Wiki Update #1

Aug 18, 2008

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I recently made some significant contributions to some Wikipedia articles, most of them being articles on specific dinosaur genera.

Just figured I’d post some links to them. The size of the contributions are estimated and may be rounded up or down, but are generally pretty close.

Antarctosaurus. Redid its citations.

Aralosaurus. 50% increase in article size.

Arrhinoceratops. 30% increase in article size.

Aublysodon. 10% increase in article size.

Avaceratops. 10% increase in article size.

Avimimus. 40% increase in article size.

Bactrosaurus. 80% increase in article size.

Bagaceratops. 40% increase in article size.

Brachyceratops. 80% increase in article size.

Brachylophosaurus. 30% increase in article size.

Centrosaurus. 40% increase in article size.

Conchoraptor. 50% increase in article size.

Corythosaurus. 10% increase in article size.

Drepanosaurus. 100% increase in article size.

Dromaeosaurus. 25% increase in article size.

Dromiceiomimus. 50% increase in article size.

Edmontonia. 30% increase in article size.

Erlikosaurus. 100% increase in article size.

Greys. 30% increase in article size.

Oct 24, 2007

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I’ve been extremely busy in my free time compiling lists of fossil animals. Below is a list of all of my new ones. Most of them need sever formatting and cosmetic work, but they’re still pretty grand. Enjoy!

List of acanthodians

List of eurypterids

List of placoderms

List of prehistoric annelids

List of prehistoric bony fish

List of Prehistoric Bryozoans

List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish

List of prehistoric jawless fish

List of prehistoric sponges

List of xiphosurans

Aug 29, 2007

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I’ve been actively making some contributions to Wikipedia recently. Last Friday I made over 60 edits in a single day.   A couple of days ago, I made even more than that. Despite doing a high quantity of them, the edits I’ve been making have been mostly to do with classifying articles. Here’s the break down:

I made a few articles in the List of Fossil Sites. Specifically, the Gres a Reptiles (which is French) and the Aquia Formation (straddling Maryland and Virginia) and the Baharija Formation (African).

But that was the tiny minority of wortwhile edits. The less interesting but more time intensive edits have been:

Sorting out all of the Ammonite genre which are a member of the order Ceratitida into that order’s category.

Creating the Ammonite Stub Template.

Adding the above to every Ammonite stub (approximately 200 of them).

Removing the ammonite stubs from the cephalopod stub and paleontology stub categories.

Jan 28, 2007

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It’s been a good day for the articles on invertebrate paleontology at Wikipedia! I spent a while today creating a much needed page and category. 

Specifically, I created a page to list all known genera of Trilobite. Needless to say as it now stands it doesn’t include all the known genera of trilobites yet, but at least now there’s a page for that purpose.

I based the idea and structure on the list of dinosaurs and list of pterosaurs pages. That’s why it links to Hadrosaurus as an example of a nomen dubium, I had shamelessly copied that paragraph from the aforementioned dino page.

The category I made was for Ammonite related articles. I was horrified when I saw that one didn’t exist, so I made it myself. It’s a sub category of the extinct cephalopod category, the page of which looks much nicer being uncluttered by the dozen or so various types of ammonite wikipedia has articles for.

Oh, I think I also made a list of ammonites page too. I really have been busy. One thing I had already been beaten to was the creation of a list of plesiosaurs page. Drat!

Here’s the comprehensive list of articles receiving my magic touch today:

Phylloceratina

 Goniatite

 Ancyloceratina

Ammonite

Stephanoceras

Scaphites

Perisphinctes

Hamites

Euhoplites

Didymoceras

Dactylioceras

Baculite

Category:Ammonites

Ammonite

 List of ammonites

List of trilobites