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Workgroup Glass, Development Page
On this page all relevant information is collected for setting up a Task Force for improving the quality of the article glass and related articles in the category glass. This Task Force could be a child of one or several of the following WikiProjects: Chemistry (glass chemistry), Physics (optics, physical chemistry background such as glass transition), Visual arts (glass art), History (glass history), Business (glassmaking companies, trademarks, and brands), Biography (glass makers and glass artists), and Geology (glass in nature). Please feel free to participate and to add information to this page. For suggestions and discussion about the topic go to the talk page of the article Glass.
Please see Wikipedia subpage policy for allowable content of this sub-page.
Per the quick-fail criteria of the GA process, any article with cleanup or expansion banners and tags such as {{fact}} must be failed without a hold period. Please feel free to renominate the article when the necessary improvements have been made. Other major issues that would need to be dealt with include the following:
Thank you for your work so far. If you feel this decision was in error, you are welcome to ask for a reassessment. VanTucky Talk 21:07, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
The following articles are considered to be most important within the topic glass, either because they are important for understanding the topic glass, or because the articles have many visitors. Hence, especially these articles should have a high quality:
= good article
Incomplete articles, lacking essential content, can be found in the category Glass stubs.
To-do list for Talk:Glass:
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To-do list for Talk:Optical fiber:
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If created, the following articles would significantly help in understanding the topic glass:
There is free literature online about the topic glass, which can be used for referencing.
Most of the following glass related books at Google are only partially online, however:
Almost all patents are freely available online through the website esp@cenet. The search for a specific patent in the area of glass may be performed as follows:
Article | Times viewed in 01/2009 | Rank in English Wikipedia1 |
---|---|---|
Viscosity | 131000 | |
Frank Lloyd Wright | 127000 | 2500 |
Glass | 99000 | 3900 |
Optical fiber | 79000 | 5300 |
Obsidian | 45000 | - |
Refractive index | 41000 | - |
Fiberglass | 36000 | - |
Marc Chagall | 35000 | - |
Swarovski | 31000 | - |
Glasses | 31000 | - |
Silica gel | 30000 | - |
Optics | 28000 | - |
Window | 27000 | - |
Materials science | 26000 | - |
The Crystal Palace | 26000 | - |
Stained glass | 24000 | - |
Dispersion (optics) | 19000 | - |
Supercooling | 18000 | - |
Sodium silicate | 18000 | - |
Glass transition temperature | 14000 | - |
Vitrification | 12000 | - |
Louis Comfort Tiffany | 12000 | - |
Amorphous solid | 10000 | - |
1For comparison: The total number of pages in the English Wikipedia is about 2.7 Million.
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