Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ecoregions

Ecosections

Hello. I have written a bit about ecoregions for a few volcano articles this year, namely Level Mountain and Hoodoo Mountain. One thing I noticed is that ecoregions in British Columbia, Canada appear to be subdivided into ecosections. Is there an article this term can be redirected to or should it have its own article? Volcanoguy 00:04, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

WWF ecoregions now deprecated

* For many years, WP has relied on WWF definitions for many ecoregion articles, e.g., Alberta Mountain forests. To my dismay, I see that the WWF has now stopped maintaining their ecoregion pages (see, e.g., [1]) and refer to OneEarth for updates. OneEarth has a different system of dividing the world into ecoregions. OneEarth also does not release their material under an open-source license.

What shall we do? — hike395 (talk) 04:11, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

It's a good question! WWF haven't updated their articles, or the books, in almost 20 years. Most of the ecoregion definitions and boundaries used by OneEarth are the same as the WWF boundaries, albeit with some different names. There are a few parts of the world - the US and Canada, and the Middle East and arid Africa, where the ecoregion boundaries are different, some by a little and some by a lot.

I'm less familiar with North America, but for the most part OneEarth's African and Middle eastern ecoregion adjustments sync better with other biogeographic scholarship, like Frank White's Vegetation Map of Africa and VECEA. However the WWF articles generally cover the ecoregions in greater depth than the OneEarth articles do. I wrote an article on one of the distinct OneEarth ecoregions – South Arabian fog woodlands, shrublands, and dune. I included an 'ecoregion delineation' section explaining how it's treated in the WWF system.

I'd love if the teams who put together the WWF and OneEarth systems (there's a lot of overlap) would work together on a grand synthesis, and those who use the WWF system (like DOPA) would join in. For now I'm not sure what the best way to present them here on Wikipedia, or whether to treat one or the other as 'definitive', except to explain the diffences between the systems in the articles we're writing.Tom Radulovich (talk) 05:39, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:38, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Valdivian temperate forests

Hello Ecoregionalists!

I requested a page move back to Valdivian temperate forests. It's the name used by the primary sources - WWF, EoL, DOPA, OneEarth, etc. Our practice has been to use the names used by primary sources for our ecoregion articles. Please opine! You can find the discussion at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Current discussions. Tom Radulovich (talk) 03:22, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Sudanian savanna

An article which may be of interest to members of this project—Sudanian savanna—has been proposed for merging with Sudan (region). If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. 89.206.112.13 (talk) 17:52, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

Trans-Baikal conifer forests listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Trans-Baikal conifer forests to be moved to Transbaikal conifer forests. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 23:33, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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Baja California Desert listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Baja California Desert to be moved to Baja California desert. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 05:02, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

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