Wikipedia:WikiProject Carnivorous plants

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Carnivorous plants. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page or add your name to the participant list below.

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[edit] Scope

This project is meant to provide a home for all work being done on Wikipedia articles related to Carnivorous plants.

In particular, this project aims to build quality pages on every family, genus, and species (eventually). Please see the list of carnivorous plant species and genera.

[edit] Participants

  • NoahElhardt - I just finished revising Pinguicula, and am currently working on Drosera.
  • Rkitko - I have focused on plants that are protocarnivorous or suspected of carnivory, such as Stylidium. I will continue to focus in that area and contribute elsewhere where possible.
  • NepGrower - Focusing on Nepenthes, of course. :)
  • Veledan — I intend to finish editing down and adding my new material to Bladderwort, then I'll offer assistance on the project to whatever article we're working on at the time
  • Polypompholyx — I wrote the main carnivorous plant article and recently rewrote Venus flytrap. I spend more time than is healthy adding taxoboxes, binomial authorites, APG data and journal references to CP articles.
  • Denisoliver In the German Wikipedia I am focussed since about a year on CPs, this project should lead to a book, but the publisher stopped the series before it was released. Meanwhile I made many articles on genera and some species FA/GA and did a modified translation of the fantastic N. rajah-article. As my articles are of course in German, they are of less use to most of you (except Noah and Yummifruitbat, who can understand and write German).
  • JeremiahsCPs - I added lots of Nepenthes species photos -Jeremiah- CCPS
  • Yummifruitbat - I'll clean up and add detail to as many articles as time permits.
  • Petr Dlouhý - I made SVG distribution maps of CP familys and other on Commons. See Commons:User:Petr Dlouhý
  • Panama01 In the German Wikipedia I am focussed some Drosera, Nepenthes, Pinguicula and of the Sarracenia.
  • Flytrap_canada - I focus on nepenthes and sarracenia; will provide habitat photos wherever possible.



[edit] Collaboration

 . The WikiProject Carnivorous Plants Current collaboration is Heliamphora.
Please contribute
  • Edit this page to make it better - add sections, details, etc.
  • Post comments, suggestions, or useful source material on the talk page
  • Upload pictures
  • Subpages (species specific) are being worked on too!
  • Invite other users to get involved

[edit] New Pages

This is a section where newly finished pages can be listed. This will allow for proofreading and review from other members, as well as recognition for hard work! This is meant mainly for the English WP, but we have International members. Please list the newest pages on top.

[edit] Article Status

Quality
Featured article FA 0
A 4
Good article GA 4
B 10
Start 28
Stub 140
Missing 409
Total: 595

To the right I've added a box showing the status of all the carnivorous plant articles to date (English Wikipedia only). This is my personal assessment and may be different from that given by more qualified Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team members, but I have tried to use the Wikipedia Grading scheme. It is meant mainly to give Wikiproject members a rough idea of progress and to encourage article addition and improvement. Feel free to change numbers as you add and improve articles. I've added a subpage detailing which articles received which grade.

[edit] Reworked/Completed Genera

Part of the goal of this project is to build thorough pages for each genera. These genera pages have been completed. Each could probably use some polishing up, maybe more refs, peer review, and then could possibly be nominated for FA status.

[edit] Partly Constructed

These articles contain a significant amount of info (beyond stub level) but haven't reached completion yet.



[edit] Featured Article

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Nepenthes rajah is an insectivorous pitcher plant species belonging to the family Nepenthaceae. The plant has a very localised distribution, being restricted to Mount Kinabalu and neighbouring Mount Tambuyukon in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. N. rajah is famous for the giant urn-shaped traps it produces, which can be up to 35 cm high and 18 cm wide. These are capable of holding 3.5 litres of water and in excess of 2.5 litres of digestive fluid, making them probably the largest in the genus by volume. Sir Joseph Hooker, who originally described Nepenthes rajah, called it "one of the most striking vegetable productions hither-to discovered".

St. John (1862) and later Phillipps & Lamb (1996) observed drowned rats in a large pitcher of this species. The giant form of N. rafflesiana is the only other Nepenthes species documented as having caught mammalian prey. N. rajah is also known to occasionally trap frogs, lizards and even birds, although these cases probably involve sick animals and certainly do not represent the norm. Insects, and particularly ants, comprise the majority of prey in both aerial and terrestrial pitchers. read on...

[edit] Structure

The following are merely suggestions of how a page could be structured. Feel free to include what you like and move things about as you creat/edit pages.

Pages on the Genus level:

  • Taxobox
  • Intro
  • Description of plant characteristics. Include morphology, method of carnivory, flowers, size range, etc.
  • Distribution and Habitat
  • Cultivation
  • Taxonomy - include species list if short, move to seperate page if long.
  • References, further reading, and links
  • Small photo gallery showing variation within genus

Pages on the species level:

  • Taxobox
  • Intro
  • Description of species including distinguishing characteristics.
  • Distribution and Habitat
  • Cultivation
  • List of subspecies where necessary
  • References, further reading, and links

Important: Citing sources is important. Please cite specific sources whenever you can. Footnotes are a great way to do this.

[edit] Sample Pages

Genus Page: Drosera
Species Page: Nepenthes rajah - Amazing work!! Most species pages won't be this extensive, but it gives you an idea of what is possible. Also see Drosera anglica

[edit] Hierarchy definition

[edit] Dicots

[edit] Monocots

[edit] Photos

Eventual goal is to have at least one representative photo for every page. If possible, please upload new photos into the commons so that they can be used by others (ex. other language wikipedias)

 Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

[edit] International issues

As carnivorous plants are a field of special interest, international cooperation can be of use. For example, there have already been translations from the German to the English Wikipedia and the other way round (Nepenthes rajah, Pinguicula, Drosera pedicellaris, Drosera etc.). International cooperation might fasten the production of new articles or reworking current articles through teamwork in parallel writing, exchange of literature and help in translating.

[edit] Cooperational offers from the German Wikipedia

User: de:Benutzer:Denisoliver

To finish the description of all CP-genus' by featured articles, the following articles need to be reworked in the German WP:

Maybe somebody is interested in parallelizing efforts on any of these articles?

The rest of this discussion was moved to the talk page

[edit] Projects

The following is the current status of carnivorous plant articles. Many of the B-level articles could be nominated for Good Article status with little or no revision. Some A-level articles are close to FA status. Many stubs, especially at the generic level, need to be expanded.

Carnivorous Plant Article Status
Category Featured article FA A Good article GA B Start Stub Missing Total
Aldrovanda 1 1
Brocchinia 1 1
Byblis 1 6 7
Catopsis 1 1
Cephalotus 1 1
Darlingtonia 1 1
Dionaea 1 1
Drosera 2 3 3 6 160 174
Drosophyllum 1 1
Genlisea 2 20 22
Heliamphora 1 13 3 17
Ibicella 1 2 3
Nepenthes 1 4 9 105 11 130
Paepalanthus 1 1
Pinguicula 1 2 83 86
Roridula 1 2 3
Sarracenia 1 4 4 9
Triphyophyllum 1 1
Utricularia 1 4 117 122
Families and Overviews 1 1 5 1 8
Protocarnivorous plants 1 2 1 4
Botanical authors 2 2
TOTAL 4 4 10 28 140 409 595

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

  • Drosera: FinisheNoahElhardt 20:46, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Drosera pedicellaris: Denisoliver 17:55, 15 April 2006 (UTC) (I will translate this article from de Done. Thx to Noah for fixing grammar and style.)
  • Stylidium: Rkitko 21:59, 15 April 2006 (UTC) (Massive effort done today, but more to be done!) Applied for good article statusGot good article status! I'm also beginning to create stub pages for notable species (see: S. scandens, S. tenellum, and S. kunthii for the beginning of my effort). Rkitko 07:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Well done! :) -NoahElhardt 03:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Templates

Project template to be placed on the article's talk page: {{Carnivorous Plants}}

[edit] List of useful links

Insectivorous plants. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1875 (First published London, John Murray, 1875).

I think, it will be good to make such list here.--Petr Dlouhý 20:08, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

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WikiProject Carnivorous plants.





I created a userbox for this project. To add it to your userpage, just use the following text: {{User WikiProject CP}}

Feel free to fiddle with the color and/or photo that's used in the userbox! Rkitko 07:39, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

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