Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change

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!

Tools and advice

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

Guidance videos
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.

Editing in a controversial topic
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 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 cc. Editors never informed of any contentious topic should be alerted with 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
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

Metrics
1000 Most Popular articles (Assessment criteria)

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).

To-do

 * Suggestions for easy edits to get started

Current tasks suggested by the community
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 u|M.boli at in October 2023. Clayoquot (talk &#124; contribs) 15:41, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Ongoing tasks
 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)

Writing and improving articles


Past events

 * 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
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

 * Welcome new editors by adding this to their talk page:
 * 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

Userbox templates
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Categories
A list of some of the major categories is included here in case this is useful, but also to try to stimulate any discussion of scope of project. Other Categories exist as shown in the Category tree below.


 * natural environment
 * climate
 * climatology
 * climate_history
 * climate change
 * global warming
 * effects of climate change
 * climate_forcing
 * global_environmental_issues
 * atmospheric_radiation
 * renewable_energy
 * climate_and_weather_statistics
 * climate_change_denial
 * climate_change_organizations
 * defunct_climate_change_organizations
 * environmental_organizations_established_in_yyyy
 * environmental_organizations_disestablished_in_yyyy
 * organizations_of_environmentalism_skeptics_and_critics
 * climate_change_in_art
 * climate_change_mitigation

Stubs:
 * category
 * category
 * category
 * category
 * category

A fairly(?) comprehensive list of (over 2000) articles is in
 * category

Less clear whether these and similar should be included:
 * sea_level
 * glaciology
 * oceanography
 * wind_power
 * climate_by_mountain_range
 * category
 * cloud_and_fog_physics
 * aerosols
 * particulates
 * environmental_science
 * earth_sciences
 * climate_change_conferences
 * paleoclimatology
 * climate_change_policy

In case you don't know about this tool, it's under "special pages" (under "upload file" and "what links here"). For example, see the tree for cat Climate Change NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 16:31, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Category Tree
 * The template category tree all can display an entire tree without needing an extra click. UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:04, 26 August 2019 (UTC):

Category:Climate change stubs has now been created to collect stub articles within the scope of this project. Please feel free to put the e climate-change-stub template onto any article that should be in the category.
 * Stub category

I am thinking 'Atmospheric science stubs' should be a sub category of Climate Change stubs rather than the other way around as it has been set up. crandles (talk) 19:16, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Portals
Add these portals where relevant:



This code produces the portal boxes shown to the right:

History
WikiProject Climate Change used to have the following task forces, which were marked as Historical in April 2023:
 * Africa
 * Agriculture
 * Climate Justice
 * Biodiversity