As a subset of WP:FUNGI, the lichen task force is working to improve coverage of the world's lichens – unique organisms composed of one or more fungal partners with one or more photosynthetic partners. Want to learn more? Join us!

Articles of note

New GA articles:

• Solorina crocea – also known as "orange chocolate chip lichen", this was one of the first lichen species to be formally scientifically described

DYK appearances:

• Felipes
• Haematomma ochroleucum
• Piccolia

Project news

Our efforts to improve the coverage of lichens and lichenology on Wikipedia continue. Among this month's accomplishments:

• Biographical articles now exist for each winner of the Acharius Medal, which is awarded in recognition of lifetime achievements in lichenology.
• The glossary of lichen terms has been moved to article space, and now contains well over 100 entries. There's still plenty of room for expansion though!
• We've tagged another 250+ articles, categories and templates as being under the purview of the task force.
• Work has continued on converting those articles which are still using old "taxobox" templates to the newer automatic taxobox and speciesbox templates. There are now only 25 left to modify.
• Dozens of articles have been created for genera and species of lichen and lichenicolous fungi.

If you're looking for a reason to get an article onto Wikipedia's main page, look no further than this screenshot. It shows the views for the three project articles that were featured in the DYK section in October. Of particular interest is the corresponding spike in views of our lichen article (shown by the blue line), as people clicked through to learn more. We're educating the general public, a few thousand people at a time!