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—Welcome to WikiProject Antarctica—
Antarctica map. Source: CIA World Factbook
This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the continent of Antarctica with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles about Antarctica. To participate, simply add your name at the participants section.
This project covers the creation and maintenance of articles related to the continent of Antarctica, its geology and geologic history, geography, climate, lifeforms, political and scientific history. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Antarctica in a fair and accurate manner.
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica : edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2022-01-09
Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
Article requests : Doctor Guillermo Mann Base (es ) General Jorge Boonen Rivera Base (es ) Yelcho Base (es ) Ski plane Cleanup : Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies , Laura Crispini , Mac. Robertson Land Expand : San Martín Base Merge : Effects of climate change Split : Visa policies of British Overseas Territories Stubs : East Antarctic Ice Sheet , George VI Ice Shelf , and other Antarctica stubs .Verify : Antarctic Circumpolar Current , Argentine Antarctica , Antarctic Bottom Water , Base General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme , Life in the Freezer , Rothera Research Station Other : Add any new articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica/Articles page in alphabetical order, where it can be checked for recent changes
Categories for discussion
Requested moves
Articles to be merged
Articles for creation
Active participants[ edit ]
To join WikiProject Antarctica, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}}
with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of participants. Participants should also place participant identification on their user page.
Dentren
Chris
Finavon
Fishdecoy - focus: McMurdo Sound geographic area. Stickler for using footnotes and citing sources.
Daniel - Mountains, valleys and other specific georgraphical features.
Niel Malan
Polylerus - I'd love to help out
Zatoichi26
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Satu Suro interested in project management (correct category tags etc.) and tagging
BrianKliesen - Updating areas around McMurdo Sound and the US Antarctic Program.
Ictionary - I add to the English Portal:Antarctica when I can.
Like tears in rain (talk ) can give some help from :fr
Ratzer McMurdo Dry Valleys , individual valleys, lakes, rivers, etc.
Phanly (talk ) irregular editor particularly interested in impacts of climate change on Antarctica dinghy (talk ) 00:49, 6 April 2009 (UTC) [ reply ]
Avenue (talk ) - Interested in geology, climate change and the Ross Dependency.
DiverDave - Interested in Australian Antarctic Territory , geology , orogeny , history, ANARE .
ContrillionAU (talk ) 10:23, 15 August 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]
∙:∙:.:pepper :.:∙:∙
Guy Macon - Electronics Engineer who has designed equipment for polar use. Would like to work in Antarctica some day.
Arzino - Interested in Antarctic Geography (Islands, Mountains...)
User:Solo Toady - I am willing to work on improving the Alexander Island stub articles.
Jan1nad — A to Z via USGS GNIS fixing wikilinks, citations and grammar
Maias - Fauna and IBAs
Lemnaminor
Shebaks (talk ) 21:55, 13 May 2013 (UTC) [ reply ]
Alcoll12 - Geology, geography, history of exploration
Altamel - South Shetland and South Orkney Islands
Tjlynnjr
Apidium23 - Geography, United States Antarctic Program (USAP) entries, and paleontology.
Libertybison (talk ) - history
Seazzy - Ross Sea, interested to learn more about continent-wide flora and fauna, climate and geology
Crefollet - General interest in Antarctica; hope to live/work there one day
Janitoalevic - I like Geography/Politics, i'm from Chile, i've been at Puerto Williams , and i've expanded and created articles about Chile in the Antarctica.
Avismother - Interested in territorial claims, wildlife, and general human interaction with and influence on Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands.
Chesipiero - Antarctica-related lists
A Guy into Books (talk ) 20:47, 17 August 2017 (UTC) Just general interest.[ reply ]
Sixflashphoto - Geography, United States Antarctic Program (USAP), and general interest.
LandoBando (talk · contribs ) 17:59:25, 3 March 2019 (UTC) - Heavily interested in polar regions, especially in everything related to Antarctica.[ reply ]
TheTechnician27 (talk · contribs ) 20:35:18, 5 June 2019 (UTC) – Here because I think Antarctica is cool, pun intended.[ reply ]
Deror (talk ) 21:22, 14 June 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
Gerald Waldo Luis (talk · contribs ) 11:50:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC) On the place and aviation.[ reply ]
Mcmangold - focus: James F. Brandau , Scott Base .
TheRealGrantma (talk ) 01:04, 8 November 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]
Federalwafer (talk · contribs ) 13:09:46, 8 December 2020 (UTC) -Interested in human culture, tradition, and history around Antarctica[ reply ]
Jack Ryan Morris (talk · contribs ) 21:29:50, 5 February 2021 (UTC) -Antarctica seems so exotic and foreign to me, and I find almost everything about it interesting[ reply ]
User:Gandalf the Groovy Antarctic history is pretty neat
Douuwwurunwuuzhe (talk · contribs ) 23:30:44, 21 April 2021 (UTC) history, Geology, Geography and Scinetific Researches[ reply ]
Elytrian (talk · contribs ) 04:42:10, 7 July 2021 (UTC) Interesting. And cool. Ba-doom cha[ reply ]
Contrawwftw (talk · contribs ) Academic working in the field of Antarctic biota
Meitner109 (talk · contribs ) 13 August 2021 Antarctic history
Liam2520 (talk ) 06:41, 26 October 2021 (UTC) [ reply ]
NotADev (talk · contribs ) 01:01:42, 7 January 2022 (UTC) Physical geography mainly[ reply ]
Deror (talk ) Physical geography mainly
Buckland1072 (talk · contribs ) 12:56:20, 13 June 2022 (UTC) British Antarctic history[ reply ]
Nyonyatwelve (talk · contribs ) 15 July 2022 - Interested in geography and climate
Jake Jakubowski (Talk) 04:33, 7 June 2023 (UTC) [ reply ]
UsualDosage (talk · contribs ) 27 Oct 2023 - South Georgia Island , British Graham Land Expedition , Nautical Vessels
Puddlesofmilk (talk · contribs ) 20:22:40, 21 February 2024 (UTC) [ reply ]
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
Anarcticpenguin – single edit account
BrucePL West Antarctica, Marie Byrd Land, geology, climate history – Inactive since Nov 2011
robertjohnsonrj – Inactive since Dec 2006
Badbilltucker - Will help out where possible. – Inactive since Jan 2007
Ice Explorer (talk ) Mostly working on Norwegian whalers and explorers. – Inactive since Jan 2010
Keesiewonder – Inactive since Nov 2007
Crested Penguin – Inactive since Jun 2007
John Carter 20:01, 14 May 2007 (UTC) - Can help with assessments and other such activity. – single edit account[ reply ]
gdenyer – Inactive since Aug 2011
Lazulilasher Interested in explorers. – Inactive since Apr 2013
Madison.Byfield.123 05:21, 4 November 2007 (UTC) id love to help, even tho im only 11! – Inactive since Mar 2012[ reply ]
Somritabanerjee (talk ) 13:23, 27 December 2007 (UTC) I'm 12 but i'll try – Inactive since Aug 2012[ reply ]
Euge246 (talk ) – Inactive since Jul 2009
Shamanchill (talk ) 06:28, 15 May 2008 (UTC) owner of the largest private collection of first-hand Antarctic Exploration publications in Canada – Inactive since Nov 2009[ reply ]
Iceseismic - updating pages for Skelton and David Glacier regions – Inactive since May 2013
Polargeo 27 January 2009 - Ice streams – Inactive since Oct 2010
Austin99 - Will update & add articles concerning the Texas Tech geological expeditions mapping the central portion of the Queen Maud Range, The Transantarctic Mountains and Marie Byrd Land. – Inactive since Feb 2009
Solanum dulcamara (talk ) - Irregular editor currently obsessed with Antarctic exploration and other things Antarctic. – Inactive since Apr 2009
Loopygrumpkins – Inactive since Dec 2012
Daniel Benweathers Will help out where I can. Interested in exploration, particularly Ernest Shackleton. 20:26, 16 October 2010 (UTC) – Inactive since Nov 2010[ reply ]
Angelikfire - Interested in research stations in Antarctica. – Inactive since Mar 2013
User:Αλεξανδράκης - Member of Adelie Land work group – Inactive since Aug 2012
Participant identification[ edit ]
WikiProject Antarctica participants should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Antarctica participants .
For other Antarctica user templates see Category:Antarctica user templates .
The "Antarctican Penguin Barnstar" and "The Antarctica Barnstar" may be awarded to any Wikipedian producing excellent work on Antarctic topics:
The Antarctican Penguin Barnstar
The Antarctica Barnstar
Add one of the following Wikitext expressions to your user page:
Antarctica articles by quality and importance
Quality
Importance
Top
High
Mid
Low
NA
???
Total
FA
9
9
9
5
32
FL
1
1
FM
14
14
A
1
1
GA
8
4
22
34
B
7
23
18
33
5
86
C
17
26
66
145
41
295
Start
9
62
114
618
285
1,088
Stub
2
66
4,956
1
2,803
7,828
List
4
11
8
104
1
1
129
Category
1,597
1,597
Disambig
16
16
File
19
19
Project
14
14
Redirect
3,869
2,807
6,676
Template
171
171
NA
3
1
4
Other
8
8
Assessed
46
142
285
9,756
4,649
3,135
18,013
Total
46
142
285
9,756
4,649
3,135
18,013
WikiWork factors (? )
ω = 53,915
Ω = 5.76
1.4% List-Class
82.5% Stub-Class
11.5% Start-Class
3.1% C-Class
0.9% B-Class
0.4% GA-Class
0% A-Class
0.3% FA-Class
Quality operations : A bot-generated daily log which lists articles Reassessed, Assessed and Removed.
Popular pages : List of top articles with the most frequent views, updated monthly.
Former featured articles[ edit ]
Former good articles[ edit ]
Did you know? articles[ edit ]
In the News articles[ edit ]
Formerly recognized content[ edit ]
Former featured articles[ edit ]
Former good articles[ edit ]
Please list any newly created articles below, and the date of their creation. Also, if they qualify, consider nominating them for inclusion in the Did you know section of the Wikipedia:Main page ;
24 May 2009
April 17, 2009 (just created after the publication in Science of a paper by Mikucki et al. (2009) dealing with a rare subglacial microbial community isolated for more than 1.5 Ma in a hypersaline brine imprisoned below the Taylor Glacier )
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