Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy development
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WikiProject Environment

General information ( · changes)

• Main Project Page
• Members
• Project category
• Environment Portal
• Sustainable Development Portal

Departments

• Assessment
• Environmental record task force

Infoboxes

• Project infobox

Templates

• Project talk page template
• Environmental science
• Sustainability
• Environmental technology

Environment article statistics

This list is updated automatically on alternate nights.
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Environment articles		Importance
		None	Total
Quality
	FA	12	12
	GA	24	24
	B	253	253
	C	20	20
	Start	573	573
	Stub	929	929
	List	40	40
	Assessed	1851	1851
	Unassessed	12	12
	Total	1863	1863

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Title

WikiProject on Environment

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:

• Climate change & Global warming
• Conservation movement
• Environmentalism
• Environmental Science
• Renewable energy
• 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.

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.

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.

Participants

We welcome new participants for WikiProject environment. Please put your name on the list here.

The {{User WikiProject Environment}} is a User box which can be put on your user page.

Structure

• Environment as in natural environment, wildlife, ecological succession
• Environmental issues as in pollution, global warming, waste, Exxon Valdez

Hierarchy definition

(Previous discussion moved to talk page.)

Since topics in the Environment category are occasionally controversial, ill-defined and multi-disciplinary it is difficult to create an agreed hierarchy. See the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Environment#Categories section below for what currently exists.

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

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

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).
10. See if you are able to work on Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of environmental topics
11. Monitor Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Environment and add afd article to it.

Pages needing attention

Environment

• WikiProjects
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment
• Categories covered
  • Category:Environment
  • Category:Environment by country
  • Category:Waste management
• Stubs
  • Category:Sustainability stubs
  • Category:Environment stubs
  • Category:Waste stubs
  • Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of environmental topics
• Expert attention needed
  • Environmental management system

• Splitting of articles
  • DDT - see Talk:DDT

• FAC

Articles updated by BOT

• 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, Marine conservation activism, Medical geology, Modding, Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, Mycofiltration, Natural capital, Oregon Bottle Bill, Permaculture, Plutonium in the environment, Safe trade, Sustainable agriculture, Sustainable living, Uranium in the environment, Waste minimisation, Wind power, Zero waste
• Expansion needed (updated by bot)
  • 9 - Biosolids, Brighton sewers, Koeberg Alert, List of nuclear waste treatment technologies, List of waste management topics, Poaching, Waste legislation, Wave Dragon, Wind power in the United Kingdom
• Expert attention needed (updated by bot)
  • 1 - Environmental effects of oil shale industry
• Wikification needed (updated by bot)
  • 5 - Ecotarian, Full depth recycling, PAYT, Socially responsible investing
• Neutrality in question (updated by bot)
  • 6 - Critical Mass, Eco-imperialism, Ecocities, Ecological funeral, Puget Sound environmental issues, Wind farm
• 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

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)
• Barry Commoner - Walshga 24:31, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
• Earth Hour - OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 01:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
• Sustainability - Granitethighs (talk) 00:50, 7 July 2008 (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)

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.

Templates

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

The Environmental Barnstar Template

{{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.

WikiProject Talk Page Template

Use {{environment}} on the top of a talk page for an environment related article which will add the following box to the talk page:

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 page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale.

Environmental Science and Sustainability templates

{{Environmental science}}

{{Environmental science|envtech=true}}

{{Environmental technology}}

{{Sustainability}}

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.
• {{Renewable-energy-stub}}
• {{Sustainability-stub}}

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

Other templates

Infoboxes

• {{Energy-civ}}

General Templates

• {{Future energy infrastructure}}
• {{Environmental technology}}

User Templates

• {{Usertag-Energy-Development-Sustainability}}
• {{User Renewable Energy}}

Articles

Main article: Energy development

Project Articles can be found here:

• Category:WikiProject Energy development articles
• Category:Energy development

Articles that can be added can be found here:

• List of energy topics

Project pages needing attention can be found here:

• Category:Energy development articles needing expert attention

User box

You can add this userbox to your userpage: This user is a member of WikiProject Environment.

Use this code: {{User WikiProject Environment}}

Categories

A recommendation on category hierarchy is as follows:

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.

Lists

• List of topics dealing with environmental issues - should this be List of environmental issues for a less unweildly title? Y 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

Requested articles

• Requests can be made at (the rather crowded) Natural sciences requests page.

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

Related WikiProjects and Task Forces

Related WikiProjects and Task Forces are:

• 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.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Hydrogen
• UserProject Sustainable technologies — Held in user space until support grows; pretty much a direct subset of this project.
• Environmental Record Task Force
• WikiProject Engineering

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.