Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment

WikiProject Environment

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WikiProject Environment

WikiProject Environment is a project focused upon organizing and improving articles related to the natural environment and biophysical environment. For more information about WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

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Scope

This WikiProject is a collaboration to better organize and improve articles about the natural environment and the positive and negative effects of humans upon the biophysical environment.

Articles for cleanup

A comprehensive listing of articles for cleanup that are tagged with this project's banner is available here.

Goals

The goals of this project include the following:

Improve articles within this project's scope
Create user-friendly navigation and linkages
Organize articles categorically
Maintaining objectivity and neutral point-of-view in environment-related articles
Promote an awareness of the natural environment and world

Ways to contribute – (updated October 2025)

Article tasks

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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Article requests can be posted at: Natural sciences requests page, Create articles for red-links at Vertical kiln, Environmental behavior, Environmental perception, Environmental writing.
Copyedit : Ecosystem management
Expand : Environmentalist, Environment (biophysical), Environment minister, Environmental emergency, Habitat, Micro-sustainability, Built environment, Pohakuloa Training Area
Maintain : Environment pages needing attention, 2026 in the environment and environmental sciences, Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (delisted as GA)
NPOV : Glyphosate (see Talk:Glyphosate), Energy development, Hydraulic fracturing
Photo : Environmental chemistry
Stubs : Stub categories: Environment, Environmental organizations, International development, Renewable energy, Sustainability, Waste, Water supply, More...
Update : Ecosystem management, Renewable energy transition, List of highly toxic gases
Verify : Appropriate technology, Biosphere, Environmental economics, Environmental engineering, Environmental ethics, Environmental movement, Environmental science, Human overpopulation, Natural environment, Pollution, Sustainable agriculture
Other : * Articles needing expert attention: International development.
- Add links for the Environment portal in related articles: {{Portal|Environment}}

Project tasks

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Assess : Tag new articles and assess environment articles
Copyedit : Articles at Wikipedia: WikiProject Environment – Popular pages so that the assessment matches popularity
Maintain : Wikipedia:List of controversial issues – Environment (list needs to be culled and/or updated). Check for vandalized articles.
Photo : Category: Wikipedia requested photographs of environmental topics
Update : Fuel cell
Verify : WikiProject Environment – Unreferenced Biographies
Other : #Check out Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Popular pages and improve the more popular articles. Note that assessment may need reviewing, or will be updated on the next dump.
1. See: Wikipedia: WikiProject Deletion sorting – Environment for articles that are nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion.
2. Monitor: Related changes for Category:Natural environment, for vandalism and substandard edits
3. Check: articles linked to natural environment (Special: WhatLinksHere – Natural environment). Many would be more accurately linked to Environment (biophysical).
4. Advertise this page to recruit more participants

Environment articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	10	3	12			28
FL			1	1			2
A		1					1
GA	7	25	43	62		5	142
B	17	186	256	304		168	931
C	31	383	618	1,401		677	3,110
Start	6	237	764	2,613	1	1,778	5,399
Stub		15	190	1,277		1,300	2,782
List	6	33	50	240	3	113	445
Category					7,426		7,426
Disambig					51		51
File					54		54
Portal					37		37
Project					23		23
Template					169		169
NA	1	18	41	92	580		732
Other				3	181		184
Assessed	71	908	1,966	6,005	8,525	4,041	21,516
Unassessed		1	1	6		269	277
Total	71	909	1,967	6,011	8,525	4,310	21,793
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 59,205			Ω = 4.78

Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment

WikiProject Environment

Scope

Goals

Ways to contribute – (updated October 2025)

Article tasks

Project tasks

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Pages needing attention

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