Wikipedia:WikiProject Deserts

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WikiProject
DESERTS
founded on September 10, 2009
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WikiProject Deserts

Sahara Desert, Africa
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Categories	WikiProject Deserts, Deserts
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Parent project(s)	Geography
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Welcome to WikiProject Deserts.
The aim of this WikiProject is to improve the content and material of articles of or relating to deserts on Wikipedia.
If you would like to help, please join the project.

Our goals

• Improve the geological aspect of the world's deserts
• Expand coverage on desert-specific features and habitats

Our scope

• The individual deserts and xeric ecoregions
• Geology, hydrology, climate and ecology of deserts
• Civilization and culture of people in deserts
• Tourism, conservation and development of deserts

Getting started

• Add your name to the participants to get started!
• Watchlist bulletin board for future news, straw polls and collaboration efforts.
• Get familiar with the basic definition of desert.
• Get familiar with ecoregions of deserts.

How can I help?
Look at the tasks to see what needs helping.

• Help by creating new articles.
• Help by expanding the content of articles.
• Help by cleaning up articles.
• Help by citing sources on articles.
• Help by placing infoboxes on articles.
• Help by putting maps and photos on articles.
• Help by assessing the articles.
• Help by organizing categories.

Help by outreach (see section below).