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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to soil. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Soil articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
GA 2 2 4
B 12 14 24 29 7 86
C 12 27 73 89 10 211
Start 3 23 133 360 50 569
Stub 17 230 47 294
List 1 3 7 11
Template 5 5
NA 7 17 197 221
Assessed 27 65 259 734 202 114 1,401
Unassessed 35 35
Total 27 65 259 734 202 149 1,436
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 5,719 Ω = 4.91

Participants

New participants, simply add your name to this list using the template:(add me)

News

Getting the word out

{{Soil}}
This banner invites project participation and generates placement within the project's article assessment category structure.
  • Editors of soils articles can be contacted on their user talk pages.
  • Participants can put either {{participant|Soil}} or simply [[Category:WikiProject Soil participants|YourNameHere]] on their userpage.

Scope

The purpose of WikiProject Soil is to improve content related to the subject of soil. Project collaborators monitor articles, upload images, add missing articles, improve current articles and achieve good and featured article status for some articles.

Parentage

The parents of this WikiProject are Portal:Earth sciences and WikiProject Science.
Note that both WikiProject Ecology and WikiProject Ecoregions have some soil articles identified as part of that project.

Related WikiProjects

Related Portals

Related Collaborations

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecology/to do:

Create a template to link soil types, and write articles on each soil type (e.g. FAO soil classification)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions#Soils:

We could use the FAO classification, as it is a worldwide one, widely accepted and translated in many languages.

  • Issue 1 : the main map is "fair use" : could we ask for it, might we just put a link to it ?
  • Issue 2 : the main map is not precise enough 1:5000000, to easily find references of soil types for each ecoregion. There is another more precise map.

http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/wrb/wrbmaps/htm/soilres.htm

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Definitions and Structure

This project is about soil. Currently most of the project's articles are written from a soil science perspective, but it is not meant to exclude other perspectives, or to imply that soil is the sole purview of soil science. Put another way, this project ranges beyond the soil science context.

Soils in General

Soils are the stuff you can dig a spade into. This project does not cover the musical group named SOiL or soiled laundry. Within the context of this project, several overlapping definitions of soil are employed:

  • Soil as in the earthy material on surface of the land that is subjected to weathering.
  • Soil as the surface material on other celestial bodies. It may not be soil from a scientific definition but it is in the same position. Lunar soil and Martian soil are popular terms that fit within the context of this project.
  • Soil as in any earthy material used in construction.

Soil Directory Structure

Category:Soil is the default category for project articles. Categorical hierarchies:

  1. Category:Nature>Category:Natural resources>Category:Soil
  2. Category:Matter>Category:Materials>Category:Natural materials>Category:Soil

Possible sub-categories of Category:Soil:

Soil Science Directory Structure

For those articles that fall within the context of Soil science (as in the study of the pedosphere) we employ the following structure:

Soil Science Category and article organization

Categorical hierarchy: Science > Natural sciences > Earth sciences > Soil science

General subfields within Soil science
Main branches (2): | Pedology | Edaphology
Other subfields: | Soil biology | Soil chemistry | Soil physics | Soil scientists | Soil science stubs
General subfields within Pedology
Candidate categories: Pedogenesis | Soil classification | Soil morphology
General subfields within Edaphology
Environmental soil science | Agricultural soil science

Templates

Template Result Usage
{{WikiProjectNotice|Soil}}
  This article is part of WikiProject Soil, a project to improve Wikipedia's articles related to Soil. For guidelines see the project page and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ. Posted to talk page. Deprecated. Replace with {{soil}}.
{{soil}}  This article is within the scope of Soil WikiProject, which collaborates on Soil and related subjects on Wikipedia. To participate, help improve this article or visit the project page for details on the project. Posted to talk page. Generates placement within an article assessment category structure: Category:Soil articles by quality.
{{soil-sci-stub}}
 This soil science-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
 Posted to article. Stub articles relating to soil science.
{{soil-stub}}
 This soil-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
 Posted to article. Stub articles relating to soil materials and soil resources. Under development. Currently redirects to {{soil-sci-stub}}


Goals

The goal of this project is the following:

  1. Ensure all the articles under the scope of this project are written to a high quality.
  2. Organise all the articles into appropriate categories.
  3. Place all categories in the correct hierarchy.
  4. Create user friendly linkages and navigation.

Project

  1. Assess and prepare {{WPCD}} articles for publication.
  2. Collaborate on soil article tasks identified at WikiProject Ecology and WikiProject Ecoregions .
  3. Move category structure and discussion from Category talk:Soil science to project page and project talk page. completed 02:08, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
  4. Check for articles that need {{expert}} input.
  5. Check for articles that can be {{merged}}.
  6. Check for articles that need to be rewritten for {{neutrality}}

Article assessment

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil/Worklist for WikiProject soil article assessments.

Bot facilitated table

There is a new bot (User:Erwin85Bot) that counts selected categories, with the right coding. Several projects have used them to maintain tables of assessed articles.

Articles that need collaboration

Currently these lists are being prepared manually.

Wikipedia-CD (WPCD)

As of 2006, Sixteen (16) articles are candidates for inclusion in the next version of Wikipedia CD Selection. This is indicated by {{WPCD}} added on the article's talk page. A current assessment indicates that only one of the sixteen articles article, soil profile, has reached publication quality. The two most important candidate articles, soil, and soil science, need improvement. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil/Worklist for article assessments.

Wikipedia 0.5

Articles were evaluated for inclusion in an initial test release (called Version 0.5) as part of the overall project of producing a fixed version of Wikipedia. The article on soil was evaluated as A-Class on September 15 2006.

Soil related articles are organized within Category:Natural_sciences_Version_0.5_articles. As of 18:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC), soil is the only project article indicated.

Wikipedia 0.7

The goal for this release is approximately 20,000-30,000 articles articles, so the scope will be much wider than for Version 0.5. Detailed examples are being prepared and discussed on the scope page. This release should include, subject to meeting basic quality criteria, states & provinces from all major countries, cities with significant populations, as well as Core supplement and Vital articles.

Soil related articles are organized within Natural Science articles. As of 18:15, 2 December 2007 (UTC), soil is the only project article indicated.

Wikipedia 1.0

The Soil WikiProject uses the Version 1.0 assessment approach for the article assessments we conduct. Our assessments are picked up by a Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team bot. The bot constructs an index to rated articles, by project, and tallies up our project's soil articles by quality for consideration.

Erosion, currently a B-class project article, has been designated a vital article. The article has been reviewd by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team as indicated by the {{WP1.0}} tag.


Articles to be merged

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Soil/Merge for articles that are suggested for merging. They have been tagged with {{merge}}


Tasks

  1. Monitor all categorical soils articles for for vandalism and substandard edits (for example Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Soil science
  2. Identify pages that need attention.
  3. Upload PD soils images from USDA, USGS to Commons:Category:Soil
  4. Develop a userbox for project participants.


Pages needing attention

In progress. I perceive that these could be generated by bot, which I expect to figure out as the project develops. Currently this list is being prepared manually by WikiProject Soil collaboarators.

Articles needed

See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Soil/Needed for Soil Project articles that need to be created.

Stubs

  • {{soil-sci-stub}}. This stub is for soil science articles that are too short to be genuinely useful. See Category:Soil science stubs
  • {{soil-stub}}. This stub would be for Soil articles that are too short to be genuinely useful. It would work for articles on other-than-science or multidisciplinary aspects of soils. Once established, it would become the main stub identified with the project. Project historians may recall that this was the original intent, but without a soil category parent, the stub evolved to the current soil-sci-stub. More recently, project member Drillerguy took a run at establishing a soil-stub. His effort was tagged for deletion. The result of the debate was to redirect soil-stub to soil-sci-stub. This has motivated the project to establish a soil category.

Articles that may require cleanup

Articles that may require general cleanup have been tagged {{cleanup}}.


Articles that provide insufficient context

The introductions to these article provide insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter and have been tagged {{context}}.


Articles lacking sources

See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Soil/Articles_lacking_sources for articles lacking sources. They have been tagged {{references}}.

Articles with dead external links

Dead links are unwanted, and should be fixed on a regular basis. You can either try to find the current location of the document using a Google inurl search, or use the {{dlw}} or {{dlw-inline}} templates to point to the Internet Archive version of the document, like this: {{dlw|dead URL|caption}}, e.g.: {{dlw|http://free.oszoo.org/|OS Zoo webpage}}. For dead links inside paragraphs, use {{dlw-inline|url=dead URL|title=caption}}, which will not disturb the flow of text as much. Please do not simply remove every dead link; they often contain valuable information.


Formerly broken links which need reintegration:

  1. Soil liquefaction, How quicksand forms Fixed: Need to put link back in where it fits

Articles that need expansion

Articles that need expansion have been tagged {{expand}}.

Articles with sections that need expansion

Articles with sections that need expansion. They have been tagged {{sectstub}}.

WikiProject Soil Current Collaborations

Soil images needing upload to Commons

WikiCommons upload link. Ideally photos would be converted to a lossless PNG format using a program like GIMP and diagrams would be converted to an SVG format.

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