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articles | Importance | | None | Total | | Quality |  FA | 13 | 13 |  GA | 32 | 32 | | B | 272 | 272 | | C | 87 | 87 | | Start | 728 | 728 | | Stub | 983 | 983 | | List | 51 | 51 | | Assessed | 2166 | 2166 | | Unassessed | 152 | 152 | | Total | 2318 | 2318 |
This project's aim is to better organize information in articles related to Environment. This page and its subpages contain the 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.
We welcome new people to the group who wish to contribute to environmental subjects. Please put your name down HERE. For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices. WikiProject on Environment This WikiProject is set up to organise all articles relating to the effects of humans on the natural environment. The word environment, when not qualified by words such as "work" or "urban" etc, has come to mean the negative effects of human activity on the environment. In the past 30 years the word has defined magazine titles, university departments and degrees, a social movement and political parties. Topics that are part of this project include: Note that conservation of species or habitats as defined in the science of ecology could be considered to be a subset of the environment. Topic that is not included: - Ecology (studies species in a natural environment)
Since environmental issues cover a wide range on disciplines it is difficult to fit it into any existing schemes for organising knowledge. Fortunately with the use of the networked categorising system within Wikipedia allows for articles relating to the environment to be linked in a logical manner. [edit] Definitions A few words related to the environment and environmentalism are commonly misused. A brief glossary of commonly-confused words follows. Editors are encouraged to use these words correctly. - Conservation: environmental protection, especially as related to appropriate or reduced use of natural resources.
- Conservationist: an individual who believes in or practices conservation.
- Conservation biology: a scientific discipline that deals with human effects on species, communities, or ecosystems, or deals with their protection.
- Conservation biologist: a scientist working in the field of conservation biology.
- Environmentalist: an individual who believes in or practices any form of environmental protection.
- Environmentalism: the movement concerned with protecting the natural environment from human-caused harm.
- Environmental science: a multidisciplinary scientific discipline that draws on biology, chemistry, and geology, among other sciences, to study the relationships between human beings and the natural environment.
- Environmental scientist: a scientist working in the field of environmental science.
- Environmental social science: the broad, transdisciplinary study of interrelations between humans and the natural environment.
- Ecology: scientific discipline that deals with the interrelationships of organisms and/or their abiotic environment.
- Ecologist: a scientist working in the field of ecology.
- Preservationist: an individual who believes in, or works to, protect functional, largely pristine, ecosystems from human impacts.
[edit] Parentage The "Environment" covers a wide range of academic disciplines but the major parent WikiProjects could be considered to be: [edit] Descendant WikiProjects The descendants of this WikiProject are:
[edit] Participants We welcome new participants for WikiProject environment. Please put your name on the list here. The {{User WikiProject Environment}} is a User box which can be put on your user page. [edit] Structure [edit] Hierarchy definition - (Previous discussion moved to talk page.)
Since topics in the Environment category are occasionally controversial, ill-defined and multi-disciplinary it is difficult to create an agreed hierarchy. See the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Environment#Categories section below for what currently exists. The goal of this project is the following: - ensure all the articles under the scope of this project are well-written and of high quality
- organise all the articles into appropriate categories
- place all categories in the correct hierarchy.
- create user friendly linkages and navigation
[edit] Projects - Check for articles that can be merged.
- Check for vandalised articles.
- Monitor "What links here" on the Environment page for pages that can be linked elsewhere
- Monitor Category:Environment for inappropriate pages or subcategories
- Monitor "Related changes" for Category:Environment
- Tag new articles and give assessments to unassessed environment articles.
- Monitor Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Environment for vandalism and substandard edits.
- Advertise this page widely to obtain more participants
- Expand the Environmental stub articles & Sustainability stub articles
- Merge Ecology movement into Environmental movement. See Talk:Ecology movement.
- Tidy up Environmental movement.
- Discuss renaming Timeline of environmental events. See Talk:Timeline of environmental events#Rename article?
- Work on Wikipedia:List of controversial issues#Environment (list needs to be culled and/or updated)
- Check to see that the articles linked to natural environment (Special:WhatLinksHere/Natural environment) are appropriate. Many should be linked to Environment (biophysical).
- See if you are able to work on Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of environmental topics
- Monitor Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Environment and add afd article to it.
- Create articles for redlinks at Glossary of environmental science
[edit] Pages needing attention - WikiProjects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment
- Categories covered
- Stubs
- Expert attention needed
Articles updated by BOT (does not appear to be updated by a bot.)
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- 49 - Actinides in the environment, Aerated static pile composting, Aerobic granular reactor, Biocentric individualism, Biofilter, Biosteel, Broad Spectrum Revolution, Bubble fusion, Building biology, Conservation development, Cremation, Ecocities, Ecological engineering, Ecological sanitation, Ecoregions of Madagascar, Ecotheology, Environment of Belgium, Environment of China, Future energy development, Gade v. National Solid Wastes Management Association, Garbology, George Seddon, Green Conventions, Green building, Greywater, Hubbert peak theory, Hydrogen economy, Hydropower, Indianapolis Prize, Joseph Capecci, Landfill in the UK, Lifeboat ethics, Litter, Marine conservation activism, Medical geology, Modding, Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, Mycofiltration, Natural capital, Oregon Bottle Bill, Permaculture, Plutonium in the environment, Safe trade, Sustainable agriculture,
Sustainable living, Uranium in the environment, Waste minimisation, Wind power, Zero waste - Expansion needed (updated by bot)
- Expert attention needed (updated by bot)
- Wikification needed (updated by bot)
- Neutrality in question (updated by bot)
- To be merged or split (updated by bot)
- 26 - Aid, Biological fuel cell, Bioreactor landfilling, Ecosystem services, Environmentalism, Environmentalist, Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy, Food miles, Garbology, High level waste, Hubbert peak theory, Industrial waste, Keyline Design, Local food, Nonrenewable resource, Pharming (genetics), Portable water purification, Pyrolysis, Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Solar chimney, Sustainable design, Sustainable technology, Toxic waste, Transgenic plant production, United Nations Climate Change Conference, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Article alerts are updated daily by ArticleAlertbot. — Tips /Report a bug / Got ideas? / Suggest news / Feedback [edit] Adopt an article Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
- Is there currently a way to call for collaboration (i.e., put out a call for collaborators) for specific articles? Meaning, collaboration in starting an environmental article, or expanding a stub, or adding valuable information to an article that is well along but could use improvement or new information? (I'm not thinking about the "Collaboration of the week" practice, because that's only for stubs and is not specifically related to the environment. Joel Russ 23:37, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps a blanket message to each participant in WikiProject Environment requesting for thier input if they have the necessary knowledge.--Alex 11:16, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Scientific Peer Review This project is no longer active and scientific articles should be directed to the general peer review. Reviews of articles that were completed are archived here.
[edit] Templates The following templates will help us orghanize our efforts to enhance environmental coverage on Wikipedia. [edit] The Environmental Barnstar Template  | {{subst:The Environmental Barnstar|message ~~~~}} | The Environmental Barnstar may be awarded to Wikipedians who have made significant contributions towards environment-related articles, raising environmental awareness in Wikipedia, or assisting in Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment. The award was introduced and designed by User:OhanaUnited. It was introduced on April 27, 2007. |
[edit] WikiProject Talk Page Template Use {{environment}} on the top of a talk page for an environment related article which will add the following box to the talk page: [edit] Environmental Science and Sustainability templates {{Environmental science}} {{Environmental science|envtech=true}} {{Environmental social science}} {{Environmental technology}} {{Sustainability}} | Sustainability | | Philosophy and
definition | | | | Population | | | | Consumption | | | | Technology | | | | | | | Sustainability disciplines and activities | | | Disciplines | | | Sustainable
activities | | | | Management | | | | Environmental | | | | | International reports and agreements | | | | | | | Lists and glossaries | | | Lists | | | | Glossaries | | | | | Category · Portal | | [edit] Stub templates Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. *Before creating a new stub, propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on creating stub templates and categories [edit] Other templates [edit] Infoboxes [edit] General Templates [edit] User Templates [edit] Articles Project Articles can be found here: Articles that can be added can be found here: Project pages needing attention can be found here: [edit] User box
[edit] Categories A recommendation on category hierarchy is as follows: Notes: - This is only an outline to give a broad picture of the structure of categories. The number of categories are too numerous to list in this manner.
- The current category tree can be seen at Special pages->CategoryTree->Environment.
- Due to the small number of conservationists that currently have article they can be included under the environmentalist category at present.
- No weighting is given to the sequence from top to bottom of the chart.
- No categories are shown outside of the sphere of environmental issues.
- The subcategories for country specific categories are shown in text rather than displaying the numerous individual country categories.
[edit] Requested articles [edit] Wikipedia articles on Environment [edit] Related WikiProjects and Task Forces Related WikiProjects and Task Forces are: Outside Wikipedia: - Appropedia is a wiki for issues related to Development and Sustainability, for material which is not suitable for Wikipedia. This includes original research, personal experience, and ideas. Areas covered include sustainability, sustainable development, appropriate technologies, and sustainable technologies and practices.
- Other green wikis, such as Greenlivingpedia and Envirowiki are listed at Appropedia: Green wikis and development wikis, some on more specific areas (such as the Coastal wiki).
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