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About WikiProject Microbiology

This Wikiproject aims to better organize information in articles related to microbiology on Wikipedia.

If you would like to help, feel free to add yourself to the list of participants, or have a look at How you can help section below. Also of interest is the Molecular and Cellular Biology Portal associated with this project. You don't need to know anything about microbiology to help!

Scope

This project aims to cover all areas of microbiology including: bacteria, archaea, molds, yeasts, protists, viruses, famous microbiologists and researchers, microbiological methods and concepts, microbiology equipment, microscopy, and other microbiology-related topics.

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Articles covered by this WikiProject

Statistics

Microbiology articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2	2				4
	A		1				1
	GA	1	3	2	1		7
	B	23	25	10			58
	Start	25	61	72	22	4	184
	Stub	2	24	56	156	7	245
	Assessed	53	116	140	179	11	499
	Unassessed					2	2
	Total	53	116	140	179	13	501

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How you can help

Here are some tasks you can do: Merge: Bacterial cellular morphologies: (Coccus, Diplococcus, Coccobacillus, Bacilli, etc) Coliform Index into Faecal coliforms Cleanup: Sterilisation (microbiology), Escherichia coli Expand: Antimicrobial, Colony-forming unit, Microbiologist, Lactic acid bacteria, Escherichia coli, Indicator bacteria Stubs: Clostridium botulinum, Telonemia, Serratia Other: Get to GA class: Mould Get to FA class: Yeast

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Improve articles

• Improve all B-class articles to GA or better
• Add or upgrade the taxoboxes in microorganism articles.
• Add or improve images in microorganims articles.

Start new articles

• Start any microbiology related articles that are currently red-links.

Discuss

• Join in discussing proposals on the talk page. Any ideas are always welcome!

Improve the project itself

• Improve or create templates.
• Improve or create images.
• Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in microbiology to contribute to Wikipedia.

Categorise microbiology related articles

• Label articles of interest to the project by putting the banner template on the talk pages of all articles of interest to microbiology.
  • Assess and mark the importance of these articles using the class and importance fields of the banner template.
• Add stub templates to microorganism related stubs with the relevant template from the template section below.
• Categorise articles by adding them to the appropriate microbiology categories as shown to right.