Goals

Goals of this project are to provide improved coverage on subjects related to invention, by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles on people, inventions, and ideas relevant to the principles of invention and inventive thinking.

1. Article coordination, organization and collaborations
2. Article creation, expansion and maintenance
3. Article categorization
4. Maintaining objectivity and neutral point-of-view in invention-related articles

Scope

This project focuses on all pages related to Invention, its history, branches, and people involved. These should all be included in the Category:Inventions or one of its subcategories. We hope to provide detailed and organized coverage of the subject.

Guidelines

Editing in accordance with Wikipedia's Manual of Style and coordinating the style of new articles.

To-do list

To edit this list, click here. Please feel free to add to this list.

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Assess : Tag and assess related article talk pages with the project's banner: {{WikiProject Invention|class= |importance= }} Copyedit : Drip irrigation Expand : Anatol Josepho, Creativity techniques, Discovery (observation), Dutch process chocolate, Dynamite, Inventors' Day, Patent model, World Intellectual Property Day Maintain : Invention, Invention of radio, List of prolific inventors, Timeline of historic inventions Stubs : Altekruse Puzzle, Bhāskara's wheel, Blow forward, Crescograph, Ebulliometer, Japanese typewriter, Plumber wrench, Segner wheel, Silicon–air battery, Teclu burner, Thermoscope Update : Artificial kidney Verify : Aerosani, Aeroscope, Anemometer, Artificio de Juanelo, Autoclaved aerated concrete, Bolt cutter, Carburetor, Chindōgu, Cross-flow turbine, Diving chamber, Drum memory, Dynamo, Electric clock, Espresso machine, Giesl ejector, Hansen Writing Ball, Hollander beater, Human torpedo, Invention, Jankó keyboard, K-202, Kaleidoscope, Kaplan turbine, Kerosene lamp, List of Dutch inventions and discoveries, Nagra, Porro prism, Propeller (marine), Quick release skewer, Refracting telescope, Ring binder, Surakarta (game), Sosrobahu, Tagliatelle, Vacuum flask, Wootz steel Create : Create articles for each of the top inventors listed in the List of prolific inventors who currently do not have an article. For example, those with more than 1000 patents: Kangguo Cheng, Roderick A. Hyde, Jun Koyama, Paul Lapstun, Clarence T. Tegreene, Shou-Shan Fan, Leonard Forbes, Edward K. Y. Jung, Rick Allen Hamilton II, and Alexander Reznicek.

–When a task is completed, please remove it from the list.

• Project tasks:

• Tag and assess articles
• Finish creating article statistics
• Create an Invention portal at Portal:Invention

• Maintain the articles in the navigation box below:

Featured articles and content

• See Featured articles – Engineering and technology
• See Featured pictures for Engineering and technology: Electronics, Machinery, Weaponry and Others.

New articles

Please list new invention-related articles here. Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 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.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Invention

Assessment

• The project Assessment page

Peer review

• The project Peer review page

Project banner

Placing {{WikiProject Invention}} on article talk pages creates the following project banner:

Invention NA‑class

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Invention, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Invention 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.InventionWikipedia:WikiProject InventionTemplate:WikiProject InventionInvention articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Invitation

To invite editors to join the project, add the following to a new section on user talk pages: {{subst:WikiProject Invention invitation}}, which automatically produces the following, (including the talk page section header, the recipient's name and your signature):

Invitation to WikiProject Invention

Barnstar

• {{subst:The Invention Barnstar|1=message ~~~~}}—awarded to editors who've made significant contributions to Invention-related articles.
  

Introduced on 13 November 2023.

Infoboxes

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Navigation bars

Use {{Inventions}} to place this template in articles.

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Technology
• WikiProject Science
• WikiProject History of Science

Related portals

•  Technology portal
•  Science portal
•  History portal

Article alerts

Articles to be split

• 23 Jun 2021 – Intellectual property (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 11 Apr 2024 – Draft:Silicoil Brush Cleaning Tank (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2601:803:200:190:38AA:AA06:1ABC:7EC7 (t · c)
• 08 Apr 2024 – Draft:Frédéric Martens (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jeyko58 (t · c)
• 02 Apr 2024 – Draft:FloodSax alternative sandbags (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Journo106 (t · c)
• 14 Mar 2024 – Draft:Logan Henderson (engineer) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Andrew Macklin (t · c)
• 02 Mar 2024 – Draft:Scott D. Holden (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tdlin (t · c)
• 30 Jan 2024 – Draft:Harry Destecroix (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
• undated – Draft:Kieran Murphy (physician) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
• 14 Apr 2024 – Draft:HrC Cancer Blood Test (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Davidindia (t · c) was declined by 97198 (t · c) on 15 Apr 2024
• 03 Nov 2023 – Draft:Patrick Ejikeme Nwosu (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Reading Beans (t · c) was moved to Ejikeme Patrick Nwosu (talk · edit · hist) by Royalrumblebee (t · c) (author) on 18 Apr 2024