Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering

Welcome to WikiProject Engineering, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Engineering. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects.

Interested users are encouraged to add their name below and help improve this project.

WikiProject Engineering
General information
Main project page(WP:ENGINEERING) talk
Engineering Portaltalk
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Project templatestalk
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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.

Goals

  1. To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Engineering by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
  2. To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles within the scope of Engineering.
  3. To serve as a point of discussion for issues related to Engineering in general in Wikipedia.
  4. To help coordinate the work of related WikiProjects.

News

  • September 9, 2007: Temporary page for WikiProject Engineering created.
  • September 11, 2007: Moved to official Wikipedia space.
  • November 10, 2007: Main project page expansion begins.

Scope

The project generally considers any article related to Engineering to be within its scope.

See the following to find articles within our scope:

WikiProject tagged articles can be found in Category:WikiProject Engineering articles.

See this page for recent changes related to pages withinin this project's scope.

Open tasks and guidelines

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Members should also feel free to add {{User WP Engineering}} to their user pages to identify themselves as members of this project. The appearance of the userbox is shown to the right. Placing the above userbox on your user page will automatically add you to Category:WikiProject Engineering participants.

Inactive participants

This is a list of participants who haven't edited Wikipedia for a year. If you find your name on this list, feel free to move it back to the list of active participants when you return to editing.

Inactive participants list

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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Departments

Assessment

The WikiProject Engineering assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Engineering articles.

Assessments are performed via parameters in the {{Engineering}} project banner which is posted to an article's talk page.

An assessment parameter (FA, GA, B, Start, or Stub) causes the article to be rated and grouped

Collaboration

The Engineering Collaboration of the week seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every week, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards.

Any articles dealing with some aspect of Engineering (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

The current Engineering Collaboration of the Week is: Engineering

Peer review

The peer review department of WikiProject Engineering conducts peer review of articles on request. The primary objective is to encourage better articles by having contributors who may not have worked on articles to examine them and provide ideas for further improvement.

The peer review process is highly flexible and can deal with articles of any quality; however, requesting reviews on very short articles may not be productive, as there is little for readers to comment on.

All reviews are conducted by fellow editors—usually members of WikiProject Engineering. While there is a general intent to expand this process to allow for review by subject experts, the preparations for this are not yet complete.

Requested images

The Requested images department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs, maps and images for use in Engineering articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

Wikimedia Commons has images of the engineering field. Many of these photos would make useful additions to many of our articles here which may be lacking adequate illustrations. Please see the Commons categories at right, or try searching on Commons since many images available there are not properly categorized yet.

Outreach

The Outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.

Templates and project size

WikiProject Engineering Navigation
Main page | Discussions | Project templates | Assessment | Portal |


The following templates are used in WikiProject Engineering.

TemplateResult
{{WikiProject Engineering}}

Use this template to show an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. This should be placed at the top of talk pages, not articles.

WikiProject iconEngineering Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Engineering, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of engineering on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
{{Engineering-stub}}

Use this to identify an Engineering-related article as a stub.

{{User WP Engineering}}

Use this on your user page to identify yourself as a member of this WikiProject.

This user participates in
WikiProject Engineering


{{User Engineer}}

Use this on your user page to show that you work in the engineering field.

This user is an engineer.
{{User is PE}}

Use this on your user page to identify yourself as a licensed Professional Engineer.

This user is a licensed Professional Engineer

{{User:Jagra/Userboxes/User Professional Engineer}}

Use this on your user page to show that you are a professional engineer.

Clicking on the logo connects to Portal:Engineering.

This user is a
Professional Engineer.

Main articles

Engineering

List of basic engineering topics

Aerospace | Agricultural | Architectural | Biomedical | Chemical | Civil | Computer | Computer-aided engineering | Electrical | Electronic | Environmental | Industrial & Manufacturing | Mechanical | Petroleum | Software | Systems | More

New articles

Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 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.

If you would like to request the creation of a particular article, please post in the requests section.

This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2025-05-08 20:29 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.

Categorization

The root category for this WikiProject is Category:Engineering. Both the root categorty and its associated subcategories should be tagged with {{Engineering category}}.

Please note that the major category, Category:Engineering, should be reserved for articles about disciplines of engineering, respectively, while specific individual engineering companies, engineers, concepts, etc. should be listed in the appropriate subcategories.

Next, please ensure that it has the correct engineering type categories (one or more, in some cases). Here are some major categories for engineering:

The main engineering categories

We also have a category for the project itself, Category:WikiProject Engineering.

Category tree

Engineering
Engineering disciplines
Engineering by country
Engineering writers
Engineers
Women in engineering
Engineering-related lists
Engineering awards
Engineering competitions
Engineering concepts
Engineering education
Engineering conferences
Engineering software
Engineering equipment
History of engineering
Industrial equipment
Engineering literature
Engineering occupations
Engineering organizations
Engineering projects
Engineering studies
Engineering images
Engineering stubs

Issues of ongoing concern

Please report vandalism, copyright violations, addition of unsourced material and edit-warring to engineering articles here:

(One remark)

  • The article Direct metal deposition has been AfD nominated as is non sourced.(but here is a source I have just found on a PDF [1] ) This is a registered trade mark, so really ought, I think, be redirected to Selective laser sintering. The technique it depends on however is call Direct laser powder deposition and I don't seem to be able to find that. So maybe that needs a mention. I am out of date on this technology. In my day, we had to make do with spaying metal or carbides through a plasma arc.--Aspro (talk) 17:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Please consider adding these articles to your watchlist, to help in reverting the ongoing vandalism which is certain to resume once semi-protection expires. Even during the period of semi-protection, some articles continue to be vandalized by recently registered accounts. Consider reporting users who chronically vandalize articles to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.

If you find any other articles within the scope of this project which are being heavily vandalized (as a rough standard, over 10 vandals per day, or continual vandalism for several days such that the last 50+ edits are all vandalism and reverts, or 10+ vandalism / revert edits in 30 minutes), please report them at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection and add them to the list above.

More articles or pages in need of attention could be found here at Category:Unreferenced Engineering articles and Category:Engineering articles needing attention.

Requests

Please direct assessment requests to Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering/Assessment#Requesting an assessment.

Please add any other requests related to the project and material within its scope below:

There doesn't appear to be an article on rated power. According to LEO, the German equivalent is "Nennleistung", and this has a long article in the German Wikipedia: de:Nennleistung. Joriki (talk) 13:18, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What about Power rating? Would Rated power deserve a redirect?-- Nczempin (talk) 10:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Done. added interwiki and redirect. -- Nczempin (talk) 10:55, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Cam_follower article is very difficult for a general reader. It also has no pictures. I've read it a few times and I still don't know what a Cam follower is all about.
  • Vertical hollowshaft motor is too technical for the general reader. Additionally, it may be non-notable or merit merging to another article, but I lack the expertise to form much of an opinion on either question. Thanks. Lagrange613 (talk) 06:10, 13 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Just to be clear, this is a device to produce clean steam, ie [2]. Derek Andrews (talk) 13:17, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • There does not appear to be an engineering-focused article on the general concept(s) of sources and sinks. I'm a geographer with broad scientific/mathematical experience and NOT an engineer, but I think the public should be able to get an understanding of these important ideas beyond their use in ecology as discussed in Source–sink dynamics. Lee De Cola (talk) 18:51, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • I take an original or historical view, that source and sink are originally about Flow (fluid) and later were applied metaphorically. This suggest that, instead of a redirect to a hydraulic science article, it should be a broad rather than deep discussion of fluid flow, including source and sink and especially their metaphorical adaptations, as in electricity and ecology.

Resources

Some periodicals relevant to the general subject of engineering can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering/Periodicals.

Parent projects

Descendant projects

Tools

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