Help:Ant Collections

Lists of Collections
There are a few different lists of of ant collections.

One is a list of museum collections. This can be found at the: Category:Museum Collections

Second is a list of individual collections, e.g., the Forel Collection, can be found at the:Category:Individual Collections

Third is a combined list of both museum and individual collections: Category:Collections

Collection References
The museum collection pages are put together in a way that makes it easy to refer to a collection from any Antwiki page. Each has two parts. There is a template page with the appropriate museum collection abbreviation (e.g., ANIC or MCZC) and a page about the museum.

Collection Templates
If you want to include a reference to a museum collection on a page and the museum already has a template, it is simply a matter of including a reference to the template during editing. By inserting the template reference  the actual page reference will show the name of the museum with a link to that collection's page:. These templates are very helpful for inserting type information references, like you see in the Nomenclature section of this species page: Acropyga_myops.

You can see a list of Collections templates here: Category:Museum Templates

Collection Pages
The template page not only adds the name of the collection to the page, it also includes a link to a page about that collection. The collection could be housed in a museum or may be a reference to an individual's collection.

Lists of collections, as shown above, are a click away.

Creating Collection Resources
The following may be useful in building new collection pages:

MUSEUM TEMPLATES This is a list of pages created for referencing ant collections. One of these templates can be added to a page using this form. The abbreviation of the museum will then be shown on that page as the name of the museum being referred to and include a link to that museum's Antwiki page. In other words this is displayed as.

Templates are added to this list by adding the category Museum Templates and some code to the template edit page (you can just paste the following into the last line of the edit page):.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS This is a list of museums with ant collections.

Pages about museums with ant collections should include the categories:

INDIVIDUAL COLLECTIONS This is a list of important individual ant collections as opposed to museum collections (Category:Museum Collections). Individual collections in many cases are housed in museums, and if so this is noted on the page about the individual collection.

Pages about ant collections for myrmecologists that created important collections should include the categories:

Please leave this for now...I will remove it once the bulk of the collections pages are created.


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