Species and zoo articles on Wikipedia

[Jurek7]

There is a minor bugbear / a wish of me. Could people improve articles about zoos and wildlife on Wikipedia?

Currently many zoos and many less known birds and mammals have very poor articles. Articles about species are very one-sided, and look like some information was made by a robot pulling countries of occurrence from some database.

Especially silly situation is with birds. There is digitized detailed information about all bird species of the world in several versions: Cornell, HBW, Ebird etc. I do not suggest copy-pasting or robot scrapping it into Wikipedia, because the exact text is copyrighted. But the information itself is not a subject of copyright. Why nobody moves it with proper re-edition to Wikipedia?

 

[wally war eagle]

Wikipedia needs yearly updating for zoo reviews.

 

[Chlidonias]

Many articles seem to be pet projects of individuals. I've tried correcting or updating articles on animals or zoos in the past, and they get reversed almost immediately. So I stopped bothering.

 

[CGSwans]

Wikipedia needs yearly updating for zoo reviews.

Reviews are not an appropriate format for Wikipedia articles, which should be strictly factual, not opinion-based.

It would be appropriate for a Wiki page to read something like "the main flight aviary was opened in 1935 and at that time held the only breeding pair of phoenixes in captivity. The aviary is currently home to a variety of waterfowl and wading bird species."

It would not be appropriate for it to read "the flight aviary used to have much more interesting birds, is overgrown and is showing its age. It really needs an overhaul."

 

[TinoPup]

I occasionally update zoo pages when I notice something, especially species lists, but I don't do it often enough. I don't understand much of how editing wikipedia works, beyond some of the basic stuff. People go nuts if you do something wrong.

 

[lintworm]

Many articles seem to be pet projects of individuals. I've tried correcting or updating articles on animals or zoos in the past, and they get reversed almost immediately. So I stopped bothering.

That is also my impression, I have reported falsely ID'ed pictures and like before, but it is not as if those are changed then....

 

[amur leopard]

Many articles seem to be pet projects of individuals. I've tried correcting or updating articles on animals or zoos in the past, and they get reversed almost immediately. So I stopped bothering.

I changed a Wikipedia article on Sydney zoo which claimed they were going to acquire dugongs and all sorts of rare creatures from all over the world, and it got almost immediately changed back. I tried again later that day and the same thing happened. I think it is now vaguely correct, but...