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Behavioral Ecology How to Pick Your Wasp Species Due ASAP Get back to course page

How to Pick Your Wasp Species
Behavioral Ecology, Biology 472, Teacher: Strassmann, TAs: Earnest, Vernier

'NOTE: This is for your SEMESTER LONG'' Wikipedia project. These must ALL be wasps and cannot overlap with other students. This is NOT the 5 species for assignment 2. The 5 species you choose for assignment 2 should already have more developed Wikipedia articles, can be a wasp, bee, or ant, and can overlap with other students.

Each student must pick their own wasp species to create or edit a Wikipedia page for.

'''This is on a first come, first serve basis. Read below to see how to claim your species.'''

To pick your species, visit the Vespidae WikiProject page and scroll down until you see a list of wasp species. You can choose one of these species (italicized names-- NOT the family or genus names), or you can choose a different species that is not on this list, if you happen to know one.

When you update your wasp's Wikipedia page in the future, you will be focusing on the topics in your assigned chapter of the textbook. So keep this in mind when choosing a species. Read your chapter before you choose.

It would be good to do a little research on your species before you choose. Do a google scholar search of the species and check out what is in the literature before you choose it. You will be using articles from peer reviewed journals to update your pages.

How to claim your species
First, go to the the student table I created under the "Grading" heading near the bottom of the course Wikipedia page.

Make sure no one has already chosen your species!
 * Note: An easy way to do this is to hit control F (or command F on Mac) and search for your species name on the course Wikipedia page.

Click on the "edit" button near the "Grading" heading. In the editing text box, scroll down to where you see the code for the table. Copy the code that is directly below my example species name. Try to follow the way I did it using WikiCode and input your name and species' name (MAKE SURE YOU SPELL IT RIGHT). You should have links for BOTH your username AND your species name. If your species already has a Wikipedia page, its link will be blue. If not, it will be red. Right now, it doesn't matter if it has a page or not. Most will not have pages.

Hit "save" and make sure that the table looks okay. You may have forgotten to put a part of code in that is necessary for formatting.

Finally, since you will all be using WikiCode throughout this course, I suggest taking the tutorial that you can find near the top of the course page, or here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students. It doesn't take long at all.