The Research Portal
Laboratory equipment.
SETI@home was an early example of distributed collaborative research efforts.

Welcome to Wikiversity's research portal. In addition to Wikiversity's learning mission in the pre-school, primary, secondary, tertiary and non-formal educational sectors, the Wikimedia Foundation's approved project proposal for Wikiversity includes an approval to host research. The research portal is Wikiversity's main entry point to all known research being hosted here, as well as all documents and supporting materials relating to research, such as proposals and other administrative materials. If you wish to conduct research using Wikiversity, you should start by reading the various guidelines, bearing in mind their provisional status, and look at some existing projects. Research projects at Wikiversity are fundamentally collaborative and open to all. Discuss research projects, reports, methodologies, methods, theories, etc. in the research discussion forum.

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Bloom clock project - The Bloom Clock is a research and learning project about flowering plants. The research component is aimed at creating a language for discussing the bloom times of wildflowers and other plants that is neutral in respect to climate, region, and hemisphere. While the learning project aspect is aimed at helping people identify plants using visual keys.


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Exobiology

Searching for water and life on Mars. The map shows a possible landing site at Eos Chasma.

List of current research topics
Research quotes

"It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas … If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you … On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones." - Carl Sagan Knowledge from God has no boundaries. Anonymous

Guide to Research
The following is a dynamic listing of all the pages categorized into this portal. To restructure or extend this list, you will need to edit individual page categories.
Related material on Wikiversity
Administering Wikiversity research
To-do list for Research

Please feel welcome to add to this list.

  • Add "Research" to left-menu (under "Projects") to show WV does not just dispense knowledge but also helps create it.
  • Repair the research category so that the category tree displayed on this page is more user-friendly.
  • Update the page so a list of active projects is at the top.
Participation for Research

Active participants

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