Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae

Some Wikipedia contributors would like to have a project to better organize information in articles related to the photosynthetic organisms commonly called Algae.

This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedia contributors. If you would like to help, please take on an open task, or add tasks where work is needed on Algae articles. Open tasks may be found on the taxon notes page.

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Goals

This project is meant to provide a central location for participants interested in dealing with the mess called Algae on Wikipedia. In particular, the goal is to establish a higher level taxonomic framework from reliable and accepted taxonomies that can be used to sort photosynthetic organisms that are not embryophytes (land plants).

In particular the goal is to start with a good quality or better article for every division and class or higher taxon of marine, freshwater, soil, and symbiotic "algae." It is the intention, then, to add correct taxoboxes for all such organisms existing on Wikipedia.

Participants

Please feel free to add your user name, real name, or IP to this list if you would like to join the project.

• Curt99 (talk) (Mostly edit pages on microalgae and cyanobacteria, and their viruses
• Deuterostome (talk) (Mostly edit ciliate pages, but also interested in Euglenoid flagellates)
• EncycloPetey (talk) (mostly browns, charophytes, and fossils)
• Guettarda (talk) (not an expert, but I'm willing to educate myself)
• Kleopatra (talk) microscopy, algae s.l., single-celled splitter phyla
• DrMorris (talk) (now working with and started to develop an interest in microalgae)
• Vajking (talk) (working with and interested in algae)
• Dhanasri (talk) (PhD student in Botany, working and studying microalgae, specially diatoms :) )
• BC Myles (talk) (working mainly on Trebouxiaceae phylogenetics, but also have an interest in the seaweed flora of New Zealand)
• Jambobwana5 (talk) (PhD student in Oceanography, studying coccolithophores)
• Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): (Working on matters related to underwater diving and the marine environment of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. Listing seaweeds of South Africa)
• Mishae (talk) 19:29, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
• Pseudofusulina (talk) 20:38, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
• Chiefmartinez (talk) 03:43, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
• bwvogler (talk) (PhD student in Colorado focusing on oil production in Nannochloropsis gaditana and Synechococcus elongatus)
• aGastya  ✉ Dicere Aliquid :) (studying Bio)
• FindMeLost (talk) FindMeLost (talk) 07:24, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
• Pete Tillman, learning & photographing seaweeds on the Central Coast of Calif. --Pete Tillman (talk) 16:14, 28 October 2017 (UTC)
• Nessie (talk) 18:06, 22 February 2018 (UTC) - mainly interested in macroalgae
• Thereppy (talk) 20:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC) - Primary focus on Cryptists and their evolutionary relationships both internal and external
• Diatomdude (talk) 21:28, 27 September 2019 (UTC) - (Grad student in botany, working on coralline physiology. Previously worked on diatom physiology and reproduction.)
• BloxyColaSweet - A wikipedian that specializes in Plants, Fungi and Algae articles. Mostly stubs.
• Arenologist
• Algaeaba
• 2003 LN6 - Currently working on Bangiales & related pages
• Animalculum PostDoc working on evolution of metabolism and symbiosis in anaerobic protists, algae, and bacteria
• Cyanochic (talk) Primary focus is cyanobacteria, diatoms, and endosymbiosis in single-celled hosts.

Nephellium- I would like to join because I have written two articles about aquatic plants and I would like to know more about algae. Nephellium (talk) 14:08, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

You may place {{User WikiProject Algae}} on your user page to display the following userbox:

This user participates in
WikiProject Algae.

Organization

• Quality operations - A bot-generated daily log which lists articles Reassessed, Assessed and Removed.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae/Taxon notes — status and notes on each WikiProject Algae higher level taxon.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae/Citations — citations for copy/paste of sources.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae/Drafts — Hosts draft new articles or article rewrites that are not yet ready for the main article space.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae/Request — For requested articles and images, and for images where a taxon requires identification.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae/Assessment — Scales for article assessment and importance.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Algae/Popular pages - Most frequently viewed pages tagged for this project in previous month.
• {{WP Algae}} — project talk page template

Announcements

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This section may be used to announce progress such as new articles or article rewrites.

Assessments

To add an article to the project, put {{WP Algae}} on the talk page.

Algae articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FM					2			2
GA		1	3	5			1	10
B	10	7	6	12				35
C	9	32	58	132			1	232
Start	6	40	102	486			3	637
Stub		14	124	1,871			1	2,010
List			5	26				31
Category					301	1		302
Disambig					10			10
File					1			1
Portal					1			1
Project					14			14
Redirect		1	6	34	182			223
Template					1,285			1,285
NA				6				6
Assessed	25	95	304	2,572	1,796	1	6	4,799
Total	25	95	304	2,572	1,796	1	6	4,799
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 16,298			Ω = 5.57

Resources

Relevant templates include

• {{User WikiProject Algae}}

• {{Alga-stub}}

  {{chromalveolate-stub}}

  {{Chlorophyceae-stub}}, {{Ulvophyceae-stub}}

• {{AlgaeBase taxon}}, {{AlgaeBase genus}}, {{AlgaeBase species}},

Reference templates

Template	Display
{{Marine Algae of California}}	Abbott, Isabella A.; George J. Hollenberg (1976). Marine Algae of California (1st ed.). Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804708678.
{{Asian Pacific Phycology}}	Ang, Put O. Jr., ed. (2004). Asian Pacific Phycology in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges (Developments in Hydrobiology) (1st ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-1402017247.
{{Algae Anatomy Biochemistry Biotechnology}}	Barsanti, Laura; Paolo Gualtieri (2005). Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology (1st ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849314674.
{{Ultrastructure of Microalgae}}	Berner, Tamar (1993). Ultrastructure of Microalgae (1st ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9780849363238.
{{Unravelling the Algae}}	Brodie, Juliet; Lewis, Jane, eds. (2007). Unravelling the Algae: The Past, Present, and Future of Algae Systematics (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780849379895.
{{Biology of Desmids}}	Brook, Alan J. (1981). The Biology of Desmids. Botanical Monograph Series. Vol. 16. University of California Press. ISBN 0520042816.
{{Biology of the Red Algae}}	Cole, Kathleen M.; Sheath, Robert G., eds. (1990). Biology of the Red Algae (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521343015.
{{Structure and Reproduction of the Algae}}	Fritsch, F. E. (1959). The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
{{Algae Graham Higgins Wilcox}}	Graham, James E.; Jack Higgins; Lee W. Wilcox (2009). Algae (2nd ed.). Benjamin Cummings. ISBN 9780321559654.
{{Algae an Introduction}}	Hoek, Christiaan van den; D. G. Mann; H. Martin Jahns (1996). Algae: An Introduction to Phycology (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521316873.
{{Marine Plants of Australia}}	Huisman, John (2000). Marine Plants of Australia (1st ed.). University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 9781876268336.
{{Phycology RELee}}	Lee, Robert Edward (2008). Phycology (4th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521682770.
{{Algae and Human Affairs}}	Lembi, Carole A.; J. Robert Waaland (1989). Algae and Human Affairs (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521321150.
{{Biology of Seaweeds}}	Lobban, Christopher S.; Wynne, Michael James, eds. (1981). The Biology of Seaweeds. Botanical Monograph Series. Vol. 17. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520045859.
{{Seaweed Ecology and Physiology}}	Lobban, Christopher S.; Paul J. Harrison (1996). Seaweed Ecology and Physiology (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521408974.
{{Paleoalgology Toomey}}	Toomey, D. F.; Nitecki, M. H., eds. (1985). Paleoalgology: Contemporary Research and Applications. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-15312-8.
{{Freshwater Algae of North America}}	Wehr, John D.; Sheath, Robert G., eds. (2002). Freshwater Algae of North America: Ecology and Classification. Aquatic Ecology (1st ed.). Academic Press. ISBN 978-0127415505.

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