Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Newsletter

This is the newsletter for WikiProject Tree of Life, including a roundup of recently-promoted content (FA/GA/DYK) and talk around the town. If you are interested in receiving such a newsletter, please add your name below.

Subscribers

• Etriusus (talk · contribs)
• Snoteleks (talk · contribs)
• Enwebb (talk · contribs)
• SchreiberBike (talk · contribs)
• Plantdrew (talk · contribs)
• Cygnis insignis (talk · contribs)
• Elmidae (talk · contribs)
• Awkwafaba (talk · contribs)
• Pvmoutside (talk · contribs)
• JoJan (talk · contribs)
• Loopy30 (talk · contribs)
• Donald Albury (talk · contribs)
• Ajpolino (talk · contribs)
• LittleLazyLass (talk · contribs)
• Guettarda (talk · contribs)
• Shyamal (talk · contribs)
• Orenburg1 (talk · contribs)
• Quetzal1964 (talk · contribs)
• Deuterostome (talk · contribs)
• Gderrin (talk · contribs)
• Jens Lallensack (talk · contribs)
• Maias (talk · contribs)
• Fritzmann2002 (talk · contribs)
• Starsandwhales (talk · contribs)
• GreatSculptorIthas (talk · contribs)
• FunkMonk (talk · contribs)
• Sbbarker19 (talk · contribs)
• Epipelagic (talk · contribs)
• Ambrosia10 (talk · contribs)
• William_Avery (talk · contribs)
• Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs)
• Slate Weasel (talk · contribs)
• Evolution and evolvability (talk · contribs)
• JarrahTree (talk · contribs)
• Dick Bos (talk · contribs)
• Kiwikiu (talk · contribs)
• Spurb (talk · contribs)
• Strobilomyces (talk · contribs)
• Abalg (talk · contribs)
• Micromesistius (talk · contribs)
• SilverTiger12 (talk · contribs)
• Jowaninpensans (talk · contribs)
• froggydame (talk · contribs)
• Giantflightlessbirds (talk · contribs)
• Sainsf (talk · contribs)
• AshLin (talk · contribs)
• JECason (talk · contribs)
• Oronsay (talk · contribs)
• JurassicClassic767 (talk · contribs)
• Md. Golam Mukit Khan (talk · contribs)
• TigerScientist (talk · contribs)
• Thriley (talk · contribs)
• AryKun (talk · contribs)
• 靖天子 (talk · contribs)
• HeartGlow30797 (talk · contribs)
• Dracophyllum (talk · contribs)
• JoePhin (talk · contribs)
• Jyoo1011 (talk · contribs)
• GF38storic (talk · contribs)
• Leomk0403 (talk · contribs)
• Terasail (talk · contribs)
• Vaco98 (talk · contribs)
• EpicPupper (talk · contribs)
• Wil540 art (talk · contribs)
• Friesen5000 (talk · contribs)
• Interaccoonale (talk · contribs)
• TimothyBlue (talk · contribs)
• Edisstrange (talk · contribs)
• Feliiformia (talk · contribs)
• Terasail (talk · contribs)
• The Morrison Man (talk · contribs)
• Underscore1234 (talk · contribs)

TOLN team

All help is welcome to produce this community newsletter! I understand that Wikipedia editing is a volunteer activity by people with real lives, however, so don't feel that you need to commit to a lifetime of service. Feel free to come and go as ideas/the urge to copyedit strikes you.

• Enwebb—creator and benevolent dictator for now
• SchreiberBike—copyeditor as time allows
• starsandwhales—copyeditor and possibly writer (as time allows)
• AryKun

Current issue (November 2023)

November 2023—Issue 024

Tree of Life

Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

Newly recognized content

Hypericum sechmenii by Fritzmann2002 Nyctibatrachus major by AryKun List of platyrrhines by PresN List of gymnosperm families by Dank Varroa destructor by KoA, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Lepas testudinata by Etriusus, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Island bronze-naped pigeon by AryKun, reviewed by SilverTiger12 Placidium arboreum by Esculenta, reviewed by SilverTiger12 Orange-billed lorikeet by AryKun, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Spinular night frog by AryKun, reviewed by An anonymous username, not my real name Crested cuckoo-dove by AryKun, reviewed by Femke Aristonectes by Amirani1746, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Mocquard's Madagascar ground gecko by Olmagon, reviewed by Etriusus Femoral gland by Esculenta, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Ameerega munduruku by AryKun, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Snowy plover by Jens Lallensack, reviewed by SilverTiger12 Crested cuckoo-dove by AryKun, reviewed by Grungaloo Wood-pasture hypothesis by AndersenAnders, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Hypericum bupleuroides by Fritzmann2002, reviewed by Etriusus Teratoscincus roborowskii by Olmagon, reviewed by Esculenta Pulchrocladia retipora by Esculenta, reviewed by Etriusus Anaptychia ciliaris by Esculenta, reviewed by Jens Lallensack

Newly nominated content

Snowy plover by Jens Lallensack List of birds of Bouvet Island by AryKun Laomaki by An anonymous username, not my real name Nyctibatrachus robinmoorei by AryKun Nyctibatrachus sabarimalai by AryKun Nyctibatrachus mewasinghi by AryKun Eucalyptus gomphocephala by Hughesdarren

Contest results

The third edition of our monthly contest saw Quetzal1964 win for the second month in a row, scoring 68 points from 39 articles about a variety of marine fishes. In second place for the month is Olmagon, who scored 45 points from 10 articles on extinct crustaceans and geckoes. In the overall standings, Quetzal1964 leapfrogged over simongraham into first place, with 176 points from 109 articles; simongraham is now in second place with 136 points from 37 articles. The December edition of the contest is now open: feel free to drop by and participate if you work on any TOL-related articles this month.

New newsletter!

Now, this newsletter is technically not new, but I have only recently become aware of its existence and am only a month late, so it still counts. Wikiproject Fungi's Lichen task force has a new newsletter that is very nicely formatted and also features much better writing than this newsletter. Anyone interested in receiving the newsletter can add their name here.

November DYKs

A bacterium that thrives in the deep ocean

Georges Cuvier's reconstruction of Anoplotherium commune

Paroedura maingoka

Field of Wyethia amplexicaulis in bloom

An adult dwarf pufferfish

Adult Balkan terrapin

Planocarina marginata, a hyalospheniid amoeba

• ... that a variety of the Connecticut field pumpkin is known as "the original commercial jack-o'-lantern pumpkin"? (November 1)
• ... that insects not only destroyed the personal plant collection of John Hunter Thomas, but also bear his name? (November 3)
• ... that life exists in every part of the biosphere, from the deepest parts of the ocean (bacterium pictured) to altitudes of up to 64 km (40 miles) in the atmosphere? (November 6)
• ... that Sivapardus was larger than a leopard, smaller than a lion, and had a face like a cheetah? (November 7)
• ... that Lillian V. Holdeman Moore identified a spike in hydrogen-gas-producing bacteria in Skylab astronauts? (November 8)
• ... that euglossine bees distribute the seeds of vanilla tlatepusco? (November 11)
• ... that in 1822, the Paleogene mammal Anop­lo­therium commune (reconstruction pictured) was the first fossil species to be subjected to a brain cast study? (November 12)
• ... that the island bronze-naped pigeon is a popular food at bars and parties on São Tomé? (November 12)
• ... that little pink elephants are parasitic? (November 12)
• ... that the gecko Paroedura maingoka (pictured) imitates venomous scorpions to discourage predators? (November 13)
• ... that the scenic fields of northern wyethia (pictured) found in the western United States are sometimes a sign that an area has been overgrazed? (November 15)
• ... that a 1950s album of frog calls developed a cult following? (November 15)
• ... that at a maximum standard length of roughly 2 cm (0.8 in), dwarf pufferfish are some of the smallest pufferfish in the world? (November 18)
• ... that the authors of The Neanderthals Rediscovered learned that their book proposal had been accepted on the same day they took their twin sons home from hospital? (November 20)
• ... that hatchling Balkan terrapins are only 3 to 4 centimetres (1.2 to 1.6 in) in length, while adults (example pictured) can grow as long as 25 cm (9.8 in)? (November 21)
• ... that organisms could harvest kinetic energy to survive? (November 22)
• ... that pollution in rivers scatters far-red light, making it harder for plants like Noveloa to germinate? (November 23)
• ... that many hyalospheniid amoebae (example pictured) construct shells by stealing mineralized particles from the shells of their prey? (November 28)
• ... that an ancient wildcat species is known only from a part of the jaw of a single animal discovered in Poland? (November 29)

Discuss this issue

You are receiving this because you added your name to the subscribers list of the WikiProject Tree of Life. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, please remove your name.

Archives

2019

• Issue 001 (April): Delivered
• Issue 002 (May): Delivered
• Issue 003 (June): Delivered
• Issue 004 (July): Delivered
• Issue 005 (August): Delivered
• Issue 006 (September): Delivered
• Issue 007 (October): Delivered
• Issue 008 (November): Delivered
• Issue 009 (December): Delivered

2020

• Issue 010 (January): Delivered
• Issue 011 (February): Delivered
• Issue 012 (March): Delivered
• Issue 013 (April): Delivered
• Issue 014 (May): Delivered
• Issue 015 (June and July): Delivered
• Issue 016 (August): Delivered
• Issue 017 (September): Unfinished
• Note: Issues

2022

• Issue 018 (February): Delivered
• Issue 019 (March): Delivered
• Issue 020 (April): Delivered

2023

• Issue 021 (August): Delivered
• Issue 022 (September): Delivered
• Issue 023 (October): Delivered
• Issue 024 (November): Delivered
• Issue 025: In Progress?