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

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. Bornean orang-utan
   : Description/Biology
4. Red-shanked douc: Threats/Conservation
5. European bison: Biology - diet/Conservation
6. Ganges river dolphin: 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. African elephant: 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. Giant armadillo: 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. Takin
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. Southern stingray: Description/Biology
2. Pygmy seahorse: Description/Biology
3. Knysna seahorse: Description/Biology
4. Common seahorse
   : Description/Biology
5. Weedy seadragon
   : Description
6. Yellowfin tuna: Biology
7. Southern bluefin tuna: Biology
8. Manta ray: 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. Atlantic halibut: 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. Kakapo our article is an FA and would not benefit from incorporation of arkive content Calliopejen1 (talk) 00:22, 29 August 2011 (UTC)[reply
   ]
3. Hyacinth macaw:
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. Blue swallow
28. Indian vulture
29. Red junglefowl
30. African rock python
31. Hawksbill turtle
32. Green iguana
33. Hermann's tortoise
34. Nile crocodile
35. Gila monster
36. Egyptian tortoise
37. Green anaconda
38. Rosy boa
39. Nile monitor
40. Common box turtle
41. tiger chameleon
42. Galapagos marine iguana
43. Greek tortoise
44. Chinese alligator
45. Black caiman
46. Dwarf crocodile
47. King ratsnake
48. Dwarf chameleon
49. African burrowing python
50. Rhinoceros iguana
51. Wood turtle
52. Alligator snapping turtle
53. Ornate box turtle
54. Cuban crocodile
55. Woma python
56. Pancake tortoise
57. Satanic leaf-tailed gecko
58. Brown leaf chameleon (Brookesia superciliaris) - new article