Wikipedia:WikiProject Effective Altruism



Welcome to WikiProject Effective Altruism. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics relevant to effective altruism. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the to-do list, below.

Goals
Our goal is to improve and create articles on topics relevant to effective altruism. Our WikiProject scope includes people and organizations which identify with effective altruism. It also includes topics such as neglected tropical diseases which are perceived by a substantial portion of the effective altruism community to be relevant to doing good effectively. If you would like to create a new article, please ensure that the topic meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines.

Good articles

 * Open Philanthropy (organization) Symbol support vote.svg
 * Evidence Action Symbol support vote.svg
 * Michael Kremer Symbol support vote.svg

Prioritisation of articles for improvement or creation
Improving or creating some Wikipedia articles can easily be 1,000x more socially valuable than others. Therefore, prioritisation is crucial. From the linked article: "The key factors to consider for prioritisation are (i) pageviews, (ii) audience, (iii) topic, (iv) room for improvement, and (v) language."

Pageviews: WikiProject Effective Altruism/Article pageviews is an overview of EA-related Wikipedia articles sorted by their number of pageviews to help you prioritise. To find article pageview numbers, use the Pageview Analysis tool.

Topic: All else equal, prioritise improving articles that rate higher on this WikiProject's importance scale, especially the "top importance articles" and the "high importance article".

Example pages

 * [Many relevant Wiki articles are listed in this template]
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)
 * existential risk from artificial general intelligence (number of pages in the category: 33)

Editing advice

 * As the Wikipedia guidelines say, remember to use information from independent, reliable sources. Prefer to use secondary sources and use primary sources only sparingly (see No original research). Self-published material from 80,000 Hours, the Effective Altruism Forum, etc. is not considered by Wikipedia to be a reliable, independent source.
 * If you are a new Wikipedian and plan on substantively adding content to articles, please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's main content policies: Neutral point of view, No original research, Reliable sources, and Verifiability. If you plan on creating a new article, please read Notability and ensure that the topic of your planned article is notable. See also A primer for newcomers.
 * We're glad to have you help out with improving articles on Wikipedia!

Article status
Pages by importance:

Pages by class/quality:

Userboxes
See for instructions to add one of the following userboxes to your user page:

Signature list
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.




 * I'm interested in development economics, particularly impact evaluation in global health
 * I want to get the main Effective Altruism article to Good Article status. 17:06, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I've been focused on creating new articles, adding images to articles, and doing maintenance tasks for the WikiProject such as article assessment. I'm also interested in improving philosophy- and social science-related articles relevant to EA. 17:52, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm interested in improving content on global catastrophic biorisks and AI. 18:24, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I am interested in helping to improve the main EA articles. Beyond those, I'm interested in improving EA-related articles on philosophy/social-science, global health, and animal rights. 20:12, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
 * MontanNito (talk) 21:21, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Within EA, my work connects to effective animal advocacy, global development, and longtermism, and my interests are in philosophy & mathematics. 23:02, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Cuvs (talk) I am interested in working working on the main EA pages and helping them achieve Good Article status. 00:01, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Ego.Eudaimonia (talk) I'm particularly interested in issues related to international security (especially bio and nuclear security) and philosophy. Also more than happy to help with improving the main EA article to get it to qualify for Good Article status. 15:14, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
 * This is an interesting topic, so I'm happy to help where I can. 02:36, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Indefensible (talk) Most interested by longtermist and X-risk issues, but also meta and other related topics. 06:15, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
 * ChristianKl ❪✉❫ (I care about issues of rationality, longtermism and X-risk) 12:11, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Want to help get expand articles on EA topics, especially those related to movement building, longtermism, global development. 10:58, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I am a member of Princeton EA. As a sociology major, I am particularly interested in the social construction of moral spheres, science and technology studies, and the structure of the charity sector. 23:58, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I am an EA interested in forecasting and collaboration @nathanpmyoung on twitter
 * Yitz (talk) Interested in helping out here a bit!
 * Bochykiko New to working on Wikipedia. San Francisco native.
 * I want to learn more about EA by contributing to this project.
 * Interested and with a background in Effective Altruism, long-time drive-by editor. Interested in getting into making articles.
 * Progress Studies, AI applications, philosophy of AI and science
 * Here to help. 19:56, 28 November 2023
 * Here to help. 19:56, 28 November 2023

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Effective Altruism-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. Suggestions should be made within 7 days after the article is created.
 * The Alignment Problem (4 December 2021)

Assessment

 * Assessment

By assessing each article's quality and importance, we can keep tabs on which articles are most in need of improvement—high-importance, low-quality articles. Assessing articles and Content assessment provide guidelines on how to assess an article's quality and importance.

This table from Assessing articles summarizes the different class ratings:


 * {|class="wikitable"

! scope="col" | Class ! scope="col" | Coverage ! scope="col" | Prose & style ! style="background: transparent;" scope="row" | Stub ! style="background: transparent;" scope="row" | Start ! style="background: transparent;" scope="row" | C ! style="background: transparent;" scope="row" | B ! style="background: transparent;" scope="row" | A
 * Very little meaningful content
 * May be incomprehensible
 * Some meaningful content, but most readers will need more
 * May need improvements to organisation, grammar, spelling, writing style, jargon use and citations
 * Still major gaps, but useful to a casual reader
 * May have problems with clarity, balance, flow, bias or original research.
 * Mostly complete, may not satisfy a serious student or researcher
 * Reasonably well-written
 * Essentially complete, very useful to readers
 * Well-written, clear, well referenced
 * }

Many pages have been rated as start-class by other WikiProjects when in fact they satisfy a C-class rating. Sometimes, this can be because the assessment is outdated. As Assessing articles writes, "Assessments are useful if done right, but are often done wrong. Many articles are given lower quality or importance ratings than they merit based on the criteria. A common mistake is to assess short articles as stub or start class even when there is nothing more to be said about the subject, and longer articles as B (or higher) class even when there is much more to be said."

There are four main categories of an article's importance: top, high, mid, and low. An article's importance is independent of its quality. When assessing an article's importance, you can consider the following questions:


 * From the perspective of effective altruism, how important is it to have a high-quality article on Wikipedia on this topic? If you were writing a textbook on effective altruism, how important would it be to cover the article's subject in the textbook?
 * How many views has the article received? You can view this information by clicking "Page information" on the sidebar on the left. Articles that are more widely read are more important.
 * How relevant is the article's subject to effective altruism? How much of the article's content is relevant?

TODO: write a rubric for top, high, mid, and low importance, maybe something like WikiProject Religion/Unitarian Universalism work group

Please list articles to be assessed here:
 * Michael Kremer, seeking reassessment after a major rewrite RegMonkey (talk) 16:43, 20 November 2023 (UTC)

Peer review

 * Peer review

Barnstar

 * —an award placed at another users talk page for improving Effective altruism-related articles.

Useful Wikipedia tools

 * Pageviews Analysis: allows you to compare pageviews by article, language, and user.
 * XTools: useful bundle of data analysis tools for Wikipedia.