Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecology/to do

New article requests

Please add requests for new articles here, including missing articles updated by the bot below in the "Pages needing attention" section. The goal is to have no broken links from articles on sustainability, environment, or ecology. This list is indiscriminate. If there are specific items on this list you are interested in, add them to the approriate area in Requested articles (probably science)

• Article requests:

• Apparent competition
• Autobesity (Wikidata)
• Chapelin (Food chain)
• Chemlawn philosophy (Pollinator decline)
• Combustion emissions (Dead zone)
• Competition-colonization trade-offs (Competitive exclusion principle)
• Dieoff (Ecocide)
• Ecosystem function
• Ecological unit (Ecosystem)
• Erosion of biodiversity (Biodiversity)
• Fair agreement on benefit sharing (Biodiversity)
• Fair agreement (Bioprospecting)
• Fatal Light Awareness Program (Light pollution)
• Fluvial deposits (Desert)
• Global Mining Initiative (Sustainability)
• Nuclear Waste Repository Act (and about 30 other environmental acts, Environmental Protection Agency)
• Nutrient flow (Synecology)
• Pleistocene Horned Gopher (Ecological selection)
• Resource competition (Competitive exclusion principle)
• Rogers Lake Playa at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Desert)
• Seed crop (Pollinator decline)
• Small-subunit ribosomal RNA (Biodiversity)
• Temperate Deserts (Biome)

Expand articles

• Expand any of the articles listed in Ecology stubs, tagged with the {{ecology-stub}} template.

• Access and Benefit Sharing Agreements (ABAs)
• Alluvial river
• Bedrock river
• Evolutionary ecology
• Jungle
• Sean Nee (Biodiversity)
• Renewable resource
• Resource (biology)

Cleanup

Articles needing cleanup:

Verify

Verify new articles by adding reliable references.

• Biologist
• Ecological pyramid
• Ecological selection
• Ecological succession
• Ecotone
• Freshwater environmental quality parameters
• Functional ecology
• Macroecology
• Molecular biology
• Uncontacted peoples

Wikify

Add internal links to articles:

• Add {{Portal|Ecology}} to the See also sections of ecology-related articles. This places the following portal link in articles:

Categorization

Categorize ecology-related articles:

• Tag new articles in Category:Ecology, Category:Natural environment and Category:Sustainability as such (within those categories).
• Reclassify article categories: change categories in articles to more appropriate and relevant categories, or provide multiple categories where appropriate
• Identify pages needing attention
• Add ecologists and other notable scientists into List of ecologists

Create templates

Create useful templates for use in Wikipedia articles:

• Create a template to link soil types, and write articles on each soil type (e.g. FAO soil classification)
• Create a template to link ecozones and ecoregions, and label countries or regions with their ecozone
• Create a template to link ecotope articles
• Create a template to link various -spheres such as biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere
• Create a template to link Endangered species + add them all to Category:Endangered_species

Note: Subcategories, rather than templates, would often be appropriate

See also: WikiProject Ecoregions is tackling ecoregions, ecozones, etc.

Completed templates

• Create a template to link biological interaction articles. e.g. Parasitism, Symbiosis (done)

External pages

• Discuss with organizations the possibility of licensing their information under GNU FDL or a compatible license

Automation

• Create tools to automate and generate a "requested articles" list.

Article assessment

• Add the {{Ecology}} project template on talk pages to enable article assessment, then assess per assessment criterion.

• In the process, determine how many articles fit within this topic. Develop or use bots to mark articles to quantify ecology-related articles and to encourage editors to assess them.

Ecology articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	2	1			5
FL			1				1
GA	1	10	20	13			44
B	5	33	63	74		21	196
C	10	65	146	323		134	678
Start	3	49	157	550		324	1,083
Stub		7	39	411		133	590
List		4	10	111		17	142
NA		5	13	21	857		896
Assessed	19	175	451	1,504	857	629	3,635
Unassessed						3	3
Total	19	175	451	1,504	857	632	3,638
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 12,343			Ω = 4.75