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How to clean up the mess around trees and mitigation?
[edit]I was doing some work today on reforestation and got a bit stuck on one question: I noticed that several articles have content on tree planting + their role for mitigation. That content in the different articles is messy and often outdated. I wonder if we could centralise that content in just one place mainly (which one?) and then link or use excerpts from other articles to there. Here are the articles that all touch on this (the one with the best CC content first):
- Carbon sequestration#Forestry - this has probably the most up to date content as it was recently worked on (500 page views per day)
- Afforestation#Climate change mitigation (400 page views per day)
- Reforestation#Climate change mitigation (200 page views per day)
- Tree planting#Role in climate change mitigation (300 page views per day)
- Tree plantation#Role in climate change mitigation (200 page views per day)
- Biomass (energy)#Climate impacts - detailed but messy; we once tried to clean up this mess but the process got stuck...
In terms of pageviews they are all fairly similar with around 200-400 pageviews per day. (300 page views per day)
As a related issue, these three forestry articles should probably each also have a section on climate change but don't have one yet (this could perhaps be addressed with an excerpt):
- Forestry
- Forest management
- Sustainable forest management - mentions climate change in several places but has no dedicated section for it.
EMsmile (talk) 16:11, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
- As usual I think excerpts should be used. I don’t mind which article but if you can reach a decision on that ping me as I hope to be able to do a bit on this next month. Not an expert but the subject is quite interesting for me. Having said that I might end up writing something like ‘mitigation varies so much by location that you should read the national forestry articles’. I looked into this slightly for Forest in Turkey and it seems that one problem here is that, although we have lots of land, with climate change some of the places trees used to grow before the ancients cut them down will be too dry to reforest. But your country may have a completely different obstacle. Chidgk1 (talk) 19:07, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. That would be great to collaborate on this topic. I am a bit stumped on which article should become the main article for this content, so that we can then excerpt/transcribe from there. What would be your preference, and does anyone else have an opinion? Maybe if we can't decide, we take the one from that group that has the highest pages views? That would be carbon sequestration (500 views per day) followed by afforestation (400). Maybe tree planting and tree plantation are less suitable as trees get planted for various reasons, not just for climate change mitigation. EMsmile (talk) 09:00, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Carbon sequestration is fine by me. Am busy this week but may have time to ponder and compare next week. Unless anyone else has other ideas we can continue the discussion on the talk page of the carbon sequestration article. Chidgk1 (talk) 12:09, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. That would be great to collaborate on this topic. I am a bit stumped on which article should become the main article for this content, so that we can then excerpt/transcribe from there. What would be your preference, and does anyone else have an opinion? Maybe if we can't decide, we take the one from that group that has the highest pages views? That would be carbon sequestration (500 views per day) followed by afforestation (400). Maybe tree planting and tree plantation are less suitable as trees get planted for various reasons, not just for climate change mitigation. EMsmile (talk) 09:00, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- I would want to begin by merging the articles which appear to be the most duplicative. So, Sustainable forest management + Afforestation + Proforestation (another relatively small, overlapping article you have not mentioned) would all be merged into Forest management, which should be a top-level article (or at least second-highest level, after Forest), but is currently smaller than all of the above, at a mere 745 words.
- Tree planting can probably merged somewhere as well - most of country-level content definitely seems to be more about forest management, for one thing. The parts of that article which are explicitly about planting new trees for carbon/aesthetic/soil management reasons could be merged into a subsection elsewhere? Alternatives include Carbon sequestration, Forestry, or even silviculture (an extremely technical article that seems to have notable overlap with tree plantation?)
- In all, it seems like there is a lot which can end up merged or condensed if we really think about it. Once we are sure that we no longer have any forestry-related articles we don't need, it would be obvious which of the remaining pages would be the best place for this material. For now, merging those other articles into forest management seems like the most obvious path, and the rest can be figured out later. The only thing which might be even easier to do is merging Silvology to Forestry, since it appears they are either exactly the same, or at most one is a subsection of the other? InformationToKnowledge (talk) 17:48, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, those are good points! For now, I have left posts on the talk pages of forest management and WikiProject Forestry in an attempt to pull the forestry people into this discussion (that project is semi-active though). I have thought about it in the past whether afforestation and reforestation should be merged (even though they are not the same thing). In both articles, the country examples sections overlap a lot because it's often not a clear cut thing whether the planting of new trees is classified as afforestation or reforestation. (but if they were merged, then under which new article title? Or merge afforestation into reforestation as just a sub-heading).
- This could blow out into quite a big sub-project. So it would be great if we could get forestry people interested in this... As forests (new and old ones) are so important for climate change mitigation, this should also be of interest to members of WikiProject Climate Change. EMsmile (talk) 09:42, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
- I have made a start by merging Silvology to Forestry Chidgk1 (talk) 06:21, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- Please comment at Talk:Forest management#Merge proposal Chidgk1 (talk) 06:43, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- Even more forestry articles are coming out of the woodwork. For example Outline of forestry includes Analog forestry and Ecoforestry - should more articles in that outline be merged and if so where? Chidgk1 (talk) 08:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
- Your comments welcome at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ecoforestry#Merge_proposal Chidgk1 (talk) 10:25, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- @InformationToKnowledge As I have 2 merger discussions on the go now for several articles I am not thinking of starting any more but have no objection if you like to formally propose merges of Tree planting or Silviculture. Also if you have time I would welcome your comment at the 2nd merger discussion linked above Chidgk1 (talk) 15:41, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- But I got tempted with one last big merger proposal at Talk:Agroforestry#Merge proposal. Thank you @Chiswckchap for commenting so quickly - perhaps you have thoughts on this discussion too. Chidgk1 (talk) 13:37, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Commented on both of those discussions now. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 19:10, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks - I have requested they be closed Wikipedia:Closure requests#Three proposals to merge several forestry articles Chidgk1 (talk) 13:48, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Commented on both of those discussions now. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 19:10, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
Thanks everyone - please continue discussion at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Carbon_sequestration#How_to_clean_up_the_mess_around_trees_and_mitigation Chidgk1 (talk) 06:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- I was asking myself where we stand with this proposed mammoth merger work, so I looked at the merger closure pages and am giving the following update here:
- The result of this discussion was to merge Analog forestry and Close to nature forestry into Ecoforestry. No consensus to merge Mycoforestry at this time. --> this merger has been carried out but post-merge tidying work is needed.
- Discussion of merge proposal for forest management (several articles):
- Proposal to merge Sustainable forest management into Forest management - There is a weak consensus in favour of the merge. However, there is a clear concern that this would be a massive undertaking due to the size differences between the 2 articles which could result in Forest management becoming imbalanced.
- Proposal to merge Afforestation into Forest management - No clear consensus for or against this merge.
- Proposal to merge Proforestation into Forest management - There is a very weak consensus in favour of the merge. There are also some notable alternative suggestions on this proposal.
- Several inline proposals to merge or combine other related articles such as Reforestation - No clear consensus for or against such merges. Outside the initial comments, very little discussion took place on these suggestions.
- Regarding this: "I propose merging Silvopasture, Dehesa, Forest gardening, Forest farming, Syntropic agriculture, Inga alley cropping, Farmer-managed natural regeneration and Kuojtakiloyan into this article, because they all seem to be types of agroforestry and are fairly short." the consensus was "Consensus to not merge Silvopasture and Dehesa, at least for now, to allow further development. Consensus to merge the remaining articles into Agroforestry."
- @User:Chidgk1 are you in principle ready to carry out all these mergers? It'll be so much better once it's all done. I think whenever it says "weak consensus" it means you can go ahead. EMsmile (talk) 10:50, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
- Unless I missed something they are all done Chidgk1 (talk) 16:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- @User:Chidgk1 are you in principle ready to carry out all these mergers? It'll be so much better once it's all done. I think whenever it says "weak consensus" it means you can go ahead. EMsmile (talk) 10:50, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
Managing Köppen-Geiger graphics in the regional climate change articles?
[edit]So, some time back, pretty much every one of our "Climate change in X" articles had a pair of graphics added: one showing their current Köppen climate classification, and another with the projected classification for 2070-2100. There were two issues with those:
- The labels on the graphics are not very readable without zooming in. Whoever added them originally decided to address this by blowing them up to a truly disproportionate size that ended up effectively breaking the page layout and forcing the readers to scroll the entire page horizontally. Perhaps it was not the case when it was first added, but that's certainly what happened once the new default skin was adopted. Here is an example of what it used to be like.
- The only available projection was for RCP 8.5, and we all know how unrealistic it is.
When I added the new template across all of these articles recently, I also decided to rescale those graphics to more wiki-friendly sizes (like in the example above which now looks like this) and to add the same disclaimer I now place on all RCP 8.5-only graphics. Then, though, it turned out that @Uness232: had found a newer paper, which now has Köppen-Geiger projections for a full range of IPCC scenarios. You can see an example at Climate change in Turkey.
Even so, there are still two issues we need to decide on:
- How many graphics should we include, and for which scenario? For the Turkey page, Uness232 decided to go for SSP3-7, describing it as a "mid-range, relatively likely scenario" in the caption. That really isn't accurate, as SSP3-7 is still a scenario where the CO2 emissions never go down in this century - they just don't accelerate like they do in SSP5-8.5. Methane and N2O emissions actually go up more in that scenario than in any other - one look at AR6 WG1 SPM (p.13) ascertains that. Considering that even last year, global CO2 emissions increased by a mere 0.1%, I think it's safe to say that scenario is nearly as implausible as the worst-case. The citations I have in the captions both refer to RCP 4.5/SSP2-4.5 as the most plausible.
- However, the thing with Köppen-Geiger zones is that they can be fairly persistent. I.e. according to that classification, zones in the countries like Egypt, Indonesia and Tanzania would barely change even under RCP 8.5, because most of their territory is already at the furthest ends of the classification. With SSP2-4.5 maps, a lot more countries may not appear to have significant change by 2100. I guess we could attempt a three/four image collage and say that the 8.5 projections represents the plausible 2300 state? (Enough references say that climatically, RCP8.5 2100 = RCP 4.5 ~2300.)
- Once we have decided on the graphic selection, do we want to rewrite their legends in larger font or something, in an attempt to make the text visible in reasonably-sized thumbnails?
Long question, I know, but please comment, as it is fairly important. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 16:19, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, and thanks for opening this discussion.
- Before everything, I want to say that my pick of SSP370 was unintentional. I meant to pick either 2-4.5 or 4-3.4 (I don't remember which one right now, but those are, as far as I know, the scenarios most in line with the 2.5 to 3.0C warming prediction), but I think I just misread something and never checked back. As for the questions:
- 1. If the sources explicitly state 2-4.5 to be the most likely, we should use that one. It does not matter if the zones are persistent in my opinion; we are here to present information, and if the relative persistence of zones in some countries makes the image collage unnecessary, the best practice may be removing those collages on those pages. Using RCP 8.5 maps for 2300 would be fine, I suppose, but with the existence of a map that specifically clarifies itself to be 2071-2100, this might be somewhat confusing.
- 2. I'm neutral on this; I am comfortable with zooming in, and so for me this is not an issue. Some people might prefer more accessible legends though, so I also don't have any objections. Uness232 (talk) 17:56, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- Not every climate change leads to a different Köppen climate classification.
- I would prefer just one graph, for a specific region, that shows changes for the 2 basic variables of a climate: temperature and precipitation.
- A graphic could show the differences between pre-industrial and current. It could also show future scenarios, what will the climate be when we reach the +1.5C and +2.0C from the Paris agreement? Such scenarios would not be pinned down to specific years.
- Design ideas for such a graph:
Uwappa (talk) 04:15, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- I think for places with minimal projected Köppen changes, these ideas are doable, but for a few reasons I find Köppen maps more appealing when there are noticable changes between time periods:
- 1) Beck et. al. came up with a methodology for estimating the monthly precipitation and temperature for different periods by through a complex process that we can not easily replicate. Therefore we would be unable to easily use accurate "future" maps.
- 2) A graph can only give information about one place, or the average of a place. There are countries (including Turkey) where climate change will have opposite effects on different regions.
- 3) Real-life cities have problems measuring climate change; they have UHIs. Bakırköy, by the 2030s, will have 30-year climate normals 3C warmer than its pre-industrial temperature, and obviously we are not at 3C of warming. Uness232 (talk) 21:45, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- A map similar to
could show dangers and opportunities.
- Such a map could show impacts for global +1.5C and +2.0C, not for specific future years. Uwappa (talk) 06:53, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Sure, though if we are going to use a map like that, why not use Köppen maps anyway? Places where there's a desertification threat would be indicated by A/C/D -> B, places with new possibilities of summer drought would be represented by Cf -> Cs, warmer temperatures would create a chain of E -> D -> C -> A, and Xxb to Xxa would signal new heat dangers.
- And even with a 'danger' map, some areas might need to be completely blank, as it is in the map above. Uness232 (talk) 09:45, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, that sounds great to filter dangers: desertification, drought and heat.
- To add: floods in low areas. Uwappa (talk) 13:10, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- I think you misunderstand. I was not saying that we should make a map ourselves, borrowing criteria from Köppen and renaming these criteria as risks to fit our needs. That would be WP:OR. I was suggesting that, as long as there are environmental changes that can be captured by Köppen, we should just use a Köppen map. If that is not possible for that region, we can think of alternatives. Uness232 (talk) 11:36, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
- A map similar to
- Re the legend would it be too difficult to only include the zones which are on that particular map? For example I don’t think we need “polar tundra” on the Turkey legend. Also rather than having to look alternately at the legend and map I would find our map more readable if I could put the main zone names directly on the map. The smaller zones could have their label nearby off the map with an arrow. Chidgk1 (talk) 20:11, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Re the legend would it be too difficult to only include the zones which are on that particular map? For example I don’t think we need “polar tundra” on the Turkey legend.
- That's already how it is: Turkey has alpine tundra on a few of its highest mountains. Uness232 (talk) 21:49, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Ah I see now on Ararat - that would be better shown with an arrow I think Chidgk1 (talk) 21:14, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
- I like the bar graph. Chidgk1 (talk) 20:33, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
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Climate action investing articles
[edit]Some Wikipedia articles to create/update: Climate Action 100+, Ceres (organization).
Climate action investor networks have become big players in the business world, but I think Wikipedia coverage is out of date. The above two are in the news because of a House Republican subcommittee report alleging anti-trust violations.[1][2]
The report document[3] repeatedly refers to Climate Action 100+ and Ceres as main players in what it terms a "climate cartel" which is compelling corporations to address climate change. And it turns out this is non-trivial. Many of the biggest investment and pension funds are participating in these networks, using shareholder persuasion to institute carbon accounting and quantify climate change risks and so forth.
But as a Wikipedia users I don't find much here.
- Climate Action 100+, described by Reuters as "the world's biggest climate investor group",[4] does not have an article or a redirect, it seems to be nowhere mentioned.
- There is only little in the Ceres article about climate action investing. The article describes an organization Ceres created Investor Network on Climate Risk, which seems to have gone defunct long ago. The INCR URLs redirect to defunct pages on the Ceres web site. Following Archive.org history of archived redirected URLs, I get eventually to Ceres Investor Network[5], which is I think what the House Republicans were bloviating about.
The House committee is holding hearings on the investor action networks' "war on the American way of life" (I didn't make that up). Some really big investment houses have been forced by political pressures to drop their participation.[4]
But Wikipedia seems to be behind on this. No article on Climate Action 100+, Ceres article is out of date, Ceres Investor Network seems to be represented by an obsolete article on a defunct subsidiary. I'm not at all sure what to do with the subcommittee report. (Which maybe shouldn't be included until there is informed news coverage and reactions.) And I am very ill-equipped to provide the needed updates.
I'll probably post something over at Wikiproject Business also. -- M.boli (talk) 14:14, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
- I suspect you are as well equiped to create an article on Climate Action 100+ as most of us here. Although perhaps companies are leaving it ( https://www.ft.com/content/6ae809be-2b87-48e9-bac2-d243155fbb49) as they might be afraid of what Trump would do to them - just speculating wildly. You could create a draft and submit it. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:12, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
References
- ^ Binnie, Isla (2024-06-11). "US House panel finds Wall St 'colluded' to curb emissions". Reuters. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ House Judiciary Committee Republicans (2024-06-11). "New Report Reveals Evidence of ESG Collusion Among Left-Wing Activists and Major Financial Institutions" (Press release). House Judiciar Committee. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ CLIMATE CONTROL: EXPOSING THE DECARBONIZATION COLLUSION IN ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) INVESTING (PDF) (Report). 2024-06-11. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ a b Jessop, Simon; Kerber, Ross (2024-02-22). "Climate investor group seeks to shore up support after US exits". Reuters. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ "Ceres Investor Network". Retrieved 2024-06-13.
New to Wikipedia editing process
[edit]I joined today (Monday17 June 2024) Wikipedia and am interested in contributing to its extensive climate crisis coverage. I would appreciate any suggestions or advice anyone may wish to offer please. Alfred Robert Hogan (talk) 17:19, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Welcome to Wikipedia Alfred! I am sure you will contribute a lot! Alexander Sauda/אלכסנדר סעודה (talk) 17:25, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Alfred Robert Hogan: It's best when starting out to look at changes previously made to an article, and make small changes that adopt a similar approach. Start with small, non-controversial changes. When in doubt, you can ask other editors about a particular question or suggestion, by posting on the article's talk page. —RCraig09 (talk) 18:52, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Woo hoo, great to have you on board! Thanks for dropping by and introducing yourself. In terms of suggestions,
- 1. Be bold - people's first contributions to Wikipedia are often their most valuable ones even though they often aren't perfectly formatted. I don't think it's important to look at the changes previously made to an article, which can be confusing. If you see an error, just fix it.
- 2. Include a citation to a reliable source for everything, immediately, and include page numbers if the source has more than 10 pages. Ensure every sentence has at least one citation.
- 3. Cite IPCC reports as much as you can. Don't sweat about the formatting of citations to IPCC reports initially - if you get it almost right we'll standardize it for you later.
- 4. Improve existing articles before you create new ones. For the most impact, spend most of your time on existing articles as new ones tend to get a lot less traffic.
- 5. Don't start by editing wp:Featured Articles (Climate change and Sustainable energy) as they are more difficult to improve.
- 6. If you run into any difficulty, you can ask questions here or at the wp:Teahouse.
- 7. If you want to start with non-controversial edits, look for outdated content and replace it with updated content from the same publisher. E.g. replace 2018 Our World in Data statistics with 2023 Our World in Data statistics. Nobody could possibly object to that and it really helps.
- Cheers and welcome ! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 20:16, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Welcome.
- What you could do: Describe climate change in a way that local people can relate to. Answer the question: What does climate change mean for me, the people in my town, my state, my country, my continent?
- Uwappa (talk) 08:31, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
Zero carbon v Net Zero house
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Introduction
[edit]Hello! I am Amen Azoon I am new in this project! I want to contribute to climate editing in Wikipedia. I would appreciate any help! Thank you Amen 34571 (talk) 18:15, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hello and welcome! Are there particular articles or topic areas you're interested in? We could use help pretty much everywhere :) Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 01:01, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Amen 34571: You may want to look above, in the above section titled "New to Wikipedia editing process", which has some helpful suggestions. —RCraig09 (talk) 05:38, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Discussion on PV Magazine at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard
[edit]People might be interested in the discussion on PV Magazine here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Is_pv-magazine.com_reliable? Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 01:20, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- Deeplink including questionmark: WP:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Is_pv-magazine.com_reliable? Uwappa (talk) 05:45, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- I just cited it - thank you Chidgk1 (talk) 12:11, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
University of Ghana edits
[edit]I mentioned this talk page to one of the students User talk:Bernard Opoku 1234#Greenhouse gas and climate change who is doing some stuff in case they have questions. But as there are several students I wonder whether there is a prof or anyone else we should mention this project to.
It seems https://wikiedu.org/about-us/ only cover US and Canada - don’t know if there is anything similar for Africa Chidgk1 (talk) 14:24, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
Readings and References for WP Editors on different climate topics.
[edit]Hi all,
On the other side of a lot of work now, we went back and revised a table of topical readings/references for WP Editors that we had compiled as part of a Rapid Grant from Wiki Foundation. Our goal was to find overview readings/references for at least 10 main topics on climate actions (energy, food, transportation, personal....) to share - items that we can use to help structure WP articles or our own articles, or to be able to quickly answer questions about climate action topics. We based this idea off of the previous Africa climate project page's table of recommended references.
Luckily, one of our contractors, @resilientsage (Shoshana), came back after a year hiatus and took over the project from the first draft we shared. Shoshana is a trained researcher and has worked for the EPA on agriculture and food topics, and she (and I some) reviewed and edited the table to meet Wikipedia standards more strongly. Shoshana notes:
This reference list is for climate wiki editors (and wiki editors writing outside WP) to consider reading and conveniently have available to cite when adding to climate pages specific to topics, as well as to build upon (i.e., add articles into).
Under the column *Wikipedia Status*:
a) The sources listed as "Recommended for Wikipedia" are meant to be solid references about relevant topics and we believe likely to meet wiki community standards.
b) As examples and to consider using again, we have included select citations used in climate-related Wikipedia articles as “From Wikipedia”.
c) Because wiki standards are specific to context, we have also created a list of potential references that may be useful but are unclear as to whether suitable for potential inclusion/or that depend on context: i.e., the "To Be Discussed."
So, for instance, if you want to write about climate and transportation - there are some potential articles that might be of interest - just look for Transportation under the column Topics.
We really want this to be of help by being a starting point for discussion about key articles we can/should use, and for editors to add to, comment on, etc, as time goes by. I think the first step is to have @Clayoquot and any others interested look at the Google sheet, and then we can create a subpage under the Recommended Sources where this could be the start of a framework of resources we recommend each other read on particular action topics.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d3nGAncF973_pnmDknke8nGL_fMNxuoXmeMRYiH3Abk/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Cheers, Annette AnnetteCSteps (talk) 19:29, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Annette. Sorry, I am not willing to spend more time working on initiatives to create lists of sources. I cannot justify further investing my volunteer time in a project that seems to be more about spreadsheets than about editing articles. I know your heart is in the right place. I think what Wikipedia needs most is for strong researchers and writers like you to edit articles. I could be totally wrong though - maybe someone else here will find this kind of spreadsheet useful enough for their work that they offer to review it. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 21:26, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you Clayoquot. I didn't mean to automatically volunteer you. Just to let you know, the references for WP editors is actually a side part of the deliverable that we are providing. (another side was the climate action Quotables) - and were mostly because we already had the start of a key-articles database to help answer questions from our users and for our writers to refer to, and we thought it might be useful for you all. Learning your standards has been helpful to our writers as well. We tended towards primary science or popular lay articles to pass on to our readers, not secondary overview. So working with you as helped us.
- Anyway, the main deliverable is the food/ag climate action article that we've written in my sandbox that I think you may have seen parts of? Now that my main editor is back after 8 months, we're making it more of an encyclopedic tone. We need to doublecheck it against work in WP that's been done in the meantime, but then we can either add it as a page, or more likely, put sections in existing pages. @resilientsage will do that comparison.
- In the meantime, anyone else in taking a brief look at the articles? We can just add it as a link to a subpage at the bottom of Recommended Sources. Those who use it great - those who don't, no worries. There's a place for comments and additions, and we'll maintain it. Thanks. AnnetteCSteps (talk) 18:34, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Why are IPCC reports copyright?
[edit]Back in June I cut and pasted a bit from an IPCC report into Carbon sequestration and then inadequately tried to paraphrase it. So @Diannaa quite correctly warned me and hid the edits because of https://www.ipcc.ch/copyright/ In 2021 there was a suggestion at https://apps.ipcc.ch/eventmanager/documents/65/240320210608-INF.%206,%20Rev.%203%20-%20Progress%20Report%20-%20TG%20Data.pdf that AR6 be creative commons but I cannot find out why this was not done as a whole not just partly for data and images. Did anyone ever ask the IPCC why the reports are not under the same creative commons licence as Wikipedia? If not I will ask (but don’t hold your breath for a reply). Chidgk1 (talk) 18:41, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, that would be so much better! (and paraphrasing content from IPCC reports is so hard; I struggle with that all the time) There was a previous discussion on this two years ago, see in the archive here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Climate_change/Archive_2#Petition_to_open_IPCC_6
- I also spoke about it with User:Jonathanlynn who made some enquiries with the IPCC secretariat. It was a dead end though. I think they are worried/scared that someone could change the statements and graphs and give them different meaning and results. I think RCraig09 and Efbrazil have worked hard on making many of the IPCC graphs accessible for us by re-creating them from scratch in a way that the new graphs don't infringe copyright. This is a very laudable effort! EMsmile (talk) 09:47, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
Merge or rename Instrumental temperature record?
[edit]I've started a discussion on the talk page of Instrumental temperature record: the proposal on the table is to either merge it into global surface temperature or to change its title so that it becomes clearer what's in the article (e.g. to drop the term "record" in the title). The article gets around 140 pageviews per day, tendency is increasing. Pageviews are here. Please join in the brainstorming here if you have time. Thanks! EMsmile (talk) 17:12, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
Requested move at Talk:Tonlé Sap#Requested move 10 July 2024
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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Tonlé Sap#Requested move 10 July 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Reading Beans 17:45, 14 August 2024 (UTC)