Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems/First draft

This is the page for the WikiProject Systems . If you would like to participate, add your name to list of participants below. Be sure to check out the discussion page page as well.

Project overview
This project focuses on creating and improving content related to the theory and practice of system in science and society. This project is:
 * An initiative to organize, thematize, personalize and actualize these information on Wikipedia.
 * A place tot work together to initiate and coordinate these efforts
 * an experiment to create a more emprical approach to the theory and practice of systems.


 * Parent projects:
 * WikiProject History of Science
 * WikiProject Philosophy
 * WikiProject Science


 * Child project:

To do list with participants (draft)
All participants can add new items, relist items, and sign in per item:

1. The organization of categories and articles about and around systems.

2. To play an active role in the discussions around the elimination of the Category:System and to search for an alternative.

3. To play an active role in the discussions around the elimination and renaming of the Category:Complex systems and to search for an alternative.

5. Writing, editing and or monitoring articles about systems.

6. The creation of lists to gather more empirical data around systems i some lists:

7. To build up and maintain the WikiProject Systems projectpages.

Lists to gather more empirical data

 * A. WikiProject Systems/List of historical highlights for systems
 * B. WikiProject Systems/List of important dates (per year) for systems
 * C. WikiProject Systems/List of images of systems
 * D. WikiProject Systems/List of systems organizations
 * E. WikiProject Systems/List of Systems scientists

Current targets (draft)
All participants can add new items and relist items here:
 * 1) The organization of categories and articles about and around systems.
 * 2) Maybe putting these categories and articles under the scoop of WikiProjectSystems.
 * 3) Maybe meeting with other WikiProjects in this field, see
 * 4) Maybe creating an Portal:Systems or a Portal:Systems science, see

Possible new projects

 * 1) A WikiProject Systems/Newsgroup

Participants
This project is open to all Wiki editors. Adding your name indicates that you are willing to work with others on the development of Wikipedia's Systems articles, and be an involved member of the project:


 * 1) Mdd: I have a Master's degree (1991) in Systems Engineering from the Delft University of Technology. I started this project with Jonathan Bowen 20 April 2007.
 * 2) Jonathan Bowen 01:53, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Pages about Categorization and media

 * Category:System LOST since 19.04.2007
 * 1) User:Mdd/Back up - Category Systems
 * 2) User:Jpbowen/Back up - Category Systems

Articles in need of expansion

 * Adaptive system - Allopoiesis
 * Causal system
 * Systems - Systems science

Requested articles

 * Earth system science
 * Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
 * General System Theory (as Ludwig von Bertalanffy and others saw it).
 * General Systems Theory as the systems community saw and sees it (over time).
 * General Systems Yearbook
 * International Society for Systems Science and other related organizations
 * Systems approach
 * A possible category Category:Systems lists or Category:Lists about systems

Missing scientist articles

 * W. Brian Arthur
 * Kenneth D. Bailey (sociologist)
 * Harry H. Goode (30.06.1909 - 30.10.1960)
 * Arthur David Hall III (1925 - 31.03.2006)
 * Harold Morowitz
 * Brian Campbell Vickery (11.09.1918)

Fields and disciplines

 * Category:Systems back as overall category, see, |Our talk and |Backup or maybe Category:Systems science as alternative term.

Articles in need of some copyediting

 * Anticausal system - Appreciative System
 * Complementarity (systems thinking), Continental System
 * Design for Six Sigma
 * Ecosystem - Expert system
 * Feedback
 * Information system - Information systems - Instabus
 * Life-critical system
 * Management information system - Manufacturing Execution System- Multi-agent system
 * Operations research - OPMS - Output
 * Reliable system design
 * Social dynamics - Spontaneous order - System of systems - Systematic bias - Systemic bias - systems engineering

Related pages

 * The end of the Category System
 * Category System (Back up)
 * Category:Systems theory
 * Category:Complex systems theory

WikiProjects

 * Science WikiProject
 * Pseudoscience WikiProject
 * Science pearls
 * Years in science WikiProject (inactive)
 * History of Science WikiProject
 * Futures Studies WikiProject (inactive)
 * Biography (scientists)
 * Wikiproject Philosophy

Portals

 * Science portal
 * History of science portal
 * Techology portal
 * Medicine portal
 * Philosophy of science portal
 * Scientific Method portal
 * Mind and Brain portal

Possible collaborations (draft)

 * WikiProject Physics around Chaos theory and Dynamical system
 * WikiProject Philosophy around Complexity
 * WikiProject Mathematics around Coordinate system
 * WikiProject Computing around Computer system
 * WikiProject Sociology around Social complexity and Systems theory
 * WikiProject Electronics around [[Embedded system]
 * WikiProject Neuroscience around Neuroscience
 * WikiProject Writing systems around Writing Systems
 * WikiProject Organizations around Category:Organizations
 * WikiProject Role-playing games around Category:Role-playing game systems