New Wiki Logo Competition!

Hello everyone! We would like to announce that we are opening a new competition today!

We would like you to design us a new logo for The British Wildlife Wiki! The current one is out dated and as The British Wildlife Wiki is coming up to 2, we thought it would be great to get the community involved and see what they could come up with! If you would like to design us a new logo please read the next few lines.

There are a few things that the logo should include:

1. Text saying - The British Wildlife Logo
2. Size: 250x65 pixels
   
3. Try to include animal(s), Plant(s) and Landscapes etc from the British Isles.
4. It must be colourful
5. All images must be all your own work and totally original!

All entries must be submitted by emailing them to thewwc@hotmail.co.uk by the 15th November.

The winning entry will be placed as the new logo on The British Wildlife Wiki and the winner will be notified on the 16th of November.

Unfortunately there are no runner-up prizes, so make the logo the best you can to ensure you win!

Have fun making your entry and we hope to see them soon!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from everyone at The British Wildlife Wiki and The WWC.

Recently we had a few complaints about the copyright issues which we have started to combat and also about having distribution maps and not including the Channel islands. So now we have made up 9 Channel islands maps that will start to be used in the new year.

If you have any more good ideas or complaints let us know by emailling woodlandswildlifecouncil@yahoo.co.uk

Photo Updates

We have recently set up a WWC Flickr site which we hope to showcase all of our best shots on!
We have also recently set up a deviantART account where you can buy our greatest shots from.

The Flickr site will be updated monthly and we hope to showcase most of Britain's wildlife on it.
Click here to go to our Flickr site.

Our deviantART site is for our greatest shots that we would like to earn some revenue from.
Click here to go to our deviantART page.

The deviantART page will updated whenever we get some more GREAT SHOTS!!!

All of our photos are subject to copyright but we will allow you to use them if you ask for permission first and reference them back to us!

Also in the news:

'Reptiles of Britain' factsheet now avalible, please email thewwc@hotmail.co.uk to get yours Free!

More factsheets coming soon when the website is reopened!

British Wildlife Answers

The British Wildlife Answers site was set up last month after the British Wildlife Wiki was doing well and taking shape.

The Answers site is designed for people who have any questions about British Wildlife to ask them there. Then other members will answer these questions and maybe ask some others. Its like Yahoo! Answers, but for British Wildlife only.

Hopefully the Answers site will do well and be off the ground soon, all we need is more members to ask questions on it and people to ask the questions so please check it out!

Spring is here!

There seems to be an endless future in sight.

Youtube
Now that spring is here, we can start filming for our British Wildlife Clips, although we do have a few episodes ready we want to upload a few in bulk at a time to keep people entertained, we dont want people waiting and asking for more. We plan to have 365 episodes, one for each day of the year!

Also the Geology series will be underway soon as we are just creating the opening sequence and then the videos will be ready to upload so watch this space.

Nature Reserves
A new nature reserve is opening up near us on the West Canvey Marsh this spring. It may be an hour walk away but it will be well worth it and we are hoping to film most of the British Wildlife Clips series here.

Hopefully it will be open soon whilst the weather is good and we shall be making many videos on the marsh as it will certainly be an intresting place to visit.

The British Wildlife Wiki
We currently have 375 articles which meets our target and i have done some math. We are hoping to get 75 articles done a month but it seems that our average is closer to 100 at 94. So thanks to all those who have helped make the wiki what it is today and don't forget your support is continually needed.

Website
The website is under complete refurbishment and at the moment it is going well! We have made many new pages and sorted out the Live Support addon so that will be ready when the website is back up, also we have srted out a search bar for the website as well!

The layout is going to be coded from our designs by a professional company so everything should look perfect and tie together well, if you would like to see anything on the site please let us know by emailing : thewwc@hotmail.co.uk (this is a temporary email whilst the site is down).

We wish you a Happy Spring!

New WWC Youtube Series

We Are Proud to announce that we will be starting a new Wildlife series in the new year for youtube. The series will be concentrating on British Wildlife and will be uploaded to the Woodlandswildlife2 account. The series will be called British Wildlife Clips This will be a concise series of footage of all of the British Wildlife species we can find.

Look foward to it in the new year. We will be doing some photography for it up until the new year and then we will release the first few videos on the first week of January 2010.