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Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change

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Mangrove forest reforestation
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This WikiProject supports articles about all aspects of climate change including mechanisms, effects, emissions sources, solutions, biographies, and country-specific issues.

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 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 list of participants!

Tools and advice

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  • Use and contribute to a style guide for climate change articles

Guidance videos

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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 here. Or see direct link on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/aJBckuPRoiw (cannot be hyperlinked for technical reasons).
  • Recording of a presentation at Wikimania (August 2019): User:Phoebe presented in this session. Video clip available in Wikimedia Commons, see thumbnail on the right. Presentation slides available here.

Sources

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Editing in a controversial topic

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As climate change has historically been a controversial topic on Wikipedia, it has been marked as a Contentious topic. This means there is 'extra protection' against disruptive editing, POV pushing and incivility. You can place {{Contentious topics/talk notice|cc}} 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 {{subst:alert|cc}}. Editors never informed of any contentious topic should be alerted with {{subst:alert/first|cc}}.

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

Other languages

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You can use the content in the English Wikipedia articles to improve other language versions. Useful links:

Metrics

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Climate change articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 2 3 3 2 10
FL 1 1
GA 5 16 21 25 67
B 14 78 109 116 11 328
C 34 227 319 792 74 1,446
Start 3 60 281 1,014 1 318 1,677
Stub 2 16 311 161 490
List 11 14 20 6 51
NA 1 22 29 43 516 611
Assessed 59 419 793 2,323 517 570 4,681
Unassessed 2 4 3 9
Total 59 421 793 2,327 517 573 4,690
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 18,227 Ω = 4.54
173 edits Donald Trump
27 edits Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
24 edits Degrowth
20 edits Politics of air conditioning
18 edits Warming stripes
17 edits Rand Simberg
15 edits Climate finance in Mexico
15 edits Gaia hypothesis
11 edits Climate change in Kenya
9 edits Effects of climate change on human health

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 27 August 2025 by HotArticlesBot.


Get the most recent pageviews from Massviews Tool. Or 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 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

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Current tasks suggested by the community

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Please add suggestions here followed by ~~~~, and remove your comment when the task is done.

  1. Update Scientific consensus on climate change to AR6. Suggested by M.boli at in October 2023.[1] Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 15:41, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ongoing tasks

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Articles for cleanup

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

  • 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 here.
  • Place the {{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
  • 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, this page lists the existing and missing articles.

Article alerts

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Did you know

Good article nominees

Articles for creation

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Writing and improving articles

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Monitor the articles linked on this pages or improve the list itself.

Needs an article

Requested articles from redirects

Discuss climate change articles for specific countries at

Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Climate change/Climate change articles by country

Key articles in need of updating
Key articles that need a clean-up
Key articles that need expansion
Portals
  • Portal:Climate change needs a lot of work if we decide to keep it maintained. (portals without maintenance are subject to deletion)
Automated list of articles with various clean-up tags

Community

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Events

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Ongoing or future

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Past events

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Communication channels

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The main on-wiki communication channels are generally the article, user or project talk pages, such as the 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

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Global Warming and Climate Change Barnstar
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Global Warming and Climate Change Barnstar
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Userbox templates

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Code Result
{{Template:User interest climate}}
This user is interested in
Climate
 Usage
{{Template:User interest climate change}}
This user is interested in
Climate Change
 Usage
{{Template:User Climate change WP}}
This user participates in
WikiProject Climate change.
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{{Template:User WikiProject Climate change}}
This user participates in
WikiProject Climate change.
 Usage

Categories and portals

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Categories

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Portals

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Add these portals where relevant:

This code produces the portal boxes shown to the right:

  • {{Portal|Climate change}}
  • {{Portal|Environment}}
  • {{Portal|Renewable energy}}
  • {{Portal|Energy}}

Project subpages

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Template

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Tools

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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

History

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WikiProject Climate Change used to have the following task forces, which were marked as Historical in April 2023:

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