In the Summer of 2011, Wikimedia UK and ARKive are collaborating on a project to improve Wikipedia's articles on threatened species. This will involve sharing some of ARKive's text content with Wikipedia, and community outreach through online and offline events. This will involve a fixed-period in-residence role that we are calling Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador. Andy Mabbett, known on Wikipedia as User:Pigsonthewing, has been appointed to this role, starting on 11 July. He's written a blog post about the role.
For background and contacts, please see the Wikimedia UK page for the project.
The project will involve internal tasks of improving content and liaising with the Wikipedia and Wikiproject communities. Internal tasks will include:
We held two events, on the afternoon, and again in the evening of 15 September, in Bristol, using the hashtag #GLAMARKive on Twitter.
You can read more about the events.
As part of this collaboration Wildscreen have kindly agreed to release the text (note: not images or other media) of 200 of their ARKive articles (listed below) under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL.
Those agreed to date are listed below, together with some suggested article sections for expansion.
For an example of how ARKive text can be incorporated into a Wikipedia article, please see this change to the African Elephant article.
Once articles are improved using the donated texts, editors are invited to:
Wildscreen have agreed to release their ARKive text about the following species (more to follow). Struck through titles have been improved, and moved to the section below.
The following articles have also been edited as part of this project:
The following articles have been created as part of this project:
![]() | On 31 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Common box turtle, which GLAM/ARKive improved. The fact was ... that the male common box turtle (pictured) has to lean back past the vertical to mate with the female? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | On 6 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George McGavin, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that TV presenter George McGavin cooks and eat insects? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | On 9 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Encephalartos caffer, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the Eastern Cape dwarf cycad was one of the first three Cape cycads to be declared endangered by the Cape provincial nature conservation authorities? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template talk:Did you know/Encephalartos caffer. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | On 16 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Entoloma bloxamii, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the fungus Bloxam's entoloma was named after an English clergyman? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template talk:Did you know/Entoloma bloxamii.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | On 27 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Deinacrida rugosa, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the male Cook Strait giant weta attracts mates using the aroma of its feces? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Deinacrida rugosa. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
In the Summer of 2011, Wikimedia UK and ARKive are collaborating on a project to improve Wikipedia's articles on threatened species. This will involve sharing some of ARKive's text content with Wikipedia, and community outreach through online and offline events. This will involve a fixed-period in-residence role that we are calling Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador. Andy Mabbett, known on Wikipedia as User:Pigsonthewing, has been appointed to this role, starting on 11 July. He's written a blog post about the role.
For background and contacts, please see the Wikimedia UK page for the project.
The project will involve internal tasks of improving content and liaising with the Wikipedia and Wikiproject communities. Internal tasks will include:
We held two events, on the afternoon, and again in the evening of 15 September, in Bristol, using the hashtag #GLAMARKive on Twitter.
You can read more about the events.
As part of this collaboration Wildscreen have kindly agreed to release the text (note: not images or other media) of 200 of their ARKive articles (listed below) under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL.
Those agreed to date are listed below, together with some suggested article sections for expansion.
For an example of how ARKive text can be incorporated into a Wikipedia article, please see this change to the African Elephant article.
Once articles are improved using the donated texts, editors are invited to:
Wildscreen have agreed to release their ARKive text about the following species (more to follow). Struck through titles have been improved, and moved to the section below.
The following articles have also been edited as part of this project:
The following articles have been created as part of this project:
![]() | On 31 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Common box turtle, which GLAM/ARKive improved. The fact was ... that the male common box turtle (pictured) has to lean back past the vertical to mate with the female? If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | On 6 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George McGavin, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that TV presenter George McGavin cooks and eat insects? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | On 9 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Encephalartos caffer, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the Eastern Cape dwarf cycad was one of the first three Cape cycads to be declared endangered by the Cape provincial nature conservation authorities? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template talk:Did you know/Encephalartos caffer. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | On 16 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Entoloma bloxamii, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the fungus Bloxam's entoloma was named after an English clergyman? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template talk:Did you know/Entoloma bloxamii.You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
![]() | On 27 August 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Deinacrida rugosa, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the male Cook Strait giant weta attracts mates using the aroma of its feces? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Deinacrida rugosa. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |