Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Tree of Life

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About WikiProject Tree of Life

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A few Wikipedians have come together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in these articles. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles! For updates on Tree of Life and its subprojects, there is a monthly newletter published here to which you can subscribe.

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This WikiProject is both a daughter project of WikiProject Biology and a meta-project in its own right. WikiProject Tree of Life aims primarily to represent the taxonomy and relationships of living organisms, as well as their extinct relatives, in a tree structure. Since there are millions of species, not all will be included, but we aim to handle as many as information, time, and interest permit. However, as a meta-project, Tree of Life directly includes only articles which have meaning across taxa or which pertain to taxonomy and systematics in general, or which do not fall under one of our daughter WikiProjects. A full directory of daughter WikiProjects has been listed below in the form of a cladogram. To see a directory of our sister WikiProjects under WikiProject Biology, see this link.

To see activity levels and active editors for these projects, use the Wikiproject Directory tool and find the project in question for further information. Some projects may not be listed. Current labels are based solely on template tags at the top of WikiProject pages and do not represent an in-depth assessment of the activity level of any project by WikiProject Tree of Life.

Outer

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Inner

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To do

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New articles

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To browse Tree of Life subjects that require articles, see the Tree of Life list of requested articles. If adding to the list of requests, make sure to include scientific names, as it will make it easier for others to track down information. One-sentence stubs are discouraged: try to create a worthwhile start class article, with a taxobox, and sources properly cited. When adding weblinks, look for standard references first, such as the IUCN and its sub-commissions.

Specific request lists also include:

  • Missing encyclopedic articles about animals.
  • Missing encyclopedic articles about plants
  • Requested articles about plants (botany)
  • Fact-check new biology articles nominated for "Did you know ...?" here. The link is to all nominated articles, but binomial species names are easy to pick out. Successful candidates will be linked to from our Main Page, so let's make them look good!

Cleanup

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Please add {{missing-taxobox}} to the talk page of articles that need taxonomic information.

Articles needing taxoboxes

Articles needing short descriptions

Articles needing attention

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Articles needing attention

Assessment

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Assessment

Contest

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If you have significantly improved an article recently, consider participating in the Tree of Life Contest, a monthly rolling contest to motivate editors to improve articles related to any aspect of the Tree of Life.

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Popular pages, a bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles.

Quality operations

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Quality operations, a bot-generated detail activity log.

WikiProject Tree of Life

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Resources

Main Page - Discussion
Left panel - Discussion(redirect)
Right panel - Discussion
Alternate Main page - Discussion

Tab header - Discussion(redirect)
Assessment - Discussion
Recognized content - Discussion
Popular pages - Discussion
Cultivar Template - Discussion
Taxon Template - Discussion
Resources - Discussion

Newsletter - Discussion
Participants - Discussion

Contest - Discussion
Template union proposal - Discussion
Nono64 _ User page? - Discussion
Marsupial poll - Discussion
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To Do

To do list
Open tasks
Cladogram requests - Discussion
Not in WikiProject TOL:
Requested Articles - Discussion
Animal image requests - Discussion

Task Force

Taxobox task force - Discussion

in Sister projects
WikidataWikiProject Taxonomy - Wikidata
Commons WikiProject Tree of Life - Commons
Wikispecies Taxonomy - Wikispecies
Tree of Life articles Trophy Case
Cladistics 4 May 2004
Human Unknown Date
Amphibian 25 April 2015
Archaea 10 January 2011
Introduction to evolution Unknown Date
Virus 5 October 2009
Bacteria 20 January 2007
27 April 2023
Bat 21 September 2020
Bird 4 May 2010
Bivalvia 3 November 2014
Wells and Wellington affair 18 March 2021
Dinosaur 1 January 2006
Ediacaran biota 13 June 2012
Evolution 18 March 2005
Fungus 17 November 2009
Primate 6 July 2011
Rodent 22 May 2015
Turtle 23 May 2022
... List of all recognized content ...