Wikipedia:WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography
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Shortcut | WP:L&O |
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Parent project(s) | Environment, Oceans |
Project banner template | {{WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography}} |
Userbox | {{User WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography}} |
Assessment | WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography/Assessment |
Twitter: @WikiProjectLO |
Limnology and Oceanography articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
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3 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 23 | ||
B | 2 | 24 | 36 | 33 | 18 | 113 | |
C | 2 | 37 | 104 | 152 | 37 | 332 | |
Start | 1 | 16 | 120 | 273 | 68 | 478 | |
Stub | 2 | 23 | 153 | 28 | 206 | ||
List | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 15 | ||
Category | 146 | 146 | |||||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | |||||
File | 5 | 5 | |||||
Portal | 2 | 2 | |||||
Project | 8 | 8 | |||||
Template | 14 | 14 | |||||
NA | 3 | 5 | 17 | 28 | 53 | ||
Assessed | 7 | 85 | 303 | 645 | 204 | 155 | 1,399 |
Unassessed | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total | 7 | 85 | 303 | 645 | 204 | 156 | 1,400 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 5,316 | Ω = 4.62 |

WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography is a group of editors who aim to improve the reliability and accuracy of Wikipedia pages relating to the study of inland waters and marine environments. If you would like to contribute, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list, below.
Scope
This WikiProject is a collaboration to improve articles relating to inland waters and marine environments, including the study of lakes, ponds, reservoirs, streams, rivers, wetlands, groundwater, estuaries, and oceans. We strive for a diverse editor base and aquatic science topics to help combat common biases in Wikipedia.
Goals
Improve articles within the scope of the project through verifiable and objective editing.
Article quality goals
10 featured articles: 30% complete | ||
30 good articles: 76.7% complete | ||
Editing advice


- Helpful tutorial on how to edit Wikipedia pages
- Essay about editing Wikipedia for research scientists
- Tips for how to create a new article
- The Wikipedia Adventure - a fun, interactive tour on the basics of editing (15 badges to collect en route)
- The Teahouse - a friendly and welcoming help desk for new users to seek advice on editing.
Open tasks
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Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Make sure you have created your userpage with a brief description of yourself as well as your user talk page.

- SigridinScience (talk) 17:03, 27 February 2019 (UTC); Methane oxidation, biogeochemistry, lake stratification, anoxia
- Ekatko1 (talk) 17:02, 27 February 2019 (UTC);limnology, resource limitation, seasonal succession, role of CO2 in freshwaters
- Camcolibri (talk) 17:59, 27 February 2019; oceanography, modeling, biogeochemistry, trace metals
- Ariannakrinos (talk) 16:55, 27 February 2019 (UTC); phytoplankton ecology, microbial oceanography, modeling, biogeochemistry, bioinformatics
- 7seasofscience (talk) 03:53, 15 February 2019 (UTC); Deep-Sea Biogeography and Conservation
- Planetazor (talk) 03:51, 15 February 2019 (UTC); plankton ecology, microbial eukaryotes
- Angelaokienv(talk) 03:46, 15 February 2019 (UTC); Marine and Terrestrial pollution; Heavy metal stress
- MarineLeg(talk) 03:44, 15 February 2019 (UTC); Ocean and wave modelling
- jharfman (talk) 17:29, 20 November 2018 (UTC); Carbon cycling, biogeochemistry, lower food web
- Jayzlimno (talk) 01:25, 15 January 2017 (UTC); Lake biogeochemistry
- Ernielarson (talk) 01:25, 15 January 2017 (UTC); Stream community ecology
- Drarialshogren (talk) 08:00, 20 October 2018 (UTC); River ecohydrology
- Jst4 (talk) 15:37, 20 October 2018 (UTC); Estuaries
- dr.kjf; (talk) Stream & lake biogeochemistry
- Maggibrisbin; (talk) plankton ecology, microbial eukaryotes
- JimJunker (talk) 22:06, 20 October 2018 (UTC); secondary production, foodwebs, ecological stoichiometry
- Kellyproof (talk) 02:31, 23 October 2018 (UTC); Carbon cycle, methane biogeochemistry
- Nick Moyes (talk) 22:58, 29 October 2018 (UTC) Retired museum biologist; Teahouse host. Happy to assist any new editor here who encounters problems with editing. Just ask at the Teahouse, or on my talk page.
- EditorWB (talk) 22:54, 20 November 2018 (UTC); Stream ecology, phytoplankton, biogeochemistry
- Dr.dwk (talk) 16:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC); Aquatic biogeochemistry
- Jsoceans (talk) 16:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC); community ecology, coastal ecology
- Jgironna (talk) 08:14, 20 November 2018 (UTC); fisheries, oceanography
- Thom2587 (talk) 17:26, 21 November 2018 (UTC); Phosphorus Biogeochemistry, Dissolved Organic Matter, Ecological Stoichiometry
- Tlrogers (talk) 05:24, 25 November 2018 (UTC); marine ecology, community ecology, population dynamics, biogeography
- MLMelo (talk); limnology, tropical aquatic systems, heterotrophic bacteria
- Rssmith218 (talk); marine ecology, invasion biology, coastal ecosystems, community ecology
- ccsymons (talk); aquatic ecology, community ecology, alpine lakes, zooplankton, foodwebs
- Allicramer (talk); movement ecology, community ecology, modeling, classification, foraging theory
- FreshcoastCDOM (talk); carbon cycling, ocean optics, remote sensing
- aghounshell (talk); estuaries, aquatic biogeochemistry, dissolved organic mattter
- EcoStressJess (talk); ecosystem toxicology, stress ecology, energy and contaminant transfer
- Mals07 (talk); community ecology, microbial ecology & evolution, limnology, bioinformatics
You may place {{User WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography}} on your user page to display the following userbox:
![]() | This user is a participant in WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography. |
Templates
Tagging articles
Add the message box {{WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography}}
to talk pages of limnology- or oceanography-related articles, which yields:
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Specifying the article class quality (e.g. stub, start, b, etc..) and the importance (e.g. top, high, mid, low) will help us keep track of articles that need the most improvement.
{{WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography|class= |importance= }}
Userboxes
To add the Limnology and Oceanography box to your User page, copy and paste the code below into your user page:
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{{Template:User WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography}} |
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Usage |
Stub sorting
These templates can be placed at the end of articles to help categorize articles that need some work. 'Stubs' are articles that have just a few sentences and need expansion.
{{Ocean-stub}}
Articles
Featured content
Candidates
New articles
Please feel free to list your new Limnology- or Oceanography-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please).
Review and assessment
Assessment
Adopted from WikiProject Molecular and Cell Biology statistics page.
The standard system on wikipedia is for each article to be assigned two grades: one for completeness and another for significance. These grades as assigned to articles by adding and/or updating the {{Wikiproject Limnology and Oceanography|class= |importance= }}
template on that article's talk page. If you have improved an article, you may adjust the entry in the template yourself, or you may simply put a remark in the talk page that improvements have been done.
Quality scaleClass is determined by how well written an article is based on completeness, clarity and referencing. Articles typically are slowly improved up the levels until they reach A-Class, at which point they go through a more thorough review process with strict criteria to become Good Articles (GA) and Featured Articles (FA). The quality level is set using the
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Importance scaleArticle significance is based loosely on how aware the general population is of the topic, and therefore how likely they are to consult Wikipedia. Importance is set using the
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Peer review
Categories
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Resources
- Bots we can use to save time for organizing this WikiProject
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References
Submitted for review
Submitting WikiProject Limnology and Oceanography for review. A group of 40+ aquatic scientists at a recent workshop agreed to use this page to as an organizing tool to help improve Wikipedia articles in the aquatic sciences.