Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climate change

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather § RFC regarding adding relations to climate change on specific severe meteorological event articles

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather § RFC regarding adding relations to climate change on specific severe meteorological event articles, which is within the scope of this WikiProject. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 07:21, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New research programme searching for feedback/review by interested folks

m:Visualizing sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia. A Research Programme started in 2025 to identify and visualize knowledge gaps related to sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia.

Interested to learn more ? Read and add your name on m:Visual Analytics for Sustainability and Climate Change/Community... or just react/ask questions here :)

Anthere (talk) 17:45, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anthere. Welcome to the Wikiproject, and lovely to see this project take shape! Could you give an example of what you mean by visualising knowledge gaps? You might be interested in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Figures page, an inactive project that sought to improve and update climate change data visualisation across the board. More recently, TatjanaClimate has been working with various organisations to release climate-related media onto Commons. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 21:00, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anthere, good to see you here. To be honest, I have tried to understand the page you linked to and I don’t feel like I’m getting it. There is a participatory design process, but what is it designing? Are there examples we can see of what similar research projects have designed?

I am also curious about “ According to the results of our preliminary project, volunteers need their curiosity to be stimulated…” where can i resd more about this preliminary project? Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 08:00, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"So far, most of the campaigns manually curate lists of articles every time, going through article by article to assess quality, and often without being able to compare across different linguistic editions of Wikipedia easily." That sounds where we are and generally have always been. I am curious to see the ideas underlying making such curation more accessible and visual. I know Wikidata captures GA and FA equivalents across wikis, unsure if SPARQL can get more granular assessments. CMD (talk) 09:37, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I am back with more info.

First, thank you User:Femke for the links. But this is not this type of visualisations I was talking about (but those are really cool). The ones I talk about are visualisation of the articles structure and content, comparison between linguistic versions (to foster translation efforts), analysis of the semantic content of the articles etc. that is what I was talking about.

User:Clayoquot, I can now satisfy your curiosity (I also was curious to see what it could look like ;)). So some members of the team have been working on some initial sketches to address a list of initial needs we identified.
Those sketches may be found : here

I have two propositions for you...

You can look at them at your own pace and drop comments below the sketches. Is the sketch clear ? Do you think it would be a useful visualisation for you or for others ? Any initial design choices you think could be improved ? Etc.
If you want to chat about them, I have set up a time for this on this Friday. See the event page, and subscribe/join if you have the time and interest. The event page is : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:VIZWP_24_10_2025

To User:Chipmunkdavis. Quality assessment is one of the parameters proposed to sort out articles.
The current pre-work of the future tool may be seen here : https://giovannipro.github.io/wikipedia-climate-change/?lang=en

You may wonder where the list of articles we have been working on for this pilot project come from. Short answer: your work. The data investigation process is described here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visual_Analytics_for_Sustainability_and_Climate_Change/Articles One person reworked the output and clarified the selection for the pilot, and also aggregated the articles in cluster. Final list is : here

The final tool will be « merged » with this tool : https://impact-visualizer.wmcloud.org/topics/23

The impact visualizer current draw content primarily from the outreach dashboard (used by editors during workshops). However, it also permit to add content based on using page piles. For example, I did a test using the content I have been working on the past 4 years related to WIPO. I created a page pile with the list of articles I worked on. Then I used the full list to do this : https://impact-visualizer.wmcloud.org/topics/29

If you look in the menu>tool, you may see the different ways that will be proposed to « Import » lists of content. The one thing that is not sorted out at all is how « clusters » of articles will be created from a specific list. This will have to be sorted out. But importing lists of articles is not an issue.

I want to point out that the pilote is being done using a predefined set of articles (related to climate and climate change) directly based on you guys work.

But obviously, the goal of the tool is not to limit itself to the « climate » topic. The goal is that anyone should be able to create their own list of articles (that they will import using the different options).

Last... there is also an ongoing survey I really would love to see some of you answer to. The goal is simply to further collect insights on what type of visuals/data might be more useful for you (again, not visuals to display in articles, but visuals to analyse articles).

The survey may be found here: https://survey.linux.it/index.php/189183?lang=en

Anthere (talk) 12:25, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Should coal be specifically added to the lead of climate change?

If you are busy then no need to think about the wording yet, but if one or two of you could say yes or no in principle that would be great. Because the wording is a little tricky, so if you are against in principle I won’t spend time on it. Please answer at Talk:Climate change#Add the word “coal” to lead? If so how? Chidgk1 (talk) 06:51, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello,
Please note that Economics of climate change mitigation, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing!
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Any of you Wikignomes?

I am finding tidying up Glossary of climate change after merge tedious - will finish eventually but help welcome Chidgk1 (talk) 16:03, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New source for “Greenhouse gas emissions by …” articles and sections

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/the-big-emitters Chidgk1 (talk) 06:34, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The 1000 most frequently read articles and the relationship of some of them to climate change

Hello,

what should be added to some of those articles?

Kind regards Sarcelles (talk) 16:43, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sarcelles Please could you link the list you are asking about (https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&date=last-month&excludes= only seems to show 500) Chidgk1 (talk) 16:28, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Popular articles Bogazicili (talk) 16:29, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both. That is really cool. Sarcelles (talk) 22:46, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand what the question is exactly? Is it just to wikilink the word "climate change" where it appears in those popular articles, like in Charlie Kirk? EMsmile (talk) 20:17, 25 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't fin a single suitable one among the most frequently consulted articles.

The other list mentioned is better for this purpose. Sarcelles (talk) 16:46, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sarcelles The list @Bogazicili linked is the 1000 most read articles of interest to this project. Is that what you meant or did you mean the 1000 most read articles in the whole of English Wikipedia?

I too am a bit confused about what your purpose is. If you are looking for an article for you yourself (or your students if you have any) to improve how about Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning? If our gas boiler gave up the ghost over Halloween that might be the article I would look at for unbiased background info before talking to companies to decide how to replace it. If you are looking for articles to translate into your native language then please let us know what it is. Chidgk1 (talk) 14:03, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles about United States climate policy now

Hello Americans - I am hoping I am going to kick off a discussion but not really do any work on US articles so by “we” below I actually mean “you” :-)

1) It is getting a bit boring seeing Donald Trump at the top of our list of most read articles. Perhaps it was me who added our project - should it be removed as I guess we are unlikely to edit such a high profile article?

2) There is Environmental policy of the first Trump administration but Environmental policy of the second Trump administration simply redirects to domestic policy. Should it be split off or is it better to concentrate on updating Climate change policy of the United States? I think the latter as environmental policy is too big a topic. Or is it too difficult for you guys due to frequent policy changes? Chidgk1 (talk) 14:50, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion re extreme event attribution and Hurricane Melissa

At Talk:Hurricane_Melissa#Causation:_Four_times_more_likely there is a discussion relating to how extreme event attribution (EEA) affected the characteristics of Hurricane Melissa. Those with knowledge of climate change, EEA, and scientific topics in general, may want to participate. —RCraig09 (talk) 00:11, 16 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]