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Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, US
Kakadu Escarpment, in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory of Australia
Lake and bog of Black Moshannon State Park, Pennsylvania, US
Yosemite National Park, California, US

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information on all protected areas (abbreviated on this page as PAs) in the world.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)[1] defines a protected area as:

An area of land and/or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means.

National parks are probably the best-known PAs, but there are many other categories. Protected areas are those which a higher level governmental entity manages, maintains and or oversees directly. For instance in the United States, this would include primarily federal and to a lesser degree, state managed areas, but rarely those managed by a county or city.

Sub projects

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Open tasks

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Below are some suggested open tasks for Wikipedians looking to contribute.

See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected Areas/Status

Cleanup

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Structure

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There shall be a List of Conservation topics which lists the various topics on conservation. (This probably does not belong here...)

There shall be four article levels in this WikiProject:

  • Level 1: An article called "Protected area" shall discuss PAs in general, as opposed to any particular PA. Since a PA is almost always associated with one country, it will provide an alphabetical list (with links) of countries that have PAs. An extra item "International Protected Areas" will be added to the list for PAs that are shared by two or more countries.
  • Level 2: These articles shall discuss a particular country's PAs in general. It shall have an alphabetical list of PA types (such as National Park, Wildlife Sanctuary, ... / no links) which exist in that country, followed by a description. For each type (or combination of types) the existing PAs will be listed alphabetically (with links). For a PA that lies in a dependent territory of that country a mention shall be made of that territory.
  • Level 3: In countries where all or part of the PAs are not managed on a country level the level 2 articles will contain an alphabetical list of the states/provinces/... (with links) that manage the PAs. The links to which they point shall be the level 3 articles. They shall have the same structure as the level 2 articles.
  • Level 4: These shall be the actual PA articles.

Formatting

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Formatting of the level 1 article (Protected area)

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  • A general description;
  • A list of countries that have PAs (with links in the "Protected areas of X" format);
  • A link to the page "International protected areas".

Formatting of level 2 articles

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  • A general description;
  • A list of PA types with a short explanation;
  • A list of PA's per PA type;
  • A list of states/provinces/... for PA' which are managed on that level (with links in the "Protected areas of X" format).
  • A link to the level 1 article and (an) external link(s), if available.

For test articles see: Protected areas of Australia, Protected areas of the United States

Formatting of level 3 articles

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  • A general description;
  • A list of PA types with a short explanation (if that explanation differs from the explanation given on country level);
  • A list of PA's per PA type.
  • A link to the corresponding level 2 article and (an) external link(s), if available.

For a test article see: Protected areas of the Australian Capital Territory

Formatting of level 4 articles

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  • A description. This should contain the PAs location ([state/province/...] (where applicable), [country name], [distance and direction from (a) major or well known city/cities], [date established], [area size], and its main features/points of interest. If available, one or more photos can be included;
  • A template containing:
    • The PA's name;
    • IUCN Category;
    • A map locator;
    • Its location ([state/province/...], country);
    • The nearest major or well known city;
    • The PA's area (km², if acres, provide km² in parenthesis); Use {{Convert}}.
    • Its latitude and longitude (major feature, main visitor center if within PA, or center);
    • The date of establishment;
    • The yearly visitation (and year the number is from) if available
    • The governing body/bodies;
  • A link to the corresponding level 3 article and (an) external link(s), if available.

Note: depending on the IUCN category a different colour background is used.

For test articles see: Bob Marshall Wilderness
Yellowstone National Park

Note

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  • Disambiguation pages are probably the best solution if there are PAs of the same type and with the same name in different countries/states/provinces/etc. Example: Glacier National Park

Protected areas infobox

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  • Infobox, showing the Infobox template, use practices and explanations.

Project messages

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Wikiproject message

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{{WikiProject Protected areas}} can be added to talk pages. It gives this:

WikiProject iconProtected areas Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is part of WikiProject Protected areas, a WikiProject related to national parks and other protected natural or ecological areas worldwide.Protected areasWikipedia:WikiProject Protected areasTemplate:WikiProject Protected areasProtected areas articles
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

This template adds articles to Category:Articles of WikiProject Protected areas.

Protected-area Stub

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You may use {{Protected-area-stub}} for any protected area stubs that you write or come across. This will automatically populate the article in the Category:Protected area stubs category.

NPS Stub

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Another stub, for use in National Park Service articles: {{US-NationalParkService-stub}}.

Assessments

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In May 2008 there were 3,192 articles associated with this wikiproject, by checking category. The number of articles tagged as in the scope of the WikiProject passed 7,000 in July 2011, 10,000 in July 2012, and 16,000 in April 2017.

See the Assessments Department - Instructions and FAQ

Protected areas articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 12 10 21 43
FL 6 7 56 69
FM 27 27
GA 1 6 27 83 117
B 3 24 79 280 20 406
C 6 87 264 1,293 50 1,700
Start 3 150 1,014 6,654 80 7,901
Stub 1 64 649 9,286 333 10,333
List 2 37 148 496 45 11 739
Category 6,298 6,298
Disambig 8 8
File 17 17
Portal 3 3
Project 9 9
Redirect 4 26 213 632 875
Template 455 455
NA 6 6
Other 5 5
Assessed 16 390 2,224 18,382 7,505 494 29,011
Unassessed 1 1 56 58
Total 16 390 2,225 18,383 7,505 550 29,069
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 109,755 Ω = 5.35

Status

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  • Status page which details current status of articles within the scope of this project.
  • Popular pages - top 500 most viewed articles within the scope of this project.

New articles

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This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2024-11-23 19:27 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.

Participants

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Please add yourself to the bottom of the list by typing ~~~~, and add a note if you wish.

Participants

Userbox and user category

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You may also list yourself in the Category:WikiProject Protected areas participants by adding the following to your userpage:

[[Category:WikiProject Protected areas participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Another method is to add "protectedareas" to your {{babel}} box. Inclusion of the userbox will automatically add you to the user category.

Or you add the {{User protectedareas}} template to your userpage:

This user is a member of WikiProject Protected Areas.

An alternative user box can be added by placing {{User WPA}} on your user page:

This user is a member of WikiProject Protected Areas.

Parentage

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The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Geography.

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Featured and other cool content

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Boldfaced articles were featured on the main page for Wikipedia.

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Related articles
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By Wikipedians:

By others:

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Fully illustrated lists

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See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places#List of fully illustrated lists
Thanks for noticing! Dincher (talk) 22:34, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Map locators

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