Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climate change/Small to medium tasks
OK, I'm game! I'm trying out all the suggestions here and reporting on each one.
- Citation Hunt: The first six snippets I got were from biographies of U.S. politicians and had absolutely nothing to do with climate change. There are many articles in the project that have short passages of relevance to climate change, but the [citation needed] tag isn't necessarily in those passages, e.g. Sunlight. I don't think this tool is very useful for improving Wikipedia's content on climate change.
- So if you are getting snippets from U.S. policians that means that they are in the Wikiproject. Its the same list that is in the backlog below -- if you are finding politicians that is because we need to remove them from the WikiProject. Sadads (talk) 14:31, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
- I agree. I removed a bunch of articles from the WikiProject, but the stuff that comes up is still dominated by low-importance statements on low-importance articles. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 21:33, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
- So if you are getting snippets from U.S. policians that means that they are in the Wikiproject. Its the same list that is in the backlog below -- if you are finding politicians that is because we need to remove them from the WikiProject. Sadads (talk) 14:31, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
- Backlog on climate change: Seems useful!
- Add images identified as related to climate change to Wikipedia articles: There's been some good research lately on what kinds of images are most compelling when communicating about climate change. By those criteria, most of the images in the climate change category are not very good. E.g. many of them are about environmental protestors, which are among the least effective kinds of images. I would instead encourage people who are interested in illustrating articles to think more creatively about images instead of using ones that are in the obvious category already. E.g. how about pictures of sustainable architecture, electric vehicles, passenger trains, people installing solar panels in their villages, etc. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 07:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
- Ooh, good idea -- do you want to break this out a bit :) We could always add a section about this as "easy interventions you can do anywhere", Sadads (talk) 14:31, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
- Yup, I'm thinking of maybe doing a bigger writeup, maybe even in the form of the requested Climate communication article. There has been a lot of research done in the past few years about what kinds of messages around climate change move people. The New York Times had an excellent piece on it: "What motivates people to care and to act is an awareness of the genuine solutions: a new clean-energy future, improving our standard of living, and building local jobs and the local economy.” One of the ways in which I'd like to nudge the culture at Wikipedia is away from what climate communication people call the "catastrophe frame" and towards improving the content that talks about opportunities and solutions. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 06:02, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
- Actually I'm adding it to the list and hoping someone with more of a literature background might do it. Know anyone ? :)
- Yup, I'm thinking of maybe doing a bigger writeup, maybe even in the form of the requested Climate communication article. There has been a lot of research done in the past few years about what kinds of messages around climate change move people. The New York Times had an excellent piece on it: "What motivates people to care and to act is an awareness of the genuine solutions: a new clean-energy future, improving our standard of living, and building local jobs and the local economy.” One of the ways in which I'd like to nudge the culture at Wikipedia is away from what climate communication people call the "catastrophe frame" and towards improving the content that talks about opportunities and solutions. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 06:02, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
- Ooh, good idea -- do you want to break this out a bit :) We could always add a section about this as "easy interventions you can do anywhere", Sadads (talk) 14:31, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
- Some in line responses above, in general this is just the beginning -- so lets think about adding content or tweaking as well. Sadads (talk) 14:31, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
- Sure. Are you OK with having others directly edit the page? Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 21:33, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Clayoquot: Of course! We can move it to the WikiProject soon if you want :) Sadads (talk) 18:41, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
- Sure. Are you OK with having others directly edit the page? Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 21:33, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Radical proposal
OK, I've got an idea: The categories of "Causes, Effects, Mitigation, and Adaptation" are kind of awkward as top-level categories because most articles and sources cover two or more of these categories.
Something I'd like to try is to organize this to-do list by the skills that are required. Different people find different things easy or hard, depending on their particular subject matter expertise and their technical wiki skills. Organizing the page by skills and/or subject areas would be more reader-centric and maybe flip that switch in people that says, "this is my calling."
I'll try doing this now. Let me know what you think. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 17:18, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Clayoquot: Go for it! I am happy to see what it looks like :) Sadads (talk) 17:21, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- Reorg done. This gives you an idea of what the categories can be. The items within the categories could use some breaking down into smaller pieces so they describe easy-to-medium tasks. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 17:54, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Clayoquot: Go for it! I am happy to see what it looks like :) Sadads (talk) 17:21, 27 November 2019 (UTC)