Time is ripe for a project to better organise 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.

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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 partys.

Topics that are part of this project include:

• Environmental Science
• Sustainability
• Environmentalism
• Conservation movement

Note that conservation of species or habitats as defined in the science of ecology could be considered to be a subset of the environment.

Topics that are not included:

• Ecology
• Energy (however articles in Category:Renewable energy are valid.)

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.

As with many other words those used to define environmental terms are used in a loose manner. The generally accepted use of terms for environment related issues are as follows:

• Conservation: the advocacy and efforts to protect species and ecosystems.
• Conservationist: a volunteer or employee who advocates for the protection of species and ecosystems.
• Conservation biologist: a scientist working in the feild of conservation biology.
• Environmentalism: the advocacy and efforts to protect the environment from damage due to human activity.
• Environmentalist: a volunteer, activist, employee working to protect the environment from damage due to human activity.
• Environmental scientist: a scientist working in the field of environmental science.
• Ecologist: a scientist working in the field of ecology.
• Preservationist: one who works towards protecting part of the natural environment from change due to human activity. This word is not in common use and is occasionally used in a derogatory manner.

Note: there is now a User box which you can put on your user page, using: {{User WikiProject Environment}}

• Alan Liefting 09:41, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• CQ 04:23, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Jtneill - Talk 04:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Sjeraj 10:26, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Anlace 00:27, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
•  EN1-UTE- (Talk) 18:11, 13 February 2025 UTC [refresh] </nowiki> -->Onceler (Talk) (Mail)   01:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Singkong2005 04:22, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Parmesan 19:27, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Bantab 21:24, 21 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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

(Previous discussion moved to talk page.)

Since topics in the Environment category are occasionally controversial, ill-defined and multi-disciplinary it is difficlt 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 written to a 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. create a graphical representation of the category hierarchy under Category:Environment. (In progress. See below. Alan Liefting 08:44, 28 October 2005 (UTC))[reply]
2. Check for articles that can be merged.
3. check for vandalised articles.
4. create a Portal:Environment.
5. create a Timeline of environmental events

1. reinstate Category:Environment - (in progress. See WP:CFD) - done
2. advertise this page widely to obtain more participants
3. Expand the Environmental stub articles & Sustainability stub articles
4. Merge Ecology movement into Environmental movement. See Talk:Ecology movement.
5. Tidy up Environmental movement. It currently has a poor layout, spelling mistakes and irelevant information (eg Lomberged (sic)). (I had given it a POV label) (Alan Liefting 20:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC))[reply]
6. List of songs about the environment has songs in the list that are not relevant.
7. Eco-terrorism has a POV tag and the list of Ecoterrorism in fiction seems to have items that are not relevant.
8. Should Nature's services be merged with ecosystem services? I would say no but not sure why yet! Alan Liefting 01:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.

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]

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]

• {{Environmental science}}
• {{Sustainability}}

• See Category:Environment stubs for a list of current environmental stub articles.
• Use the {{Environment-stub}} template to mark any other environmental stub articles.

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

You can add this userbox to your userpage:	This user participates in WikiProject Environment.
Use this code:	{{User WikiProject Environment}}

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. Due to the small number of conservationists that currently have article they can be included under the environmentalist category at present.
3. No weighting is given to the sequence from top to bottom of the chart.
4. No categories are shown outside of the sphere of environmental issues.
5. The subcategories for country specific categories are shown in text rather than displaying the numerous individual country categories.
6. The following could do with better names:

• Category:Media with an environmentalism theme. See Category talk:Media with an environmentalism theme Done. Alan Liefting 07:54, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Days for environmentalism. See Category talk:Days for environmentalism Done. Alan Liefting 00:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Category:Environmental threats. See Category talk:Environmental threats

• 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
• List of environmental protection and restoration topics - this article may be a little obscure and contains irrelevent article links.

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