Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment
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Time is ripe for a project to better organise information in articles related to Environment. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
We welcome new people to the group who wish to contribute to environmental subjects. Please put your name down HERE.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
[edit] Title
WikiProject on Environment
[edit] Scope
This WikiProject is set up to organise all articles relating to the effects of humans on the natural environment.
The word environment, when not qualified by words such as "work" or "urban" etc, has come to mean the negative effects of human activity on the environment. In the past 30 years the word has defined magazine titles, university departments and degrees, a social movement and political parties.
Topics that are part of this project include:
- Conservation movement
- Environmentalism
- Environmental Science
- Sustainability
- Waste & Waste management
Note that conservation of species or habitats as defined in the science of ecology could be considered to be a subset of the environment.
Topics that are not included:
- Ecology
- Energy (however articles in Category:Renewable energy are valid.)
Since environmental issues cover a wide range on disciplines it is difficult to fit it into any existing schemes for organising knowledge. Fortunately with the use of the networked categorising system within Wikipedia allows for articles relating to the environment to be linked in a logical manner.
[edit] Definitions
As with many other words those used to define environmental terms are used in a loose manner. The generally accepted use of terms for environment related issues are as follows:
- Conservation: the advocacy and efforts to protect species and ecosystems.
- Conservationist: a volunteer or employee who advocates for the protection of species and ecosystems.
- Conservation biologist: a scientist working in the field of conservation biology.
- Environmentalist: a volunteer, activist, employee working to protect the environment from damage which they believe is due to human activity.
- Environmentalism: the advocacy and efforts to protect the environment from what an environmentalist believes is damage due to human activity.
- Environmental scientist: a scientist working in the field of environmental science.
- Ecologist: a scientist working in the field of ecology.
- Preservationist: one who works towards protecting part of the natural environment from change due to human activity. This word is not in common use and is occasionally used in a derogatory manner.
[edit] Participants
We welcome new participants for WikiProject environment. Please put your name on the list HERE.
Note: there is now a User box which you can put on your user page, using: {{User WikiProject Environment}}
[edit] Structure
- Environment as in natural environment, wildlife, ecological succession
- Environmental issues as in pollution, global warming, waste, Exxon Valdez
[edit] Hierarchy definition
- (Previous discussion moved to talk page.)
Since topics in the Environment category are occasionally controversial, ill-defined and multi-disciplinary it is difficlt to create an agreed hierarchy. See the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Environment#Categories section below for what currently exists.
[edit] Goals
The goal of this project is the following:
- ensure all the articles under the scope of this project are written to a high quality
- organise all the articles into appropriate categories
- place all categories in the correct hierarchy.
- create user friendly linkages and navigation
[edit] Projects
- create a graphical representation of the category hierarchy under Category:Environment. (In progress. See below. Alan Liefting 08:44, 28 October 2005 (UTC))
- Check for articles that can be merged.
- check for vandalised articles.
- create a Portal:Environment.
- create a Timeline of environmental events
[edit] Assessment
The assessment project, part of Wikipedia 1.0, focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Environment related articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
[edit] Tasks
- Develop a template advertising this project to be put in all the appropriate environment talk pages.
- Monitor Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Environment for vandalism and substandard edits.
- Advertise this page widely to obtain more participants
- Expand the Environmental stub articles & Sustainability stub articles
- Merge Ecology movement into Environmental movement. See Talk:Ecology movement.
- Tidy up Environmental movement.
- List of songs about the environment has songs in the list that are not relevant.
- Discuss renaming Timeline of environmental events. See Talk:Timeline of environmental events#Rename article?
[edit] Pages needing attention
[edit] Environment
- WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment
- Categories covered
- Stubs
- Cleanup needed (updated by bot)
- 49 - Actinides in the environment, Aerated static pile composting, Aerobic granular reactor, Biocentric individualism, Biofilter, Biosteel, Broad Spectrum Revolution, Bubble fusion, Building biology, Conservation development, Cremation, Ecocities, Ecological engineering, Ecological sanitation, Ecoregions of Madagascar, Ecotheology, Environment of Belgium, Environment of China, Future energy development, Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Association, Garbology, George Seddon, Green Conventions, Green building, Greywater, Hubbert peak theory, Hydrogen economy, Hydropower, Indianapolis Prize, Joseph Capecci, Landfill in the UK, Lifeboat ethics, Litter, Medical geology, Modding, Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, Mycofiltration, Natural capital, Oregon Bottle Bill, Permaculture, Plutonium in the environment, Safe trade, Smarter Salsburgh, Sustainable agriculture, Sustainable living, Uranium in the environment, Waste minimisation, Wind power, Zero waste
- Expansion needed (updated by bot)
- Expert attention needed (updated by bot)
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- Wikification needed (updated by bot)
- Neutrality in question (updated by bot)
- To be merged or split (updated by bot)
- 26 - Aid, Biological fuel cell, Bioreactor landfilling, Ecosystem services, Environmentalism, Environmentalist, Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy, Food miles, Garbology, High level waste, Hubbert peak theory, Industrial waste, Keyline Design, Local food, Nonrenewable resource, Pharming (genetics), Portable water purification, Pyrolysis, Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Solar chimney, Sustainable design, Sustainable technology, Toxic waste, Transgenic plant production, United Nations Climate Change Conference, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
[edit] Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
- New Zealand environmental law - Alan Liefting 09:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- Conservation in New Zealand - Alan Liefting 09:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
- Recycling - jwanders Talk 01:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
- Mechanical biological treatment - --Alex 13:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- Is there currently a way to call for collaboration (i.e., put out a call for collaborators) for specific articles? Meaning, collaboration in starting an environmental article, or expanding a stub, or adding valuable information to an article that is well along but could use improvement or new information? (I'm not thinking about the "Collaboration of the week" practice, because that's only for stubs and is not specifically related to the environment. Joel Russ 23:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps a blanket message to each participant in WikiProject Environment requesting for thier input if they have the necessary knowledge.--Alex 11:16, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scientific Peer Review - Recent requests for review
This is a list of articles that have been nominated for scientific peer review. i.e. by scientists with expertise in the topic. Please contribute by adding new requests at the top of this list:
- Francium - Discussion
- Equipartition theorem - Discussion
- Cerebral hypoxia - Discussion
- Vitamin C - Discussion
- Relative density - Discussion
- Bates method - Discussion
- Earl Mindell - Discussion
- Sudden Oak Death - Discussion
- Process physics - Discussion
then add {{scipeerreview}} to the top of the talk page of the article you want reviewing and add a good description of what you want out of the review on the discussion page. Do not add the article separately to peer review. This will be done later in such a way that both refer to the same discussion page.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry/Peer review for some related reviews.
Reviews of articles that have been nominated for review and the review completed are archived here.
[edit] Templates
The following templates will help us orghanize our efforts to enhance environment coverage on Wikipedia.
[edit] WikiProject Talk Page Template
Use {{environment}} on the top of a talk page for an environment related atricle to add the following box to the talk page:
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This environment-related article is part of a WikiProject to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the environment. The aim is to write neutral and well-referenced articles on environment-related topics, as well as to ensure that environment articles are properly categorized. See WikiProject Environment and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ. |
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[edit] Environmental Science and Sustainability templates
{{Sustainability}}
| This Sustainability-related article is part of WikiProject Energy development, an attempt to build a comprehensive presentation of the issues related to energy development on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and help it bring clarity to the important and wide ranging issues of Sustainable development and Energy development. |
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[edit] Stub templates
- See Category:Environment stubs for a list of current environmental stub articles.
- See Category:Waste stubs for a list of current waste management stub articles.
- Use the {{Environment-stub}} template to mark other environmental stub articles.
- Use the {{waste-stub}} template to mark waste and waste management related stub articles.
Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. *Before creating a new stub, propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories
[edit] User box
| You can add this userbox to your userpage: |
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| Use this code: | {{User WikiProject Environment}} |
[edit] Categories
A recommendation on category hierarchy is as follows:
Notes:
- This is only an outline to give a broad picture of the structure of categories. The number of categories are too numerous to list in this manner.
- Due to the small number of conservationists that currently have article they can be included under the environmentalist category at present.
- No weighting is given to the sequence from top to bottom of the chart.
- No categories are shown outside of the sphere of environmental issues.
- The subcategories for country specific categories are shown in text rather than displaying the numerous individual country categories.
- The following could do with better names:
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Category:Media with an environmentalism theme. See Category talk:Media with an environmentalism themeDone. Alan Liefting 07:54, 26 March 2006 (UTC)Category:Days for environmentalism. See Category talk:Days for environmentalismDone. Alan Liefting 00:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)- Category:Environmental threats. See Category talk:Environmental threats
- This needs updating with waste management subcategories- I'm not so good with Wikipedia tables --Alex 17:52, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lists
- List of topics dealing with environmental issues - should this be List of environmental issues for a less unweildly title? Done.
- List of environment topics - this is a very broad list and includes natural events rather than just anthropogenic effects on the natural environment.
- List of environmental studies topics
- List of environmental protection and restoration topics - this article may be a little obscure and contains irrelevent article links.
[edit] Articles
[edit] Wikipedia articles on Environment
- Environment - considering the current usage of the word "environment" this article does not give the word its proper weighting.
- Environmentalist
- Environmentalism
- Environmental movement
[edit] Related Wikis and WikiProjects
Related WikiProjects are:
- WikiProject Energy development (includes renewable energy - a lot of overlap with the WikiProject Environment)
- WikiProject Climate change
- WikiProject Water and sanitation
- WikiProject International development (includes energy issues in developing settings, and appropriate technologies in international development, which are usually designed to be lower in resource use and more sustainable.)
- WikiProject Urban studies and planning - a lot of implications for sustainability, and includes Category:Sustainable urban planning and Category:Environmental design.
- UserProject Sustainable technologies — Held in user space until support grows; pretty much a direct subset of this project.
Outside Wikipedia:
- The Development and Sustainability Wikia is a wiki for issues related to Development and Sustainability, for material which is not suitable for Wikipedia. This includes original research, personal experience, and ideas. Areas covered include sustainability, sustainable development, appropriate technologies, and sustainable technologies and practices.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Hydrogen
