Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment

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Environment
articles		 Importance
None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 6 6
Good article GA 21 21
B 243 243
Start 539 539
Stub 901 901
List 28 28
Assessed 1738 1738
Unassessed 1 1
Total 1739 1739

This project's aim is to better organize 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.

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[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:

Note that conservation of species or habitats as defined in the science of ecology could be considered to be a subset of the environment.

Topic that is not included:

  • Ecology (studies species in a natural environment)

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

A few words related to the environment and environmentalism are commonly misused. A brief glossary of commonly-confused words follows. Editors are encouraged to use these words correctly.

  • Conservation: environmental protection, especially as related to appropriate or reduced use of natural resources.
  • Conservationist: an individual who believes in or practices conservation.
  • Conservation biology: a scientific discipline that deals with human effects on species, communities, or ecosystems, or deals with their protection.
  • Conservation biologist: a scientist working in the field of conservation biology.
  • Environmentalist: an individual who believes in or practices any form of environmental protection.
  • Environmentalism: the movement concerned with protecting the natural environment from human-caused harm.
  • Environmental Science: a multidisciplinary scientific discipline that draws on biology, chemistry, and geology, among other sciences, to study the relationships between human beings and the natural environment.
  • Environmental scientist: a scientist working in the field of environmental science.
  • Ecology: scientific discipline that deals with the interrelationships of organisms and/or their abiotic environment.
  • Ecologist: a scientist working in the field of ecology.
  • Preservationist: an individual who believes in, or works to, protect functional, largely pristine, ecosystems from human impacts.



[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

[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:

  1. ensure all the articles under the scope of this project are well-written and of high quality
  2. organise all the articles into appropriate categories
  3. place all categories in the correct hierarchy.
  4. create user friendly linkages and navigation

[edit] Projects

  1. Check for articles that can be merged.
  2. Check for vandalised articles.
  3. Monitor "What links here" on the Environment page for pages that can be linked elsewhere
  4. Monitor Category:Environment for inappropriate pages or subcategories
  5. Monitor "Related changes" for Category:Environment

[edit] Tasks

  1. Tag new articles and give assessments to unassessed environment articles.
  2. Monitor Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Environment for vandalism and substandard edits.
  3. Advertise this page widely to obtain more participants
  4. Expand the Environmental stub articles & Sustainability stub articles
  5. Merge Ecology movement into Environmental movement. See Talk:Ecology movement.
  6. Tidy up Environmental movement.
  7. Discuss renaming Timeline of environmental events. See Talk:Timeline of environmental events#Rename article?
  8. Work on Wikipedia:List of controversial issues#Environment (list needs to be culled and/or updated)
  9. Check to see that the articles linked to natural environment (Special:WhatLinksHere/Natural environment) are appropriate. Many should be linked to Environment (biophysical).


[edit] Pages needing attention

[edit] Environment

  • FAC


Articles updated by BOT

[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.


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

This project is no longer active and scientific articles should be directed to the general peer review. Reviews of articles that were completed are archived here.


[edit] Templates

The following templates will help us orghanize our efforts to enhance environmental coverage on Wikipedia.

[edit] The Environmental Barnstar Template

The Environmental Barnstar {{subst:The Environmental Barnstar|message ~~~~}} The Environmental Barnstar may be awarded to Wikipedians who have made significant contributions towards environment-related articles, raising environmental awareness in Wikipedia, or assisting in Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment.

The award was introduced and designed by User:OhanaUnited. It was introduced on April 27, 2007.



[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:


WikiProject Environment
Portal		 This environment-related article is part of the Environment 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.
NA This article has been rated as NA-Class on the assessment scale.


[edit] Environmental Science and Sustainability templates

{{Environmental science}}

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Environmental science

{{Environmental science|envtech=true}}

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Environmental science

{{Environmental technology}}

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Topics related to environmental technology

[edit] Stub templates

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] Other templates

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] General Templates

[edit] User Templates

[edit] Articles

Main article: Energy development

Project Articles can be found here:

Articles that can be added can be found here:

Project pages needing attention can be found here:

[edit] User box

You can add this userbox to your userpage:
This user is a member of the WikiProject Environment.
Use this code:
{{User WikiProject Environment}}


[edit] Categories

A recommendation on category hierarchy is as follows:

First tier Second tier Third tier Fourth tier Fifth tier
Category:Environment → Category:Environmentalism → Category:Green anarchy
→ Category:Environmentalists → Environmentalists in specific countries
→ Category:Environmental science → Category:Atmospheric sciences → Category:Climate change
→ Category:Environmental chemistry
→ Environmental geology
→ Ecology
→ Category:Sustainability → Category:Renewable energy
→ Category:Environment by country → Specific countries
→ Category:Environmental law → Category:Treaties on the environment
→ Environmental law by country
→ Category:Environmental economics
→ Category:Conservation → Category:Conservation by country → Specific countries
→ Category:Energy conservation
→ Category:Protected areas → Category:Protected areas by country → specific countries
→ Category:Endangered species → Category:Critically endangered species
→ Category:Environmental issues
→ Category:Environmental issues by country → specific countries
→ Category:Climate forcing agents → Category:Greenhouse gases
→ Category:Ozone depletion
→ Category:Oil spills
→ Category:Pollution
→ Category:Greenhouse gases → Category:Emission standards
→ Category:Emissions reduction
→ Category:Environmental disasters → Category:Nuclear accidents → Category:Chernobyl disaster
→ Category:Waste → Category:Waste management → Category:Recycling
→ Category:Environmental books → Category:Environmental non-fiction books
→ Category:Environmental fiction books
→ Category:Environmental films
→ Category:Environmental songs
→ Category:Environmental sayings
→ Category:Environmental awareness days
→ Category:Lists of environment topics → A-Z series
→ Category:Environment stubs

Notes:

  1. 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.
  2. The current category tree can be seen at Special pages->CategoryTree->Environment.
  3. Due to the small number of conservationists that currently have article they can be included under the environmentalist category at present.
  4. No weighting is given to the sequence from top to bottom of the chart.
  5. No categories are shown outside of the sphere of environmental issues.
  6. The subcategories for country specific categories are shown in text rather than displaying the numerous individual country categories.

[edit] Lists

[edit] Requested articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Environment

[edit] Related WikiProjects and Task Forces

Related WikiProjects and Task Forces are:

Outside Wikipedia:

  • The Development and Sustainability Wiki 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.


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