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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

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.

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

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:

User box

To post the following user box on your user page,
copy {{WikiProject Invention user box}}, which creates:

This user is a member of WikiProject Invention.

Please feel free to add yourself here, posting new entries at the end of the list, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Invalch (talk · contribs) (I am interested in working on any thing related to this project, I created it after all !)
2. UseTheCommandLine patent policy
3. Wiki.Gunjan
4. Titodutta
5. Hamham31
6. SenatorSteve - observer and gentle participant
7. Edison (talk) 01:51, 7 September 2013 (UTC) Electrical, acoustic and optical inventions, in the 18th, 19th, and the first half of the 20th century.[reply]
8. Shirsakbc (talk) 01:35, 18 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
9. LaurentianShield
10. JCO11163 (talk)
11. User:CJS9001 (I am very interested in mechanics and electronics, and I have engineering experience.)
12. Jummals (talk) 21:47, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
13. Adityavagarwal (talk) 18:34, 21 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
14. econterms (talk) 03:03, 16 December 2017 (UTC) -- Historical aeronautics and aviation; history and economics of tech change; getting patent data standardized on Wikidata[reply]
15. Emoritz2017 -- Interested in Ancient and Modern Inventions
16. Invent1234
17. RichDiamondPlayz (talk 13:33 4 April 2020 (UTC) -- I love inventions and all of the sort, so i HAVE to join :)
18. EditJuice (talk) 15:22, 21 August 2021 (UTC) -- Making new articles soon[reply]
19. Panthermail (talk) 17:05, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
20. BorgQueen (talk) 10:57, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
21. User:Starlighsky Solid State Physics Application.

Article statistics
For detailed assessment statistics, see: (Index · Statistics · Log).

Invention articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1					1
FL	1						1
GA	1			5			6
B	5	10	6	23		19	63
C	7	11	26	121		54	219
Start	3	16	27	211		122	379
Stub		1	11	75		55	142
List	48	4	4	29		9	94
Category					451		451
Disambig					2		2
File					11		11
Project					9		9
Redirect	1	1		6	20		28
Template					13		13
NA					1		1
Other					39		39
Assessed	66	44	74	470	546	259	1,459
Unassessed						20	20
Total	66	44	74	470	546	279	1,479
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 3,824			Ω = 4.72

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

• Waveguide filter - nominated as a featured article candidate on 7 August 2013 (UTC)
• Nintendo DSi - nominated for FA on 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Please list developed articles with potential to reach Good article or Featured article status here.

• Blu-ray Disc
• Invention
• Lightning rod
• List of French inventions and discoveries
• Timeline of United States discoveries

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.

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Invention

• The project Assessment page

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

Invention

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 ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

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):

Hello, WikiProject Invention. You are invited to join WikiProject Invention, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of inventions and invention-related topics. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. ~~~~

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

Introduced on 13 November 2023.

		The Invention Barnstar
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Categories for discussion

• 01 Jun 2026 – Category:Inventors from New York (state) (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Johnpacklambert (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 21 May 2026 – Occam's razor. (talk · edit · hist) →Occam's razor was RfDed by Bis-Serjetà? (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 04 Apr 2026 – Concept (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Phlsph7 (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be split

• 29 Aug 2024 – Intellectual property (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by MrOllie (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 25 May 2026 – Draft:Iris Flores (actress and fashion innovator) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Starlighsky (t · c)
• 25 May 2026 – Draft:Daniel Alvarez Reyes (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Grubira (t · c)
• 22 May 2026 – Draft:Larry Steven Grossman (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Meditorist (t · c)
• 14 May 2026 – Draft:Robert Dane (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CB Researcher (t · c)
• 07 May 2026 – Draft:Rolling knife sharpener (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by L0ll0Bi0NDa369 (t · c)
• 15 Apr 2026 – Draft:Sanandan Sudhir (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jyotisudhir25 (t · c)
• 08 Apr 2026 – Draft:Compact Sequencing (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Charonac (t · c)
• 06 Apr 2026 – Draft:Richard Horian (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Horrorfan1987 (t · c)
• 02 Apr 2026 – Draft:InterMetro Industries Corporation (Metro) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Alseb73 (t · c)
• 28 Mar 2026 – Draft:Space Cup (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gspinty1 (t · c)

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