Historians of Science on Wikipedia

12 January 2006 by sage

The search results with the User: pages on Wikipedia turn up a fair number of historians of science, mostly graduate students and professors (and there are probably more who don’t mention their field on user pages). Check it:

Shleep
BWOgilvie
Wujastyk
AppleRaven
Neale Monks
Mollyclare
Xuanwu
Fastfission
Pfaff9
ABVR

On a related note, I’m starting a WikiProject for history of science. If you’re a Wikipedian (or would like to become one), you should join it.

Possibly related posts:

  1. “This is, for historians of science, the equivalent of finding one of the original gospels.”
  2. History of science viewing stats on Wikipedia
  3. Presentism and the history of science on Wikipedia
  4. What are historians good for? Part II
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