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Environment articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total
FA 1 2 1 14 18
GA 1 13 4 2 3 29 52
B 3 33 25 8 32 229 330
C 4 15 47 13 56 153 288
Start 1 25 45 40 170 836 1,117
Stub 3 11 125 172 1,351 1,662
List 4 1 1 12 55 73
Category 254 123 377
Disambig 3 3
File 2 2 4
Portal 2 2 1 5
Project 8 1 9
Template 1 34 12 47
NA 21 5 2 28
Other 4 6 10 5 10 165 200
Assessed 13 97 148 196 335 590 2,834 4,213
Unassessed 1 198 515 714
Total 13 97 148 197 335 788 3,349 4,927

Welcome to WikiProject Environment! This project is focused on organizing and improving articles related to the natural environment and biophysical environment.

Please feel free to join this WikiProject by adding your user name to the list of participants.

For more information about WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

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[edit] Scope Scope

This WikiProject is a collaboration to better organize and improve articles about the natural environment and the positive and negative effects of humans upon the biophysical environment.

Topics that are part of this project include (but are not limited to):

 — Note that the conservation of species or habitats as defined in the science of ecology is considered by this project as a subset of environmental topics.

A topic that is generally, but not divisively omitted from this project:

[edit] Nuvola apps bookcase.png Definitions

The following are terms related to the environment and environmentalism that are sometimes used incorrectly. 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] Category hierarchy

Further information: Wikipedia talk: WikiProject Environment/Archive 1 – Hierarchy definition

Topics in the Environment category are occasionally ambiguously-defined and multi-disciplinary, and it may be difficult to create a categorical hierarchy based upon consensus. Please refer to the WikiProject Environment – Categories and hierarchy section below for current consensus regarding categorization.

[edit] Structure

[edit] Parentage and descendants

The "Environment" covers a wide range of academic disciplines but the major parent WikiProjects could be considered as:

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

[edit] 2 people Participants

All interested are welcome to join WikiProject environment. Please add your name to the list here.

[edit] Userboxes

Feel free to place these on your user page.

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[edit] Goals

The goals of this project include the following:

  1. Ensure that all articles under the scope of this project are well-written and of high quality
  2. Organize articles into appropriate categories
  3. Create user-friendly linkages and navigation

[edit] Tasks and things to do

[edit] Project tasks

A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information...
Here are some tasks you can do:
  1. Monitor: Wikipedia: WikiProject Deletion sorting – Environment for articles that are nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion.
  2. Monitor: What links here on the Environment page for pages that can be linked elsewhere
  3. Monitor: Category: Environment for inappropriate pages or subcategories
  4. Monitor: Related changes for Category:Environment, for vandalism and substandard edits.
  5. Check: To see that the articles linked to natural environment (Special: WhatLinksHere – Natural environment) are appropriate. Many would be more accurately linked to Environment (biophysical).

[edit] Article tasks

  • This list is transcluded from the tasks list page. To edit the list, click here
Here are some tasks you can do:

[edit] Pages needing attention

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[edit] Alerts

Templates for discussion
Requests for comments

[edit] Environmental Articles

[edit] Environment

[edit] Energy

Main article: Energy development

Project Articles can be found here:

Articles that can be added can be found here:

Project pages needing attention can be found here:

[edit] Adopt an article

See also: Archived Adopt-an-article entries

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.

[edit] Templates

The following templates will help us orghanize our efforts to enhance environmental coverage on Wikipedia.

[edit] The Environmental Barnstar Template

The Environmental Barnstar {{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:

WikiProject Environment (Rated NA-class)
WikiProject icon
Portal icon Environment portal
This environment-related page is part of the Environment WikiProject to improve Wikipedia's coverage of the environment. The aim is to write neutral and well-referenced articles on environment-related topics, as well as to ensure that environment articles are properly categorized.
See WikiProject Environment and Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ.
 NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.
 

[edit] Environment related templates (and topics)

{{Environmental science}}

{{Environmental science|envtech=true}}

{{Environmental social science}}
Fields
Related
Applied
Concepts

{{Environmental technology}}
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Pollution
Renewable energy
Conservation

{{Sustainability}}
Philosophy and
definition
Population
Consumption
Technology

{{Nature nav}}

Elements of nature
Universe
Earth
Weather
Environment
Life

[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] Categories and hierarchy

Click the "►" below to see all subcategories:
Environment

A recommendation on category hierarchy is as follows:

First tier Second tier Third tier Fourth tier Fifth tier
Category:Environment → Category:Environmentalism →
→ Category:Environmentalists → Environmentalists in specific countries
→ Category:Environmental science → Category:Atmospheric sciences → Category:Climate change
→ Category:Environmental chemistry
→ Environmental geology
→ Category:Ecology
→ Category:Sustainability → Category:Renewable energy
→ Category:Environment by country → Specific countries
→ Category:Environmental law → Treaties on the environment
→ Environmental law by country
→ Category:Environmental social science → Category:Environmental economics
→ Category:Environmental justice
→ Category:Conservation → Category:Conservation by country → Specific countries
→ Category:Energy conservation
→ Category:Protected areas → Category:Protected areas by country → specific countries
→ Category:Endangered species → Category:Critically endangered species
→ Category:Environmental issues
→ Category:Environmental issues by country → specific countries
→ Category:Climate forcing agents → Category:Greenhouse gases
→ Category:Ozone depletion
→ Category:Oil spills
→ Category:Pollution
→ Category:Greenhouse gases → Category:Emission standards
→ Category:Emissions reduction
→ Category:Environmental disasters → Category:Nuclear accidents → Category:Chernobyl disaster
→ Category:Waste → Category:Waste management → Category:Recycling
→ Category:Environmental books → Category:Environmental non-fiction books
→ Category:Environmental fiction books
→ Category:Environmental films
→ Category:Environmental songs
→ Category:Environmental sayings
→ Category:Environmental awareness days
→ Category:Lists of environmental topics → A-Z series
→ Category:Environment stubs
Notes:
  1. 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.
  2. The current category tree can be seen at Special pages->CategoryTree->Environment.
  3. Due to the small number of conservationists that currently have articles, they can be included under the environmentalist category at present.
  4. No weighting is given to the sequence from top to bottom of the chart.
  5. No categories are shown outside of the sphere of environmental issues.
  6. The subcategories for country specific categories are shown in text rather than displaying the numerous individual country categories.

[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] Related WikiProjects and Task Forces

Related WikiProjects and Task Forces include:

Outside Wikipedia:

  • Appropedia – 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).

[edit] Tools

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  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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