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WikiProject Ecology

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Welcome to WikiProject Ecology, an interactive and collaborative WikiProject about Ecology and improving Wikipedia's articles and coverage about ecological topics.

This project's scope includes:

1. The management of Wikipedia pages relating to ecology
2. Aid Wikipedia in becoming a useful and reliable source of information for these topics
3. Promotion of the availability of these topics on Wikipedia,
4. Encouragement of others to use and build pages on these topics
5. Promote an awareness of the natural environment and world
6. Maintaining objectivity and neutral point-of-view in ecology-related articles

• Category: Ecology
• Environment – Category: Environmental science

WikiProject Biology is the parent of this WikiProject.

Please feel free to join this project by adding your name at the top of the members list below.
Afterward, you can place the project's user template on your user page after joining (below in the userboxes section).

User:Birdsaregood

Code	Result
{{Template:User interest ecology}}	This user is interested in ecology.	Usage
{{Template:User ecologist}}	This user is a professional ecologist.	Usage
{{Template:User WP Ecology}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Ecology.	Usage
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecology/Userbox1}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Ecology.	Usage

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

• Contribute to the discussion to guide the direction and process of this project, or ask questions
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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecology: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2023-11-09 New article requests [edit] Please add requests for new articles here, including missing articles updated by the bot below in the "Pages needing attention" section. The goal is to have no broken links from articles on sustainability, environment, or ecology. This list is indiscriminate. If there are specific items on this list you are interested in, add them to the approriate area in Requested articles (probably science) Article requests: Apparent competition Autobesity (Wikidata) Chapelin (Food chain) Chemlawn philosophy (Pollinator decline) Combustion emissions (Dead zone) Competition-colonization trade-offs (Competitive exclusion principle) Dieoff (Ecocide) Ecosystem function Ecological unit (Ecosystem) Erosion of biodiversity (Biodiversity) Fair agreement on benefit sharing (Biodiversity) Fair agreement (Bioprospecting) Fatal Light Awareness Program (Light pollution) Fluvial deposits (Desert) Global Mining Initiative (Sustainability) Nuclear Waste Repository Act (and about 30 other environmental acts, Environmental Protection Agency) Nutrient flow (Synecology) Pleistocene Horned Gopher (Ecological selection) Resource competition (Competitive exclusion principle) Rogers Lake Playa at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Desert) Seed crop (Pollinator decline) Small-subunit ribosomal RNA (Biodiversity) Temperate Deserts (Biome) Expand articles [edit] Expand any of the articles listed in Ecology stubs, tagged with the {{ecology-stub}} template. Access and Benefit Sharing Agreements (ABAs) Alluvial river Bedrock river Evolutionary ecology Jungle Sean Nee (Biodiversity) Renewable resource Resource (biology) Cleanup [edit] Articles needing cleanup: Verify [edit] Verify new articles by adding reliable references. Biologist Ecological pyramid Ecological selection Ecological succession Ecotone Freshwater environmental quality parameters Functional ecology Macroecology Molecular biology Uncontacted peoples Wikify [edit] Add internal links to articles: Add {{Portal|Ecology}} to the See also sections of ecology-related articles. This places the following portal link in articles: Categorization [edit] Categorize ecology-related articles: Tag new articles in Category:Ecology, Category:Natural environment and Category:Sustainability as such (within those categories). Reclassify article categories: change categories in articles to more appropriate and relevant categories, or provide multiple categories where appropriate Identify pages needing attention Add ecologists and other notable scientists into List of ecologists Create templates [edit] Create useful templates for use in Wikipedia articles: Create a template to link soil types, and write articles on each soil type (e.g. FAO soil classification) Create a template to link ecozones and ecoregions, and label countries or regions with their ecozone Create a template to link ecotope articles Create a template to link various -spheres such as biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere Create a template to link Endangered species + add them all to Category:Endangered_species Note: Subcategories, rather than templates, would often be appropriate See also: WikiProject Ecoregions is tackling ecoregions, ecozones, etc. Completed templates Create a template to link biological interaction articles. e.g. Parasitism, Symbiosis (done) External pages [edit] Discuss with organizations the possibility of licensing their information under GNU FDL or a compatible license Automation [edit] Create tools to automate and generate a "requested articles" list. Article assessment [edit] Add the {{Ecology}} project template on talk pages to enable article assessment, then assess per assessment criterion. In the process, determine how many articles fit within this topic. Develop or use bots to mark articles to quantify ecology-related articles and to encourage editors to assess them. Ecology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 2 1 5 FL 1 1 GA 1 10 20 14 45 B 5 34 63 73 21 196 C 10 65 146 323 134 678 Start 3 49 157 551 325 1,085 Stub 6 39 410 133 588 List 4 10 111 17 142 NA 5 13 21 856 895 Assessed 19 175 451 1,504 856 630 3,635 Unassessed 3 3 Total 19 175 451 1,504 856 633 3,638 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 12,343 Ω = 4.75

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg Don't have a lot of time to do things right, and I don't know how to fix images. --FUNKAMATIC ~talk 14:07, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Template:Ecology — {{WikiProject Ecology}}, {{Ecology}}

  This is meant to be affixed to the talk page of articles that fall within the scope of this WikiProject.

	Ecology Unassessed
This article is within the scope of the WikiProject Ecology, an effort to create, expand, organize, and improve ecology-related articles.EcologyWikipedia:WikiProject EcologyTemplate:WikiProject EcologyEcology articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

• Template:Biological interaction-footer — {{Biological interaction-footer}}

  A navigational template to be affixed to the bottom of selected articles.

Many of these article can still be expanded and improved.

Peer review at this project is no longer active and scientific articles should be directed to the general Wikipedia peer review. Reviews of articles that were completed are archived here.

As noted at Talk:Environmental chemistry please do any work in consensus with other editors. Removing large sections leaving bare headings is not the right way to proceed.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   08:50, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think I posted this on an archived discussion and will look for a better place to post--Guy vandegrift (talk) 09:49, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

According to this survey, the prime disincentive against making scholarly contributions to Wikipedia is that it will not advance careers. Wikiversity:First Journal of Science will be a peer-reviewed journal that should alleviate this problem for recent college graduates who are not expected to have published in the established scholarly journals.

The word "First" in the title is intended to suggest that we need more journals like this. The Wikiversity:First Journal of Science was patterned after the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, but will have a somewhat more informal flavor, consistent with this new journal's intent to focus on teaching at the undergraduate college level. Wikiversity:First Journal of Science will attribute with bylines that list usernames only, in contrast with the use of real names by the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine

Another unique feature of Wikiversity:First Journal of Science is that edited versions of Wikipedia articles are welcome, and are presented as Wikipedia articles on the Wikiversity journal via permalinks to the history of Wikipedia articles. This is currently accomplished in a rather awkward fashion, by moving the Wikipedia article into the editor's user space, and after proper attribution, deleting all that extraneous prose that Wikipedia articles tend to acquire. An example of this shown in one of the three "pseudo-articles" that were used to create a mockup issue. Of the three "pseudo-articles" in this mockup, I consider only one to be suitable for publication. It is Wikipedia's Introduction to quantum mechanics. Note how the logo was inserted into the "pseudo-accepted" version without permission of the article's current editors. In other words, all of Wikipedia's 5 million articles are candidates for publication in this journal, and in a manner of speaking, have already effectively submitted their manuscripts to Wikiversity:First Journal of Science for review--Guy vandegrift (talk) 05:24, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• reFill – Edits bare url references: adds title, dates, publisher, etc.
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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