User:TatjanaClimate/sandbox


 * 1) You'll pick a date on which to make your edit.
 * 2) Then, either:  a) Find a climate change edit to make on Wikipedia and
 * 3) *make the edit to Wikipedia OR
 * 4) *if you're new to Wikipedia and don't have time to sign up, notify User:TatjanaClimate of your proposed edit, and they will make it on your behalf. OR b) If you don't know what to edit, you can make the climate change edit suggested to you.
 * 5) Pass the baton to the next editor by sending them an email with the template text that will be provided to you.

Cumulative results
Results Oct 2022 - April 2024 (just over 1.5 years)


 * more than 120 editors have been trained over 13 editathon events.
 * more than 450 articles have been edited to varying degrees (as a cumulative effort from both trainers (4) and trainees).
 * Cumulatively, these articles have been viewed 53.2 million times since they were first edited.
 * Of these, 20 articles have undergone completed expert review.

Edit analysis
From a 6% sample (28 of 450 articles edited),

96% of edits stick (only 1 edit in the sample remained reverted)

Types of edits (per article) & approx %s:

36.6% adding information

16,6% removing information (of this, 40% removing misinformation)

36,6% Structural rearrangements/copy editing

10% other

Length of edits (per article) & approx %s:

21,4% add more than a paragraph

32% add less than a paragraph

28,6% 0-1 words added

10,7% remove less than a paragraph

7% remove more than a paragraph

(paragraph = 100 words)

Year 2 Results
more than 40 editors have been trained to edit Wikipedia’s climate change articles, and 64 climate change-related articles have been improved. These articles have been viewed over 3.74 million times since they were edited.

Over 4 editathon events, 64 articles were improved. These articles have been viewed over 3.47M times since they were edited.

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