics - TT
 * List of Sweden-related topics - TT
 * List of Tunisia-related topics - TT
 * List of Western Sahara-related topics - TT
 * List of Yemen-related topics - TT
 * List of Zambia-related topics - TT
 * List of geometry topics - GD
 * List of health sciences topics - GD
 * List of science topics - TT (each section needs to be merged with relevant outline)
 * List of scientific method topics - GD (is there a generic science outline?)

Topic outline formatting
Most of the topic outlines are presented in single-column, and this makes the pages long. These should be converted to a multi-column format, as has been done in Topic outline of geography, or as dash-separated lists, as has been done for some of the lists, or a combination of both, or some other scheme that looks good and is easy to use (see the basic concepts section of Topic outline of painting, for example). Here is a list of the pages which need to be converted from single-column format:


 * Once a list has been nicely formatted, please remove that page from this list:

Geographical topics – Subnational entities

Mathematics –

Self – Biology – Psychology – Relationships

Philosophy – Ethics – Epistemology – Humanism – Logic – Metaphysics – Philosophical theories – Philosophical theories – Thinking – Transhumanism

Physical science – Astronomy – Biochemistry – Biology Chemistry Ecology – Earth sciences – Geology – Meteorology – Oceanography – Major social sciences – Archaeology – Business – Cognitive science Community – Critical theory – Economics Education – Finance – Law – Linguistics Management – Marketing – Parapsychology – Politics – Psychology – Public affairs – Relationships – Sociology

Technology – Aerospace science – Artificial intelligence – Agriculture – Architecture – Cartography – Communication – Energy development – Engineering – Health science Industry – Library and information science – Manufacturing – Military science – Transport

Categories

 * Category:Outlines
 * Category:Articles belonging to WikiProject Outline of knowledge - a second category showing all articles with the WikiProject TO tag.

Templates

 * Template:WikiProject Outline of knowledge
 * Template:Topic outline - to use, type this on a new page and save: topic uncapitalized
 * Template:Outline of knowledge coverage - to use, place this on the top of an outline's corresponding subject article's talk page: