Wikipedia:School and university projects/Nature Conservation Foundation - Improvement drive on articles on Indian wildlife/forests

Starting with a wiki-workshop being coordinated by User:Prashanthns during their Annual Refresher on February 28, 2011 at BR Hills in South India, scientists and students at Nature Conservation Foundation plan to improve articles on Indian Wildlife through better referencing, improving and updating information, adding distribution maps and uploading photographs from their fieldwork onto Wikimedia Commons. This will be an ongoing event through 2011. If participation is good and articles do get improved, it is likely to be continued.

Background
Wildlife researchers generate a huge amount of photographs, videos and other media in course of their field work. A lot of these lie within the dark hinterlands of their own computers. They have immense educational value in illustrating articles on wikipedia. Similarly, several scientific reports and assignments prepared by students, literature reviews done by them for projects etc all have immense scope for improving articles on wikipedia.

Scope of project

 * Articles on Indian Wildlife
 * Indian forests
 * Human-wildlife conflict

Project being coordinated by User:Prashanthns. Event being a follow-up of the discussion during [Valparai Wiki TEN

Resources
A number of wikiprojects may be associated with the articles being taken up by this group. (Include names of projects that could be consulted)
 * Wikiproject India
 * Wikiproject Protected Areas
 * The Wikiproject Tree of life is the umbrella wiki project for several groups of wikipedians working on various taxonomic groups - Fungi project or Birds wiki project for example. Feel free to exchange and interact with these projects especially for id.
 * Many Indian wikipedians work specifically on these themes (Add to list if you are an Indian wikipedian and are willing to help volunteers on this project) - User:Shyamal, User:AshLin,
 * Some immediate articles to improve (if you are looking out for!) is the Yet to do list maintained by User:Shyamal.
 * For the entomologically inclined, there are users like User:Notafly, User:Dyanega...(etc) who have been working away especially on the Lepidoptera.
 * For the birdy types, there are users such as User:Sabine's Sunbird, User:innotata, User:Jimfbleak working on birds in general (also Indian birds)
 * For the PA types, feel free to contact User:Marcus334, actively working on PAs from TN at the moment.
 * If you have bird calls that are not already on this list, upload them! And add them to the relevant article on birds.

Members

 * 1) User:Prashanthns
 * 2) User:ForPavithra
 * 3) User:Cdlima
 * 4) User:ibex1234
 * 5) User:Shankar Raman
 * 6) User:KavitaIsvaran
 * 7) User:Mandamanic