Wikipedia:WikiProject Effective Altruism/to do

Articles to create
There are many topics related to effective altruism that don't have an existing page despite meeting Wikipedia's notability criteria. See Help:Your first article for basic guidelines on how to write an article. For inspiration on article topic ideas, see the list of articles on the EA Forum Wiki (though note that many of the articles listed there will not meet Wikipedia's notability requirements). Here are some examples of pages which we could create:

Books

 * The AI Does Not Hate You
 * Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues
 * X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
 * Moral Uncertainty

Concepts

 * Cooperative AI
 * Moral cluelessness (currently a redirect)
 * Draft:CluelessnessTommyren (talk) 01:16, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Just needs to cite additional sources. —Enervation (talk) 01:13, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Moral consideration
 * Moral trade
 * Moral uncertainty
 * Rationalist community
 * Superhot rock geothermal energy

Organizations

 * Albert Schweitzer Foundation
 * Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters
 * Animal Equality
 * Anima International
 * Center on Long-Term Risk
 * All that EAF does now is the Center on Long-Term Risk. I don't think it is sufficiently notable. -- Ego.Eudaimonia (talk) 10:00, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Forethought Foundation
 * Giving Green
 * Global Priorities Institute (currently a redirect)
 * High Impact Athletes
 * Open Wing Alliance
 * The Life You Can Save (organization)
 * Wave (mobile money company) (note that Wave is different from SendWave, which was acquired in 2021)
 * xiaobuVEGAN
 * Better Chicken Commitment (Not an organization per se, but a set of broiler welfare standards that many organizations advocate for.)

People

 * Allan Dafoe (Director, Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)
 * Alexander Berger (Open Phil co-executive officer)

Drafts

 * Draft:Ayuda Efectiva failed review in January 2024 -- may need more sources
 * Draft:Importance, tractability, and neglectedness (INT framework)
 * Draft:Sinergia Animal

Articles to improve
We also want to improve existing articles related to effective altruism. It may be relatively important and tractable to improve articles from "stub" or "start class" to "C class", so that the article meets the needs of a casual reader.

As of December 2021, there is an ongoing effort to improve the Effective altruism article to good article status. You can see Talk:Effective altruism/Archive 1 for a list of improvements that need to be made.

Here are some other articles that are especially in need of improvement:


 * Unlimit Health: sourcing needs major improvement as of January 2024
 * William MacAskill: as of December 3, 2021, the section summarizing Doing Good Better is quite poor and fails to convey the most important points of the book. This article had 1,621 views in the past 30 days.
 * The Life You Can Save: This article needs improvement. In particular, it does not provide page numbers when summarizing Singer's arguments. As of January 4, 2021, the article had 1,156 pageviews in the past 30 days.
 * Suffering risks: as of December 4, 2021, this is very brief and does not have any content on why such risks are plausible. This had 337 page views in the past 30 days.
 * Immigration reform is a stub. It had 1,333 page views in the past 30 days before December 4, 2021.
 * Scope neglect: On the talk page, someone wrote, "'Subjects were told that either 2,000, or 20,000, or 200,000 migrating birds were affected annually, for which subjects reported they were willing to pay $80, $78 and $88 respectively.[2]' I don't get at all why this is considered surprising. All this says is that people consider $80/year an amount they could relatively easily live without." I believe the study was designed in a way that was insensitive to the participants' income, so the article could be improved here.
 * Commitment to Development Index: update with the CDI scores from 2021
 * Psychological barriers to effective altruism needs further review.
 * Articles with templates (often "Multiple issues") that should be addressed and cleared:
 * All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations
 * Hilary Greaves
 * Center for Global Development
 * Articles related to organ donation that need improvement:
 * Organ donation (B class, mid importance)
 * Organ donation in India (C class, low importance)
 * Organ donation in Australia (start class, low importance)
 * Organ donation in the United States prison population (start class, low importance)
 * Organ Donation Taskforce (start class, mid importance)
 * Organ donation in Jewish law (start class, low importance)
 * Organ donation in Ireland (start class, low importance)
 * Organ donation after medical assistance in dying (C class, low importance)
 * Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 (start class, low importance)
 * Articles related to economics (utility and discounting) that need improvement:
 * Utility (marked as start-class; needs re-assessment)
 * Isoelastic utility
 * Marginal utility
 * Social discount rate
 * Economics of climate change mitigation
 * Time preference

You can also browse the list of stub-class and start-class and try to expand them into C-class articles, or try improving the articles listed at User:Brian Tomasik/Pages to create or improve.

Improving images
We also want to supply images for entries that lack one, or supply better images for entries whose images have room for improvement.

Good images

 * Jacy Reese Anthis
 * Sergio Bergman
 * Liv Boeree
 * Julia Galef
 * Bruce Friedrich
 * Holden Karnofsky
 * William MacAskill
 * Dylan Matthews
 * Dustin Moskovitz
 * Toby Ord
 * Kelsey Piper
 * Anders Sandberg
 * Peter Singer
 * Geoffrey Miller (psychologist)

Room for improvement

 * Ben Delo
 * Sam Bankman-Fried
 * Hilary Greaves
 * Oscar Horta
 * Derek Parfit
 * Cari Tuna
 * Eliezer Yudkowsky

No images

 * Yew-Kwang Ng
 * Jeff Sebo

Has logo and at least one other image

 * Against Malaria Foundation
 * Centre for Effective Altruism
 * FTX (company)
 * Future of Life Institute
 * Giving What We Can
 * Machine Intelligence Research Institute
 * Mercy for Animals
 * Open Philanthropy (organization)

Only has logo

 * 80,000 Hours
 * All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations
 * Animal Charity Evaluators
 * Animal Ethics (organization)
 * Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
 * Faunalytics
 * Founders Pledge
 * Future of Humanity Institute
 * GiveDirectly
 * GiveWell
 * Good Food Fund
 * The Good Food Institute
 * Good Ventures
 * Malaria Consortium
 * Raising for Effective Giving
 * SCI Foundation
 * Sentience Institute
 * The Humane League
 * Wild Animal Initiative

Missing logo

 * Deworm the World Initiative (doesn't have its own logo; Evidence Action does)

Other subjects

 * File:X-risk-chart-en-01a.svg - versions in English and Arabic exist; let's translate it into more languages
 * Members of the Lead Exposure Elimination Project's Madagascar branch sample local paints to send to the lab to test for lead content.
 * Images released by Against Malaria Foundation to Creative Commons:
 * Two children peek out from under an anti-malarial bednet in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, in Aug 2006
 * Women and children receive anti-malarial bednets as part of a public health program in Kalinde and Nambazo, Phalombe Nambazo North, Malawi, in Dec 2010
 * Villagers demonstrate the use of an anti-malarial bednet in the Ntcheu district of Malawi, in January 2012
 * An adult and child walk by beds set up with anti-malarial nets at the Pongwe Blind School in Tanga, Tanzania in Aug 2008
 * Images of people at EA Globals
 * Cari Tuna
 * Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk, Nate Soares, and Stuart Russell
 * Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Galef, AJ Jacobs, and Will MacAskill 1
 * Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Galef, AJ Jacobs, and Will MacAskill 2

Setting up this WikiProject
To-do items for setting up this WikiProject:


 * Populate Category:Effective altruism and its subcategories.
 * (mostly complete for the main articles) Add WikiProject Effective Altruism to the beginning of talk pages of relevant articles, with a class and importance rating. You can see pages that already have this template at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject Effective Altruism. One heuristic for how important a page is, besides its relevance to effective altruism, is how many views it receives. You can see this information by clicking "Page information" in the sidebar of Wikipedia. See Assessing articles for more information about how to rate the quality and importance of an article
 * Set up this Wikipedia bot so we can have a table of all EA-related articles by importance and quality: Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot. Here is an example of this sort of table: WikiProject Pokémon