Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs/Achievements
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This is a short list of notable accomplishments that fall under the scope of WikiProject Dinosaurs.
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[edit] Featured articles
The following are considered some of the best articles on Wikipedia, and have been recognized by Wikipedia's editors as featured articles.
- December 5, 2005: Dinosaur is selected for the Article Improvement Drive.
- December 18, 2005: Dinosaur becomes a featured article.
- January 1, 2006: Dinosaur was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article.
- May 30, 2006: Psittacosaurus becomes a featured article.
- June 23, 2006: Albertosaurus becomes a featured article.
- June 29, 2006: Velociraptor becomes a featured article.
- July 12, 2006: Velociraptor is featured on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article.
- July 24, 2006: Tyrannosaurus becomes a featured article.
- September 12, 2006: Tyrannosaurus is featured on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article.
- November 10, 2006: Stegosaurus becomes a featured article.
- November 27, 2006: Stegosaurus is featured on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article.
- January 9, 2007: Diplodocus becomes a featured article.
- May 26, 2007: Diplodocus is featured on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article.
- January 31, 2007: Triceratops becomes a featured article.
- March 21, 2007: Triceratops is featured on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article.
- March 3, 2007: Iguanodon becomes a featured article.
- March 15, 2007: Compsognathus becomes a featured article.
- March 30, 2007: Archaeopteryx becomes a featured article.
- August 29, 2007: Archaeopteryx was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article.
- April 12, 2007: Thescelosaurus becomes a featured article.
- June 4, 2007: Styracosaurus becomes a featured article.
- June 28, 2007: Daspletosaurus becomes a featured article.
- July 16, 2007: Deinonychus becomes a featured article.
- July 31, 2007: Parasaurolophus becomes a featured article.
- August 25, 2007: Majungasaurus becomes a featured article.
- November 4, 2007: Lambeosaurus becomes a featured article.
- November 18, 2007: Acrocanthosaurus becomes a featured article.
- December 14, 2007: Allosaurus becomes a featured article.
- December 20, 2007: Massospondylus becomes a featured article.
- January 30, 2008: Tarbosaurus becomes a featured article.
- April 28, 2008: Gorgosaurus becomes a featured article.
- March 30, 2009: Edmontosaurus becomes a featured article.
[edit] Featured lists
The following are considered some of the best lists on Wikipedia, and have been recognized by Wikipedia's editors as featured lists.
- May 25, 2006: The list of dinosaurs and the list of missing dinosaur articles on Wikipedia are all blue for the first time.
- September 11, 2006: The list of dinosaurs becomes a featured list.
[edit] Good articles
The following articles have met the quality standards and passed through the good article nomination process.
- July 23, 2006: Diplodocus becomes a good article (later promoted to Featured Article).
- July 23, 2006: Ankylosaurus becomes a good article.
- February 6, 2007: Amphicoelias becomes a good article.
- February 11, 2007: Thescelosaurus becomes a good article (later promoted to Featured Article).
- February 22, 2007: Scelidosaurus becomes a good article.
- March 13, 2007: Heterodontosauridae becomes a good article.
- May 9, 2007: Styracosaurus becomes a good article (later promoted to Featured Article).
- May 13, 2007: Lambeosaurus becomes a good article (later promoted to Featured Article).
- May 18, 2007: Hypacrosaurus becomes a good article.
- May 25, 2007: Species of Psittacosaurus becomes a good article.
- May 25, 2007: Saurolophus becomes a good article.
- May 26, 2007: Deinonychus becomes a good article (later promoted to Featured Article).
- June 12, 2007: Sauropelta becomes a good article.
- June 18, 2007: Gryposaurus becomes a good article.
- July 5, 2007: Spinosaurus becomes a good article.
- July 9, 2007: Kritosaurus becomes a good article.
- July 20, 2007: Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event becomes a good article (later promoted to Featured Article).
- November 4, 2007: Herrerasaurus becomes a good article.
- November 4, 2007: Ceratopsia becomes a good article.
- November 10, 2007: Dromaeosauridae becomes a good article.
- November 15, 2007: Gorgosaurus becomes a good article. (later promoted to Featured Article).
- November 21, 2007: Species of Allosaurus becomes a good article.
- November 24, 2007: Abelisauridae becomes a good article.
- December 10, 2007: Massospondylus becomes a good article (later promoted to Featured Article).
- January 2, 2008: Tarbosaurus becomes a good article (later promoted to Featured Article).
- January 9, 2008: Tyrannosauroidea becomes a good article.
- January 12, 2008: Alioramus becomes a good article.
- January 31, 2008: Othnielosaurus becomes a good article.
- February 3, 2008: Coelurus becomes a good article.
- June 11, 2008: Pachycephalosaurus becomes a good article.
- June 19, 2008: "Archaeoraptor" becomes a good article.
- August 3, 2008: Prosaurolophus becomes a good article.
[edit] Did you know...
The following facts appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know... section.
- November 8, 2004: Did you know... that a large titanosaur nesting ground was recently discovered in Auca Mahuevot, in Patagonia, Argentina, and another colony has reportedly been discovered in Spain?
- November 11, 2004: Did you know... that Polar dinosaurs could have walked to Australia, because during the early Cretaceous the continent of Australia was still linked to Antarctica?
- November 22, 2004: Did you know... that the Humboldt Museum in Berlin is home to the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, a Brachiosaurus; and the most exquisitely preserved specimen of the earliest known bird, the Archaeopteryx?
- November 27, 2004: Did you know... that the Cryolophosaurus is informally known as the Elvisaurus because the bizarre crest running across its head resembles Elvis Presley's 1950s pompadour haircut?
- August 24, 2005: Did you know... that Antarctosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs ever to live in South America?
- October 11, 2005: Did you know... that Abelisaurus had a lighter skull than other dinosaurs due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?
- October 31, 2005: Did you know... that Alamosaurus was named after Fort Alamo, Texas and is considered to be the last of the sauropods?
- November 1, 2005: Did you know... that the only surviving fossils of Aegyptosaurus were destroyed in a 1944 bombing raid on Munich, Germany during World War II?
- November 30, 2005: Did you know... that fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly?
- December 6, 2005: Did you know... that the little-known Xiaosaurus may be an evolutionary missing link between Lesothosaurus to Hypsilophodon?
- December 7, 2005: Did you know... that Agilisaurus was first discovered when construction workers were excavating a site for a new dinosaur museum in China?
- January 5, 2006: Did you know... that Ampelosaurus was a European dinosaur that bore spikes on its back up to 20 cm long?
- January 6, 2006: Did you know... that Aliwalia is the earliest known carnivorous dinosaur, and was huge for its time?
- March 17, 2006: Did you know... that the prosauropod dinosaur Efraasia was misidentified at least four times before being recognized as a separate genus?
- May 27, 2006: Did you know... that Dracorex hogwartsia was a dinosaur named for its resemblance to the Hungarian Horntail, a dragon in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series?
- June 10, 2006: Did you know... that a new "dwarf" dinosaur, a sauropod named Europasaurus (pictured), was recently discovered in Northern Germany?
- July 18, 2006: Did you know... that the dinosaur Lufengosaurus, whose remains were found in China, was the first dinosaur to appear on a commemorative postage stamp, in 1958?
- December 12, 2006: Did you know... that Sacisaurus was named for a one-legged Brazilian elf, as the first skeleton was found missing a leg?
- December 16, 2006: Did you know... that Stegosaurus, one of the most distinctive dinosaurs, has been widely depicted in popular culture?
- January 18, 2007: Did you know... that Trachodon, despite being a well-known and often-used duckbill name in the past, is based on teeth which include both duckbill and horned dinosaur specimens?
- March 18, 2007: Did you know... that the Phyllodon, a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic found in present-day Portugal, may have been closely related to North American dinosaurs?
- March 26, 2007: Did you know... that Lophostropheus from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary?
- March 27, 2007: Did you know... that the newly-named Oryctodromeus, a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana, is the first dinosaur described as making burrows?
- April 18, 2007: Did you know... that species of Prosaurolophus, a duckbilled dinosaur, have been described by Barnum Brown and Jack Horner, two of the most prominent paleontologists of the 20th century?
- May 6, 2007: Did you know... that the duckbilled dinosaur Hypacrosaurus is known from the largest collection of hatchling remains for any duckbill, due to the discovery of nests belonging to H. stebingeri?
- June 17, 2007: Did you know... that Gigantoraptor, a bird-like dinosaur discovered in Inner Mongolia, is thirty-five times larger than its peacock-sized relative, Caudipteryx?
- June 18, 2007: Did you know... that Eocursor, a small bipedal herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa, is the most completely known Triassic ornithischian (beaked dinosaur)?
- September 11, 2007: Did you know... that Mahakala, a small dromaeosaurid from Mongolia, is named after Mahakala, one of the eight protective deities (dharmapalas, "Protectors of the Law") in Tibetan Buddhism?
- January 22, 2008: Did you know... that Othniel Charles Marsh named two species of the dinosaur Coelurus from the same quarry, not knowing that the bones belonged to the same skeleton?
- August 15, 2008: Did you know... that Pisanosaurus, from 228 to 216.5 million years ago, is the oldest known ornithischian dinosaur?
- October 7, 2008: Did you know... that Aerosteon, a 9-metre (30 ft) long bipedal carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 84 million years ago, had air-sacs in its bones similar to those in the respiratory systems of modern birds?
- December 21, 2008: Did you know... that the recently-discovered dinosaur Austroraptor is the largest dromaeosaur to have been found in the Southern Hemisphere?
- December 24, 2008: Did you know... that Peloroplites was one of the largest nodosaurid dinosaurs, and came from a time when armored dinosaurs in general were attaining large sizes?
- March 6, 2009: Did you know... that the stegosaurid Miragaia had more neck vertebrae than almost all of the sauropod dinosaurs, known for their long necks?
- March 26, 2009: Did you know ... that the discovery of feather-like structures on the primitive dinosaur Tianyulong raises the possibility that ancestral dinosaurs were feathered?
- June 28, 2009: Did you know ... that the unusual finger structure of the dinosaur Limusaurus gives clues on how dinosaur hands evolved into bird wings?
[edit] Portals
- March 28, 2007: The Dinosaur Portal is created.
- June 29, 2007: The Dinosaur Portal becomes a Featured Portal.
[edit] Growth and development
- April 22, 2004: Project founded (by User:Fredrik), as "an effort to do something about the current relative lack of content about dinosaurs in Wikipedia."
- April 23, 2006: Project membership reaches 25 users for the first time.
- August 22, 2006: Project membership reaches 50 users.
- March 27, 2007: Project membership reaches 75 users.
- February 26, 2008: Project membership reaches 100 users.
