Help:Regional Projects

A "Regional Project" is a set of pages that focus on a particular geographic region. In general, these pages will provide an overview of the fauna of the region and provide species lists and keys to the taxa found within the region. It does not create new taxon pages as these are shared across the entire Antwiki site and any regional-specific information on specific species should be added to these global pages. The region covered by the project can be any area from an entire biogeographic region to a small nature reserve.

Pages
As with any publication, it is highly desirable to present information in as consistent a manner as possible, and Antwiki is no exception. This makes it easier for users to navigate and find information, and also for those wanting to harvest information to develop parsing tools that work on as many pages as possible. To this end, we suggest the following page titles and content. This is intended to represent the "core" pages that should be in common to most regional projects, but is in no way meant to restrict creating additional pages that are important to a particular project. In this example "Australia" will be used but any region name can be substituted.

Australian Ants - This is the main page for the project and acts as the starting point for the project. It should contain links to the major pages of the project, including those listed below. Additionally, the category "" should be added to the bottom of the page (this adds the project the Regional Projects page).

List of Australian Ant Subfamilies, List of Australian Ant Genera, List of Australian Ant Species - These pages provide lists of taxa found within the region. In the case of Australia, lists of subfamilies and genera are provided, but because there are over 1300 species a species list page would be exceptionally long and hard to use. Instead, species lists are provided for each genus (for example, List of Australian Aphaenogaster Species). The actual list can contain only taxon names (see List of New Caledonian Species), taxon names with distribution references and/or notes (List of Norfolk Island Species) or can contain links to additional information (List of Australian Ant Genera). In all cases the taxon names should link to the relevant taxon home pages. If sections ("==Formicinae==") are used and you would like the table of contents to float to the right then insert " " as the first line of the page. Finally, add the category "" to the bottom of the page so it will be included on the Category:Regional Taxon List page. (Note: The text after the "|" us used to sort the entries on the category page. If it's not included the page will sort under "L" as the page name starts with "List of ...".)

Key to Australian Aphaenogaster Species - Keys should be named using the region, taxon name and rank being keyed. The format of the key is currently under development and can be as simple or complex as you would like to create. Please add the category "", with the taxon name after the "|" so it won't sort under "Key to ...", to the bottom of the page so it will be included on the Category:Identification key page.

Please note that if you DON'T use these suggested page naming conventions some nice Antwiki editor may well change them for you :-).