Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods

WikiProject Gastropods is a group of people who are working on creating and improving Wikipedia articles about gastropods, i.e. snails and slugs of every kind: those that live in saltwater, brackish water, freshwater, and on land. The project also covers articles on topics related to gastropods, including anatomical features of snails and slugs, malacologists, or other aspects of gastropod biology. Any editor who is prepared to contribute constructively is welcome to join this endeavour.

Taxonomy
For all marine species, Project Gastropods uses the taxonomy in the online database WoRMS or more recent changes, published in a scientific article. Synonyms are to be given alphabetically such as in WoRMS.

Parentage
This WikiProject is an subproject of WikiProject Tree of Life


 * WikiProject Science
 * WikiProject Biology
 * WikiProject Tree of Life
 * WikiProject Animals
 * WikiProject Gastropods

Participants
If you would like to help work on WikiProject Gastropods, please place your name at the bottom of the list. Once you are signed up, please watchlist the project talk page, so you know what's happening with the project in general; sometimes input is needed from all the members on issues that come up. Thanks.

Note: If you are not signed up here, or if you have subsequently removed your name from the list, it will be assumed that you are not a member of Project Gastropods. If you wish to be considered part of the Project, your name must be on the list. If you are about to become permanently inactive in this project, please strike your name out or remove it from the list. If you cannot contribute over a significant period of time for any other reason but do intend to return, please note that on this list. If you are inactive for a year with no explanation your name may be removed from the list. Thank you.

2004 2005
 * - 13:20, 10 May 2004 (UTC), founder of the project
 * No new editors during 2005

2006 2007 2008
 * - 00:59, 11 April 2006 (UTC) Australian and extinct Gastropods
 * - 00:13, 24 January 2007‎ (UTC) - what am I doing right now: User:Snek01/to do
 * - 14:01, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * - 13:06, 12 August 2007 (UTC) Caribbean marine, British non-marine, and Californian marine
 * - 12:06, 27 September 2007 (UTC) - land snails, especially North American
 * No new editors during 2008

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
 * - 21:49, 14 March 2009
 * - May 2009, has contributed numerous articles on and photos of the nudibranchs of the Cape Town area of South Africa
 * - 02:46, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * - 15:34, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * - 15 September 2009 (UTC)
 * - 16:37, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * - 18:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC), Nudibranchia, especially Indo-Pacific
 * - 22:21, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * - 11:12, 12 February 2010 (UTC)- Central European molluscs
 * - 20:32, 30 April 2010 (UTC), bot and software expertise
 * - 00:49, 20 December 2010 (UTC) -Invertzoo invited me to join a few days ago, and I finally got around to it! My goal is primarily to add articles to the project, but because I am busy, I may be participating in on/off spurts.
 * - Peter Maas - 21:03, 6 June 2011 (UTC) Mainly recent extinctions (since about 1500 AD), extinctions in the wild, and rediscoveries.
 * - 23:51, 21 September 2011 (UTC) especially Californian, endangered, and newly described species.
 * - Marine mollusca, with emphasis on Californian and Panamic province marine gastropods, world-wide molluscs, systematics, evolution, ecology, etc. - 20:56, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * - 06:37, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
 * -Сollector Cones. Photos of Cones. Site of my collection Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea - 08:30,11 January 2012 (UTC)
 * - 20:55, 16 March 2012 (UTC) land snail taxonomist
 * - 18:39, 15 April 2012 (UTC))
 * - 08:14, 4 June 2012 (UTC) Shell photography
 * - 10:59, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * - 21:33, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * - 10:42, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * - 03:13, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - 06:46, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * - 01:47, 9 August 2012 (UTC) - mainly images and references
 * - 14:03, 27 November 2012 (UTC) - mainly adding images and missing pages for Heterobranch gastropods
 * - 09:55, 10 December 2012 (UTC) - I am more than happy to improve the Pyramidellidae-related articles.
 * - 20:44, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * - 20:28, 1 February 2013 (UTC) - Write stubs every now and then.
 * - 16:35, 15 March 2013 (UTC) - mainly images and references
 * - 05:49, 5 August 2013 (UTC) - Just a keen scuba diver and nudibranchophile
 * - 13:39, 18 August 2013 (UTC) -- Non-expert, creating stubs, and trying to supply binomial authorities to all species. Got plans.
 * - 3 February 2014, Biologist, worked on oyster parasitology for seven years with published papers, scuba diver, high school science teacher who took students to Heron Island several times.
 * - 17:54, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
 * - 16:39, 30 March 2014 (UTC) - Anything from the Cape Peninsula and False Bay, and occasional other things that may come up from time to time. I work intermittently and unpredictably on several projects.
 * 02:18, 15 November 2014‎

2015
 * - 22:21, 13 January 2015 (UTC) - I'm familiar with Nudipleura and some Cephalaspidea
 * - 01:01, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * - 23:11, 7 March 2015 (UTC) - InvertZoo invited me to the group. I've been adding/updating IUCN details to most animal pages since the 2014.3 update.

2016
 * - 05:27 January 2016 (UTC)--I mianly edit Chinese land snails .And I wish that WikiProject Gastropods will be better and better.
 * - 03:26, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * - 06:11, 31 July 2016 (UTC) -- Australian and European taxa

2017
 * - 17:10, 15 July 2017 (UTC)) - I study New Zealand buccinoid whelks (mainly). Happy to help! My priority is getting more of the primary literature cited, with findings accessible to the public.

2018
 * - 16:42, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

2019
 * - 19:18, 13 January 2019 (UTC) - Sea slug enthusiast
 * - 19:00, 20 January 2019 (UTC) - European land snails, mainly adding information about clausilids
 * 17:02, 16 May 2019 (UTC) - I study slugs in the UK and want to update the pages for them

2020
 * - 'Edible' (land) snails, with focus on heliciculture (snail farming).
 * - I mostly plan on editing stub and start quality articles, adding more information that can be found

2021
 * - I plan on editing the Ampullariidae page KaileyMag12 (talk) 00:23, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * - Adding pages and info for shells in my collection
 * - Slug enthusiast on a mission to create/improve sea slug articles
 * - uni student majoring in geography

2022
 * - I mainly edit/add-to stub and start quality articles, re. Western Atlantic marine species.
 * (mainly stubs - trying to link with authors and their texts)
 * - I mainly edit/add-to stub and start quality articles, re. Western Atlantic marine species.
 * (mainly stubs - trying to link with authors and their texts)

2024
 * - Definitely want to create some articles, lower the amount of red links.

Honorary members (a light-hearted and non-serious listing) :
 * , who helped us a great deal a few years ago, especially with love dart
 * , who gave us much encouragement in 2009 and 2010

More useful info

 * WikiProject Gastropods/Links A somewhat out-of-date list of useful online sources of gastropod information
 * Invitation, Welcome, and barnstars to give out to editors
 * Userboxes
 * News about the Project
 * Related Wikiprojects
 * Parentage Wikiprojects and Descendant Wikiprojects
 * Assessment
 * Recognized content (Good articles and "Did you know?" articles)

A chart of our article statistics
Note that we usually have no articles that are unassessed by class or by importance. That is a significant achievement; in most projects that is not the case.

(Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Gastropods articles by quality statistics)

Other useful links: New articles, Most popular pages, A random gastropod article, Bouchet & Rocroi, Update the data, |Watchlist Changes to all Gastropod-related articles Cleanup listing for WikiProject Gastropods

For recent changes in quality statistics, see: Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Gastropods articles by quality log

How-to info

 * Gtk-dialog-info.svg Article sections, article names, and stub types
 * List of article contents
 * Taxonomy, and how to write taxoboxes


 * Genus taxobox, example with picture
 * Categories
 * Templates

Tasks

 * Nuvola apps klipper.png Overview of tasks - please feel free to add suggestions for new articles here
 * Nuvola apps package editors.png Long term tasks

Resources

 * Nuvola apps looknfeel.png Images: gastropod images that are already on Commons. You can add these to preexisting articles, or in some cases start new articles
 * Nuvola apps bookcase.svg Free texts: public domain sources
 * Tsclient.svg External links: list of online resources for information on gastropods

Tools

 * Watchlists
 * Icon tools.svg A watch list showing daily changes to the top 350 of our highest quality gastropod articles.
 * |Watchlist Changes to all Gastropod-related articles
 * Watchlist of changes to all the Gastropod-related article talk pages


 * New articles
 * Nuvola apps knewsticker.png For a list of new articles that mention slugs, snails or other gastropod-related keywords: User:AlexNewArtBot/GastropodsSearchResult, now updated once every 3 days.


 * Hot articles
 * Most edited articles of the month


 * Popular articles
 * Nuvola apps amor.svg A list of the most often accessed gastropod pages: WikiProject_Gastropods/Popular_pages
 * A random gastropod article; this link takes you to a different random article each time you click on it.


 * Other
 * Cleanup listing

Malacology barnstar is awarded to recognize great devotion in the creation and maintenance of high quality articles related to members of the phylum Mollusca. Use  to award this barnstar.
 * Malacology barnstar


 * Other (not gastropods specific)
 * Main tool page: toolserver.org
 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion for improving articles.

