Happy holidays! Regardless of which holidays you choose to celebrate, here's hoping they're enjoyable.

As we reach the end of our first six months, we can be proud of the progress we've made to date – particularly considering the tiny size of our task force. We now have more than 4,100 articles, categories, templates and redirects under our watch. We've created a sizeable glossary (with more entries being added every day), whittled down the project's cleanup listing, and added biographies about a number of prominent lichenologists. To date, we have one Featured Article and 23 Good Articles. Clearly, there's plenty more to do, but we're off to a solid start. Here's to a productive new year!

Articles of note

DYK appearances:

• Solorina crocea – following its recent upgrade to GA status, this article about the "orange chocolate chip lichen" was featured on the encyclopedia's front page
• Rebecca Yahr and Gyalectidium yahriae – a dual hook about a lichenologist and the species named after her

Project news

Editors have been busy over the past month:

• The glossary of lichen terms has come along in leaps and bounds, and now contains several hundred entries.
• An expanded list of "missing lichenologists" has been created and work has begun on associated articles.
• All lichen taxa articles have now been converted to the automatic taxobox system, making this project one of the very few to have finished all such conversions. This should make it much easier to stay on top of future taxonomic updates.
• Articles have been created for dozens of genera and species of lichen and lichenicolous fungi.

Newsletter challenge

A sentence in our Cladonia squamosa article was challenged back in 2014(!!) when a reader discovered that the supplied source did not corroborate the information. The editor who finds a valid source for the sentence (or corrects the information as necessary) and, in addition, replaces any redlinks with appropriate links to our new glossary of lichen terms will get public kudos in the next newsletter.