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WikiProject Invention

Welcome to WikiProject Invention, a collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Invention and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and view/contribute to the to-do list below.

About About WikiProject Invention

Goals

Goals of this project are to provide improved coverage on subjects related to invention, by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles on people, inventions, and ideas relevant to the principles of invention and inventive thinking.

  1. Article coordination, organization and collaborations
  2. Article creation, expansion and maintenance
  3. Article categorization
  4. Maintaining objectivity and neutral point-of-view in invention-related articles

ScopeScope

This project focuses on all pages related to Invention, its history, branches, and people involved. These should all be included in the Category:Inventions or one of its subcategories. We hope to provide detailed and organized coverage of the subject.

Guidelines

Editing in accordance with Wikipedia's Manual of Style and coordinating the style of new articles.

Ways to contribute

To-do list

To edit this list, click here. Please feel free to add to this list.
Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
–When a task is completed, please remove it from the list.
  • Project tasks:
  • Tag and assess articles
  • Finish creating article statistics
  • Create an Invention portal at Portal:Invention
  • Maintain the articles in the navigation box below:

Members

User box

To post the following user box on your user page,
copy {{WikiProject Invention user box}}, which creates:

This user is a member of
WikiProject Invention.

Please feel free to add yourself here, posting new entries at the end of the list, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

  1. Invalch (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on any thing related to this project, I created it after all !)
  2. UseTheCommandLine patent policy
  3. Wiki.Gunjan
  4. Titodutta
  5. Hamham31
  6. SenatorSteve - observer and gentle participant
  7. Edison (talk) 01:51, 7 September 2013 (UTC) Electrical, acoustic and optical inventions, in the 18th, 19th, and the first half of the 20th century.
  8. Shirsakbc (talk) 01:35, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
  9. LaurentianShield
  10. JCO11163 (talk)
  11. User:CJS9001 (I am very interested in mechanics and electronics, and I have engineering experience.)
  12. Jummals (talk) 21:47, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
  13. Adityavagarwal (talk) 18:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
  14. econterms (talk) 03:03, 16 December 2017 (UTC) -- Historical aeronautics and aviation; history and economics of tech change; getting patent data standardized on Wikidata
  15. Emoritz2017 -- Interested in Ancient and Modern Inventions
  16. Invent1234
  17. RichDiamondPlayz (talk 13:33 4 April 2020 (UTC) -- I love inventions and all of the sort, so i HAVE to join :)
  18. EditJuice (talk) 15:22, 21 August 2021 (UTC) -- Making new articles soon
  19. Panthermail (talk) 17:05, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
  20. BorgQueen (talk) 10:57, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
  21. User:Starlighsky Solid State Physics Application.

Articles

Article statistics
For detailed assessment statistics, see: (Index · Statistics · Log).

Featured articles and content

Featured article candidates

Potential GA and FA candidates

Please list developed articles with potential to reach Good article or Featured article status here.

New articles

Please list new invention-related articles here. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

    External watchlist

    Review and assessment

    Assessment

    Peer review

    Category puzzle Categories

    Select [►] to view subcategories

    Templates

    Project banner

    Placing {{WikiProject Invention}} on article talk pages creates the following project banner:

    Invitation

    To invite editors to join the project, add the following to a new section on user talk pages: {{subst:WikiProject Invention invitation}}, which automatically produces the following, (including the talk page section header, the recipient's name and your signature):

    Invitation to WikiProject Invention

    Hello, WikiProject Invention.

    You are invited to join WikiProject Invention, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of inventions and invention-related topics.
    To join the project, just add your name to the member list. ~~~~

    Barnstar

    • {{subst:The Invention Barnstar|1=message ~~~~}}—awarded to editors who've made significant contributions to Invention-related articles.

    Introduced on 13 November 2023.

    The Invention Barnstar
    message ~~~~

    Infoboxes

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    Use {{Inventions}} to place this template in articles.

    Resources

    Article alerts

    Articles for deletion

    Good article nominees

    Peer reviews

    Articles to be split

    Articles for creation

    (2 more...)

    Tools

    Main tool page: toolserver.org
    • reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
    • Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
    • Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
    • Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.