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From a facilitation standpoint, I have been interested in and fascinated to watch how the Wikipedia community has evolved its group processes. Working with ideas and definitions of controversial or nebulous topics is a process that holds relevance beyond their work. It is about helping to make meaning across diverse audiences in a text based environment. So when we can get a peek in, it is very helpful. This page on the philosophy project is worth a peek. The purpose, transparency and task organization are lovely.

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate the efforts of Wikipedians who are knowledgeable about philosophy in an effort to improve the general quality and range of Wikipedia articles on philsophical topics.

Because many philosophical topics are extremely nebulous, it often requires a firm grasp of the field to be able to produce a fair and comprehensive article. We therefore don't have the advantage afforded to Wikihistorians, who can simply look their topic up in a reference guide -- heck, half the time our reference guides flat-out contradict each other. For this reason, we need to pool our efforts -- work with those who specialize in a different subfield, ask each other to check our reasoning, etc. Let's put it this way -- do you think you understand everything there is to say about qualia? Well, neither do I, but maybe together we can get it straight.

Here are some open WikiProject Philosophy tasks:

• Start from scratch: Critique of Pure Reason, entries in Timeline of philosophers that lack articles, Nicomachean Ethics
  
• Major overhaul: Being, Bundle theory, Timeline of Eastern philosophers
  
• Expansion: Physicalism, Philosophy of time, Jerry Fodor, Michael Walzer, Alphabet of human thought, Nelson Goodman,
  
• Peer review: Philosophy
  
• Copyedit: Theory of justification, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
  
• Un-Larry's Text: Dualism (philosophy of mind), ...more Larry's Text

Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.

The goals of this WikiProject are as follows:

1. To serve as a nexus and discussion area for philosophically-inclined contributors.
   
2. To identify those areas of philosophy which lack sufficient coverage on the 'pedia.
   
3. To improve those articles which need help.
   
4. To create a general map of the philosophical articles and subjects on the 'pedia, and link the articles together accordingly."