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Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change

This is WikiProject climate change, a collaboration area for Wikipedians interested in improving coverage of climate change. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate! Guide to WikiProjects Directory of WikiProjects Portal:Climate change

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WikiProject Climate change is a collaborative effort to improve our articles related to climate change. The WikiProject covers topics related to the causes of climatic change, the effects of climate change, and how society responds in terms of adaptation, mitigation and social and political change. The WikiProject can help bring people together with different expertise and backgrounds. The figures page coordinates work among those who want to work on figures and graphs

Feel free to join this project by adding your user name to the list of participants!

• Use and contribute to a style guide for climate change articles

Guidance videos[edit]

Recordings of presentations that explain how to contribute to the objectives of WikiProject Climate change and how to edit climate change related articles are collated in this section:

• Recording of a webinar (November 2020): As part of #Wiki4Climate, a week of Wikipedia editing on climate change topics, User:Phoebe takes us through how Wikipedia works and how to get started as a new editor. See third video in Youtube Playlist here. Or see direct link on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/aJBckuPRoiw (cannot be hyperlinked for technical reasons).
• Recording of a presentation at Wikimania (August 2019): User:Phoebe presented in this session. Video clip available in Wikimedia Commons, see thumbnail on the right. Presentation slides available here.

Sources[edit]

• See Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Recommended sources for guidance on sourcing and a collection of high quality sources.

• You can use the premade citations of IPCC assessment reports which can be found at Wikipedia:IPCC citation and Wikipedia:IPCC citation/AR6 for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. They are available in different citation styles (long and short style).

Editing in a controversial topic[edit]

As climate change has historically been a controversial topic on Wikipedia, it has been marked as a Contentious topic. This means there is 'extra protection' against disruptive editing, POV pushing and incivility. You can place {{Contentious topics/talk notice|cc}} on article talk pages. Make sure to inform individual editors that the topic area is marked as a contentious topic on their talk page using {{subst:alert|cc}}. Editors never informed of any contentious topic should be alerted with {{subst:alert/first|cc}}.

When you find yourself in a disagreement, remember to focus on content and make sure you are using high-quality sourcing. You can get help with content disputes by using dispute resolution, for instance by asking for a third opinion.

Other languages[edit]

You can use the content in the English Wikipedia articles to improve other language versions. Useful links:

• There is review on climate denial across languages
• There is also a climate translation project

1000 Most Popular articles
(Assessment criteria)

Climate change articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	3	3	2			10
GA	5	11	23	23			62
B	13	72	95	93		8	281
C	34	219	298	727		52	1,330
Start	3	68	287	964		283	1,605
Stub		1	15	315		176	507
List	1	10	13	19		3	46
NA	4	17	26	38	460		545
Assessed	62	401	760	2,181	460	522	4,386
Unassessed						7	7
Total	62	401	760	2,181	460	529	4,393
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 17,354			Ω = 4.57

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 10 July 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

Get the most recent pageviews from Massviews Tool. Or run your own query here. To provide a snapshot, the values in March 2022 were:

• Total pageviews about 10 million for the 1-month period 25 Feb to 27 March 2022.
• 328,000 pageviews per day (average value for the same time period).
• This is for 3253 articles that are in the Category on Climate Change (note: the number of articles with the WikiProject Climate Change tag is slightly higher, see table on the right).
• Statistically it means about 100 pageviews per climate change article per day. However, many articles get far higher pageviews and many get far fewer. The Top-10 Climate change related Wikipedia articles in March were in descending order: Keystone Pipeline (21,090 per day), Don't Look Up, Great Reset, Antarctica (5,846 per day), David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg, Climate change (4,725 per day), Air pollution, Natural gas, Car (3,554 per day).

• Suggestions for easy edits to get started

Current tasks suggested by the community[edit]

Please add suggestions here followed by ~~~~, and remove your comment when the task is done.

1. Update Scientific consensus on climate change to AR6. Suggested by M.boli at in October 2023.[1] Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 15:41, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing tasks[edit]

Articles for cleanup

A comprehensive listing of articles for cleanup that are tagged with this project's banner is available here.

• Place information about climate change on pages about countries, cities, politicians.
  • Be aware that there could be push-back, especially for high level articles with high pageviews. A good example is a discussion in 2020 for the country article Bangladesh, see here.
• Place the {{WikiProject Climate change}} tag on the talk pages of articles and other pages that are within the scope of this WikiProject
• Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here
• Review importance and quality of existing articles
• Review drafts submitted by other users that can be turned into new article
• Identify articles that exist in other languages, and translate relevant content to English (especially if the articles in the other language version have more content than the English version)

Article alerts[edit]

Writing and improving articles[edit]

• Decarbonization pathways
• Earth system model
• Carbon tariff
• Climate change policy

Discuss climate change articles for specific countries at

Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Climate change/Climate change articles by country

Key articles in need of updating

• Politics of climate change - hard to read
• Temperature record of the last 2,000 years
• Economics of climate change
• Economic impacts of climate change
• Greenhouse gas emissions by the United States
• Social cost of carbon
• Global warming controversy

Key articles that need a clean-up

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - was updated Dec 2022, might need another reviewer to check over it
• Public opinion on climate change - needs lede expanded
• Carbon capture and storage - condensing and updating needed
• Heat pumporAir source heat pump need to be brought up to "good" standard to provide background info for people thinking of buying one

Key articles that need expansion

• Electrification - Shift focus from historical electrification to sustainable electrification
• Economics of climate change mitigation - doesn't mention examples
• Greenhouse gas emissions by China
• Green growth

Portals

• Portal:Climate change needs a lot of work if we decide to keep it maintained. (portals without maintenance are subject to deletion)

Automated list of articles with various clean-up tags

• By category cleanup listing

Events[edit]

Ongoing or future[edit]

Past events[edit]

• August 2019: Africa Climate Change edit-a-thon
• 24 November to 1 December 2020: "Wiki4Climate" - a week long online edit-a-thon on climate change topics
• 1-31 December 2020: Women in Climate Change Edit-a-thon, organised by WikiDonne and the Wikimedia Sustainability Consortia.
• Women in red: year-long initiative about climate in 2022

Communication channels[edit]

The main on-wiki communication channels are generally the article, user or project talk pages, such as the talk page of this WikiProject.

If you feel like a more "personal" way of communicating with members of this WikiProject or other people who want to edit climate change content on Wikipedia then we recommend this Slack channel called "Wiki4Climate" to you: Join Slack channel. It was established in November 2020 to support the first online edit-a-thon on climate change topics and it was decided to keep it running for the foreseeable future. You are welcome to join, the more the merrier.

There is also a Twitter Handle @Wiki4Climate that you can follow (and help populate as we plan to rotate the owners of this twitter handle).

Welcoming and WikiLove[edit]

• Welcome new editors by adding this to their talk page: {{subst:Climate welcome}}
• Invite editors to the project using: {{WikiProject Climate change invite‎}}

• For showing appreciation via barnstars, copy and paste the following and tweak the custom message to their talk page
  • {{Global Warming and Climate Change Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~}}
  • {{Global Warming and Climate Change Barnstar|put your message here ~~~~|alt}}

		Global Warming and Climate Change Barnstar
		{{{1}}}

		Global Warming and Climate Change Barnstar
		{{{1}}}

Userbox templates[edit]

Code	Result
{{Template:User interest climate}}	This user is interested in Climate	Usage
{{Template:User interest climate change}}	This user is interested in Climate Change	Usage
{{Template:User Climate change WP}}	This user participatesin WikiProject Climate change.	Usage
{{Template:User WikiProject Climate change}}	This user participatesin WikiProject Climate change.	Usage

Categories[edit]

Portals[edit]

Add these portals where relevant:

• Portal:Climate change (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Portal:Environment (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Portal:Renewable energy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Portal:Energy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This code produces the portal boxes shown to the right:

• {{Portal|Climate change}}
• {{Portal|Environment}}
• {{Portal|Renewable energy}}
• {{Portal|Energy}}

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

WikiProject Climate Change used to have the following task forces, which were marked as Historical in April 2023:

• Africa
• Agriculture
• Climate Justice
• Biodiversity