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Sea anemones from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms of Nature) of 1904.

Welcome to WikiProject Biology, a WikiProject for discussing biology-related articles, editing issues, projects, and guidelines. The purpose of this project is to provide common ground for editors working in all biology-related projects, for seeking advice or requesting help from a broader community of biology editors, and for coordinating the categorization of biology articles. Please join us for discussion!

Overview

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WikiProject Biology serves as a metaproject coordinating multiple subprojects. As a whole, WikiProject Biology and its subprojects maintain tens of thousands of articles, categories, templates, and other pages. However, WikiProject Biology itself only directly tags articles which pertain to the science of biology as a whole, which are relevant across many disciplines, or in some cases those which represent the field of biology as a whole to the public.

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WikiProject Biology is a daughter project of WikiProject Science. We serve as a meta-project with several subprojects under our purview. The organization of these is presented below in a cladogram. WikiProject Molecular Biology is a proposed merger of WP:BIOP, WP:COMBIO, WP:GEN, and WP:MCB and their taskforces into a single project. This and other merges may change this diagram in the future. See discussion here.

To see activity levels and active editors for these projects, see the Wikiproject Directory tool and look for the project in question. Clicking on a project will give further information.

Potential projects or work groups:

Related non-biology projects (automated list):

Statistics

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{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biology articles by quality statistics}}
Hot articles{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology/Hot articles}}

See also: WikiProject Biology/Popular pages

Article assessment

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  • Assessment – the assessment unit, which provides information about Biology articles rated by quality and importance, and the project's criteria for article quality grading.

Category maintenance

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(All stats updated August 15, 2023)

PetScan results (union) for number of articles in English Wikipedia by depth (# subcats deep): 1, 1,580; 2, 15,681; 3, 66,174; 4, 446,785. There are deeper layers containing more articles

Many biology categories are in bad shape. They tend to fill up with articles on minor topics that are better placed in subcategories (or sub-subcategories, etc.). A little maintenance of the top category and 30 subcategories would go a long way towards keeping articles properly sorted. These are listed below.

Main category: Biology (39 C, 50 P)

Contains 23 articles and 1 media item as of October 17, 2025.

Subcategories:

Container categories - they have no articles, only categories

  1. Biology by continent (5 C)
  2. Biology by country (138 C)
  3. Biology by country subdivision (1 C)
  4. Biology by dependent territory (5 C)
  5. Biology by city (1 C)
  6. Biology in fiction (1 C)
  7. Works about biology (7 C)

Categories with sub-categories

  1. Biocides (19 C, 22 P, 1 F)
  2. Biological censuses (1 C, 14 P)
  3. Biological classification (9 C, 48 P)
  4. Biological concepts (7 C, 20 P)
  5. Biologists (18 C, 3 P)
  6. Biology-related lists (15 C, 107 P)
  7. Biology awards (7 C, 121 P)
  8. Biology conferences (1 C, 21 P)
  9. Biology controversies (3 C, 20 P)
  10. Biology and culture (11 C, 29 P)
  11. Biological descriptions (3 C, 2 P)
  12. Biological waste (3 C, 6 P)
  13. Biology education (6 C, 20 P)
  14. Biology images (2 C, 7 F)
  15. Biology organizations (19 C, 43 P)
  16. Biology stubs (25 C, 214 P)
  17. Biological evolution (15 C, 38 P)
  18. Biological interactions (7 C, 39 P)
  19. Biological processes (12 C, 44 P)
  20. Biological records (6 C, 21 P)
  21. Biological rules (1 C, 14 P)
  22. Biological systems (3 C, 26 P)
  23. Biological techniques and tools (14 C, 81 P)
  24. Biology terminology (7 C, 138 P)
  25. Biotechnology (51 C, 420 P)
  26. Category:Branches of biology (43 C, 42 P)
  27. Eukaryote biology (4 C, 5 P)
  28. History of biology (14 C, 46 P)
  29. Organisms (39 C, 5 P)
  30. Philosophy of biology (9 C, 40 P)
  31. Unsolved problems in biology (2 C, 7 P)

Categories without sub-categories

  1. Biomagnetics (5 P)
  2. Quantum biology (16 P)

Deleted subcategories

  1. Biology software merged to Science software
  2. Bioscience education merged to Biology education
  3. Standardized tests for Biology merged to Standardized tests and Biology education

Other biology-related categories:

  1. Biogeography (23 C, 155 P)
  2. Biology templates (31 C, 53 P)

Worklist

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Article Alerts

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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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Requests

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See WikiProject Biology/Requests for details.

To do

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  • Change overview to overview, scope, and goals (still called overview)
    • Fill in scope information
    • Add short/mid/long-term goals
    • Merge with the lede
  • Fill out cladogram with useful info for each project (Talk, Alerts, Activity)
    • Find a nicer way to list non-biology projects
    • consider including GMCB projects in the cladogram with a dotted line and a bar labeled GMCB instead of current layout
  • Sign up for discussions module
  • Set up WPX participant system
    • Port names over
    • Send out some messages
  • Turn see also into resources and flesh out
      • Help finding sources
      • Guides
      • Tools/gadgets
      • Getting started guide
  • Sign up for suggestbot and get task lists
  • Add maintenance schedule to main page
  • Set up main page image rotation WIP
  • Facelift to WPX layout with proper modules
  • Fix template section
  • Add a subsection in statistics for subprojects (html issues currently)

Participants

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Feel free to add {{User WikiProject Biology}} to your userpage.
To join, just add your name at the end of the list at the /Members subpage.
For an automated list of active members of our WikiProject, use WikiProject Directory. For related WikiProjects, see all biology WikiProjects in the Directory tools.

  1. REDIRECT Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology/Participants
  • From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.

Resources

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Sourcing

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Useful Pages

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Tools

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Templates

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  • {{Portal|Biology}} provides a direct link to the Biology Portal and is added to the See also section of all biology-related articles, which produces:

Lua error in mw.title.lua at line 392: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal').



  • {{WikiProject Biology}} is added to the top of talk pages of all biology-related articles, which produces:
WikiProject iconBiology
WikiProject iconLua error in mw.title.lua at line 392: bad argument #2 to 'title.new' (unrecognized namespace name 'Portal').WikiProject Biology is part of the WikiProject Biology, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to biology on Wikipedia. Leave messages on the WikiProject talk page.Biologywikipedia:WikiProject BiologyTemplate:WikiProject BiologyBiology
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