Wikipedia:GLAM/ARKive

In the Summer of 2011, Wikimedia UK and ARKive are collaborating on a project to improve Wikipedia's articles on threatened species. This will involve sharing some of ARKive's text content with Wikipedia, and community outreach through online and offline events. This will involve a fixed-period in-residence role that we are calling Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador. Andy Mabbett, known on Wikipedia as User:Pigsonthewing, has been appointed to this role, starting on 11 July. He's written a blog post about the role.

For background and contacts, please see the Wikimedia UK page for the project.

The project will involve internal tasks of improving content and liaising with the Wikipedia and Wikiproject communities. Internal tasks will include:

• Improving the target articles using text and references from an agreed selection of ARKive's fact-files. This includes both extending and improving the content of the articles and increasing the number of helpful wiki-links between articles.
• Adding external links from target articles to relevant ARKive pages, on a wide range of specific species.
• Informing other language Wikipedias of relevant articles in English, where this is not already being done by Wikipedia's processes.
• Keeping relevant Wikiprojects informed of the improvement work.

We held two events, on the afternoon, and again in the evening of 15 September, in Bristol, using the hashtag #GLAMARKive on Twitter.

You can read more about the events.

• {{ARKive attribute }} - for giving attribution (use in references section). Adds articles to the hidden category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from ARKive.
• {{ARKive }} - for adding external links to articles. Adds articles to the hidden category ARKive links.
• {{GLAMARKive }} - for talk pages of articles incorporating text donated by Wildscreen. Adds articles to the hidden category ARKive texts.
• Category:Wikipedia-ARKive collaboration

As part of this collaboration Wildscreen have kindly agreed to release the text (note: not images or other media) of 200 of their ARKive articles (listed below) under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL.

Those agreed to date are listed below, together with some suggested article sections for expansion.

This is a detailed list; don't worry if you can only complete some of the steps.

1. Search ARKive to get to the appropriate page.
2. Click on the icon for "print fact sheet". (It is a little icon to the right of the "A"s, in the upperish right.) This will give you all the text on one page, useful for cut and pasting. You can also scroll through the individual tabs (same content though).
3. Decide which sections of text are helpful and transfer them to the Wiki article. Some articles may only need a small update. Others that are stubby, can get a huge head start. Some can just use isolated sections. Make sure to transfer the list of Arkive references as well. (Easiest is just to transfer as a set into the Wiki article references section.)
4. Add {{ARKive }} in the external links section if appropriate. (Note the template instructions are helpful for understanding how to fill in the fields. Or compare how African elephant or other completed improvements do it.)
5. Format the refs, wikilink text, do any other quick edits to integrate.
6. To show attribution, insert {{ARKive attribute }} between the references header and the first reference.
7. Consider using this edit summary: Text from [[ARKive]] donated by [[Wildscreen]] under CC-BY-SA 3.0 & GFDL; see [[Wikipedia:GLAM/ARKive]]
8. Add {{GLAMARKive }} to the article's talk page.
9. Return to this page and strike-through the relevant item, below, so that we can keep track of progress.
10. Also, copy the link for the improved article to the relevant Work done section; please feel free to sign, so everyone can see how hard you're working ;-)
11. If additions were substantial, and eligible, investigate getting a WP:DYK award - you can ask on this project's talk page if you need help, or a nominator. Or seek Peer review with a view to obtaining good article or featured article status.

For an example of how ARKive text can be incorporated into a Wikipedia article, please see this change to the African Elephant article .

Once articles are improved using the donated texts, editors are invited to:

• translate them into other languages (or tell other people who might do so, about this project)
• re-write them in simple English

Wildscreen have agreed to release their ARKive text about the following species (more to follow). Struck through titles have been improved, and moved to the section below.

1. Arabian oryx: Biology
2. Aye-aye: Biology - reproduction
3. (削除) Bornean orang-utan (削除ここまで): Description/Biology
4. Red-shanked douc: Threats/Conservation
5. (削除) European bison (削除ここまで): Biology - diet/Conservation
6. (削除) Ganges river dolphin (削除ここまで): Biology/Conservation
7. Giant anteater: Description/Biology
8. Indri: Description/Biology
9. Lion-tailed macaque: Biology
10. Proboscis monkey: Biology - reproduction
11. Red wolf: Biology
12. (削除) African elephant (削除ここまで): Description/Range/Conservation
13. Asian elephant: Diet/Effect of their diet on environment
14. Western gorilla: Description
15. African wild dog: Biology/Conservation
16. African forest elephant: Biology
17. Amur leopard I'll work on this one Maxgecko (talk) 21:58, 15 September 2011 (UTC): Biology[reply ]
18. (削除) Giant armadillo (削除ここまで): Description/Biology/Threats/Conservation
19. Argali
20. Beluga whale: threats
21. Black rhinoceros: conservation
22. Bush dog
23. Chimpanzee: threats and conservation
24. Forest elephant
25. Golden lion tamarin
26. Iberian lynx: threats and conservation
27. Mandrill: threats and conservation
28. Okapi: reproduction
29. Pygmy hog
30. Quokka
31. Spectacled bear
32. (削除) Takin (削除ここまで)
33. Yangtze river dolphin: biology
34. Kouprey
35. Narwhal: repro and conservation
36. Banteng
37. Fishing cat
38. Kit fox
39. Maned wolf
40. Mountain gazelle
41. Hippopotamus: threats and conservation
42. Saola
43. Mountain zebra
44. Pygmy marmoset
45. Gemsbok
46. Mouflon
47. Vaquita - Currently working on this Liabet (talk) 15:00, 15 September 2011 (UTC) [reply ]
48. Aardvark

1. (削除) Southern stingray (削除ここまで): Description/Biology
2. (削除) Pygmy seahorse (削除ここまで): Description/Biology
3. (削除) Knysna seahorse (削除ここまで): Description/Biology
4. Common seahorse: Description/Biology
5. (削除) Weedy seadragon (削除ここまで): Description
6. Yellowfin tuna: Biology
7. Southern bluefin tuna: Biology
8. (削除) Manta ray (削除ここまで): Biology
9. Scalloped hammerhead: Description/Biology
10. Humphead wrasse: Biology/Habitat/Range
11. Beluga: Description/Biology
12. Swordfish: Biology
13. Sand tiger shark: Description/Biology
14. Black sea bass (Stereolepis gigas): Description/Biology
15. Bull shark I'll edit this one angharad84 (UTC)]]: Biology
16. Nurse shark: Biology
17. Rainbow parrotfish: Description/Biology/Habitat
18. (削除) Atlantic halibut (削除ここまで): Description/Biology/Habitat
19. Danube salmon: Description/Biology/Habitat
20. Giant guitarfish: Description/Biology/Habitat
21. Lemon shark: Description/Biology/Habitat

1. Galapagos penguin - has very few references in current Wikipedia article
2. (削除) Kakapo (削除ここまで) our article is an FA and would not benefit from incorporation of arkive content Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:22, 29 August 2011 (UTC) [reply ]
3. (削除) Hyacinth macaw (削除ここまで):
4. Great spotted kiwi:
5. whooping crane:
6. saker falcon
7. Andean flamingo
8. Bali starling
9. black-browed albatross
10. Black-necked crane
11. North Island Brown Kiwi
12. Japanese crane
13. African penguin
14. Fiordland crested penguin
15. Humboldt penguin
16. Maleo
17. royal penguin
18. takahe
19. Great snipe
20. Tawny eagle
21. Galapagos hawk
22. Great bustard
23. Southern rockhopper penguin
24. Swan goose
25. Blue bird of paradise
26. Imperial eagle
27. (削除) Blue swallow (削除ここまで)
28. Indian vulture
29. Red junglefowl
30. (削除) Gentoo penguin (削除ここまで)

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1. Dracula vampira (Diff ) expanded from a few line stub. SmartSE
2. Erioderma pedicellatum expanded conservation efforts. Graeme Bartlett
3. coco de mer threats conservation and habitat used. Graeme Bartlett
4. Bristlecone pine Tried to incorporate what I could but the ARKive article is pretty short and has at least one inaccuracy ("Bristlecone pines inhabit the harsh environments of the western Sierra Nevada Mountains, where there is very little moisture" - in fact the western Sierras are wetter than the eastern Sierras and these pines are more to the east, with many not even in the Sierras - see http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?195,210,225 and http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?195,210,213 ). More added there (Diff ); and to Pinus longaeva (Diff ).
5. Underground orchid (Diff ) - Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
6. Jellyfish Tree redirects to Medusagyne (Diff ) About doubled in size, no longer a stub. Graeme Bartlett
(削除ここまで)
7. (削除) Star cactus (Astrophytum asterias) (削除ここまで) (Diff ) Over 50% increase - Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing)
8. Encephalartos caffer new article Graeme Bartlett
9. Thief palm (Diff ) - added description to stub article - Cwmhiraeth
10. Pau brasil (Diff ) - Added description - Cwmhiraeth
11. Azobe (Diff ) - Added description and biology. No longer a stub. - Cwmhiraeth
12. Green pitcher plant (Diff ) - Elefunkie

1. Bloxam's entoloma - new article (Diff ) - Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing) + another
2. Golden-gilled bolete (Diff ) - improved from a one-sentence stub.
3. Pig's ear (Diff ) - edited threats and conservation section (User:Inthefieldnews)

The following articles have also been edited as part of this project:

• ARKive
• Wildscreen
• Wildscreen Festival
• Parnassius autocrator
• Andrew Bloxam
• Other articles had {{ARKive }} added
• Various disambiguation pages
• Relevant project talk/ to-do pages

The following articles have been created as part of this project:

• George McGavin (Wildscreen patron)
• A great many redirects (differing capitalisations, common names to scientific names, alternative common names, etc.)

• African elephant

• Fatbirder- 22 July 2011
• Connecting Bristol - 8 September 2011
• Bristol 24/7 - 16 September 2011
• Life’s wild editing Wikipedia - 16 September 2011

• Wikipedia-ARKive collaboration