Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders
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The WikiProject Spiders was formed in July 2006, to better organise efforts to create a spider section in Wikipedia that will be useful and enjoyable.
This page and its subpages contain many suggestions and ideas; 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.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.
[edit] Scope
- Summarize all the information that is out there on spiders, link to it, and provide an easy and beautiful way to access it.
[edit] Parentage
This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Science
- WikiProject Biology
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Arthropods
- WikiProject Spiders
- WikiProject Arthropods
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Biology
[edit] Related WikiProjects
See Portal:Biology.
It is also worth keeping an eye on several Wikiprojects that are similar or overlap with this one, including WikiProject Lepidoptera, WikiProject Ecoregions, WikiProject Evolutionary biology, WikiProject Birds, WikiProject Cephalopods, WikiProject Gastropods.
[edit] Participants
- Sarefo
- EngineerScotty
- P0M
- AshLin
- Al-Ghazali (inactive on wikipedia since August 2006)
- Shyamal
- Dolomedes
- Arachn0
- Dixonsej
- Wloveral
[edit] Structure
see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arthropods#Structure for an explanation of the structure of the spider section.
[edit] Goals
One goal is to collect as much information about spiders and transform it into a form that is accessible to laymen, but also interesting to professionals.
- Taxon pages: There are about 40,000 currently described spider species. We need not to create a page for every species (for now ;), but it would be really cool to at least provide pages for all commonly known spiders, and for every spider where anything interesting can be found (Loads of species are only known from dead specimens, and all that is known about them is that they differ by some technical microscopic feature from another species; it would probably be more interesting for now to focus on spiders with 'special' features :)
- Anatomy: Explain every anatomical feature of spiders.
- Behavior: Collect information on this much-neglected topic.
- Find more people that are interested in spiders, and willing to help on this project.
[edit] Projects
- find one example species for (almost) every spider family
- it would be very nice to focus on at least one species of every of the 111 families. That's a) a good motivation (clearly defined goal), and b) would help to seed the thought of diversity in the spider section :) These example species could then be linked into the Spider families table.
- include extinct taxa into the systematic sections
- synonyms: Platnick's World Spider Catalog has loads of synonyms on spider taxa; these could be incorporated at a later time.
- Regional checklists: There already is a List of common Australian spiders, and a List of spiders of India. This would be nice for other regions, too.
- mine Psyche. This is an entomological (with spiders) journal that has all issues from 1957 to 2000 under a free license; that means, we can copy text and pictures as we wish, if we attribute it. Could be a nice resource.
- produce diagrams. Examples:
- eye distribution on spider families
- abdominal markings
- ...
- these could either be newly drawn, or fetched from open license publications (eg. Psyche, see Free license publications)
[edit] Tasks
- clean up the article Spiders.
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- It's still too long. split it into several sub-articles (eg. spider anatomy, spider taxonomy, spider evolution, spider bites, spiders in culture).
- put the {{WPSpiders}} template on the Talk pages of all spider related articles.
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- There should be very few pages now related to spiders that are not tagged, but if you do see a spider page without it, please add it and tell the page's creator about this practice.
- find references on the web, and attach them to the fitting pages
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- there are loads of arachnological PDFs online. If one person attaches it to the fitting page, another person could extract the information into the article at a later time.
- find, make, liberate pictures
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- search for spider pictures with a free license, upload own pictures (and determine the type where possible); but it could also help to ask people that have nice pictures online if they are willing to publish them under an open license; example
- Mine the Commons for spider images (commons:Category:Unknown spiders).
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- People have put in loads of images with titles like "weird_spider.JPG" and very few images with the scientific names of spiders. See also WikiProject Spiders/Undetermined pictures.
- There is also an unknown amount of spider pictures that are not linked into the commons Spiders category tree. If you spot one, please at least tag it with Category:Spiders. (or the respective family if you know about it)
- provide distribution maps where data is available.
[edit] Style suggestions
- See the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Style suggestions
[edit] General strategy and discussion forums
- /General - Check this page out, it contains many hints and suggestions that are currently being discussed.
- /Strategy
[edit] Other subpages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/To do
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Log
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Articles
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Article Classification
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spiders/Undetermined_pictures
- Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spiders/Unclear facts
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/genus taxobox example
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/species taxobox example
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/List of Arachnologists
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Resources
[edit] Templates
[edit] Infoboxes
[edit] Stub templates
- {{arachnid-stub}}
Place this on any page that you think really needs to get fleshed out.
[edit] Other templates
- {{WPSpiders}}
Place this on top of a spider article's Talk page. What this template does:
- It will help to lead new editors to this project.
- If complete with quality and importance grading (see Article Classification), it helps us to stay on top of more than a thousand articles related to spiders.
- {{Araneae}}
This will insert a box with all spider families at the bottom of the page. At the moment, all 111 spider family pages have it (example).
- {{User WPSpiders}}
Users with this template (which creates a userbox) on their User page will be automatically added to Category:WikiProject Spiders Members.
[edit] List of taxonomists
You can use the List of Arachnologists to easily wikify the describers of taxa.
[edit] Categories
The top category is
Put genus and species pages into the appropriate family category.
[edit] Lists
- Category:Lists of spider species has lists for every of the currently 111 spider families. Those can also be accessed by clicking on the species numbers in the table Araneae families.
These lists are created from the current (8.0) version of Norman Platnick's World Spider Catalog, which forms kind of a common consensus on spider taxonomy amongst arachnologists. For the sake of consistency, the spider section should adhere to this Catalog wherever feasible. If you have a reason not to, please leave a note.
[edit] Regional species lists
[edit] Regional lists not in Wikipedia
- Spiders of North America Species List
- Checklist of spiders from Singapore (2002) PDF
- Checklist of Belgian and Dutch Spiders
- Inventaire des araignées de Corse
- Checklist of the spiders of Central Europe
[edit] Articles
- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Articles for an overview of existing articles, requests of articles that are needed, and specials like "Featured articles" and the like.
[edit] Resources
[edit] Picture Liberation Project
This list's primary purpose is to coordinate the picture liberation quest ;). this way, people won't be bothered by multiple requests.
- People from outside WP that have agreed to have their spider pictures under an open license:
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- Marshal Hedin [1] (pics on commons)
- Thierry Gasnier
- James Lindsey [2] — (pics on commons)
- Herbert Walter Levi (pics on commons)
- Akio Tanikawa (pics on commons — Spiders of Okinawa)
- People that have been contacted, but did not (yet) reply:
- People that won't license their pictures for WP:
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- Jeremy Miller (only with watermark)
- Matjaž Kuntner (only non-commercial)
- People not yet asked, with a sample page of pictures:
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- Bryan E. Reynolds, Jerome Rovner, Joseph Warfel, Fred Coyle, Bill Welch, K.N. Prestwich, Rick Vetter [5]
[edit] Spiders Meetups
[edit] Archives
- #1
[edit] See also
Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates
[edit] Wikipedia surveys
[edit] Ad hoc surveys
[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys
[edit] Deletion links
- Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
- Deletion review (Article undeletion}:
- Templates for deletion:
- Categories for discussion:
- Images for deletion:
- Redirects for deletion:
[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Spiders-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Spiders.
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