The {{Research project}} template captures metadata about research projects and presents it as Notifications and an Infobox. Projects can also be further categorized and described with metadata Tags (e.g. {{Research project/Tags/WMF supported}} and {{Research project/Tags/Open source}}).

Example template code
{{Research_project
<!-- When was the project page created? -->
 | created = 07:42, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

<!-- Who should be contacted about this project? -->
 | contact = {{Investigator|[[User:EpochFail|Aaron Halfaker (EpochFail)]]|Wikimedia Foundation}}

<!-- Who else is working on the project? -->
 | collaborators =
{{Investigator|[[User:Academic|Academic]]|University of Science}}
{{Investigator|[[User:Staff Researcher|Staff Researcher]]|Wikimedia Foundation}}
{{Investigator|[[User:Liaison|Liaison]]|Wikipedia}}

<!-- What year/month did work start? ... or when will it start? -->
 | start_year = 2013
 | start_month = 09


<!-- What year/month did work end? ... or when will it end? -->
 | end_year = 2013
 | end_month = 09

<!-- Project status: draft -> proposed -> planned -> active -> completed -->
 | status = completed

<!-- Tags represent metadata about the project.  -->
 | tags = 

<!-- This project is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation -->
  {{Research_project/Tags/WMF supported
   | contact = {{u|Jtmorgan}} 
  }}

<!-- This project's manuscript is published open-access -->
  {{Research_project/Tags/Open access
   | level = green
   | url = http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/halfaker13rise-preprint.pdf
   | label = cs.umn.edu
   | ref = <ref>Halfaker, A., Gieger, R. S., Morgan, J., &amp; Riedl, J. (2013). The Rise and Decline of an 
Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline. 
American Behavioral Scientist 57(5) 664-688, DOI:10.1177/0002764212469365.</ref>
  }}

<!-- This project's code is open-source -->
  {{Research_project/Tags/Open source
   | url = http://github.com/halfak/Wikipedia-article-creation-research
   | label = github.com
  }}


<!-- This project's data is available for download and reuse. -->
  {{Research_project/Tags/Open data
   | url = http://stats.wikimedia.org/public-datasets/wikipedia-article-creation
   | label = stats.wikimedia.org
  }}
}}