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A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

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Subscribe to new Tree of Life Newsletter!

"I've never heard so much about crinoids!"

Despite the many Wikipedians who edit content related to organisms/species, there hasn't been a Tree of Life Newsletter...until now! If you would like regular deliveries of said newsletter, please add your name to the subscribers list. Thanks, Enwebb (talk) 00:33, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

First annual Tree of Life Decemberween contest

After all the fun with the Spooky Species Contest last month, there's a new contest for the (Northern hemisphere's) Winter holidays at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Contest. It's not just Christmas, but anything festive from December-ish. Feel free to add some ideas to the Festive taxa list and enter early and often. --Nessie (talk) 17:57, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Unique and dead WikiProject

@Fritzmann2002, Plantdrew, Pigsonthewing, MPF, Dyanega, and Peter coxhead:

Could we close this unique plant WikiProject and seemingly dead WikiProject. At first step, I can change {{WikiProject Hypericaceae}} --> {{WikiProject Plants}}--Estopedist1 (talk) 19:11, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Definitely in my view. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:13, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Works for me. Fritzmann (message me) 19:39, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

I have no stake in this project. If Fritzmann is OK with closing it, I have no objection. Plantdrew (talk) 23:38, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

@Estopedist1: why though? --awkwafaba (📥) 03:32, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

General maintenance: dead Wikiproject pages may have information and links that no longer apply. General tidiness. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:39, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Just as a minor query: would a task force within WP:PLANTS be a possibility? I know at least I'm still working on the family in a comprehensive sense, and it would be nice to have a place to track progress and possibly coordinate some cooperation. If that doesn't seem like something that would be worth it/feasible no sweat, I just figured I'd throw that out there. Fritzmann (message me) 16:46, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

As another note, I just saw a message about a proposal for a WikiProject Cacti. It seems like there is at least some interest in more focused subprojects under the umbrella of WP:Plants, perhaps a task force would be appropriate in that case as well? Fritzmann (message me) 16:50, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

A task force is a possibility. If all that is desired is a page to track progress (missing articles, short (stub) articles to expand), and possibly a talk page for coordination, a task force serves that function well.

There are a few tools/reports available to WikiProjects that don't work for task forces (they depend on the talk page presence of a dedicated WikiProject banner template). Most of these reports need to be actively enabled by adding a WikiProject template to a configuration page somewhere. WikiProject Hypericaceae hasn't been signed up to all of the available reports, and because Hypericaceae taxa aren't using the WikiProject Plants banner, they are excluded from the reports for plants. As a task force, Hypericaceae articles would be included in the reports for WikiProject Plants. I don't see a downside from changing Hypericaceae from a project to a task force, since the main theoretical downside from converting a project to a task force is loss of access to reports that Hypericaceae hasn't signed up for anyway.Plantdrew (talk) 17:45, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 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) 14:45, 11 April 2023 (UTC)