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Physical oceanography is a current candidate on the Science collaboration. Vote for it if you want to see this article improved. -- Fenice 07:19, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Please help to keep the Biology portal's Open tasks list up to date. This is one of our main communication methods to help get newcomers more involved in editing articles. It contains a list of articles that need improving, articles that need creating, articles that need cleanup, etc. And of course, if you have the time, please help and work on some of the tasks on that list! -- Cyde Weys 05:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
If anyone has an interest in the bioregional democracy article, I'm currently taking some dynamite to it. Right now it is an ungainly chimera of an article (see its Talk page for my detailed comments), but since some of the more coherant sections deal with ecoregions, I though I might find some interested editors here. - David Oberst 00:38, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I'm currently working mostly at WikiProject:Fishes and I'm categorising articles (species/genera etc) by geography. So far I've been using very broad continental categories eg Fish of the Atlantic etc. When I've finished that I'd like to categorise by eco-region. Could anyone give a link to a list of Categories you've got, or maybe suggest some (fairly broad categories) Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks. HappyVR 13:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC) (Not as many as at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html - could use these as subcategories later on..) HappyVR 13:06, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello! We are looking for interwiki for cs:Acidofilní bučina which is supposed to be Acidophilous beech forests (or may be that Medio-European acidophilous beech forests).
The labeling is:
Can you help us? (That would be somewhat strange if such divisions are not implemented in en:Wiki, when this one is fiftytimes bigger then the cs: . cs: is having quite good covering of those topics, but I could'nt find anything here. No article, neither any reasonable navigation)
Thanks a lot Reo ON | + + + 10:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I am trying to get a discussion going on the Flora of <region>/Fauna of <region>/Biota of <region> categories.
Please see Category talk:Biota by country GameKeeper 13:56, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 23:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I made a project template for you. You can add it to an article by typing "{{WP Ecoregions}}" at the top of a talk page. It looks like this:
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Feel free to modify it as needed. I made it green so it would be "ecologically friendly." :-) ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 00:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
I just discovered this WikiProject, and will certainly join.
I recently started working on the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) regions. The WWF ecoregions in Australia are based on the IBRA regions; each ecoregion is either identical to an IBRA region, or the amalgamation of a couple of neighbouring IBRA regions. Where an ecoregion is identical to an IBRA region, they can obviously be dealt with in a single article. I have so far written one such article, Warren (biogeographic region), which also happens to be your "Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands" ecoregion. I located it at "Warren" because in Australia IBRA is widely known, used and respected, whereas the WWF ecoregion system is largely unknown. Also the IBRA regions predate and precede the ecoregions. Naturally there is a redirect from Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands. How do you guys feel about this?
Warren is still a work in progress, so don't judge it too harshly, okay? My other almost-finished articles are Esperance Plains and Mallee, which together make up your "Esperance mallee".
Hesperian 12:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I have recently created a banner for Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology which has assessment parameters. I notice that your existing banner does not. Given the amount of overlap in the biology sector, and the concerns expressed elsewhere about the proliferation of project banners, I was wondering whether the members of this project would be interested in perhaps utilizing the Biology banner, with a "drop down tab" for this project, perhaps similar to the {{ WPMILHIST}} banner. Doing so would permit for individual assessment for each project, as that is something the Military History banner does, while at the same time reducing the amount of banner "clutter" on talk pages. If you would be interested in such an arrangement, please let me know and I will work to revise the Biology banner to include the "drop-down" tab and make the other arrangements required for your project, as well as theirs, to have assessment data available. Thank you. John Carter 20:58, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Southern florida is mentioned as part of the neotropics, but a quick survey with keywords neotropics florida everglades nearctic on scholar.google.com shows mostly articles about immigation of species from the west indies to florida. Is the mentioning fo south florida correct, is its status under scientific discussion, what are our sources? TeunSpaans 02:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
It looks like there is no infobox for an ecological area ?
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ecology#Infobox and 'linking' templates for ecological areas and provide any comments there.
Peet Ern ( talk) 02:29, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. WP:HAWAII currently has four terrestrial ecoregions in need of article creation. Please consider adding these four articles to your task list for collaboration. Thank you. Viriditas ( talk) 12:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I've proposed a new WikiProject named WikiProject Biota of the UK and Ireland which would encompass all species and conservation efforts within Britain, an extremely interesting area. The project would include vegetation classification, Category:Lists of British animals, Category:Conservation in the United Kingdom, Category:Ecology of the British Isles, Category:Forests and woodlands of the United Kingdom, Category:Fauna of the British Isles and anything else to do with the flora and fauna of Britain. If anyone is interested just leave your name on the proposal page. Cheers, Jack ( talk) 17:12, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject:Arctic and its related portal have been started. Mentioned here as it is its own ecoregion in the circumpolar north. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 01:14, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
North Sea is currently undergoing GA review. Any assistance appreciated. SriMesh | talk 00:14, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I've made a "test proposal" at CfD to see if there is a consensus for replacing the categorization system of classifying biota "by country" with a system that would categorize biota "by ecozone". See here to read or comment. Looking for as much input as possible especially from those expert in the area. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:16, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
What on Earth happened to the article on plant geography? PG is a field of study and although there are relations with this article, it should have its own article. As far as I can fathom from the history of this article, it actually started out as an article on PG and then gradually got modified until it became the current article with the current title. I'm not enough of an expert to untangle this mess, though, but perhaps somebody else can. -- Crusio ( talk) 11:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
South America is not the only place that Tepui are found. There is a group of them located in North West Oregon, close to Grants Pass. I am sure that they are not near as big as the ones in South America, but they are awe inspiring in their own right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.96.227.221 ( talk) 20:46, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Comments on this matter would be appreciated. • Rabo³ • 10:21, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
I came here following a posting by someone concerned about POV/tone/SOAP at Talk:Pacific temperate rain forests (WWF ecoregion), partly to discrern how and why this WikiProject is different from WP:Ecology and WP:Environment and, for that matter, WP:Geography. In some articles I was already disturbed by the way ecoregion names were being substituted for the usual/offical landform names (e.g. Boreal Cordillera as if it were a mountain range and not an ecozone) or in the case of the forest ecoregions by linking from simple phrases like temperate rainforest but in looking over the project page I see the problem is deeper-engrained that simply a matter of misdirection, or the POVism described in the talkpage just linked; here's what I noticed on your project talkpage?
Excuse me, but since when is Wikipedia a platform or vehicle for the WWF ecoregion egenda, especially when there are other ecological classification systems, most importantly the one from the Center for Environmental Cooperation, the US branch of which is the EPA, in Canada it's Environment Canada. There's also the biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia and other systems. This project should responsibly be neutral and not advance the interests or perspective of one system over the other; because of the duality between WWF and CEC ecoregions/ecozones, disambiguation and contextual mention of the attached organization to the ecoregion being described should be mandatory. And there should be an end to confusing or ignoring regular geography while advancing catchhraess and slogan/campaign names as if they were places and not the names of campaigns (e.g. Great Bear Rainforest, Sacred Headwaters). Overall I'm finding most ecoregion pages to be annoyinguly full of SOAP, POV and OR; in the case of the Pacific Temperate rainforest one, it reads like a junior high school primer full of the usual cliches - marbled murrelets, spotted owls, salmon, with no mention of the actual full range of biodiversity in situ. Wikipedia should not be a soapbox, and it's a pity that so much of the sources that ecoregion studies are built on (the WWF, CEC, plus the various NGO sources) are so POV and full of cliches. I recognize that it's an infant science, or a juvenile one, so such things are understandable as it grasps at making reality to itself; I recommend a read thorugh the prologue of Faust....Anyway Summing up:
The distinction between articles/links on forests in general and their linking to WWF ecoregion-format definitions is highly questionable, and has a certain insidious nature. Forests, to me, would also seem to be in the provenance of the WP:Biology project and maybe WP:Botany if there is one (whichever is on Talk:California Floristic Province, which I found in a geographic list, not even an ecoregion one. Too many conflicting agendas, all apparently on the same subject, but advnacing different ideologies/affiliations...this can't go on. Skookum1 ( talk) 00:55, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
I created this long-overdue list, for now a list of redlinks, as the Forest Districts are far more important than the regional districts which too many wikipages have been using as locational references and as if somehow the regional districts were all that important in the BC political geographic scheme of things (which they are not). Each item listed can have its own writeup/content, re ecology, annual allowable cut, FSRs, workforce, value, local issues etc, and the BC Ministry of Forests (actually right now named the BC Ministry of Forests and Range) needs its own article, as do other BC ministries. This will be a component of List of administrative regions of British Columbia, which will also have Ministry of Environment Regions, EMR Mines Districts, Tourism Districts; there's already the Health Regions. Too much weight has been given regional districts in Wikipedia with the result that a lot of content placing things in regional districts constitutes original research/synthesis; the other types of regions are far more powerful, especially in terms of land management but also in relation to political power, budgeting, economics etc.....and in use as geographic descriptions/locators, where MoF districts especially are commonlyu used (though the primary reference used by all govt sources, including the federal level, is Land Districts. Note the use of full capitals in the title; Forest District denotes a legal entity, "forest district" or "forest region" is not a formally-defined entity but could just be a general "region of forest" etc.... Skookum1 ( talk) 14:02, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Any chance of an info box template, and maybe some maps?
I've been working with programming around WWF ecoregions for a large broadcasting organisation, and it would seem a trivial matter to create these features. Please let me know if you would like some help. Leegee23 ( talk) 14:12, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Doreano created these years ago, but they never got linked to from anywhere. They're on wikimedia: [1] Miguel.v ( talk) 02:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
User:Istanbuljohnm just used Template:Geobox for an infobox on the Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands article and it looks pretty good. There actually is a Template:Infobox ecoregion, but it's old, shoddy looking, and not much used. I'm happy to use Template:Geobox instead.
Additionally, The Nature Conservancy's Atlas of Global Conservation has all sorts of up-to-date statistics for the WWF ecoregions, including things like habitat loss, protected area percentage, and plant and animal diversity. I think these stats would be perfect for ecoregion infoboxes. Miguel.v ( talk) 21:01, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:HighBeam describes a limited opportunity for Wikipedia editors to have access to
HighBeam Research.
—
Wavelength (
talk)
17:41, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
I help run a project called GibraltarpediA, we are trying to cover as much as possible in Gibraltar in as many languages as possible. The project is based on MonmouthpediA, where we created 550+ new articles in 30 languages in around 4 months, Monmouth became the world’s first Wikipedia town.
As part of GibraltarpediA we aim to cover every plant in the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens and create QRpedia codes (a type of bar code your phone can read through it's camera that automatically takes you through to a Wikipedia in your own language) in the garden to give people easy access to the information. As far as I know the first botanic garden to do this. A full list of the plants is available here, I would estimate around half already have some information in English but many have an article in other languages already.
We’ve started the Gibraltar Challenge to reward contributors where you can win books and tshirts etc. We’d really love people from WikiProject Ecoregions to be involved, you can find out more by clicking here.
Many thanks
Mrjohncummings ( talk) 12:22, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Ecology of California has been proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ecology of California. Please feel free to join in the discussion. — hike395 ( talk) 02:57, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
I have proposed WikiProject Biomes for deletion (see the MfD), but someone suggested redirecting it to here. Or it could become a task force in this project. Comments? RockMagnetist ( talk) 01:13, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello Ecosystems experts:
This article has been submitted at Afc: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tropical Dry Forest.
Right now Tropical dry forest redirects to Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests.
I thought that you might want to check this out.
— Anne Delong ( talk) 11:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
A story in the BBC is blaming Crown-of-thorns starfish for the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef. Is this of interest to this wikiproject? X Ottawahitech ( talk) 16:13, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Please feel free to contribute to Draft:Nama Karoo - a large xeric shrubland ecoregion in Southern Africa. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 08:56, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
We are rewriting the article on Peat Swamp Forests for a college project. Please see sandbox here [ [2]] and add any relevant suggestions or commentary. Jboyar9 ( talk) 20:05, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Cape Verde to be moved to Cabo Verde. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 19:00, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Stewart Island to be moved to Stewart Island/Rakiura. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:30, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I am pinging user:Plantdrew and user:Graeme Bartlett because they seem to assess most new ecoregion articles. It is not clear what criteria are used to assign {{ WikiProject Ecoregions}} importance ratings for articles that define ecoregions. The project's link to the importance scale leads nowhere. But see WP:Assessing articles. Different projects use different criteria, but the general idea seems to be:
There are 867 terrestrial ecoregions. I would say the project goal should be for them to all have an article, making them all Mid importance to the project, whatever their absolute importance may be in the broader scheme of things. Comments? Aymatth2 ( talk) 16:09, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks to the three eds to acknowledge the validity of this project - I have as part of the Australian project a vast number of potential articles untouched or uncreated as yet - Land types (Western Australian land type) which fit into this area as well - they would be low importance in this area JarrahTree 01:50, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions/Assessment. If there are no strong objections in the next 10 days, I propose to add links to these guidelines from the project main page and from the {{ WikiProject Ecoregions}} project template. The guidelines confirm that the project uses the standard quality scale and provide an importance scale, which was missing. The importance scale is very simple, and may overstate or understate the importance of a few articles, but should be good enough for the purpose of prioritizing improvement. Comments? Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:14, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
When recovered from inactive status - the project was found to have few/little of the expected array of bells and whistles for a normal functioning wikiproject - lots of assessment and normal talk page template items were simply not there - anything added to help the project is welcome/wanted - please and thanks JarrahTree 14:37, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Yes, this project could use some work getting various project based tools and reports included. Adding assessment guidelines is a good start. Plantdrew ( talk) 20:05, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Piney Woods to be moved to Pineywoods. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:45, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Is Wikiproject Ecoregions essentially the same as Wikiproject Biogeography or is another wikiproject more responsible for managing the multiple biogeographic schemes? It seems like the focus here is mostly on WWF ecoregions, si I wasn't sure if anyone was looking at other, non-WWF biogeographic schema.
I was examining the various Biogeography classification schema and the categories look like they could do with a good sprucing up. Take the floristic province, North American Prairies Provinces, the category graph looks like this [ this]. Obviously things could be cleaned up for that article, but if you move up the tree, you see the Category:Ecoregions of Canada ((which goes to a disambiguation page for 3 ecoregion/ecozone schemes)), two of which seem to differ from the WWF regions, which are different from the floristic regions, not even to mention that the classifications schemes themselves seem to be up for active academic debate. - Furicorn ( talk) 22:47, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
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)
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.
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.
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. — The Transhumanist 10:55, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Southern Hudson Bay Taiga to be moved to Southern Hudson Bay taiga. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:33, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
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.
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Cape Verde to be moved to Cabo Verde. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 20:46, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Ogasawara Islands to be moved to Ogasawara Islands. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 14:15, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Bonin Islands to be moved to Ogasawara Islands. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 01:00, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
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)
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)
It's been a long time since I took an ecology class, but I seem to recall that ecoregions are defined (or was it "diagnosed") by their flora (and fauna?). Is this still done in practice? Is there a database or another (semi-)official way that lists the species for each ecoregion? Or do the secondary sources that initially describe an ecoregion list them? Abductive ( reasoning) 04:12, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
@
Abductive and
Tom Radulovich: Picking up from talk page:
Every-leaf-that-trembles (
talk)
06:54, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
My working list of WWF Ecoregions and their status on Wikipedia is **
here**. If you think it would be useful to the group I could move it to a more public place on the Wikiproject Ecoregions site. I have other data fields like foreign wiki article links in progress. I'm trying to do a couple of new en-wiki ecoregion articles a week, and every once in a while I do a batch of maps for Wikicommons. There appears to be about 170 missing ecoregions articles, and about 250 missing maps, out of a total possible of 843 (2001 version).
Every-leaf-that-trembles (
talk)
06:23, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Abductive and Tom Radulovich: I added my full checklist to this Wikiproject directory: A checklist of Terrestrial Ecoregions on EN-Wikipedia. Note that there is a column for "redirects", as there are quite a few ecoregions that are being represented by a geographic article that may or may not be accurate (I checked the names against the WWF, DOPA, and EOE datasets; see the right-hand column for links to the sources). Eventually we should have a separate article for each ecoregion, possibly with a "main" template added to point to the geographic area. In columns with "1"s, that means that factor applies to the article, so that sums could be added to the bottom of the table. Thoughts? Every-leaf-that-trembles ( talk) 06:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Can someone lend a hand here? It seems some sections in the article are completely devoid of cites and sources. Aditya( talk • contribs) 05:21, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Los Llanos (South America) to be moved to Llanos. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 04:17, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Stewart Island to be moved to Stewart Island / Rakiura. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 02:02, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
Greetings,
Requesting your visit to article
Black Sea and inputs on splitting and restructuring @
Talk:Black Sea#Some article restructuring and overhaul
Thanks and warm regards
Bookku ( talk) 15:28, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
I noticed Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions/Terrestrial Ecoregion Checklist points to San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests (with a hyphen), instead of San Félix–San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests (with an emdash). Cf with List of terrestrial ecoregions (WWF), which points to the emdash version. Also, this might be a broader question, but does the project track ecoregions that are just sections folded into larger articles about the geographic area? - Furicorn ( talk) 10:05, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
On closer inspection, looks like the Ecoregion checklist link was a mask for Islas Desventuradas. I'm also noting that San Felix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests is a redirect to the article on the Islands, but not San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests - both link styles should probably eventually point to the ecoregion article at San Félix–San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests. - Furicorn ( talk) 10:14, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
A split proposal is in progress for Serengeti to Draft:Great Migration (Serengeti). Please discuss in at Talk:Serengeti#Split with your thoughts. Thank you. AngusW🐶🐶F ( bark • sniff) 17:10, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Pine Barrens (New Jersey) to be moved to New Jersey Pine Barrens. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 01:02, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Stewart Island / Rakiura to be moved to Stewart Island. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 04:47, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests#Requested move 10 August 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky ( talk) 15:27, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Valdivian temperate rain forest to be moved to Valdivian temperate forests. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 03:16, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
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Physical oceanography is a current candidate on the Science collaboration. Vote for it if you want to see this article improved. -- Fenice 07:19, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
Please help to keep the Biology portal's Open tasks list up to date. This is one of our main communication methods to help get newcomers more involved in editing articles. It contains a list of articles that need improving, articles that need creating, articles that need cleanup, etc. And of course, if you have the time, please help and work on some of the tasks on that list! -- Cyde Weys 05:18, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
If anyone has an interest in the bioregional democracy article, I'm currently taking some dynamite to it. Right now it is an ungainly chimera of an article (see its Talk page for my detailed comments), but since some of the more coherant sections deal with ecoregions, I though I might find some interested editors here. - David Oberst 00:38, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I'm currently working mostly at WikiProject:Fishes and I'm categorising articles (species/genera etc) by geography. So far I've been using very broad continental categories eg Fish of the Atlantic etc. When I've finished that I'd like to categorise by eco-region. Could anyone give a link to a list of Categories you've got, or maybe suggest some (fairly broad categories) Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks. HappyVR 13:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC) (Not as many as at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html - could use these as subcategories later on..) HappyVR 13:06, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello! We are looking for interwiki for cs:Acidofilní bučina which is supposed to be Acidophilous beech forests (or may be that Medio-European acidophilous beech forests).
The labeling is:
Can you help us? (That would be somewhat strange if such divisions are not implemented in en:Wiki, when this one is fiftytimes bigger then the cs: . cs: is having quite good covering of those topics, but I could'nt find anything here. No article, neither any reasonable navigation)
Thanks a lot Reo ON | + + + 10:23, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I am trying to get a discussion going on the Flora of <region>/Fauna of <region>/Biota of <region> categories.
Please see Category talk:Biota by country GameKeeper 13:56, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 23:36, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I made a project template for you. You can add it to an article by typing "{{WP Ecoregions}}" at the top of a talk page. It looks like this:
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Feel free to modify it as needed. I made it green so it would be "ecologically friendly." :-) ··· 日本穣 ? · Talk to Nihon joe 00:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
I just discovered this WikiProject, and will certainly join.
I recently started working on the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA) regions. The WWF ecoregions in Australia are based on the IBRA regions; each ecoregion is either identical to an IBRA region, or the amalgamation of a couple of neighbouring IBRA regions. Where an ecoregion is identical to an IBRA region, they can obviously be dealt with in a single article. I have so far written one such article, Warren (biogeographic region), which also happens to be your "Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands" ecoregion. I located it at "Warren" because in Australia IBRA is widely known, used and respected, whereas the WWF ecoregion system is largely unknown. Also the IBRA regions predate and precede the ecoregions. Naturally there is a redirect from Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands. How do you guys feel about this?
Warren is still a work in progress, so don't judge it too harshly, okay? My other almost-finished articles are Esperance Plains and Mallee, which together make up your "Esperance mallee".
Hesperian 12:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
I have recently created a banner for Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology which has assessment parameters. I notice that your existing banner does not. Given the amount of overlap in the biology sector, and the concerns expressed elsewhere about the proliferation of project banners, I was wondering whether the members of this project would be interested in perhaps utilizing the Biology banner, with a "drop down tab" for this project, perhaps similar to the {{ WPMILHIST}} banner. Doing so would permit for individual assessment for each project, as that is something the Military History banner does, while at the same time reducing the amount of banner "clutter" on talk pages. If you would be interested in such an arrangement, please let me know and I will work to revise the Biology banner to include the "drop-down" tab and make the other arrangements required for your project, as well as theirs, to have assessment data available. Thank you. John Carter 20:58, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Southern florida is mentioned as part of the neotropics, but a quick survey with keywords neotropics florida everglades nearctic on scholar.google.com shows mostly articles about immigation of species from the west indies to florida. Is the mentioning fo south florida correct, is its status under scientific discussion, what are our sources? TeunSpaans 02:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
It looks like there is no infobox for an ecological area ?
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ecology#Infobox and 'linking' templates for ecological areas and provide any comments there.
Peet Ern ( talk) 02:29, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. WP:HAWAII currently has four terrestrial ecoregions in need of article creation. Please consider adding these four articles to your task list for collaboration. Thank you. Viriditas ( talk) 12:35, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
I've proposed a new WikiProject named WikiProject Biota of the UK and Ireland which would encompass all species and conservation efforts within Britain, an extremely interesting area. The project would include vegetation classification, Category:Lists of British animals, Category:Conservation in the United Kingdom, Category:Ecology of the British Isles, Category:Forests and woodlands of the United Kingdom, Category:Fauna of the British Isles and anything else to do with the flora and fauna of Britain. If anyone is interested just leave your name on the proposal page. Cheers, Jack ( talk) 17:12, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject:Arctic and its related portal have been started. Mentioned here as it is its own ecoregion in the circumpolar north. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk 01:14, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
North Sea is currently undergoing GA review. Any assistance appreciated. SriMesh | talk 00:14, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
I've made a "test proposal" at CfD to see if there is a consensus for replacing the categorization system of classifying biota "by country" with a system that would categorize biota "by ecozone". See here to read or comment. Looking for as much input as possible especially from those expert in the area. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:16, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
What on Earth happened to the article on plant geography? PG is a field of study and although there are relations with this article, it should have its own article. As far as I can fathom from the history of this article, it actually started out as an article on PG and then gradually got modified until it became the current article with the current title. I'm not enough of an expert to untangle this mess, though, but perhaps somebody else can. -- Crusio ( talk) 11:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
South America is not the only place that Tepui are found. There is a group of them located in North West Oregon, close to Grants Pass. I am sure that they are not near as big as the ones in South America, but they are awe inspiring in their own right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.96.227.221 ( talk) 20:46, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Comments on this matter would be appreciated. • Rabo³ • 10:21, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
I came here following a posting by someone concerned about POV/tone/SOAP at Talk:Pacific temperate rain forests (WWF ecoregion), partly to discrern how and why this WikiProject is different from WP:Ecology and WP:Environment and, for that matter, WP:Geography. In some articles I was already disturbed by the way ecoregion names were being substituted for the usual/offical landform names (e.g. Boreal Cordillera as if it were a mountain range and not an ecozone) or in the case of the forest ecoregions by linking from simple phrases like temperate rainforest but in looking over the project page I see the problem is deeper-engrained that simply a matter of misdirection, or the POVism described in the talkpage just linked; here's what I noticed on your project talkpage?
Excuse me, but since when is Wikipedia a platform or vehicle for the WWF ecoregion egenda, especially when there are other ecological classification systems, most importantly the one from the Center for Environmental Cooperation, the US branch of which is the EPA, in Canada it's Environment Canada. There's also the biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia and other systems. This project should responsibly be neutral and not advance the interests or perspective of one system over the other; because of the duality between WWF and CEC ecoregions/ecozones, disambiguation and contextual mention of the attached organization to the ecoregion being described should be mandatory. And there should be an end to confusing or ignoring regular geography while advancing catchhraess and slogan/campaign names as if they were places and not the names of campaigns (e.g. Great Bear Rainforest, Sacred Headwaters). Overall I'm finding most ecoregion pages to be annoyinguly full of SOAP, POV and OR; in the case of the Pacific Temperate rainforest one, it reads like a junior high school primer full of the usual cliches - marbled murrelets, spotted owls, salmon, with no mention of the actual full range of biodiversity in situ. Wikipedia should not be a soapbox, and it's a pity that so much of the sources that ecoregion studies are built on (the WWF, CEC, plus the various NGO sources) are so POV and full of cliches. I recognize that it's an infant science, or a juvenile one, so such things are understandable as it grasps at making reality to itself; I recommend a read thorugh the prologue of Faust....Anyway Summing up:
The distinction between articles/links on forests in general and their linking to WWF ecoregion-format definitions is highly questionable, and has a certain insidious nature. Forests, to me, would also seem to be in the provenance of the WP:Biology project and maybe WP:Botany if there is one (whichever is on Talk:California Floristic Province, which I found in a geographic list, not even an ecoregion one. Too many conflicting agendas, all apparently on the same subject, but advnacing different ideologies/affiliations...this can't go on. Skookum1 ( talk) 00:55, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
I created this long-overdue list, for now a list of redlinks, as the Forest Districts are far more important than the regional districts which too many wikipages have been using as locational references and as if somehow the regional districts were all that important in the BC political geographic scheme of things (which they are not). Each item listed can have its own writeup/content, re ecology, annual allowable cut, FSRs, workforce, value, local issues etc, and the BC Ministry of Forests (actually right now named the BC Ministry of Forests and Range) needs its own article, as do other BC ministries. This will be a component of List of administrative regions of British Columbia, which will also have Ministry of Environment Regions, EMR Mines Districts, Tourism Districts; there's already the Health Regions. Too much weight has been given regional districts in Wikipedia with the result that a lot of content placing things in regional districts constitutes original research/synthesis; the other types of regions are far more powerful, especially in terms of land management but also in relation to political power, budgeting, economics etc.....and in use as geographic descriptions/locators, where MoF districts especially are commonlyu used (though the primary reference used by all govt sources, including the federal level, is Land Districts. Note the use of full capitals in the title; Forest District denotes a legal entity, "forest district" or "forest region" is not a formally-defined entity but could just be a general "region of forest" etc.... Skookum1 ( talk) 14:02, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Any chance of an info box template, and maybe some maps?
I've been working with programming around WWF ecoregions for a large broadcasting organisation, and it would seem a trivial matter to create these features. Please let me know if you would like some help. Leegee23 ( talk) 14:12, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Doreano created these years ago, but they never got linked to from anywhere. They're on wikimedia: [1] Miguel.v ( talk) 02:20, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
User:Istanbuljohnm just used Template:Geobox for an infobox on the Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands article and it looks pretty good. There actually is a Template:Infobox ecoregion, but it's old, shoddy looking, and not much used. I'm happy to use Template:Geobox instead.
Additionally, The Nature Conservancy's Atlas of Global Conservation has all sorts of up-to-date statistics for the WWF ecoregions, including things like habitat loss, protected area percentage, and plant and animal diversity. I think these stats would be perfect for ecoregion infoboxes. Miguel.v ( talk) 21:01, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:HighBeam describes a limited opportunity for Wikipedia editors to have access to
HighBeam Research.
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Wavelength (
talk)
17:41, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
I help run a project called GibraltarpediA, we are trying to cover as much as possible in Gibraltar in as many languages as possible. The project is based on MonmouthpediA, where we created 550+ new articles in 30 languages in around 4 months, Monmouth became the world’s first Wikipedia town.
As part of GibraltarpediA we aim to cover every plant in the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens and create QRpedia codes (a type of bar code your phone can read through it's camera that automatically takes you through to a Wikipedia in your own language) in the garden to give people easy access to the information. As far as I know the first botanic garden to do this. A full list of the plants is available here, I would estimate around half already have some information in English but many have an article in other languages already.
We’ve started the Gibraltar Challenge to reward contributors where you can win books and tshirts etc. We’d really love people from WikiProject Ecoregions to be involved, you can find out more by clicking here.
Many thanks
Mrjohncummings ( talk) 12:22, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
Ecology of California has been proposed for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ecology of California. Please feel free to join in the discussion. — hike395 ( talk) 02:57, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
I have proposed WikiProject Biomes for deletion (see the MfD), but someone suggested redirecting it to here. Or it could become a task force in this project. Comments? RockMagnetist ( talk) 01:13, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Hello Ecosystems experts:
This article has been submitted at Afc: Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Tropical Dry Forest.
Right now Tropical dry forest redirects to Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests.
I thought that you might want to check this out.
— Anne Delong ( talk) 11:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
A story in the BBC is blaming Crown-of-thorns starfish for the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef. Is this of interest to this wikiproject? X Ottawahitech ( talk) 16:13, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Please feel free to contribute to Draft:Nama Karoo - a large xeric shrubland ecoregion in Southern Africa. Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 08:56, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
We are rewriting the article on Peat Swamp Forests for a college project. Please see sandbox here [ [2]] and add any relevant suggestions or commentary. Jboyar9 ( talk) 20:05, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Cape Verde to be moved to Cabo Verde. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 19:00, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Stewart Island to be moved to Stewart Island/Rakiura. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:30, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I am pinging user:Plantdrew and user:Graeme Bartlett because they seem to assess most new ecoregion articles. It is not clear what criteria are used to assign {{ WikiProject Ecoregions}} importance ratings for articles that define ecoregions. The project's link to the importance scale leads nowhere. But see WP:Assessing articles. Different projects use different criteria, but the general idea seems to be:
There are 867 terrestrial ecoregions. I would say the project goal should be for them to all have an article, making them all Mid importance to the project, whatever their absolute importance may be in the broader scheme of things. Comments? Aymatth2 ( talk) 16:09, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
Thanks to the three eds to acknowledge the validity of this project - I have as part of the Australian project a vast number of potential articles untouched or uncreated as yet - Land types (Western Australian land type) which fit into this area as well - they would be low importance in this area JarrahTree 01:50, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions/Assessment. If there are no strong objections in the next 10 days, I propose to add links to these guidelines from the project main page and from the {{ WikiProject Ecoregions}} project template. The guidelines confirm that the project uses the standard quality scale and provide an importance scale, which was missing. The importance scale is very simple, and may overstate or understate the importance of a few articles, but should be good enough for the purpose of prioritizing improvement. Comments? Aymatth2 ( talk) 13:14, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
When recovered from inactive status - the project was found to have few/little of the expected array of bells and whistles for a normal functioning wikiproject - lots of assessment and normal talk page template items were simply not there - anything added to help the project is welcome/wanted - please and thanks JarrahTree 14:37, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
Yes, this project could use some work getting various project based tools and reports included. Adding assessment guidelines is a good start. Plantdrew ( talk) 20:05, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Piney Woods to be moved to Pineywoods. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:45, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
Is Wikiproject Ecoregions essentially the same as Wikiproject Biogeography or is another wikiproject more responsible for managing the multiple biogeographic schemes? It seems like the focus here is mostly on WWF ecoregions, si I wasn't sure if anyone was looking at other, non-WWF biogeographic schema.
I was examining the various Biogeography classification schema and the categories look like they could do with a good sprucing up. Take the floristic province, North American Prairies Provinces, the category graph looks like this [ this]. Obviously things could be cleaned up for that article, but if you move up the tree, you see the Category:Ecoregions of Canada ((which goes to a disambiguation page for 3 ecoregion/ecozone schemes)), two of which seem to differ from the WWF regions, which are different from the floristic regions, not even to mention that the classifications schemes themselves seem to be up for active academic debate. - Furicorn ( talk) 22:47, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
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)
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.
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.
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. — The Transhumanist 10:55, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Southern Hudson Bay Taiga to be moved to Southern Hudson Bay taiga. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 23:33, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
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.
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Cape Verde to be moved to Cabo Verde. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 20:46, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Ogasawara Islands to be moved to Ogasawara Islands. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 14:15, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Bonin Islands to be moved to Ogasawara Islands. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 01:00, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
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)
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)
It's been a long time since I took an ecology class, but I seem to recall that ecoregions are defined (or was it "diagnosed") by their flora (and fauna?). Is this still done in practice? Is there a database or another (semi-)official way that lists the species for each ecoregion? Or do the secondary sources that initially describe an ecoregion list them? Abductive ( reasoning) 04:12, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
@
Abductive and
Tom Radulovich: Picking up from talk page:
Every-leaf-that-trembles (
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06:54, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
My working list of WWF Ecoregions and their status on Wikipedia is **
here**. If you think it would be useful to the group I could move it to a more public place on the Wikiproject Ecoregions site. I have other data fields like foreign wiki article links in progress. I'm trying to do a couple of new en-wiki ecoregion articles a week, and every once in a while I do a batch of maps for Wikicommons. There appears to be about 170 missing ecoregions articles, and about 250 missing maps, out of a total possible of 843 (2001 version).
Every-leaf-that-trembles (
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06:23, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Abductive and Tom Radulovich: I added my full checklist to this Wikiproject directory: A checklist of Terrestrial Ecoregions on EN-Wikipedia. Note that there is a column for "redirects", as there are quite a few ecoregions that are being represented by a geographic article that may or may not be accurate (I checked the names against the WWF, DOPA, and EOE datasets; see the right-hand column for links to the sources). Eventually we should have a separate article for each ecoregion, possibly with a "main" template added to point to the geographic area. In columns with "1"s, that means that factor applies to the article, so that sums could be added to the bottom of the table. Thoughts? Every-leaf-that-trembles ( talk) 06:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Can someone lend a hand here? It seems some sections in the article are completely devoid of cites and sources. Aditya( talk • contribs) 05:21, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Los Llanos (South America) to be moved to Llanos. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 04:17, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Stewart Island to be moved to Stewart Island / Rakiura. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 02:02, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
Greetings,
Requesting your visit to article
Black Sea and inputs on splitting and restructuring @
Talk:Black Sea#Some article restructuring and overhaul
Thanks and warm regards
Bookku ( talk) 15:28, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
I noticed Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions/Terrestrial Ecoregion Checklist points to San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests (with a hyphen), instead of San Félix–San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests (with an emdash). Cf with List of terrestrial ecoregions (WWF), which points to the emdash version. Also, this might be a broader question, but does the project track ecoregions that are just sections folded into larger articles about the geographic area? - Furicorn ( talk) 10:05, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
On closer inspection, looks like the Ecoregion checklist link was a mask for Islas Desventuradas. I'm also noting that San Felix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests is a redirect to the article on the Islands, but not San Félix-San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests - both link styles should probably eventually point to the ecoregion article at San Félix–San Ambrosio Islands temperate forests. - Furicorn ( talk) 10:14, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
A split proposal is in progress for Serengeti to Draft:Great Migration (Serengeti). Please discuss in at Talk:Serengeti#Split with your thoughts. Thank you. AngusW🐶🐶F ( bark • sniff) 17:10, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Pine Barrens (New Jersey) to be moved to New Jersey Pine Barrens. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 01:02, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Stewart Island / Rakiura to be moved to Stewart Island. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 04:47, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests#Requested move 10 August 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky ( talk) 15:27, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Valdivian temperate rain forest to be moved to Valdivian temperate forests. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. — RMCD bot 03:16, 22 April 2023 (UTC)