Wikipedia:WikiProject Invention

Wikimedia subject-area collaboration

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

Scope

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.

–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:

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.[reply]
8. Shirsakbc (talk) 01:35, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
13. Adityavagarwal (talk) 18:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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[reply]
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[reply]
19. Panthermail (talk) 17:05, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
20. BorgQueen (talk) 10:57, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Articles

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

Featured articles and content

• See Featured articles – Engineering and technology
• See Featured pictures for Engineering and technology: Electronics, Machinery, Weaponry and Others.

Featured article candidates

• Waveguide filter - nominated as a featured article candidate on 7 August 2013 (UTC)
• Nintendo DSi - nominated for FA on 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Potential GA and FA candidates

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

• Blu-ray Disc
• Invention
• Lightning rod
• List of French inventions and discoveries
• Timeline of United States discoveries

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

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Invention

Review and assessment

Assessment

• The project Assessment page

Peer review

• The project Peer review page

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

Barnstar

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

Introduced on 13 November 2023.

Infoboxes

Navigation bars

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

Resources

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Technology
• WikiProject Science
• WikiProject History of Science

Related portals

• Technology portal
• Science portal
• History portal

Article alerts

Articles to be split

• 23 Jun 2021 – Intellectual property (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 05 Aug 2024 – Draft:Hatim Zaghloul (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Omar abotyra (t · c)
• 13 Jul 2024 – Draft:Zero G Coffee Cup (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gspinty1 (t · c)
• 04 Jul 2024 – Draft:Harry Destecroix (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 87.224.75.37 (t · c)
• undated – Draft:David Mcbay (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was declined by Curb Safe Charmer (t · c) on 17 Sep 2024

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.