Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ecology/Archive 2

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation "Editing Ecology" brochure
The Wiki Education Foundation will be printing handouts for student editors who are interested in creating or improving ecology articles. I'd love to hear any feedback on this project! You can see the proposed text on my userpage.

I'll be taking changes suggestions throughout the next two weeks, then send it to print. I'll leave this message here, though, as future revisions will be accepted for new prints of the brochure. Thanks!

Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:59, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

AfD Observado.org
The article Observado.org was nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion/Observado.org. Your feedback is appreciated. – Editør (talk) 09:26, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 3
Greetings! For this month's issue...

We have demos!

After a lengthy research and design process, we decided for WikiProject X to focus on two things:
 * A WikiProject workflow that focuses on action items: discussions you can participate in and tasks you can perform to improve the encyclopedia; and
 * An automatically updating WikiProject directory that gives you lists of users participating in the WikiProject and editing in that subject area.

We have a live demonstration of the new WikiProject workflow at WikiProject Women in Technology, a brand new WikiProject that was set up as an adjunct to a related edit-a-thon in Washington, DC. The goal is to surface action items for editors, and we intend on doing that through automatically updated working lists. We are looking into using SuggestBot to generate lists of outstanding tasks, and we are looking into additional options for automatic worklist generation. This takes the burden off of WikiProject editors to generate these worklists, though there is also a "requests" section for Wikipedians to make individual requests. (As of writing, these automated lists are not yet live, so you will see a blank space under "edit articles" on the demo WikiProject. Sorry about that!) I invite you to check out the WikiProject and leave feedback on WikiProject X's talk page.

Once the demo is sufficiently developed, we will be working on a limited deployment on our pilot WikiProjects. We have selected five for the first round of testing based on the highest potential for impact and will scale up from there.

While a re-designed WikiProject experience is much needed, that alone isn't enough. A WikiProject isn't any good if people have no way of discovering it. This is why we are also developing an automatically updated WikiProject directory. This directory will surface project-related metrics, including a count of active WikiProject participants and of active editors in that project's subject area. The purpose of these metrics is to highlight how active the WikiProject is at the given point of time, but also to highlight that project's potential for success. The directory is not yet live but there is a demonstration featuring a sampling of WikiProjects.

Each directory entry will link to a WikiProject description page which automatically list the active WikiProject participants and subject-area article editors. This allows Wikipedians to find each other based on the areas they are interested in, and this information can be used to revive a WikiProject, start a new one, or even for some other purpose. These description pages are not online yet, but they will use this template, if you want to get a feel of what they will look like.

We need volunteers!

WikiProject X is a huge undertaking, and we need volunteers to support our efforts, including testers and coders. Check out our volunteer portal and see what you can do to help us!

As an aside...

Wouldn't it be cool if lists of requested articles could not only be integrated directly with WikiProjects, but also shared between WikiProjects? Well, we got the crazy idea of having experimental software feature Flow deployed (on a totally experimental basis) on the new Article Request Workshop, which seeks to be a place where editors can "workshop" article ideas before they get created. It uses Flow because Flow allows, essentially, section-level categorization, and in the future will allow "sections" (known as "topics" within Flow) to be included across different pages. What this means is that you have a recommendation for a new article tagged by multiple WikiProjects, allowing for the recommendation to appear on lists for each WikiProject. This will facilitate inter-WikiProject collaboration and will help to reduce duplicated work. The Article Request Workshop is not entirely ready yet due to some bugs with Flow, but we hope to integrate it into our pilot WikiProjects at some point.

Harej (talk) 01:58, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library donations
Hello all, I wanted to let you know of two recent donations we just opened up at the Wikipedia Library: WP:Taylor & Francis and WP:World Bank. Please sign up for the accounts if you think you can use them. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 00:23, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Biophony, etc.
If I am mentioning this in the wrong place, I hope some can recommend a better place.

I have noticed a cluster of articles, Biophony, Niche hypothesis, Soundscape ecology, Geophony, Anthropophony, and maybe others, all referenced mainly to the works of Bernie Krause who coined these terms, and all extensively edited by User:Biophony. I hope that someone more familiar than me with the field (which I think is marginally related to ecology) can look at them, and decide whether to remove them as self-promotion, or to improve them by adding more references to sources unconnected with the originator of the terms. Maproom (talk) 07:54, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Renaming Montane ecology
There's a discussion at Talk:Mountain ecology about renaming the article. Feel free to join the discussion. —hike395 (talk) 11:31, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

BioRxiv support in citations
This project's feedback would be appreciated in this discussion, as this could greatly (and positively) affect biological citations! Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 21:52, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Missing topics list
My list of missing topics about biolog and ecology is updated - Skysmith (talk) 13:00, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Feces listed at Requested moves
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Human–animal communication listed at Requested moves
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Stream listed at Requested moves
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Updates to Wikipedia articles about national parks in Africa
On behalf of the nonprofit organization African Parks via the Wyss Foundation, and as part of my work at Beutler Ink, I am working to create and improve several Wikipedia articles related to national parks in Africa. I created this page to describe the scope of the project and provide updates about my progress.

So far, I've submitted an expanded and updated draft for consideration at Talk:Liwonde National Park, and I will be publishing other drafts soon. I invite any Wikipedia editors, especially those with an interest in ecology and protected areas, to follow along and help improve articles by reviewing and responding to the edit requests I post on their talk pages. I'm happy to answer any questions or concerns about my work on my user talk page, or on talk pages belonging to articles in the scope of this project, since I have them watchlisted. Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 16:23, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 11
Newsletter • February 2018

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!

-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Overlaps of articles on ecological relationships
There is a merge discussion at Biological interaction concerning the overlaps of that article, Symbiosis, and Ecological relationship. Opinions are invited. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:09, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

GA nomination of Arlington's Great Meadows
The article Arlington's Great Meadows nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Arlington's Great Meadows for things which need to be addressed.

I'm posting this notice here because this article is covered under WikiProject Ecology, but the nominator has not been active on Wikipedia for two months. epicgenius (talk) 22:53, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Communal roosting
An article of interest to this project&mdash;Communal roosting&mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Mathglot (talk) 06:17, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:35, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Watersheds
Hi! I asked a question about who is interested in watersheds over at [Wikiproject Geography]. If you have any thoughts on the matter, please respond over there! Thanks! -Furicorn (talk) 11:09, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Depauperate ecosystem could be improved.
Depauperate ecosystem could be improved. Could folks please take a look at it?

Thanks - 22:35, 28 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.122.52.73 (talk)

Environmental niche modelling listed at Requested moves
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 13
Newsletter • December 2018

This month: A general update.

The current status of the project is as follows:
 * Progress of the project has been generally delayed since September due to development issues (more bitrot than expected, some of the code just being genuinely confusing, etc) and personal injury (I suffered a concussion in October and was out of commission for almost two months as a result).
 * I currently expect to be putting out a proper call for CollaborationKit pilots in January/February, with estimated deployment in February/March if things don't go horribly wrong (they will, though, don't worry). As a part of that, I will properly update the page and send out announcement and reach out to all projects already signed up as pilots for WikiProject X in general, at which point those (still) interested can volunteer specifically to test the CollaborationKit extension.
 * WikiProject X/Pilots was originally created for the first WikiProject X prototype, and given this is where the project has since gone, it's only logical to continue to use it. While I haven't yet updated the page to properly reflect this:
 * If you want to add your project to this page now, feel free. Just bear in mind that more information what to actually expect will be added later/included in the announcement, because by then I will have a much better idea myself.
 * Until then, you can find me in my corner working on making the CollaborationKit code do what we want and not just what we told it, per the workboard.

Until next time,

-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

List of globally invasive species listed at Requested moves
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Depopulating Ecology categories
For some reason, there has been the depopulation of some ecology categories (see Category:Ecology by country). It's hard to know what is going on or why, but I thought I would post here in case editors involved with the field knew if a problem was going on. Liz Read! Talk! 04:22, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

A possible Science/STEM User Group
There's a discussion about a possible User Group for STEM over at Meta:Talk:STEM_Wiki_User_Group. The idea would be to help coordinate, collaborate and network cross-subject, cross-wiki and cross-language to share experience and resources that may be valuable to the relevant wikiprojects. Current discussion includes preferred scope and structure. T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 03:04, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

2019 Brazil wildfires listed at Requested moves
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2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires listed at Requested moves
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Call for portal maintainers
Are there any editors from this WikiProject willing to maintain Portal:Ecology? The Portals guideline requires that portals be maintained, and as a result numerous portals have been recently been deleted via MfD largely becasue of lack of maintenance. Let me know either way, and thanks, UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:53, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Biophysical environment listed at Requested moves
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WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 15
Newsletter • September 2019

A final update, for now:

The third grant-funded round of WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the final report for more information.

Regards,

-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Climate change and invasive species listed at Requested moves
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Decline_in_insect_populations
Apparently I need people to talk with me before I can improve this article. Writing here as this project is on the talk page. Hmmm, never been here before, despite writing a lot about ecology. Bit odd project, what do people (hill tribes) or forest fires have to do with ecology? I always use ecology in the sense of how an organism interacts with its environment, be that abiotic, habitat, other species, or other individuals of the same species. It seems rather insulting to group poor non-white people as animals. Will look around a bit to see what you guys understand under this term. Cheers, Leo Leo Breman (talk) 12:38, 10 September 2019 (UTC)


 * It’s an interesting article, and topic. I’m not a member of this particular WikiProject, but am at WP:Environment and dropped in here to see what the activity level was. I’m considering proposing some changes. Jusdafax (talk) 19:45, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Draft assistance request - Selection Gradient
Draft:Selection Gradient has been created by. (Yes, it was created for a class assignment.) This article is right at the borderline of whether it's a stub of a stand-alone article or should be incorporated elsewhere, but ecology is not my strong suit. Could some of you in the project with more familiarity with the concept take a look at it and see if it's ready for acceptance, needs some work, or should be rolled into another article rather than created as stand-alone? Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 19:45, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Please, can anyone help to decide and move Draft:Selection Gradient to mainspace? EVEC2 (talk) 15:57, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Ameenah Gurib listed at Requested moves
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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim listed at Requested moves
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Critical transitions listed at Requested moves
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Critical transition listed at Requested moves
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15,000 photos of plants, plant diseases, and plant pests now in the public domain
I am pleased to inform you that all images at https://www.flickr.com/photos/scotnelson/ are now CC-0 public domain. If you find any of use, please upload them directly to Commons using the template, which contains the corresponding OTRS ticket. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:29, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Talk:Predation
There is a discussion at Talk:Predation on the status of human predation. Project members are invited to contribute. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:10, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Software tools for carbon credit forest creation benefitting wildlife corridors
Help on this is appreciated: Talk:Wildlife_corridor --Genetics4good (talk) 14:37, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

Sandbox organiser
Hi all

I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful. Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.

Huge thanks to PrimeHunter and NavinoEvans for their work on the technical parts, without them it wouldn't have happened.

John Cummings (talk) 11:05, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Indigenous (ecology) listed at Requested moves
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Assisted colonization listed at Requested moves
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Reviving WikiProject Zoo
Hello, WikiProject Ecology members, I am reviving WikiProject Zoo as I feel many of the zoo articles are lackluster. If anyone is interested in helping out, please do so. -- PaleoMatt (talk) 17:24, 5 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Question isn’t there already a Wikiproject for animals?CycoMa (talk) 17:25, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
 * There is however I thought some members here would also be interested. -- PaleoMatt (talk) 17:33, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Science Competition 2021
Hi! I would like to remind you all that Wiki Science Competition 2021 has started in many territories last week. It will last until November 30th or December 15th, depending on the areas.

WSC is organized every two years, and people from all countries can upload files (the goal are the international prizes paid by WMEE and WMCH) but specific national pages are also set up, for example for the USA or Ireland or New Zealand. Such national competitions (when they exist) act as an additional incentive to participate.

We expect a sitenotice to show up for all readers here on enWikipedia as well, probably during the second half of the month when all countries with national competitions are open for submission at the same time. In the meantime, if you are planing to upload some nice descriptive photo, infographics or video to Wikimedia Commons, please consider submitting them using the WSC interface, you might win a prize.--Alexmar983 (talk) 23:30, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Rfc about the periodic table in the lede of the PT article: 18 columns or 32?
Should the periodic table in the lede of the periodic table article have 18-columns or 32?

The rfc is here.

I thought I'd ask given the involvement of quite a few of the elements in ecological processes. Sandbh (talk) 22:20, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

RM of Acclimatisation society to Acclimatisation movement
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Gypsy moths in the United States listed at Requested moves
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Proposed merge of Micro-animal and Microfauna
Articles of interest to this project—Micro-animal and Microfauna—have been proposed for merging with each other. If you are interested, please participate in the discussion here. Thank you. 93 (talk) 20:25, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

P-22 (mountain lion) listed at Requested moves
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El_Ni%C3%B1o needs attention
El_Ni%C3%B1o says:


 * In terrestrial ecosystems, rodent outbreaks were observed in northern Chile and along the Peruvian coastal desert following the 1972-73 El Niño event. While some nocturnal primates (western tarsiers Tarsius bancanus and slow loris Nycticebus coucang) and the Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) were locally extirpate or suffered drastic reduction in numbers within these burned forests.

However, the animals named don't live in the places mentioned.

I don't understand what was intended here. Can anybody sort this out?

- 189.122.243.241 (talk) 04:35, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Carbon source
This article looks like it could benefit from some attention by this project 76.14.122.5 (talk) 19:00, 30 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Good point. You should make an account and help update it! I will nominate it as an Articles for improvement but that can talk a while. Thanks for the heads up and I hope you make an account. - Wil540 art (talk) 03:07, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:37, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Forest zone listed at Requested moves
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Polar forests of the Cretaceous listed at Requested moves
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Mire listed at Requested moves
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