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'''WikiProject Climate change''' is a collaborative effort to improve our articles related to [[climate change]]. The WikiProject covers topics related to the causes of climatic change, the effects of climate change, and how society responds in terms of adaptation, mitigation and social and political change. The WikiProject can help bring people together with different expertise and backgrounds. The [[wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Figures|figures]] page coordinates work among those who want to work on figures and graphs 

Feel free to join this project by adding your user name to the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Participants|list of participants!]]

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==Tools and advice==
* Use and contribute to a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/style guide|style guide]] for climate change articles

===Guidance videos===
[[File:Climate change, civil engineering, and butterflies - a panel.webm|thumb|[[User:Phoebe]] presentation about WikiProject Climate Change at Wikimania 2019, her part starts at 6:32 into the recording.]]
Recordings of presentations that explain how to contribute to the objectives of WikiProject Climate change and how to edit climate change related articles are collated in this section:

* Recording of a webinar (November 2020): As part of #Wiki4Climate, a week of Wikipedia editing on climate change topics, [[User:Phoebe]] takes us through how Wikipedia works and how to get started as a new editor. See third video in Youtube Playlist [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7bGLAx9Yq4&list=PL4JL50YNubbykQjty5oGQrOjdND8Pgv1H here]. Or see direct link on Youtube here: <nowiki>https://youtu.be/aJBckuPRoiw</nowiki> (cannot be hyperlinked for technical reasons).
* Recording of a presentation at Wikimania (August 2019): [[User:Phoebe]] presented in [[wmania:2019:Environmental_sustainability/Panel_on_coverage_of_environmental_topics|this session]]. Video clip available in Wikimedia Commons, see thumbnail on the right. Presentation slides available [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xg3vlJOHhdEwfE3oEulhb9a-6jZAm6LZ/view here].

===Sources===
* See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Recommended sources]] for guidance on sourcing and a collection of high quality sources.

* You can use the premade citations of [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change|IPCC assessment reports]] which can be found at [[Wikipedia:IPCC citation]] and [[Wikipedia:IPCC citation/AR6]] for the [[IPCC Sixth Assessment Report]]. They are available in different citation styles (long and short style). 

=== Editing in a controversial topic ===
As climate change has historically been a controversial topic on Wikipedia, it has been marked as a ''[[WP:Contentious topic|Contentious topic]]''. This means there is 'extra protection' against [[WP:disruptive editing|disruptive editing]], POV pushing and [[WP:incivility|incivility]]. You can place <nowiki>{{Contentious topics/talk notice|cc}}</nowiki> on article talk pages. Make sure to inform individual editors that the topic area is marked as a contentious topic on their talk page using <nowiki>{{subst:alert|cc}}</nowiki>. Editors never informed of any contentious topic should be alerted with <nowiki>{{subst:alert/first|cc}}</nowiki>.

When you find yourself in a disagreement, remember to [[WP:focus on content|focus on content]] and make sure you are using high-quality sourcing. You can get help with content disputes by using [[WP:dispute resolution|dispute resolution]], for instance by asking for a [[WP:third opinion|third opinion]].

===Other languages===
You can use the content in the English Wikipedia articles to improve other language versions. Useful links: 
* There is [[metawiki:Climate_change_portal/climate_denial_review|review on climate denial]] across languages
* There is also [[metawiki:Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project|a climate translation project]]

==Metrics==
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<span style=font-size:1.4em; font-weight:bold;">[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Popular articles|1000 Most Popular articles]]</span></br><span style="font-size:0.8em;">(''[[ Wikipedia:Content assessment|Assessment criteria]]'')</span>
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[https://tools.wmflabs.org/massviews/?platform=all-access&agent=user&source=category&target=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCategory%3AWikiProject_Climate_change_articles&range=latest-30&subjectpage=1&subcategories=0&sort=views&direction=1&view=list Get the most recent pageviews from Massviews Tool]. Or [https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews/ run your own query].
To provide a snapshot, the values in March 2022 were: 
* Total pageviews about 10 million for the 1-month period 25 Feb to 27 March 2022. 
* 328,000 pageviews per day (average value for the same time period).
* This is for 3253 articles that are in the [[:Category:WikiProject Climate change articles|Category on Climate Change]] (note: the number of articles with the WikiProject Climate Change tag is slightly higher, see table on the right). 
* Statistically it means about 100 pageviews per climate change article per day. However, many articles get far higher pageviews and many get far fewer. The Top-10 Climate change related Wikipedia articles in March were in descending order: [[Keystone Pipeline]] (21,090 per day), [[Don't Look Up]], [[Great Reset]], [[Antarctica]] (5,846 per day), [[David Attenborough]], [[Greta Thunberg]], [[Climate change]] (4,725 per day), [[Air pollution]], [[Natural gas]], [[Car]] (3,554 per day).

==To-do==
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Small to medium tasks|Suggestions for easy edits to get started]]

===Current tasks suggested by the community===
Please add suggestions here followed by <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>, and remove your comment when the task is done.

# Update [[Scientific consensus on climate change]] to AR6. Suggested by [[u|M.boli]] at in October 2023.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Climate_change#Update_Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change_with_IPCC_AR6.] [[User:Clayoquot|Clayoquot]] ([[User_talk:Clayoquot|talk]] <nowiki>&#124;</nowiki> [[Special:Contributions/Clayoquot|contribs]]) 15:41, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

===Ongoing tasks===
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<center>'''Articles for cleanup'''</center>
A comprehensive listing of articles for cleanup that are tagged with this project's banner is available '''[https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Climate_change.html here]'''.
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* Place information about climate change on pages about countries, cities, politicians. 
**Be aware that there could be push-back, especially for high level articles with high pageviews. A good example is a discussion in 2020 for the country article [[Bangladesh]], see [[Talk:Bangladesh/Archive 7#Subsection for climate change|here]]. 
* Place the {{t|WikiProject Climate change}} tag on the talk pages of articles and other pages that are within the scope of this WikiProject
* Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here
* Review importance and quality of existing articles
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?cirrusUserTesting=control&sort=relevance&search=climate+change&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%7D&ns118=1 Review drafts submitted by other users that can be turned into new article]
* Identify articles that exist in other languages, and translate relevant content to English (especially if the articles in the other language version have more content than the English version)
* Creating Climate change by country or region articles, [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Climate change by country-territory articles|this page lists the existing and missing articles]].
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=== Writing and improving articles ===
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== Community ==
===Events===
====Ongoing or future====

====Past events====
* August 2019: [[metawiki:African_Climate_Change_edit-a-thon|Africa Climate Change edit-a-thon]]
* 24 November to 1 December 2020: [[Wikipedia:Meetup/Online edit-a-thon on climate change - November 2020|"Wiki4Climate"]] - a week long online edit-a-thon on climate change topics
* 1-31 December 2020: [[metawiki:Women_in_Climate_Change|Women in Climate Change Edit-a-thon]], organised by WikiDonne and the Wikimedia Sustainability Consortia.
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/214|Women in red: year-long initiative about climate in 2022]]

===Communication channels===

The main on-wiki communication channels are generally the article, user or project talk pages, such as the [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climate change|talk page of this WikiProject]]. For new and experienced users, the general [[WP:Discord]] channel is a great place to (voice) chat with other volunteers.

=== Welcoming and WikiLove ===
* Welcome new editors by adding this to their talk page: <nowiki>{{subst:Climate welcome}}</nowiki>
* Invite editors to the project using: {{tl|WikiProject Climate change invite‎|Signature=[[User:Femkemilene|FemkeMilene]] ([[User talk:Femkemilene|talk]]) 17:12, 23 May 2021 (UTC)}}

* For showing appreciation via barnstars, copy and paste the following and tweak the custom message to their talk page
**{{tlx|Global Warming and Climate Change Barnstar|put your message here <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>}}
**{{tlx|Global Warming and Climate Change Barnstar|put your message here <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>|alt}}
{{Global Warming and Climate Change Barnstar}}
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==Categories and portals==

===Categories===
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A list of some of the major categories is included here in case this is useful, but also to try to stimulate any discussion of scope of project. Other Categories exist as shown in the Category tree below.

*{{lc|Natural environment}}
*{{lc|Climate}}
*{{lc|Climatology}}
*{{lc|Climate_history}}
*{{lc|Climate change}}
*{{lc|Global warming}}
*{{lc|Effects of climate change}}
*{{lc|Climate_forcing}}
*{{lc|Global_environmental_issues}} 
*{{lc|Atmospheric_radiation}}
*{{lc|Renewable_energy}}
*{{lc|Climate_and_weather_statistics}}
*{{lc|Climate_change_denial}}
*{{lc|Climate_change_organizations}}
*{{lc|Defunct_climate_change_organizations}}
*{{lc|Environmental_organizations_established_in_YYYY}}
*{{lc|Environmental_organizations_disestablished_in_YYYY}} 
*{{lc|Organizations_of_environmentalism_skeptics_and_critics}} 
*{{lc|Climate_change_in_art}}
*{{lc|Climate_change_mitigation}}

Stubs:
*{{lc|Category:Atmospheric_science_stubs}}
*{{lc|Category:Atmospheric_scientist_stubs}}
*{{lc|Category:Environment_stubs}}
*{{lc|Category:Renewable_energy_stubs}}
*{{lc|Category:Sustainability stubs}}

A fairly(?) comprehensive list of (over 2000) articles is in
*{{lc|Category:WikiProject Climate change articles}}

Less clear whether these and similar should be included: 
*{{lc|Sea_level}} 
*{{lc|Glaciology}} 
*{{lc|Oceanography}} 
*{{lc|Wind_power}} 
*{{lc|Climate_by_mountain_range}}
*{{lc|Category:Land_surface_effects_on_climate}}
*{{lc|Cloud_and_fog_physics}}
*{{lc|Aerosols}}
*{{lc|Particulates}}
*{{lc|Environmental_science}}
*{{lc|Earth_sciences}}
*{{lc|Climate_change_conferences}}
*{{lc|Paleoclimatology}}
*{{lc|Climate_change_policy}}

;Category Tree
In case you don't know about this tool, it's under "special pages" (under "upload file" and "what links here").  For example, see the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CategoryTree?target=Category:Climate+change&mode=all&namespaces=&title=Special:CategoryTree tree for cat Climate Change] [[User:NewsAndEventsGuy|NewsAndEventsGuy]] ([[User talk:NewsAndEventsGuy|talk]]) 16:31, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
:The template {{t|category tree all}} can display an entire tree without needing an extra click. [[User:UnitedStatesian|UnitedStatesian]] ([[User talk:UnitedStatesian|talk]]) 22:04, 26 August 2019 (UTC):
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::{{category tree all|climate|depth=1}}

;Stub category
[[:Category:Climate change stubs]] has now been created to collect stub articles within the scope of this project.  Please feel free to put the e {{t|climate-change-stub}} template onto any article that should be in the category.

I am thinking 'Atmospheric science stubs' should be a sub category of Climate Change stubs rather than the other way around as it has been set up. [[User:C-randles|crandles]] ([[User talk:C-randles|talk]]) 19:16, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
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===Portals===
Add these portals where relevant:
{{Portal|Climate change}}
{{Portal|Environment}}
{{Portal|Renewable energy}}
{{Portal|Energy}}

*{{lp|Climate change}}
*{{lp|Environment}}
*{{lp|Renewable energy}}
*{{lp|Energy}}

This code produces the portal boxes shown to the right:
*<nowiki>{{Portal|Climate change}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Portal|Environment}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Portal|Renewable energy}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Portal|Energy}}</nowiki>


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==Template==
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==Tools==
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==History==
WikiProject Climate Change used to have the following task forces, which were marked as Historical in April 2023:
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Africa task force|Africa]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Africa task force |Agriculture]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Justice |Climate Justice]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Biodiversity|Biodiversity]]
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