Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems

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WikiProject Systems is a WikiProject which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of theory and practice of Systems and Systems science in Science and Society. As of April 2007, it seems that the articles around Systems and the Systems sciences were not especially well organized on Wikipedia by comparison with most other specialized scientific disciplines.

This project is an initiative to organize, thematize, personalize and actualize these information on Wikipedia. This project wants to offer a place to work together to initiate and coordinate these efforts.

You can help this project evolve with ideas, comments and suggestion. (Please leave a message).

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19 Dec - Béla H. Bánáthy rewarded good article

The Béla H. Bánáthy article created by Btphelps and others has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria.

24 Sept - Béla H. Bánáthy on Did you know

On 24 Sept 2008, the Did you know? template on the main page was updated with a fact from the new article on Systems art created by Btphelps and others. It stated:

Did you know ... that systems scientist Béla H. Bánáthy conceived of a conference where all attendees present papers, and the conference itself is an in-depth, extended conversation between all participants?

16 Sept - Mathematical diagram on Did you know

On 16 Sept 2008, the Did you know? template on the main page was updated with a fact from the new article on mathematical diagram created by Marcel Douwe Dekker. It stated:

Did you know ... that despite the long-established use of mathematical diagrams (Voronoi diagram pictured), going back to the Ancient Greeks, the scientific study of them has only recently begun?

15 Sept - Wikipedia 0.7 for Systems

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

4 Aug - WikiProject Systems/Cleanup listing

Currently, 523 articles are assigned to this project, of which 156, or 29.8%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? User:B. Wolterding has offered to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems/Cleanup listing

1 July - Jacques Bertin on Did you know

On I July 2008, the Did you know? template on the main page was updated with a fact from the new article on Jacques Bertin created by Marcel Douwe Dekker. It stated:

Did you know ... that French cartographer Jacques Bertin was the first to provide a theoretical foundation to Information Visualization?

7 April - Systems science on YouTube

On YouTube an initiative has been started by Mdd to collect movies on YouTube about systems, systems science and systems scientists. See here.

15 March - Wikipedia article traffic statistics

A new tool the Wikipedia article traffic statistics seems to give an interesting view on the popularity of the systems articles. With this tool several listings have been made of number of views in systems articles in February 2008, see here.

4 March - Systems Science Portal extended

The Systems Science Portal is further extended. It now introduces 10 of the most excellent pictures, 10 images and 10 systems scientists. If you have more suggestions, please let us know here.

For older news, see: Archive

Last updated by - Jiuguang Wang (talk) 00:08, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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1. Create articles about appropriate (and notable) subjects relating to the Systems if they don't already exist.
2. Tag appropriate existing articles with the project template, and assess them.
3. Improve articles by adding appropriately content and references. For some ideas on priorities for improvement see the list of assessed articles by class and importance.
4. Give requested expert attention to systems articles (0 requests pending).
5. Add Systems related articles to your watchlist and keep an eye out for any vandalism.

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See the category page for a full list of articles that have been identified as being within the scope of this project.

Subcategories:

• Articles in need of urgent attention
• Articles in need of infoboxes
• Articles organised by quality
• Articles organised by importance

See also:

• List of all subpages of this project
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems/Lists
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems/List of systems

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Project banners:

• {{WikiProject Systems}} - add to article talk pages
• {{subst:Invite User SYS}} - add to editor's talk pages to invite them to join the project

Stub template:

• {{Systemstheory-stub}} - add to stub articles in the field of systems and systems theories

Userboxes:

• {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems/Member userbox}} - for members of this WikiProject

The WikiProject Systems Member userbox looks like this:

This user is a member of WikiProject Systems.

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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.

See also

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems/Cleanup listing

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Redirects for discussion

• 17 Mar 2026 – Systems development (talk · edit · hist) →Software development process was RfDed by Melozone crissalis (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 19 Oct 2025 – Semiotics (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Phlsph7 (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be merged

• 25 Mar 2026 – Faithlife Corporation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Logos Bible Software by Gravada (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 05 Dec 2020 – 3D reconstruction (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 27 Mar 2026 – Draft:Yard management system (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Faridbe (t · c)
• 12 Mar 2026 – Draft:Operational assurance (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mikeentnergomez (t · c)
• 12 Feb 2026 – Draft:System of Interest (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Villeez (t · c)

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• Jonathan Bowen (t·c) — MA in Engineering Science
• Marcel Douwe Dekker (t·c) — MA in Systems Engineering
• First Harmonic (t·c) – MS Electrical Engineering
• Kevin Gross (t·c) — Electrical and communications engineering, audio systems.
• David Ing (t·c) — MBA, Ph.D. candidate in Industrial Engineering and Management, President of the International Society for the Systems Science 2011-2012
• Brian Logan (t·c) - legal information systems; junior college instructor; attorney
• Guy Macon (t·c) — Electronics Engineer
• TedPavlic (t·c) — Ph D candidate in control systems
• Ismail Sultan (t·c) — Project Electrical and Instrumentation Engineer.
• Jiuguang Wang (t·c) — Control theory enthusiast. Student in Robotics.
• Zfeinst (t·c) — BS Systems Engineering
• asamind (t·c) Ph.D. in Computer Science

• Leutha (t·c) MSc ICT and Development, Council Member Cybernetics Society (UK)
• Spacejunkjim (t·c) PhD student in Network Science
• TPen94 (t·c) Business Analyst
• Worramlaup21 (t·c) MA DPhil mathematical biology; complex systems in biology, computer science

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This project started May 2007 with:

• The recreation of the Category:Systems
• Building this WikiProject Systems website
• Cooperation on major articles like systems theory and systems engineering
• Gather essential data in lists
• Improvement of the systems categories

And action has been taken to:

• Writing, editing and or monitoring systems articles
• Getting people involved in this project
• Assessment of systems articles
• Controlling changes made to the systems articles
• A WikiProject Systems Engineering Initiative
• A Wikipedia:WikiProject Cybernetics Initiative
• Initiation of the Portal:Systems science

WikiProject Systems is still working on those items.

For older planning, see: Archive

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Article statistics

Updated by a bot; by default the bot runs once per day but it can be launched manually if required.

Systems articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			3				3
FL				1			1
GA		2	7	4			13
B	11	98	86	26		10	231
C	26	218	336	158		76	814
Start	16	235	1,023	365	1	206	1,846
Stub		7	183	173		107	470
List	7	15	22	44		1	89
Category					842		842
Disambig					52		52
File					32		32
Portal					40		40
Project					24		24
Redirect	2	16	67	29	108		222
Template					113		113
NA					2		2
Other					20		20
Assessed	62	591	1,727	800	1,234	400	4,814
Unassessed			1	2		43	46
Total	62	591	1,728	802	1,234	443	4,860
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 16,025			Ω = 4.75

Assessment progress:

Articles assessed for quality: 98.5% complete

Articles assessed for importance: 87.8% complete

Article lists:

• Article list by quality
• Quality changes log

See also:

• Assessment FAQs & explanation