Wikipedia:WikiProject Zoo

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Welcome to WikiProject Zoo, a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to zoos, aquaria, and aviaries. If you would like to help, please see the open tasks below, or inquire on the talk page.

Our goals

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of zoos, aquaria, and aviaries by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
• Provide guidelines and recommendations for articles about zoos, aquaria, and aviaries.
• Serve as the central point of zoo, aquarium, and aviary article discussion.

Our scope

The project focuses on articles about all kinds of facilities that care for and manage exhibits of animals, including but not limited to: zoos, aquaria, aviaries, butterfly zoos, petting zoos, reptile centres, and safari parks.

What can you do?

Add your name to the list of Participants and get started on anything below!

[edit] Project Organization

[edit] Participants

Gday and Welcome To Wikiproject Zoo, Please Come and Join Our Team.

1. BeckyAnne (talk · contribs) - working on John Ball Zoo and indirectly Michigan zoos
2. Cassied25 (talk · contribs) - Grants Specialist/Writer for the Columbus Zoo, will update and improve Columbus Zoo and the Wilds
3. Cburnett (talk · contribs)
4. CheetahKeeper (talk · contribs) - Big Cats and Australian Zoo's
5. Cuddly Panda (talk · contribs) - zoo-related video games manager.
6. Davehi1 (talk · contribs)
7. DubaiTerminator (talk · contribs)
8. Ginkgo100 (talk · contribs)
9. Knowpedia (talk · contribs)
10. Melanochromis (talk · contribs)
11. Monkeyjunkie (talk · contribs) - Primatologist working in primate conservation, ethnoprimatology, and zoo conservation awareness at San Diego Zoo
12. PaxonGator (talk · contribs) - Jacksonville Zoo and St Augustine Alligator Farm
13. Pmaas (talk · contribs)
14. Polypmaster (talk · contribs) - working on Columbus Zoo and the Wilds right now until both are GA or better
15. Spike Wilbury (talk · contribs)
16. ZoofanNZ (talk · contribs) - Will work on all New Zealand zoos currently on the List of zoos till they have at least stubs and zoo info boxes. Then I will add zoo info boxes to all Australian zoos that do not have them, before helping expand wherever I can on List of zoos.

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of project-supported articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 program. The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPZOO}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

[edit] Guidelines

The guidelines presented in this section are intended to be guidelines only; while they are well-suited for the vast majority of zoo, aquarium, and aviary articles, there exist a number of peculiar cases where, for lack of a better solution, alternate approaches can been taken. Please discuss individual cases on the Project talk page when deviating from guidelines.

[edit] Article naming conventions

• Since the vast majority of zoo, aquarium, and aviary articles are about specific and unique places, simply use the zoo, aquarium, or aviary name as the article name. For example, Reid Park Zoo.
• If you must disambiguate, use Zoo name (zoo).

See also: Naming conventions (places)

[edit] Article structure

The guidelines in this section are intended to serve as a starting point for writing a good article; they are not meant to enforce a single structure on all articles, nor to limit the topics an article will discuss. Remember to cite your sources!

[edit] Opening paragraph

The opening paragraph should concisely introduce the facility and provide a brief overview of the significant or notable facts about the facility including association membership(s), # of animals and/or species, and/or location of zoo. See WP:LEAD for more information on writing a good opening paragraph.

[edit] Article body

The article can be structured along these lines:

• History
• Areas and attractions
• Notable animals
• Sections on specific notable topics such as conservation, special exhibits, etc.
• Business details, including for-profit or non-profit status, fundraising efforts, etc.
• Notable staff and training programs

Remember to cite your sources per WP:CITE!

[edit] Infobox templates

[edit] Zoo infobox

San Diego Zoo
San Diego Zoo Entrance
Date opened	1915
Location	Balboa Park, San Diego, California, USA
Land area	100 acres (0.4 km²)
Coordinates	32°44′8.508″N, 117°9′5.6628″W
Number of Animals	4000
Number of Species	800
Accreditations/ Memberships	AZA
Website

A zoo infobox may be used to summarize information about a particular zoo, aquarium, or aviary in a standard manner. Many of the parameters can be omitted if desired; the choice of which parameters are appropriate for a particular zoo, aquarium, or aviary is left to the discretion of the article editors.

The infobox should be added using the {{Infobox zoo}} template, as shown below:

{{Infobox zoo
|zoo_name=
|logo=
|logo_width=
|logo_caption=
|image=
|image_width=
|image_caption=
|date_opened=
|date_closed=
|location=
|area=
|coordinates=
|num_animals=
|num_species=
|members=
|exhibits=
|website=
}}

Required:

• zoo_name — Name of the zoo
• location — city, state, country of where the zoo is location

Optional:

• date_opened — Date the zoo opened
• date_closed — Date the zoo closed
• logo — Logo image name to display at a default width of 300px (use "foo.jpg" instead of "Image:foo.jpg")
  • logo_width — width of logo
  • logo_caption — caption for the logo that is displayed underneath the image (if necessary or extenuating reasons)
• image — Image name to display at a default width of 300px (use "foo.jpg" instead of "Image:foo.jpg")
  • image_width — width of image
  • image_caption — caption for the image that is displayed underneath the image
• num_animals — approximate number of animals at the zoo (include a reference or year as well)
• num_species — approximate number of unique species at the zoo (include a reference or year as well)
• area — Land area the zoo occupies (include units and alternate units)
• coordinates — geographical coordinates (latitude & longitude) of the zoo (suggested location is the main entrance)
  • Recommended to use this template {{coor dms|lat_d|lat_m|lat_s|N or S|long_d|long_m|long_s|W or E|type:landmark_scale:2500}} with lat_d, lat_m, & lat_s representing the latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (north (N) or south (S)) and with long_d, long_m, & long_s representing the longitude (west (W) or east (E))
• members — Zoo association
• exhibits — A short, comma-delimited list of major exhibits
• website — External link to the zoo's website

[edit] Categories

Articles should be placed in the most specific applicable categories, and should not be placed directly in a "parent" category if they are already present in one of its sub-categories. In other words, if an article is placed in Category:Zoos in England, there is no need to place it in Category:Zoos as well.

Category:Zoos 

Root category for all zoos, aquaria, and aviaries.

Category:Zoo associations

Category:Marine parks

Category:Oceanaria

Category:Zoos by country 

Classifies zoos by country.

Category:Aquaria 

Root category for aquaria.

Category:Aviaries 

Root category for aviaries.

[edit] Stubs

There is only one stub template currently available for all zoo, aquaria, and aviary articles. Please use {{zoo-stub}} for any stub-class articles.

[edit] WikiProject templates

[edit] Project banner

The {{WPZOO}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax is as follows:

{{WPZOO
|class= 
|attention= 
}}

General parameters:

• class – a rating of the article's quality; see the assessment department for more details.
• attention – "yes" if the article requires immediate attention; this should be used sparingly.

[edit] Member userbox

You can add this userbox to your user page, signifying your participation in the project. Adding this to your user page automatically adds your username to Category:WikiProject Zoo members.

Code	Result	Usage
{{User WPZOO}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Zoo.	Userbox to denote your participation in the project.

[edit] To request a photo in a WikiProject Zoo related article

To request photos for an article, use {{reqphoto|of=xxx|in=yyy}}, where xxx is what you what a photo of and yyy is the geographic location where you think a Wikipedian could take such a photograph.