This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
What motivated you to join WikiProject Turtles? Do you have any experience studying or caring for turtles? Have you contributed to any of the project's Featured Articles, Lists, or Media?
Started in 2011, WikiProject Turtles is a fairly young project. How difficult was it to build the project's pages, resources, and membership to its current state? What are the greatest challenges facing new projects?
Are turtles from some geographic areas better covered by Wikipedia than others? What can be done to fill holes in coverage?
How difficult is it to acquire images for articles about turtles? Which are more valuable for turtle articles: illustrations or photographs?
Who maintains the project's range maps? Where is this information typically derived from? Does it require a lot of skill in mapping or image manipulation?
Is there much overlap in the membership and goals of WikiProject Turtles and its parent WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles? Does WikiProject Turtles collaborate with any other projects?
What are the project's most urgent needs? How can a new contributor help today?
Anything else you'd like to add?
Next week will be dedicated to the Wikipedians who labor away sorting our trash. Until then, find an old discussion in the
archive.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Turtles. The young project started in January 2011 and has accumulated 5 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, and 6 Featured Pictures. The project maintains a combined to-do list and hot articles meter, a popular pages ranking, and a collection of resources for turtle articles. We interviewed Faendalimas and NYMFan69-86.
What motivated you to join WikiProject Turtles? Do you have any experience studying or caring for turtles? Have you contributed to any of the project's Featured Articles, Lists, or Media?
Started in 2011, WikiProject Turtles is a fairly young project. How difficult was it to build the project's pages, resources, and membership to its current state? What are the greatest challenges facing new projects?
Are turtles from some geographic areas better covered by Wikipedia than others? What can be done to fill holes in coverage?
How difficult is it to acquire images for articles about turtles? Which are more valuable for turtle articles: illustrations or photographs?
Who maintains the project's range maps? Where is this information typically derived from? Does it require a lot of skill in mapping or image manipulation?
Is there much overlap in the membership and goals of WikiProject Turtles and its parent WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles? Does WikiProject Turtles collaborate with any other projects?
What are the project's most urgent needs? How can a new contributor help today?
Anything else you'd like to add?
Next week will be dedicated to the Wikipedians who labor away sorting our trash. Until then, find an old discussion in the
archive.
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@Mabeenot, thanks for one more piece of the puzzle. Great coverage - keep it up. Ottawahitech ( talk) 20:48, 27 November 2012 (UTC) reply