Wikipedia:WikiProject Outlines/Archive/Newsletter/2009-10-05

Outline Update - expanding the Outline of Knowledge - 2009-10-05

Time for some catching up...

Special award and thanks to Buaidh

Congratulations and kudos to Buaidh, the first recipient of the Wikipedia World Developer Award, and the first inductee into the Outline of Knowledge WikiProject's Hall of Fame.

The award was announced about 2 months agos on the WikiProject's talk page, and on Wikipedia's Community Bulletin Board.

Buaidh created the historical outlines for all of the U.S. States, the U.S. capital, and most of the U.S. insular areas. He has also worked indefatigably day after day, improving all of the outlines of the U.S. States, and the outlines of all of the countries of the world!

Who's been up to what?

• Buaidh, working hard on the country outlines.
• Highfields, MacMed, and I worked on the see also sections of the subject articles corresponding to the outlines (adding or updating the links to the relevant outlines and indexes).

Wiki-Zombies

Discussions can sure be frustrating - try getting a proposal through on a guideline's talk page sometime. Most of the time, it seems like the opposition is mindlessly following each other, like...

Zombies. (You've got to see this).

Outline of Knowledge

Yes, it's a proper noun. It's only proper, since we also have an article called Outline of knowledge which is about knowledge generically.

OOK expansion!

After a couple month vacation, I'm ready to slam the gas pedal to the floor. Are you?

Things are speeding up!

Take a look...

New to the OOK

The following outlines have been added to the OOK within the past couple of months or so. Some of them were renames, some of them brand new, and some of them recently discovered after sitting in article space for awhile as orphans.

1. Outline of knowledge - yes, your eyes do not deceive you!
2. Outline of birds
3. Outline of regression analysis
4. Outline of water - Highfields
5. Outline of string theory
6. Outline of quantum theory
7. Outline of evidence law in the United States
8. Outline of libertarianism
9. Outline of radio
10. Outline of painting history
11. Outline of hydrology
12. Outline of rights
13. Outline of tort law
14. Outline of parapsychology

Here's some more pages that have been renamed to outlines even more recently, but that need to be converted to OOK format:

1. Outline of project management
2. Outline of production
3. Outline of counseling
4. Outline of sustainable agriculture
5. Outline of human-computer interaction
6. Outline of video gaming
7. Outline of neuroscience
8. Outline of Boolean algebra
9. Outline of Green politics
10. Outline of vaccines
11. Outline of noise
12. Outline of mathematical logic
13. Outline of circles
14. Outline of linear algebra
15. Outline of number theory
16. Outline of organic gardening and farming
17. Outline of futurology
18. Outline of group theory
19. Outline of clinical research
20. Outline of electrical engineering
21. Outline of rail transport
22. Outline of genetic genealogy
23. Outline of environmental studies
24. Outline of U.S. chemical weapons
25. Outline of puzzles
26. Outline of industrial archaeology
27. Outline of graph theory
28. Outline of numeral systems
29. Outline of set theory
30. Outline of partitions
31. Outline of U.S. biological weapons
32. Outline of real analysis
33. Outline of fishing
34. Outline of abstract algebra
35. Outline of eggs
36. Outline of network theory
37. Outline of obstetrics
38. Outline of complex analysis
39. Outline of Lie groups
40. Outline of numerical computational geometry
41. Outline of functional analysis
42. Outline of computability and complexity
43. Outline of order theory
44. Outline of commutative algebra
45. Outline of polynomials
46. Outline of combinatorial computational geometry

1. Outline of pseudoscience
2. Outline of curves
3. Outline of geometric topology
4. Outline of dynamical systems and differential equations
5. Outline of ancient Egypt
6. Outline of computer vision
7. Outline of differential geometry
8. Outline of triangles
9. Outline of general topology
10. Outline of algebraic topology
11. Outline of topology
12. Outline of recreational number theory

Lists to merge into outlines

The following pairs of pages are content forks and need to be merged:

1. List of probability topics --> Outline of probability
2. List of software engineering topics --> Outline of software engineering
3. List of nanotechnology topics --> Outline of nanotechnology
4. List of calculus topics --> Outline of calculus
5. List of geometry topics --> Outline of geometry
6. List of community topics --> Outline of community
7. List of futurology topics --> Outline of futurology
8. List of American Civil War topics --> Outline of the American Civil War
9. List of computer programming topics --> Outline of computer programming
10. List of entertainment industry topics --> Outline of entertainment
11. List of health sciences topics --> Outline of health science

Not sure what to rename these to

1. List of noncommutative topics in mathematics
2. List of MCAT topics (another ook!)

Rough outlines, renamed/moved to draft space

1. List of information technology management topics --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of Knowledge/Drafts/Outline of information technology management
2. List of human resource management topics --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of Knowledge/Drafts/Outline of human resource management
3. List of suggested topics for computer networking research --> Wikipedia:WikiProject Outline of Knowledge/Drafts/Outline of computer networking

Lists that can be structured into decent outlines

1. List of exponential topics
2. List of computer graphics and descriptive geometry topics
3. List of multivariable calculus topics
4. List of factorial and binomial topics
5. List of permutation topics
6. List of algorithm general topics
7. List of stochastic processes topics

Only a few hundred more to go.  :)

The Transhumanist 04:46, 5 October 2009 (UTC)