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The '''WikiProject Spiders''' was formed in July 2006, to better organise efforts to create a spider section in Wikipedia that will be useful and enjoyable.

This page and its [[Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spiders|subpages]] contain many  suggestions and ideas; 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 [[{{NAMESPACE}} talk:{{PAGENAME}}|talk page]] and see the [[Wikipedia:to-do list|to-do list]] there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices]].

==Scope==
* Summarize all the information that is out there on spiders, link to it, and provide an easy and beautiful way to access it.
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==Articles==
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== Parentage ==
This WikiProject is an offshoot of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life|WikiProject Tree of Life]]

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*[[Portal:Biology]]

==Related WikiProjects==
See [[Portal:Biology]].

It is also worth keeping an eye on several Wikiprojects that are similar or overlap with this one, including [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Lepidoptera|WikiProject Lepidoptera]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions|WikiProject Ecoregions]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Evolutionary biology|WikiProject Evolutionary biology]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds|WikiProject Birds]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cephalopods|WikiProject Cephalopods]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods|WikiProject Gastropods]].

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==Structure==

See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arthropods#Structure]] for an explanation of the structure of the spider section.

For a detailed article format on spiders, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Article formats]]
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==Goals==
One goal is to collect as much information about spiders and transform it into a form that is accessible to laymen, but also interesting to professionals.
* '''Taxon pages''': {{As of|2015|December}}, there are about 46,000 described spider species placed in 114 families. We need not create a page for every species, for now, but it would be really cool to at least provide pages for all commonly known spiders, and for every spider where anything interesting can be found (Loads of species are only known from dead specimens, and all that is known about them is that they differ by some technical microscopic feature from another species; it would probably be more interesting for now to focus on spiders with 'special' features :)
* '''[[Spider anatomy|Anatomy]]''': Explain every anatomical feature of spiders. 
* '''[[Spider behavior|Behavior]]''': Collect information on this much-neglected topic.
* '''Find more people''' that are interested in spiders, and willing to help on this project.

==Projects==
* find one '''example species''' for (almost) every spider family
: it would be very nice to focus on at least one species of every one of the 114 families. That's a) a good motivation (clearly defined goal), and b) would help to seed the thought of diversity in the spider section :) These example species could then be linked into the [[Spider families]] table.
* include '''extinct taxa''' into the systematic sections
* '''synonyms''': the [[World Spider Catalog]] has many synonyms for spider taxa; these could be incorporated at a later time.
* '''Regional checklists''': There already is a [[List of common Australian spiders]], [[Spiders of New Zealand]], and a [[List of spiders of India]]. This would be nice for other regions, too.
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* mine ''[http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/psyche/ Psyche]''. This is an entomological (with spiders) journal that has all issues from 1957 to 2000 under a free license; that means, we can copy text and pictures as we wish, if we attribute it. Could be a nice resource.
* produce '''diagrams'''. Examples: 
** eye distribution on spider families
** abdominal markings
** ...
:these could either be newly drawn, or fetched from open license publications (eg. ''[[Psyche (entomological journal)|Psyche]]'', see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spiders#Free_license|Free license publications]])

==Tasks==
* '''clean up the article [[Spiders]]'''. 
:*It's still too long. split it into several sub-articles (eg. spider anatomy, spider taxonomy, spider evolution, spider bites, spiders in culture).
* put the '''{{[[Template:WPSpiders|WPSpiders]]}} template''' on the Talk pages of all spider related articles.
:*There should be very few pages now related to spiders that are not tagged, but if you do see a spider page without it, please [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Article Classification|add it]] and tell the page's creator about this practice.
* '''find references''' on the web, and attach them to the fitting pages
:* there are loads of arachnological PDFs online. If one person attaches it to the fitting page, another person could extract the information into the article at a later time.
* find, make, liberate '''pictures'''
:* search for spider pictures with a free license, upload own pictures (and determine the type where possible); but it could also help to ask people that have nice pictures online if they are willing to publish them under an open license; [[:Image:Eriauchenius_gracilicollis_(Jeremy_Miller).jpg|example]]
* '''Mine the Commons''' for spider images ([[:commons:Category:Unknown spiders]]).
:*People have put in loads of images with titles like "weird_spider.JPG" and very few images with the scientific names of spiders. See also [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Undetermined pictures|WikiProject Spiders/Undetermined pictures]].
:*There is also an unknown amount of spider pictures that are not linked into the commons [[:commons:Category:Spiders|Spiders category tree]]. If you spot one, please at least tag it with [[commons:Category:Spiders|Category:Spiders]]. (or the respective family if you know about it)
* provide '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spiders/General#Distribution_maps|distribution maps]]''' where data is available.

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==General strategy and discussion forums==
*[[/General]] - '''''Check this page out, it contains many hints and suggestions that are currently being discussed.'''''

==Other subpages==
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/To do]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Log]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Articles]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Article Classification]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spiders/Undetermined_pictures]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spiders/Unclear facts]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/genus taxobox example]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/species taxobox example]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/List of Arachnologists]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Resources]]

==Templates==

===Infoboxes===
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/genus taxobox example|example genus taxobox]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/species taxobox example|example species taxobox]]
* Sesamehoneytart's [[User:Sesamehoneytart/spider_genera_template| Spider Genus Template]]™
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*{{tl|arachnid-stub}} - spider stubs
*{{tl|Salticidae-stub}} - jumping spider stubs
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===Other templates===
* {{tl|WPSpiders}} <!-- no more SpiderTalk-->
Place this on top of a spider article's Talk page.
What this template does:
# It will help to lead new editors to this project.
# If complete with quality and importance grading (see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Article Classification|Article Classification]]), it helps us to stay on top of more than a thousand articles related to spiders.

* {{tl|Araneae}}
This will insert a box with all spider families at the bottom of the page. At the moment, all 114 spider family pages have it ([[Chummidae|example]]).

* {{tl|User WPSpiders}}
Users with this template (which creates a userbox) on their User page will be automatically added to [[:Category:WikiProject Spiders participants]].

===List of taxonomists===
You can use the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/List of Arachnologists|List of Arachnologists]] to easily wikify the describers of taxa.

==Categories==
{{See also|WP:WikiProject Spiders/Style guide#Categories}}
The top category is 
*[[:Category:Spiders]]
Put genus and species pages into the appropriate [[Spider families|family category]].

===By year of description===

Articles on species (but not other ranks) can be placed in "Category:Spiders described in YEAR", e.g. [[:Category:Spiders described in 2017]]. "Described in" here means "first formally described in accordance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature". The [[World Spider Catalog]] is a reliable source of taxonomic information: start at the [https://wsc.nmbe.ch/search Search page]. There are two main cases:
#The species is still in the original genus in which it was first described, e.g. ''[[Argiope aurantia]]'' <small>Lucas, 1833</small>. This will be shown by the absence of parentheses around the authority and date. So this species belongs in [[:Category:Spiders described in 1833]].
#The species has been moved from the original genus in which it was first described, e.g. ''[[Argiope aemula]]'' <small>(Walckenaer, 1841)</small>. Walckenaer first described it as ''Epeira aemula'' in 1841; Thorell moved it to ''Argiope aemula'' in 1877, but this doesn't change the year of first description, so this species belongs in [[:Category:Spiders described in 1841]].

"Spiders described in YEAR" categories, such as [[:Category:Spiders described in 1997]], are placed in "Spiders described in CENTURY" categories, such as [[:Category:Spiders described in the 20th century]]. The higher level categories should not contain articles. "Spiders described in YEAR" categories are also placed in "Animals described in YEAR" categories.

===Redirects===

Redirects should also be categorized, always by the appropriate "[[Template:R template index|R cat template]]", and sometimes by other categories as well, such as by their taxonomic category or in the case of a species by the year of description.

====Redirects not involving monotypic taxa====
Redirect pages involving spider taxa should be placed into a "redirect category" using an appropriate "R cat template" as shown in the table below, unless the redirect is concerned with the accepted names of [[monotypic taxon|monotypic taxa]]. "Scientific name" is here interpreted broadly as meaning "Latin name", which may or may not be a valid taxonomic synonym.

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| colspan=2 rowspan=2 | || colspan=2 align=center | '''To'''
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| align=center | Scientific name || align=center | English name
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| rowspan=2 | '''From''' || Scientific name || {{[[Template:R from alternative scientific name|R from alternative scientific name|spider]]}}* || {{[[Template:R from scientific name|R from scientific name|spider]]}}*
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<small><nowiki>*</nowiki> Subcategorizing the redirect as a spider makes access and maintenance via the appropriate category easier.</small>

Examples:
* ''{{noredirect|Tetragnatha gibba}}'' is a redirect to ''[[Tetragnatha extensa]]'', and has the template {{[[Template:R from alternative scientific name|R from alternative scientific name|spider]]}}.
* {{noredirect|Crab spider}} redirects to [[Thomisidae]], and has the template {{[[Template:R to scientific name|R to scientific name|spider]]}}.
* ''{{noredirect|Atrax robustus}}'' is a redirect to [[Sydney funnel-web spider]], and has the template {{[[Template:R from scientific name|R from scientific name|spider]]}}.

====Redirects involving monotypic taxa====
See [[WP:MONOTYPICFAUNA]]. [[Monotypic taxon|Monotypic taxa]] should have {{em|one}} article at the lowest rank, but no lower than genus. So a family with one genus has an article at the genus; a genus with one species also has an article at the genus. The exception is when the genus needs disambiguation by adding "(spider)"; in this case the article on the genus and species is at the species. Redirects should be created for all the other taxa.

This will result in two cases:

* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:R to monotypic taxon|R to monotypic taxon|spider]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> is used where the redirect is towards a monotypic taxon from its sole member; thus it will always be upwards. The template will place the redirect in [[:Category:Redirects to monotypic taxa of spiders]]. Examples:
:*''{{noredirect|Fijocrypta vitilevu}}'' redirects to ''[[Fijocrypta]]'' – from the sole species in the genus to the monospecific genus.
* <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:R from monotypic taxon|R from monotypic taxon|spider]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki> is used where the redirect is from a monotypic taxon to its sole member; thus it will always be downwards. The template will place the redirect in [[:Category:Redirects from monotypic taxa of spiders]]. Examples:
:* {{noredirect|Holarchaeidae}} redirects to ''[[Holarchaea]]'' – from the monogeneric family to the sole genus.
:* {{noredirect|Calculus (spider)|''Calculus'' (spider)}} redirects to ''[[Calculus bicolor]]'', since the species epithet is a more natural disambiguator than "(spider)".

These redirects should also be categorized by taxon rank, and in the case of a species, by year of description.

==Lists==
* [[:Category:Lists of spider species]] has lists for all but the smallest spider families (and redirects for these).

These lists were originally created from version 8.0 of Norman Platnick's World Spider Catalog, which forms kind of a common consensus on spider taxonomy amongst arachnologists. The [[World Spider Catalog]] (WSC) is now hosted at the Natural History Museum Bern; many species lists need to be updated to the latest version. For the sake of consistency, the spider section should adhere to the WSC wherever feasible. If you have a reason not to, please leave a note.

===Regional species lists===
:[[List of common Australian spiders]]
:[[List of spiders of India]]
===Regional lists not in Wikipedia===
* [http://kaston.transy.edu/spiderlist/index.html Spiders of North America Species List]
* Checklist of spiders from Singapore (2002) [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/50/50rbz359-388.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927002232/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/50/50rbz359-388.pdf |date=2011-09-27 }}
* [http://www.arabel.ugent.be/BelgianSpiders.html Checklist of Belgian and Dutch Spiders]
* [http://norbert.verneau.free.fr/inventai.html Inventaire des araignées de Corse]
* [http://www.arages.de/files/checklist2004_araneae.pdf Checklist of the spiders of Central Europe]

==Articles==
:''See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Articles]] for an overview of existing articles, requests of articles that are needed, and specials like "Featured articles" and the like.''

==Resources==
:''See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Resources]].''

==Picture Liberation Project==
This list's primary purpose is to coordinate the picture liberation quest ;). this way, people won't be bothered by multiple requests. To help out with this project, read through [[Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission]]. Some examples of emails sent to owners of pictures can be found here:  [[Wikipedia:Example_requests_for_permission]]. 

* People from outside WP that have agreed to have their spider pictures under an open license:

:* Marshal Hedin [http://www.bio.sdsu.edu/pub/spiders/hedin.html] ([[commons:Category:Pictures by Marshal Hedin|pics on commons]])
:* Thierry Gasnier
:* James Lindsey [http://popgen.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/commanster.html] — ([[commons:Category:Pictures by James Lindsey|pics on commons]])
:* Herbert Walter Levi ([[commons:Category:Pictures by Herbert W. Levi|pics on commons]])
:* Akio Tanikawa ([[commons:Category:Pictures by Akio Tanikawa|pics on commons]] — [http://spider.fun.cx/okinawa/List.htm Spiders of Okinawa])

* People that have been contacted, but did not (yet) reply:
:* Michel Vuijlsteke [http://safari.blaffeture.net/index.php?title=Category:Animals]
:* Tom Murray [http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/spiders] (would license the pictures under a non-commercial license)

* People that won't license their pictures for WP:
:* Jeremy Miller (only with watermark)
:* Matjaž Kuntner (only non-commercial)

* People not yet asked, with a sample page of pictures:
:* Bryan E. Reynolds, Jerome Rovner, Joseph Warfel, Fred Coyle, Bill Welch, K.N. Prestwich, Rick Vetter [http://www.americanarachnology.org/gallery_araneae.html]

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