Wikipedia:WikiProject Primates

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This WikiProject aims to help organise our collection of entries about primates. It includes all extant species within the order Primates as well as the extinct species. The project also includes articles related to primate behaviour, psychology and notable primatologists e.g. (respectively) brachiation, fission-fusion society, Frans de Waal, etc.

Hot articles

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 7 January 2025.

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Edits	Article	Rating
109	Ngogo chimpanzee war	Start
31	Evolution of primates	Start
18	Capuchin monkey	C
17	Gombe Chimpanzee War	B
13	De Loys's ape	Start
11	Fatou (gorilla)	Stub
9	Primate	FA
7	Allen's swamp monkey	Start
6	Bonnet macaque	Start
6	Human	GA
6	Human evolution	B
6	Siberut macaque	Stub

∑ 12 items | Query runtime: 2.22 s | Last updated: 18:25, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

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Parentage: WikiProject Science > WikiProject Biology > WikiProject Tree of Life > WikiProject Animals > WikiProject Mammals > WikiProject Primates
Related WikiProjects: WikiProject Anthropology · WikiProject Evolutionary biology · WikiProject Paleontology · WikiProject Anatomy · WikiProject Animal rights

Statistics

See also: Primate articles by topic

Primate articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	3	8	9			27
FL	2	2		4			8
FM					22		22
GA	6	1	27	42			76
B	8	18	18	31		6	81
C	8	25	67	134		1	235
Start	1	16	175	437		3	632
Stub		1	52	386		1	440
List		1	4	23	1		29
Category					313		313
Disambig					13		13
File					5		5
Portal					1		1
Project					31		31
Redirect			2	36	312		350
Template					455		455
Assessed	32	67	353	1,102	1,153	11	2,718
Unassessed						1	1
Total	32	67	353	1,102	1,153	12	2,719
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,135			Ω = 4.79

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Featured articles

Former featured articles

Featured lists

Good articles

Former good articles

Featured pictures

Abyssinian black-and-white colobus (Colobus guereza guereza) male head
BrownSpiderMonkey (edit2)
Coucang
Geoffroy's tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi) 2
Grooming monkeys PLW edit
Hylobates lar - Kaeng Krachan WB
Japanmakaken im Jigokudani Monkey Park bei der Fellpflege
Mantled howler monkey and baby (81337)2
Olive baboon (Papio anubis) with juvenile
Olive baboon Ngorongoro
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) composite
Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) female Labuk Bay
Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta mulatta), male, Gokarna
Ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta)
Sahelanthropus tchadensis - TM 266-01-060-1
Samango monkey (Cercopithecus mitis erythrarchus) Mount Sheba
Southern plains grey langur (Semnopithecus dussumieri) female head
Verreaux's sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) Peyrieras
Xiahe mandible
Zanzibar Red Colobus Monkey

Participants

This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping, feel free to join by editing the table below and placing your username, in alphabetical order. If you wish, leave a comment about your special interests on this project.

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LadyofShalott
Aflunters	New to Wikipedia, studying as a part of a digital media class. Interested in primates
annamargit	new to wikipedia, Anthropology student, eager to help
Annielogue
AshLin	Mostly interested in primate behaviour
Bearian
Belugaboy
C6541
Clumsystiggy	Focusing on fossil species, mostly fossils & hum. evolution
DocZaius19
Doctor S Monkey
Eamon1183
E.middlebrook
Gabriel.Hassler	Interested in cooperation in monkeys and apes, particularly Erythrocebus.
Genesyz
Gihan	Working as a research assistant of Primate project in Sri Lankan langurs, and leaf monkeys
Hadal
Isfisk
Jack Hynes
Katims90	Interested in social behaviors from altruism to spite
Kenyapithecus	Miocene hominoids.
Killidude
Koridas	Monkeys and great apes
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Lisapollison
Maky (a.k.a. VisionHolder)	Primarily interested in lemurs, both living and extinct. I plan to eventually make all Lemur articles GA or better.
Marklxb	Student at Washington University in St. Louis interested in primate cooperation.
Mishac
Monkeywire	Primate behavior and humanity's relationship with other primates
Nowimnthing
Nsavalia23	Primarily interested in the social behavior in primates.
Ombudsman
Paleolithicus
Patr2016	Mainly interested in Great Apes, specifically Orangutans.
Peter Maas
Ratattuta
Rlendog
Scotth1001	New to Wikipedia. interested in helping with pretty much anything. Also able to translate between English, French, and simple Japanese.
thelsmotto
Twas Now	Primarily interested in the Great Apes, including extinct groups, and the anthropological aspects of primatology; but I'm willing to help with almost anything!
Tylbrooks1998	Interested mainly in taxonomy, seems most of the primate articles are pretty good which I'm proud of everyone for :)
UtherSRG	founding member
Y12J	Interested in progressive classification of human relatives 00:23, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
ZooFari	Maintain our portal
SMcCandlish (talk · contribs)	anthropologist by training, but I mostly do WP:GNOME work on these articles
OJefi	Interested in primates in general, able to translate between English and Portuguese

Inactive:	(If you notice one of these users has become active since the date listed, please move them back to the active users.)
Joe Klein	Since July 2011
DarthVader	Since July 2011
MichaelRitchie200	Since April 2011
Huicocos	Since January 2011
Ummagumma23	Since December 2010
Primate#101	Since December 2010
somedude101	Since September 2010
JPotter	Since August 2010
Exlibris	Since March 2010
seglea	Since February 2010
Dustin Asby	Since January 2010
Anlace	Since May 2009
8thstar	Since May 2009
KalevTait	Since March 2009
Terry Longbaugh	Since November 2008
Chocolatl	Since October 2008
yojimbo501	Since August 2008
Tannin	Since July 2008
Sambostock	Since March 2008
Kfc1864	Since November 2007
Cryoboy	Since July 2006
Pajamacore	Since May 2006
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Taxonomy and references

Primate taxonomy is by no means fully known or agreed upon. The following references are currently being used for this Project. See the discussion for other possibilities.

Integrated Taxonomic Information System - an automated reference database of scientific and common names for species. More information is available here.
Mammal Diversity Database - an automated database of mammal taxonomy.
IUCN / SSC Primate Specialist Group - an updated list of scientific and common names from the IUCN Primate Specialist Group; as of 2019 chaired by the editors of Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 3: Primates
Mittermeier, R.A., et al Handbook of the Mammals of the World, Volume 3: Primates, 1st Edition (Lynx Edicions, 2013), ISBN 9788496553897 - updated source for primate classification and information
Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition (2005) - this is now one of the primary source for primate classification - use {{MSW3}} or one of its derivatives (such as {{MSW3 Primates}} or {{MSW3 Groves}}) in the reference section.
Mittermeier, R.A.; Louis, E.E.; Richardson, M.; Schwitzer, C.; et al. (2010). Lemurs of Madagascar. Illustrated by S.D. Nash (3rd ed.). Conservation International. ISBN 978-1-934151-23-5. OCLC 670545286. – The latest field guide to the Malagasy lemurs; includes 101 lemur taxa. Use {{LoM3}} for references.
Primate Taxonomy (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001), Colin Groves (ISBN 156098872X) - formerly the primary source
Mikko's Phylogeny Archive, Primate node - particularly good for relationships among the extant and extinct primates, although some nomenclature differs from MSW3
Noel Rowe & Marc Myers, All the World's Primates (Pogonias Press, 2016), ISBN 9781940496061, another recent source for primate classification and information

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