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I like this new list, but I think it could need some simplicity to be made even more useful.
There is too much stuff above the table. Much can be moved to below. I will see what I can do about that soon. But, IMHO Headbomb's intro needs to be tightened
If possible it would be nice for everyone to appear in each of the categories for which they are interested. One of the most common use cases of the list should be to find someone who is interested in reviewing an article, for example.
We make a big deal that everyone can contribute. Is knowing the persons education that useful to know for a table like this.
Participant says nothing. Can we make a checkbox type situation with options like editor, reviewer, administrator, illustrator, grammatician, or whatever.
TStein ( talk) 23:03, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
The demographics of Wikiproject Physics ranges from high-school students curious about physics, to physicists with a lifetime of experience in research in a specialized field. All are welcomed to participate. All offer different insight. Experts find and correct inadvertent mistakes that only they can find. But they, like the rest of us, need someone to remind them that the world population is not made of Physics Nobel Prize Laureates. Between the experts and the novices are those who write the bulk of the articles. So, be WP:BOLD. Write or edit an article. You don't even have to be good at physics to contribute to WikiProject Physics. There are many things you can do here that have nothing to do with physics! If you're good with tables, we have plenty of ugly tables to fix. Maybe you're good at making sure the Manual of Style is followed. We need you too. Whatever your background and whatever your interest, you are welcome at WikiProject Physics!
I don't want to edit a message from you, but I thought that your opening paragraph while good needed some tightening up. I hope you don't mind my suggestion above. My goal was to make the verbs more powerful and to get rid of any sentence that were not strictly needed. I also broke some sentences into two to make them more powerful as well. Just some thoughts that I hope you find useful.
TStein ( talk) 04:39, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Nah, go right ahead and place your sig on it all you want. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:08, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
I have been mulling over this table in between bouncing around from topic to topic. Not that this table is bad, but I think it can be made to be more useful if we can standardize it so that more columns are sortable. Some ideas that I have been mulling include removing the active inactive column for space. Maybe we can encourage strike throughs, removing the name or placing it in a separate list. Perhaps then we can split the education/experience into more manageable more standardizeable chunks. For education maybe we can encourage Degree first (BA,BS,MS,PhD). We can also had some psuedo degrees for self-taught if desired (Ama and Adv perhaps). We might want to then have an education field column (Physics, engineering, chemistry) as well. The job category will be harder to categorize. The wiki contribution should be its own column. I doubt we can make it sortable. It also may be useful to split up the role category into a short standardized description (Van (for Vandal patrol), Qal (Quality control), Jar (Jargon Police), Edi, Art (for artist)) and a longer summary if we can come up with a short enough list of standard things.
This is not something we can do overnight and it will take some experimenting to get it right. I am going to mull this over a little more then perhaps set up an alternate table to see if it is more useful. TStein ( talk) 21:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Would this talk page be appropriate to start a community building page. We could use it for things like nominating people for a 'Friend of Physics' type award and or publicizing barnstars. (User pages are nice for this type of stuff, but it also needs a public forum.) Perhaps it can be used for major personal announcements that affect the wiki as well: such as promotions, graduations, etc.. And/or it can be used for informal editing reviews, etc. that people don't think rises to the level on the main wikiproject talk page. We would need to keep it professional, of course. But, a well designed, professional community building area can go a long ways in my opinion to keeping people active and in preserving institutional knowledge. (Not that I know how that page should look like, though) TStein ( talk) 20:43, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
I wish to express no confidence in Headbomb for any sort of leadership position in the project. Since he is self appointed, I request quick consensus to change his status to participant for now.
I also propose and to hold open contested elections, open to all participants (including Headbomb), for a leadership position of "coordinator" within 30 days. This should take place over a reasonable time period to allow editors to present a platform for where they think the project should be headed, then the voting should be by runoff or instant runoff when candidates are ready. The new director will take over any tasks that headbomb now overseens. Likebox ( talk) 23:03, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
I've made some major edits to the page Neutral particle oscillation in the last couple of weeks. Can anyone interested in the topic please give me his/her feedback on the talk page of the article? Your opinions or suggestions will be quite helpful and if you have any doubt regarding the matter, I'll be happy to explain as best as I can.
— Soham92 ( talk) 13:44, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I do not know that I am on right place or not. I am working on Gujarati Wikipedia on the article of Michelson–Morley experiment. I am unfamiliar with the mathematical source coding on Wikipedia, therefore unable to write some equations. Can anyone help me to write source coding of the equations I need. I can send the photographs of equations to those who want to help me. Thanks. -- Gazal world ( talk) 18:46, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Why is the table so wide. I can not see how to make it smaller. -- Bduke ( talk) 06:41, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
WikiProject Physics/Members page. |
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I like this new list, but I think it could need some simplicity to be made even more useful.
There is too much stuff above the table. Much can be moved to below. I will see what I can do about that soon. But, IMHO Headbomb's intro needs to be tightened
If possible it would be nice for everyone to appear in each of the categories for which they are interested. One of the most common use cases of the list should be to find someone who is interested in reviewing an article, for example.
We make a big deal that everyone can contribute. Is knowing the persons education that useful to know for a table like this.
Participant says nothing. Can we make a checkbox type situation with options like editor, reviewer, administrator, illustrator, grammatician, or whatever.
TStein ( talk) 23:03, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
The demographics of Wikiproject Physics ranges from high-school students curious about physics, to physicists with a lifetime of experience in research in a specialized field. All are welcomed to participate. All offer different insight. Experts find and correct inadvertent mistakes that only they can find. But they, like the rest of us, need someone to remind them that the world population is not made of Physics Nobel Prize Laureates. Between the experts and the novices are those who write the bulk of the articles. So, be WP:BOLD. Write or edit an article. You don't even have to be good at physics to contribute to WikiProject Physics. There are many things you can do here that have nothing to do with physics! If you're good with tables, we have plenty of ugly tables to fix. Maybe you're good at making sure the Manual of Style is followed. We need you too. Whatever your background and whatever your interest, you are welcome at WikiProject Physics!
I don't want to edit a message from you, but I thought that your opening paragraph while good needed some tightening up. I hope you don't mind my suggestion above. My goal was to make the verbs more powerful and to get rid of any sentence that were not strictly needed. I also broke some sentences into two to make them more powerful as well. Just some thoughts that I hope you find useful.
TStein ( talk) 04:39, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Nah, go right ahead and place your sig on it all you want. Headbomb { ταλκ κοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:08, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
I have been mulling over this table in between bouncing around from topic to topic. Not that this table is bad, but I think it can be made to be more useful if we can standardize it so that more columns are sortable. Some ideas that I have been mulling include removing the active inactive column for space. Maybe we can encourage strike throughs, removing the name or placing it in a separate list. Perhaps then we can split the education/experience into more manageable more standardizeable chunks. For education maybe we can encourage Degree first (BA,BS,MS,PhD). We can also had some psuedo degrees for self-taught if desired (Ama and Adv perhaps). We might want to then have an education field column (Physics, engineering, chemistry) as well. The job category will be harder to categorize. The wiki contribution should be its own column. I doubt we can make it sortable. It also may be useful to split up the role category into a short standardized description (Van (for Vandal patrol), Qal (Quality control), Jar (Jargon Police), Edi, Art (for artist)) and a longer summary if we can come up with a short enough list of standard things.
This is not something we can do overnight and it will take some experimenting to get it right. I am going to mull this over a little more then perhaps set up an alternate table to see if it is more useful. TStein ( talk) 21:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
Would this talk page be appropriate to start a community building page. We could use it for things like nominating people for a 'Friend of Physics' type award and or publicizing barnstars. (User pages are nice for this type of stuff, but it also needs a public forum.) Perhaps it can be used for major personal announcements that affect the wiki as well: such as promotions, graduations, etc.. And/or it can be used for informal editing reviews, etc. that people don't think rises to the level on the main wikiproject talk page. We would need to keep it professional, of course. But, a well designed, professional community building area can go a long ways in my opinion to keeping people active and in preserving institutional knowledge. (Not that I know how that page should look like, though) TStein ( talk) 20:43, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
I wish to express no confidence in Headbomb for any sort of leadership position in the project. Since he is self appointed, I request quick consensus to change his status to participant for now.
I also propose and to hold open contested elections, open to all participants (including Headbomb), for a leadership position of "coordinator" within 30 days. This should take place over a reasonable time period to allow editors to present a platform for where they think the project should be headed, then the voting should be by runoff or instant runoff when candidates are ready. The new director will take over any tasks that headbomb now overseens. Likebox ( talk) 23:03, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
I've made some major edits to the page Neutral particle oscillation in the last couple of weeks. Can anyone interested in the topic please give me his/her feedback on the talk page of the article? Your opinions or suggestions will be quite helpful and if you have any doubt regarding the matter, I'll be happy to explain as best as I can.
— Soham92 ( talk) 13:44, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I do not know that I am on right place or not. I am working on Gujarati Wikipedia on the article of Michelson–Morley experiment. I am unfamiliar with the mathematical source coding on Wikipedia, therefore unable to write some equations. Can anyone help me to write source coding of the equations I need. I can send the photographs of equations to those who want to help me. Thanks. -- Gazal world ( talk) 18:46, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
Why is the table so wide. I can not see how to make it smaller. -- Bduke ( talk) 06:41, 26 October 2021 (UTC)