Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to soil. 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 and see the to-do list there.

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[edit] List of participants

Please add your name to the list below:

[edit] News

[edit] Getting the word out

{{WikiProjectNotice|Soil}}

  • A replacement project banner has since been prepared:

{{Soil}}

The replacement banner generates placement within an article assessment category structure: Category:Soil articles by quality.
For now most articles will be unassessed. See here for assessments.
  • Previous editors of soils articles can be contacted on their user talk pages.
  • Participants can put either {{participant|Soil}} or simply [[Category:WikiProject Soil participants|YourNameHere]] on their userpage.

[edit] Scope

The purpose of WikiProject Soil is to improve content within the Category:Soil science and associated subcategories. Project collaborators monitor articles, upload images, add missing articles, improve current articles and achieve good and featured article status for some articles.

[edit] Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are Portal:Earth sciences and WikiProject Science.
Note that both WikiProject Ecology and WikiProject Ecoregions have some soil articles identified as part of that project.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Related Portals

[edit] Related Collaborations

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecology/to do:

Create a template to link soil types, and write articles on each soil type (e.g. FAO soil classification)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions#Soils:

We could use the FAO classification, as it is a worldwide one, widely accepted and translated in many languages.

  • Issue 1 : the main map is "fair use" : could we ask for it, might we just put a link to it ?
  • Issue 2 : the main map is not precise enough 1:5000000, to easily find references of soil types for each ecoregion. There is another more precise map.
http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/wrb/wrbmaps/htm/soilres.htm

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

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[edit] Definitions and Structure

[edit] Category and article organization

General subfields within Soil science
Main branches (2): | Pedology | Edaphology
Other subfields: | Soil biology | Soil chemistry | Soil physics | Soil scientists
General subfields within Pedology
Candidate categories: Pedogenesis | Soil classification | Soil morphology
General subfields within Edaphology
Environmental soil science | Agricultural soil science

[edit] Goals

The goal of this project is the following:

  1. Ensure all the articles under the scope of this project are written to a high quality.
  2. Organise all the articles into appropriate categories.
  3. Place all categories in the correct hierarchy.
  4. Create user friendly linkages and navigation.

[edit] Project

  1. Assess and prepare {{WPCD}} articles for publication.
  2. Collaborate on soil article tasks identified at WikiProject Ecology and WikiProject Ecoregions .
  3. Move category structure and discussion from Category talk:Soil science to project page and project talk page. completed 02:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
  4. Check for articles that need {{expert}} input.
  5. Check for articles that can be {{merged}}.
  6. Check for articles that need to be rewritten for {{neutrality}}

[edit] Article assessment

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil/Worklist for WikiProject soil article assessments.

Two example assessments:

Discuss on WP Soil talk page
WPCD Article Assessment Back Links Importance Grade Tags Comments and Pending Tasks Assessed by
Soil September 17, 2006 <1,500 Top A-Class None From FAC: A notable ommission is a section on the formation of soil (which I would put prior to the classification of soils); there is some information on this in soil in nature, but it gets mixed up with too much other stuff there. Something like this is what I would have expected. Comment by Peta Paleorthid
Soil science June 9, 2006 <250 Top Start None Stub-like qualities abound. Needs cite.php references, image, wikify and cleanup. Restructure per soil science category structure and soils article. Move history to new article: History of Soil Science Paleorthid

[edit] Articles that need collaboration

In progress. I understand that these could be generated by bot, which I expect to figure out as the project develops. Currently these lists are being prepared manually.

[edit] Wikipedia-CD (WPCD)

Sixteen (16) articles are candidates for inclusion in the next version of Wikipedia CD Selection. This is indicated by {{WPCD}} added on the article's talk page. A current assessment indicates that only one of the sixteen articles article, soil profile, has reached publication quality. The two most important candidate articles, soil, and soil science, need improvement. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil/Worklist for article assessments.

[edit] Wikipedia 0.5

Articles are being evaluated for inclusion in an initial test release (called Version 0.5) as part of the overall project of producing a fixed version of Wikipedia. The article on soil was evaluated September 15, 2006.

[edit] Wikipedia 1.0

WikiProject Soil articles may be nominated for consideration by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team as Core Topics, the most important articles any encyclopedia should have. Regardless of WP Soil involvement, please visit the project's listing to see the articles' assessments and to help improve these articles as we push to 1.0. WikiProject Soil needs to prepare an assessment of these articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil/Worklist for WikiProject soil article assessments.


[edit] Articles to be merged

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil/Merge for articles that are suggested for merging. They have been tagged with {{merge}}


[edit] Tasks

  1. Monitor all categorical soils articles for for vandalism and substandard edits (for example Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Soil science
  2. Identify pages that need attention.
  3. Upload PD soils images from USDA, USGS to Commons:Category:Soil
  4. Develop a userbox for project participants.


[edit] Pages needing attention

In progress. I perceive that these could be generated by bot, which I expect to figure out as the project develops. Currently this list is being prepared manually by WikiProject Soil collaboarators.

[edit] Articles needed

See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Soil/Needed for Soil Project articles that need to be created.

[edit] Stubs

See Cat:Soil science stubs for Soil Project articles that are too short to be genuinely useful.

[edit] Articles that may require cleanup

Articles that may require general cleanup have been tagged {{cleanup}}.


[edit] Articles that provide insufficient context

The introductions to these article provide insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter and have been tagged {{context}}.


[edit] Articles lacking sources

See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Soil/Articles_lacking_sources for articles lacking sources. They have been tagged {{references}}.

[edit] Articles with dead external links

Dead links are unwanted, and should be fixed on a regular basis. You can either try to find the current location of the document using a Google inurl search, or use the {{dlw}} or {{dlw-inline}} templates to point to the Internet Archive version of the document, like this: {{dlw|dead URL|caption}}, e.g.: {{dlw|http://free.oszoo.org/|OS Zoo webpage}}. For dead links inside paragraphs, use {{dlw-inline|url=dead URL|title=caption}}, which will not disturb the flow of text as much. Please do not simply remove every dead link; they often contain valuable information.


Formerly broken links which need reintegration:

  1. Soil liquefaction, How quicksand forms Fixed: Need to put link back in where it fits

[edit] Articles that need expansion

Articles that need expansion have been tagged {{expand}}.

[edit] Articles with sections that need expansion

Articles with sections that need expansion. They have been tagged {{sectstub}}.

[edit] WikiProject Soil Current Collaborations

[edit] Soil images needing upload to Commons

WikiCommons upload link. Ideally photos would be converted to a lossless PNG format using a program like GIMP and diagrams would be converted to an SVG format.

[edit] Related Wikis

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