We encourage everyone passionate about fungi to contribute and share great examples, disregarding from any arbitrary genotypic or phenotypic trait whatsoever. ![]() We want to help present and cross-link great stories on the applications, effects, and benefits of fungi on Wikipedia. Who is a fungi practitioner? We define fungi practitioners as fungi advocates, aficionados, collectors, educators, enthusiasts, experts, growers, hobbyists, lobbyists, observers, researchers, and tinkerers. We encourage everyone working with fungi to use the hashtag #VisibleFungi on social media. We want to help bring more examples on the applied use of fungi on Wikipedia, starting from the page ‘ Human interactions with fungi’, as well as more images on fungi on Wikimedia Commons. Our aim is to kick-start a community action driven by fungi practitioners. On the List of mycologists page, only three persons listed are born after 1960, despite huge advances in fungal biology in recent years. The History of Mycology page is very brief. The Wikipedia page Outline of Fungi presents an overview, which is incomplete: When classified by use, only ‘Medicinal fungi’ and ‘Edible mushrooms’ are listed (we’d like to change this) when classified by form, only ‘Molds’, ‘Mushrooms’, and ‘Yeasts’ are listed. There are indeed some gaps in the knowledge about fungi presented on Wikipedia. The WikiProject Fungi is a group of Wikipedians and fungi enthusiasts dedicating their time and passion to better organize information in articles related to fungi. This partial visibility of fungi is also reflected on Wikipedia, thus missing a huge wealth of possibilities to spread knowledge about fungi in the public eye. For every fungus we know ( around 150,000), there are an estimated of 10 to 30 we do not know. And just a tiny number of fungi has been discovered by researchers and naturalists. Most fungi are invisible to scientists as well. Matt Kasson, Brian Lovett, Patricia Kaishian, The Conversation And it’s difficult to establish effective conservation programs for organisms that are mysterious even to scientists.” ![]() “It is hard to motivate people to care about something they do not know about or understand. Not only can fungi be found in every cavity exposed to the atmosphere, molding the environment fungi are also increasingly used for a stunning variety of applications. The seasonality of mushroom sprouting might give the impression that fungi partake in sporadic, ephemeral natural phenomena. Fungi are mushrooms and mycelia and hyphae and spores, cells and molds, and all sorts of specialized structures. Of course, fungi are much more than that. Most know… something about them, and think of them as mushrooms at best, and as skin rashes or molds at worst. Most fungi are invisible – in nature, in the public eye, and on Wikipedia
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