Wikidata:WikiProject Climate Change
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Scope edit
This WikiProject assists with the community curation of information related to climate change (Q125928) 
, both on Wikidata and across Wikimedia projects. You are most welcome to join — just look around here and try to find something that could be improved. Once you have that, try to improve it yourself or share your ideas, so that others can chime in.
Background edit
Climate change edit
The climate on our planet has always varied over time, but the current period of global warming goes beyond what human civilizations have ever experienced and is driven by our activities, especially greenhouse gas emissions.
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Global temperature variations over the last 500 million years.
Note that horizontal scale changes at the breakpoints.
Wikimedia projects edit
Wikimedia projects are a group of online platforms that grew out of Wikipedia. All of them have some level of engagement with climate change. Counterclockwise, starting on top: Wikimania, Wikibooks, Meta-Wiki, Wikiquote, Wikispecies, MediaWiki, Wikimedia Incubator, Wikivoyage, Wikidata, Wikifunctions, Wikiversity, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia. Most of them exist in multiple languages (e.g. Wikipedia in ca. 300) — together, they form an ecosystem of about 1000 wikis, each with their own community that interacts with other communities both within and beyond the Wikimedia movement.
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Wikimedia projects. -
Voices from the Wikimedia community.
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Wikimedia projects in context.
Wikidata edit
Wikidata is integrated with all the other wikis in the Wikimedia ecosystem and links them with the wider Linked Open Data world. It does so by
- having an entry (named item) for any concept covered on any Wikipedia, for any book edition covered in Wikisource or Wikibooks, for any species covered in Wikispecies, and so on;
- having other kinds of entries (named properties) that link items
- to entries in Wikimedia wikis
- to each other
- to external resources
- having linguistic entries (lexemes, forms and senses) for potentially any word in any language and linking them to the corresponding items via dedicated properties
- being multilingual in its user interface, allowing people to collaborate even if they do not share a common natural language
- allowing the data to be queried and visualized in a variety of ways
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Map of Wikidata items with geolocations. -
Co-authorship network for publications on permafrost (Q179918) (from its Scholia profile). -
Pronunciation of Klimawandels, a grammatical form of the German word Klimawandel (L33260), which means climate change (Q125928).
WikiProjects edit
There are various ways in which community members and subgroups organize and interact. One of them are WikiProjects like this one, which typically coordinate activities on a certain topic across one wiki within the ecosystem. Others include user groups, thematic organizations or Wikimedia chapters. Several initiatives exist that focus on climate change or related topics, and Wikimedians for Sustainable Development are integrating climate-related knowledge with the broader context of sustainable development. Lots of other such initiatives — e.g. the Wikipedia & Education User Group, WikiProject Chemistry or Wikimedia Medicine — have a scope that intersects with activities related to climate change.
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Portal:Klimawandel covers climate change-related content on the German Wikipedia -
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Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative is focused on sustainability within the Wikimedia movement -
WikiProject Extinction covers losses of biodiversity -
Wikimedians for Disaster Response oversee humanitarian topics -
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development is a user group for collaborations.
Events edit
While most of the activities around climate change and Wikimedia take place on-wiki with little dedicated coordination, there are various initiatives that bring together multiple contributors for joint activities either online or in some specific locations, e.g. for article writing contests or editathons. Here are a few examples:
