Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Newsletter/006/Story 1

Welcoming WikiProject Diptera

This month saw a vanishingly rare occurrence for the Tree of Life: a new WikiProject joined the fold. WikiProject Diptera, however, is also unusual in being a classroom project. Whether or not this project will stay active once the semester ends remains to be seen. It does not bode well, however, that &mdash;a creation from the same instructor at St. Louis University&mdash;faded to obscurity shortly after the fall semester concluded in 2014. WikiProject Vespidae is defunt and redirects to the Hymenoptera task force of WikiProject Insects.

Since 2014, the Tree of Life has seen a string of years where one or zero projects or task forces were created. The year 2006 saw the greatest creation of WikiProjects and task forces, with fourteen still active and the remaining six as "semiactive", "inactive", or "defunct".