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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 - Working through various genus and species level articles whenever I find time.
  • 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
  • Denisoliver In the German Wikipedia I started in 2004 working on CPs, meanwhile there exist more than 120 articles on them (check current count here), most articles on genera and some about species are FA/GA now.
  • 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.
  • Fly_traper i do not have a perticular genus i focus on.
  • Kotare: I intend to add information on New Zealand species of CP's - ( Utricularia and Drosera )
  • KeresH: I live in Tasmania and have at least one species of sundew on my property. I'm primarily intending to contribute photos of plants - as I find them in my travels.
  • Arioss - I added some of Nepenthes photos, especially cultivated ones.

[edit] Resources

[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 feel free to post links to new other-language carnivorous plant pages here as well. That will help facilitate translation work.


  • Archive of new pages list
2007
2006

[edit] Article status and assessment

Carnivorous plant
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
A 1 1 1 1 4
Good article GA 2 5 7
B 1 6 18 4 29
Start 8 34 24 66
Stub 15 90 403 508
Assessed 2 32 149 432 615
Total 2 32 149 432 615

This section displays the current status of assessed carnivorous plant articles within this WikiProject. For details on the assessment and "class" and "importance" scales, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Carnivorous plants/Assessment. For details on using the parameters within the {{Carnivorous Plants}} template for talk pages, see the instructions on the template's page or Wikipedia:WikiProject Carnivorous plants/Project banner. For browsing purposes, see Category:Carnivorous plant articles by quality and Category:Carnivorous plant articles by importance. Browse the subcategories (especially the "Unassessed-class" and "Unassessed-importance" categories to help assess our articles!).

See also:

[edit] Reworked/Completed Genera

Part of the goal of this project is to build thorough pages for each genus. 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.



Featured Article

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 Pages:

Species Pages:

[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.

NeciFiX 00:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC) Hey, this is NeciFiX, I wrote the P. primuliflora page. Anyways, I heard of someone who is doing research into the Western Tofieldia, it grows in the same type of conditions as other CP's, and has sticky leaves. Possible carnivory may be involved! You guys should do some research. NeciFiX 00:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Invite template

Hello, WikiProject Carnivorous plants and thank you for your contributions on articles related to Carnivorous plants. I'd like to invite you to become a part of WikiProject Carnivorous plants, a WikiProject aiming to improve coverage of carnivorous plants and related articles on Wikipedia.

If you would like to help out and participate, please visit the project page for more information. Thanks! Rkitko 22:44, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Another template, this one can be added to the user talk page of anyone who contributes to a carnivorous plant article, encouraging them to join our team. To add it to a user's talk page, use the following text: {{subst:inviteCP}}

--Rkitko 22:44, 28 January 2007 (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)