WikiProject
Environment

Project pages

• Main Project Page
• Article assessment
• Article alerts
• Members

Departments

• Environmental record task force
• Green vehicle task force
• Sustainability task force

Templates

• Project talk page template
• Environmental science
• Environmental social science
• Sustainability
• Environmental technology
• Project Userbox

Portals

• Environment portal
• Earth sciences portal
• Climate change portal
• Renewable energy portal
• World portal

Sayings

♣ Earth Changes
♠ Got Mercury?
♦ Leave No Trace
♥Think Globally, Act Locally

This project's aim is to better organize information in articles related to the 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 positive and negative effects of humans 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:

• Climate change & Global warming
• Conservation movement
• Environmentalism
• Environmental science
• Environmental social science
• Renewable energy
• Sustainability
• Waste & Waste management

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.

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.

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

• WikiProject Science
• WikiProject Politics
• WikiProject Sociology

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

• WikiProject Protected areas
• WikiProject Superfunds

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.

• Environment as in natural environment, wildlife, ecological succession
• Environmental issues as in pollution, global warming, waste, Exxon Valdez

(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:

1. ensure all the articles under the scope of this project are well-written and of high quality
2. organise all the articles into appropriate categories
3. place all categories in the correct hierarchy.
4. create user friendly linkages and navigation

1. Check for articles that can be merged.
2. Check for vandalised articles.
3. Monitor "What links here" on the Environment page for pages that can be linked elsewhere
4. Monitor Category:Environment for inappropriate pages or subcategories
5. Monitor "Related changes" for Category:Environment

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

1. Tag new articles and give assessments to unassessed environment articles.
2. Monitor Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:Environment for vandalism and substandard edits.
3. Advertise this page widely to obtain more participants
4. Expand the Environmental stub articles & Sustainability stub articles
5. Merge Ecology movement into Environmental movement. See Talk:Ecology movement.
6. Add sources to Unreferenced BLPs
7. Tidy up Environmental movement.
8. Discuss renaming Timeline of environmental events. See Talk:Timeline of environmental events#Rename article?
9. Work on Wikipedia:List of controversial issues#Environment (list needs to be culled and/or updated)
10. Check to see that the articles linked to natural environment (Special:WhatLinksHere/Natural environment) are appropriate. Many should be linked to Environment (biophysical).
11. See if you are able to work on Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of environmental topics
12. Monitor Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Environment and add afd article to it.
13. Create articles for redlinks at Glossary of environmental science
14. Edit articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Popular pages so that the assessment matches popularity

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention listings are no longer being updated. For by-topic listings of articles that need attention, see:

• Category:Articles needing attention
• WikiProject Cleanup Listings

To flag an article for attention, add a cleanup template to the article or talk page. See Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup for a listing. All previously listed articles have either been fixed or tagged.

See also the page history of Wikipedia:Votes for rewrite which ran from May 2002-June 2003 then was redirected to here.

Did you know

• 22 Jan 2025 – Kpop4planet (talk ·  · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 10 Feb 2025 – Divyesh Savaliya (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Anuwrites (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 07 Feb 2025 – Fraser Basin Council (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Old-AgedKid (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 02 Feb 2025 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 600 (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by PlotinusEnjoyer (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 25 Jan 2025 – FAIRR Initiative (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by GTrang (t · c); see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
• 23 Jan 2025 – Gikomba fire (talk ·  · hist) was AfDed by Grumpylawnchair (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
• 05 Feb 2025 – Katie Patrick (talk ·  · hist) AfDed by LibStar (t · c) was closed as delete by Liz (t · c) on 12 Feb 2025; see discussion (3 participants)
• 03 Feb 2025 – Overpackaging (talk ·  · hist) AfDed by Qwirkle (t · c) was closed as keep by Dclemens1971 (t · c) on 11 Feb 2025; see discussion (5 participants)
• 03 Feb 2025 – Kayrros (talk ·  · hist) AfDed by Taking off shortly (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 10 Feb 2025; see discussion (2 participants)

Categories for discussion

• 06 Feb 2025 – Category:Waste management by in the Palestinian Territories (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by Hassan697 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Feb 2025 – Category:Wikipedia categories named after environmental organizations (talk ·  · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 11 Feb 2025 – Existential threat (talk ·  · hist) →Global catastrophic risk was RfDed by Utopes (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 04 Feb 2025 – Views of Elon Musk (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by CommunityNotesContributor (t · c); start
• 16 Jan 2025 – Climate change in Antarctica (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by InformationToKnowledge (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Jan 2025 – Climate change feedbacks (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by InformationToKnowledge (t · c); see discussion
• 20 Dec 2024 – Prokaryote (talk ·  · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start

Requests for comments

• 08 Feb 2025 – Glacier (talk ·  · hist) has an RfC by Lordgilman (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Feb 2025 – Alliance 90/The Greens (talk ·  · hist) has an RfC by FMSky (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Jan 2025 – Jimmy Carter (talk ·  · hist) has an RfC by Векочел (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 02 Feb 2025 – Forest 404 (talk ·  · hist) has been put up for PR by TipsyElephant (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 01 Feb 2025 – Atlantic (period) (talk ·  · hist) is requested to be moved to Atlantic (paleoclimatology) by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 11 Feb 2025 – Environmental politics (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to environmental policy by EMsmile (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Jan 2025 – Wood–plastic composite (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Composite lumber by Leofivethousand (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Dec 2024 – Good Environmental Status (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Marine Strategy Framework Directive by Epsilon02 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Dec 2024 – Criticism of Amazon's environmental impact (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Criticism of Amazon by Sdkb (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Nov 2024 – Plastivore (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Plastisphere by CommonCents1 (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Sep 2024 – New Providence Shale (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for merging to Borden Formation by Scope creep (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 01 May 2023 – Religion and environmentalism (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by Arcahaeoindris (t · c); see discussion
• 27 Nov 2022 – Habitat fragmentation (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by Sietecolores (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Mar 2021 – Personal transporter (talk ·  · hist) is proposed for splitting by 162.208.168.92 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 13 Feb 2025 – User:Clara3lindsey/sandbox (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Clara3lindsey (t · c)
• 12 Feb 2025 – Draft:W. Alton Jones Campus (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Littlecootinthehouse (t · c)
• 10 Feb 2025 – Draft:Chris Barnard (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by BlayneCS (t · c)
• 07 Feb 2025 – Draft:Miguel Blanco (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Thesurfingcopywriter (t · c)
• 31 Jan 2025 – Draft:Shock Octopus (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SJ8ANDREWS (t · c)
• 29 Jan 2025 – Draft:Centrisys/CNP (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by NosyStudent25 (t · c)
• 28 Jan 2025 – Draft:John Beardsley (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Electrascope (t · c)
• 22 Jan 2025 – Draft:Eurotrac (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by RufusNor (t · c)
• 09 Jan 2025 – Draft:Samuel Babatunde (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Manofdreams1234 (t · c)
• 21 Dec 2024 – Draft:UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (talk ·  · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ScienceCommunication75 (t · c)

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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.

• New Zealand environmental law - Alan Liefting 09:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Conservation in New Zealand - Alan Liefting 09:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Recycling - jwanders Talk 01:14, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Mechanical biological treatment - --Alex 13:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Barry Commoner - Walshga 24:31, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Earth Hour - OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 01:29, 31 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Sustainability - Granitethighs (talk) 00:50, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Food waste in the United Kingdom - MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 17:00, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Peer review at this project is no longer active and scientific articles should be directed to the general Wikipedia peer review. Reviews of articles that were completed are archived here.

As noted at Talk:Environmental chemistry please do any work in consensus with other editors. Removing large sections leaving bare headings is not the right way to proceed.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   08:50, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think I posted this on an archived discussion and will look for a better place to post--Guy vandegrift (talk) 09:49, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

According to this survey, the prime disincentive against making scholarly contributions to Wikipedia is that it will not advance careers. Wikiversity:First Journal of Science will be a peer-reviewed journal that should alleviate this problem for recent college graduates who are not expected to have published in the established scholarly journals.

The word "First" in the title is intended to suggest that we need more journals like this. The Wikiversity:First Journal of Science was patterned after the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine, but will have a somewhat more informal flavor, consistent with this new journal's intent to focus on teaching at the undergraduate college level. Wikiversity:First Journal of Science will attribute with bylines that list usernames only, in contrast with the use of real names by the Wikiversity Journal of Medicine

Another unique feature of Wikiversity:First Journal of Science is that edited versions of Wikipedia articles are welcome, and are presented as Wikipedia articles on the Wikiversity journal via permalinks to the history of Wikipedia articles. This is currently accomplished in a rather awkward fashion, by moving the Wikipedia article into the editor's user space, and after proper attribution, deleting all that extraneous prose that Wikipedia articles tend to acquire. An example of this shown in one of the three "pseudo-articles" that were used to create a mockup issue. Of the three "pseudo-articles" in this mockup, I consider only one to be suitable for publication. It is Wikipedia's Introduction to quantum mechanics. Note how the logo was inserted into the "pseudo-accepted" version without permission of the article's current editors. In other words, all of Wikipedia's 5 million articles are candidates for publication in this journal, and in a manner of speaking, have already effectively submitted their manuscripts to Wikiversity:First Journal of Science for review--Guy vandegrift (talk) 05:24, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

{{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.

Use {{environment}} on the top of a talk page for an environment related article which will add the following box to the talk page:

Environment Unassessed

This environment-related article is part of the WikiProject Environment 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. Read Wikipedia:Contributing FAQ and leave any messages at the project talk page.EnvironmentWikipedia:WikiProject EnvironmentTemplate:WikiProject EnvironmentEnvironment ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

{{Environmental science}}

{{Environmental science|envtech=true}}

{{Environmental social science}}

{{Environmental technology}}

{{Sustainability}}

• See Category:Environment stubs for a list of current environmental stub articles.
• See Category:Waste stubs for a list of current waste management stub articles.
• Use the {{Environment-stub}} template to mark other environmental stub articles.
• Use the {{waste-stub}} template to mark waste and waste management related stub articles.
• {{Renewable-energy-stub}}
• {{Sustainability-stub}}

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

• {{Energy-civ}}

• {{User Renewable Energy}}
• {{User WikiProject Environment}}

This user participates in WikiProject Environment.

Project Articles can be found here:

• Category:WikiProject Energy development articles
• Category:Energy development

Articles that can be added can be found here:

• List of energy topics

Project pages needing attention can be found here:

• Category:Energy development articles needing expert attention

A recommendation on category hierarchy is as follows:

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.

• List of topics dealing with environmental issues - should this be List of environmental issues for a less unweildly title?  Done
• List of environment topics - this is a very broad list and includes natural events rather than just anthropogenic effects on the natural environment.
• List of environmental studies topics

• Requests can be made at (the rather crowded) Natural sciences requests page.

• Environment - considering the current usage of the word "environment" this article does not give the word its proper weighting.
• Environmentalist
• Environmentalism
• Environmental movement

Related WikiProjects and Task Forces are:

• WikiProject Alternative fuels
• WikiProject Engineering
• WikiProject Forestry
• WikiProject Hydrogen
• WikiProject International development (includes energy issues in developing settings, and appropriate technologies in international development, which are usually designed to be lower in resource use and more sustainable.)
• WikiProject Lights Camera Wiki/Parks
• WikiProject Lights Camera Wiki/Wildlife
• WikiProject Urban studies and planning - a lot of implications for sustainability, and includes Category:Sustainable urban planning and Category:Environmental design.
• WikiProject Water and sanitation
• Environmental Record Task Force
• Toxicology task force -- works on articles related to toxic chemicals and effects on human health
• UserProject Sustainable technologies — Held in user space until support grows; pretty much a direct subset of this project.

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).

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• 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.

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Environment