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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Disaster Management (a.k.a. Emergency management). We have three main work areas:

Theoretical and background information, including the phrases: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. This section also covers methods

hazards and their impacts, which cause disasters. Examples of hazards include, earthquakes, drought and dirty bombs. When those hazards impact people, it creates a disaster, such as the Boxing Day tsunami and the World Trade center attack).

Organisations and Individuals involved in diaster management

Thank you for taking the time to be a part of educating Wikipedians about managing disasters. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Contents 1 About the Project 1.1 Aim 1.2 Goals 1.3 Central articles 2 Participants 3 Standards 3.1 Definition, scope & structure 3.2 Naming convention 4 To Do List 5 Article Specific 5.1 Assessments 5.2 Article checklist 6 Editors' tools 6.1 Templates 6.2 Infoboxes 6.3 Categories 7 Related Wikis 7.1 Wikipedia WikiProjects 7.2 Wikibooks 7.3 Wikiversity 8 Bibliography

[edit] About the Project

[edit] Aim

The main aim of this WikiProject is to develop consistently formatted articles of a high standard relating to the disaster management, emergency management and related disciplines. .

[edit] Goals

1. Create a categorisation of concepts and applied terminology
2. Maintain one inventory page of disastrous events, see list of disasters
3. Merge articles that describe similar concepts into one comprehensive article

[edit] Central articles

• Emergency management
• Emergency services
  • Public safety
  • Civil defence
• Disasters, List of disasters
  • Natural disasters
    • Severe weather
  • Man-made disasters

[edit] Participants

If you want to help out, just add your name and join in by adding your name on the participants page! If you want to you can use this code {{User WikiProject DM}} to add the below member template to your user page:

If you don't like userboxes, then just add [[Category:WikiProject Disaster management members]].

[edit] Standards

[edit] Definition, scope & structure

No classification of this project has been agreed upon. The subject is being discussed by project members on a dedicated talk page. The scope of this WikiProject is any article relating to policies as well as implementations of disaster management. This include emergency services operations (police, ambulance, and fire service) as well as the phenomenological description of natural and man-made hazards. It also include individual disastrous events, e.g. hurricane Katrina and the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s.

[edit] Naming convention

A naming convention for such articles is also definitely required. It has been decided that all articles concerning individual disasters should be <<year>> <<place>> <<event>>. To illustrate the point with an example, the article October 11, 2006 New York City plane crash was recently renamed to 2006 New York City plane crash

[edit] To Do List

There is a lot of duplication of efforts and confusion of terminology surrounding disaster management on Wikipedia now. Examples includes Disasters and Natural disasters. The current categorisation is also far from great, lacking in structure and logic. The task to clean up in this domain is immense, but it has to be done.

WikiProject: Disaster management

[edit] Article Specific

[edit] Assessments

The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team requests that more disaster articles be assessed as to their quality and importance. To help facilitate this, Template:Disaster management could to be modified to accept optional quality and importance arguments (and by default add articles to an "unassessed" category). See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot for how to do this and how to set things up so a bot will automatically keep track of statistics on assessed articles. After the setup is completed, volunteers will need to go through Category:Disasters and assess all the articles there and in appropriate subcategories. (See below for ideas.) Some articles have already been assessed for Version 0.5. See Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/WPHumanities#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disaster_management. See also:

• Wikipedia:Article assessment/Natural disasters (inactive results from experimental assessment)
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects

[edit] Article checklist

This is a quick checklist of things to look for when systematically assessing articles, especially those for disaster events. If you find deficiencies you don't have time to fix yourself, create a todo list at the top of the article's talk page by adding {{todo}} there. Then you can edit the todo list and add items to it.

• Assign quality and importance according to the definitions at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. See the top of the talk page of the article of interest to see if this has already been done.
• Is the article in the correct categories?
• Does the title comply with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (most common English name) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events)?
• Does the first paragraph give a concise explanation of the subject, including alternate names in bold, location, major causes, and major outcomes?
• Does the article use the correct infobox? Is everything in the infobox filled in?
• Is there a concise assessment of the loss to human life?
• Is there a concise assessment of the financial losses? Are figures clearly labelled as to whether they are in (for instance) 1900 dollars or 2007 dollars? Is a modern inflation-adjusted estimate available?
• Does the article cite its sources using footnotes, especially for statistics?
• Does the article have a map showing the area affected?
• Does the article have a photograph illustrating the event?
• Is the article in need of wikification, copyediting, or other cleanup?
• Major articles should be linked from lists such as List of wars and disasters by death toll, and the statistics presented in lists need to be consistent with those found in articles (which hopefully have references).

[edit] Editors' tools

[edit] Templates

This template is to be placed on the talk page of any article relating to the Disaster Management:

• {{Disaster management}}

WikiProject Disaster management		Disaster managementWikipedia:WikiProject Disaster managementTemplate:Disaster managementDisaster management articles
Disasters portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Disaster management, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Disaster management on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

• {{disaster-stub}} for stubs relating to disaster management or disasters
• {{disaster}} for starting new articles on disasters, similarly to {{biography}}

[edit] Infoboxes Template:Infobox hurricane Template:Infobox hurricane small Template:Infobox hurricane season Template:Infobox winter storm Template:Infobox tornado single Template:Infobox tornado outbreak Template:Infobox flood Template:Infobox Airliner accident Template:Infobox Mid-air accident Template:Infobox wildfire Template:Infobox News event - (an explosion for example)

[edit] Categories Category:Emergency management Category:Disasters Category:Disaster preparedness Category:Disaster management tools Category:Safety Category:Risk

[edit] Related Wikis

[edit] Wikipedia WikiProjects

Emergencies International development Fire Services Law enforcement

Hazards Earthquakes Environment Meteorology Tropical cyclones Terrorism and counter-terrorism

Transport Trains Shipwrecks

[edit] Wikibooks

• Historical Disasters and Tragedies

[edit] Wikiversity

• Wikiversity's School of Fire and Emergency management

[edit] Bibliography

• Alexander, D., 2002, Natural Disasters, London: Routledge, ISBN 1-85728-094-6
• Alexander, D., 2002, Principles of Emergency planning and Management, Harpended: Terra publishing, ISBN 1-903544-10-6
• Haddow, George D. and Jane A. Bullock, 2003, Introduction to Emergency Management, Amsterdam: Butterworth-Heinemann, ISBN 0-7506-7689-2
• Quarantelli, E.L., 1998, What is a disaster - Perspectives on the question, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-17899-1
• Wisner, B., P. Blaikie, T. Cannon, and I. Davis, 2004, At Risk - Natural hazards, people's vulnerability and disasters, Wiltshire: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-25216-4

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