Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to energy technologies and sources. This refers only to energy as used by humans to do daily practical things, not physics concepts of energy in theory. It is a technology not a science project and intersects with economics and ecology topics.

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 found there.

Scope

In particular, this WikiProject aims to coordinate activities of creating articles about energy technology.

Articles

Project related articles can be found at Category:Energy

Parent

WikiProject Technology

Descendant WikiProjects

WikiProject Energy development

Assessment

Wikipedia:WikiProject Energy/Assessment

Templates

Project Templates

• {{WikiProject Energy}}

General Templates

• {{USSecEnergy}}
• {{Energy in Argentina}}

Future Templates

• {{future energy infrastructure}}
  • {{future pipeline}}
  • {{future power plant}}

Stub Templates

• {{Energy-stub}}
  • {{Energy-company-stub}}
  • {{Electric-power-stub}}
    • {{Nuclear-power-stub}}
    • {{Powerstation-stub}}
      • {{Australia-powerstation-stub}}
      • {{US-powerstation-stub}}
  • {{Petroleum-stub}}
    • {{Petroleum-company-stub}}
    • {{Pipeline-stub}}
    • {{Oilfield-stub}}
    • {{gasfield-stub}}

Guidelines

Article title

Following Wikipedia standard, article titles should relate to the best-known name in most cases. However, this is somewhat complicated by the fact that there's a lot of ways to describe the desirability or purpose of different kinds of energy: "renewable", "non-nuclear", "sustainable", "non fossil", etc. These terms should be always avoided in titles in favour of a technically specific term that implies a kind of technology. Where one technology deals with many sources of energy, be careful, e.g. a turbine can burn many kinds of fuel, but a gasoline turbine only burns that one kind.

Redirects

To avoid the creation of duplicate articles, it is good to create a few redirects as soon as a new article is created. These should deal with all common variants, e.g. solar power versus solar energy.

Article format

A description of the required technology, the forms of energy converted (in physics terms, e.g. light to heat or to voltage), and power output under what circumstances should start every article in this category.

Categories

• Category:Energy is the main category for this WikiProject.
• Ownership categories can be made that help to organize proprietary technologies.

Participants

Put # ~~~~ at the bottom of this subsection in order to become a part of the project:

1. JEF 03:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
2. Costcofan 18:43, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
3. Beagel 20:00, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
4. -Theanphibian ^{(talk • contribs)} 05:32, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
5. Skyemoor 16:24, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
6. Tea and crumpets 21:14, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
7. Malkin the Cat 14:13, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

General strategy and discussion forums

See Talk:Hubbert peak for most detailed discussions.

• /General
• /Strategy