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WikiProject Tree of Life
[edit]A few Wikipedians have come together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in these articles. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles! For updates on Tree of Life and its subprojects, there is a monthly newletter published here to which you can subscribe.
Scope and related projects
[edit]This WikiProject is both a daughter project of WikiProject Biology and a meta-project in its own right. WikiProject Tree of Life aims primarily to represent the taxonomy and relationships of living organisms, as well as their extinct relatives, in a tree structure. Since there are millions of species, not all will be included, but we aim to handle as many as information, time, and interest permit. However, as a meta-project, Tree of Life directly includes only articles which have meaning across taxa or which pertain to taxonomy and systematics in general, or which do not fall under one of our daughter WikiProjects. A full directory of daughter WikiProjects has been listed below in the form of a cladogram. To see a directory of our sister WikiProjects under WikiProject Biology, see this link.
To see activity levels and active editors for these projects, use the Wikiproject Directory tool and find the project in question for further information. Some projects may not be listed. Current labels are based solely on template tags at the top of WikiProject pages and do not represent an in-depth assessment of the activity level of any project by WikiProject Tree of Life.
Outer
[edit]Inner
[edit]- WikiProject Tree of Life
- ToL Taxobox task force
- Eukaryotes (Article)
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Arthropods
- WikiProject Insects
- Ant task force (semi-active)
- Hymenoptera task force
- WikiProject Beetles
- WikiProject Diptera (semi-active)
- WikiProject Lepidoptera
- WikiProject Mantodea (inactive)
- WikiProject Phasmatodea (inactive)
- WikiProject Spiders
- WikiProject Insects
- Mollusca (Article)
- Vertebrata (Article)
- WikiProject Fishes
- Lobe-Fin task force (shared with WP:Palaeontology)
- WikiProject Aquarium Fishes
- WikiProject Fisheries and Fishing (inactive)
- WikiProject Sharks
- WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
- Pterosaurs task force (shared with WP:Palaeontology)
- WikiProject Dinosaurs
- WikiProject Turtles (inactive)
- WikiProject Birds
- WikiProject Poultry (inactive)
- Domestic Pigeon task force (defunct)
- WikiProject Mammals
- Bats task force
- WikiProject Cats
- WikiProject Cetaceans (inactive)
- WikiProject Dogs (semi-active)
- Dog breeds task force (inactive)
- WikiProject Equine
- Horse breeds task force (Defunct)(shared with WP:AG)
- Horse training task force (Inactive)
- WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials (defunct)
- Mustelids work group (inactive)
- Pocket pets work group (inactive)
- WikiProject Primates
- WikiProject Rodents (semi-active)
- WikiProject Fishes
- WikiProject Arthropods
- WikiProject Plants
- WikiProject Aquatic plants (completely inactive)
- WikiProject Banksia (semi-active)
- WikiProject Cannabis
- WikiProject Carnivorous plants (inactive)
- WikiProject Horticulture and Gardening
- WikiProject Hypericaceae
- WikiProject Medicinal botany (defunct)
- WikiProject Pteridophytes (inactive)
- WikiProject Fungi
- WikiProject Algae
- WikiProject Protista
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Microbiology
- Location Based
- WikiProject Marine life (inactive)
- WikiProject Palaeontology
- Lobe-Fin task force (shared with WP: Fishes)
- Pterosaurs task force (shared with WP: Amphibians and Reptiles)
Related WikiProjects
[edit]- WikiProject Agriculture
- WikiProject Animal anatomy
- WikiProject Animals in media
- WikiProject Animal rights
- WikiProject Evolutionary biology
- WikiProject Ecoregions
- WikiProject Forestry
- WikiProject Wiki Makes Video
- WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles
- WikiProject Veterinary medicine
To do
[edit]New articles
[edit]To browse Tree of Life subjects that require articles, see the Tree of Life list of requested articles. If adding to the list of requests, make sure to include scientific names, as it will make it easier for others to track down information. One-sentence stubs are discouraged: try to create a worthwhile start class article, with a taxobox, and sources properly cited. When adding weblinks, look for standard references first, such as the IUCN and its sub-commissions.
Specific request lists also include:
- Missing encyclopedic articles about animals.
- Missing encyclopedic articles about plants
- Requested articles about plants (botany)
- Fact-check new biology articles nominated for "Did you know ...?" here. The link is to all nominated articles, but binomial species names are easy to pick out. Successful candidates will be linked to from our Main Page, so let's make them look good!
Cleanup
[edit]Please add {{missing-taxobox}} to the talk page of articles that need taxonomic information.
Articles needing taxoboxes
Articles needing short descriptions
- there are approximately 4000 species articles without short descriptions. Run a PetScan query to get an (imperfect) list.
Articles needing attention
[edit]- Biology pages needing attention (cleanup, expansion, wikification, expert needed, etc.)
Articles needing attention
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Articles without images
- Category:Taxonomic articles needing attention
- Plant articles needing attention
- Plant articles needing expert attention
- Wikipedia requested images of plants
- Unidentified plant images - Unidentified plants on Commons
Assessment
[edit]Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Assessment
Contest
[edit]If you have significantly improved an article recently, consider participating in the Tree of Life Contest, a monthly rolling contest to motivate editors to improve articles related to any aspect of the Tree of Life.
Popular pages
[edit]Popular pages, a bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles.
Quality operations
[edit]Quality operations, a bot-generated detail activity log.