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Climate at the National Academies Wikipedia Edit-a-thon @WikimediaDC

This is a two-day event. Wikipedia training will be provided from 11AM-12PM on both Friday and Saturday. You are welcome to register for one or both days. If planning to attend on both days, please complete two separate transactions, i.e. register once for Friday and once for Saturday.

Interested in learning more about the latest in climate science and helping improve or create Wikipedia articles about climate change and women in science? Join us for a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Friday, February 21 and/or Saturday, February 22!

Get up to speed on the science by hearing directly from experts on negative emissions technologies and attribution of extreme weather events, and learn more about the resources available at the National Academies. All are invited to participate in this climate change Edit-a-thon hosted by the National Academies, with support from Wikimedia DC. No experience necessary! A Wikipedia editor training will also be provided both days. Photo ID and laptops are required. Please bring your own. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.

What

This is a two-day event. It is free and open to the public.

Registration is required. You are welcome to register for one or both days. If planning to attend on both days, please complete two separate transactions, i.e. register once for Friday and once for Saturday.
Photo ID is required.
Please bring your own laptop. Wikimedia DC has two laptops to loan. Reserve one by emailing info@wikimediadc.org.
Lunch will be provided both days.
Wikipedia training will be provided both days from 11am-12pm.

When

Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22, 2020

Time: 10am - 3pm

Where

National Academy of Sciences

2101 Constitution Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20418

Register

Register here with Eventbrite

Agenda

10:00 Doors open

10:30 Welcome & goals, from the NASEM

11:00 Training by WikimediaDC

12:00 Lunch available for all participants

12:30 Negative Emissions Technologies Overview from Erica Belmont, University of Wyoming & Pete Psarras, Worcester Polytechnic Institute – NAS ROOM 120

1:00 Extreme Event Attribution Overview from Tom Knutson, NOAA GFDL & David Titley, Penn State – NAS MEMBERS ROOM

1:30 Editing in breakouts:

Negative Emissions Technologies (NAS 118)

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Negative_Emmissions_Technologies

Extreme Event Attribution (NAS 120)

Notes: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Extreme_events

Biographies (Members Room)

2:45 Wrap-up and continuing engagement (NAS 120)

3:00 Adjourn

Please sign in

This is for use on the day of the event.

February 21: Please sign in HERE using the Outreach Dashboard with your Wikipedia account.

February 22: Please sign in HERE using the Outreach Dashboard with your Wikipedia account.

Presentation

Safe Space Policy

Safe Space Policy

For newcomers

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Wikimedia Projects

Wikimedia movement
Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia
Wikimedia Commons, a data repository of media (images, videos and sounds). (See * Wikiproject Wikimedia Commons:GLAM Wikiproject)
Wikidata, a common source of data, also accessible by the other projects
Wiktionary, a dictionary
Wikibooks, educational textbooks
Wikinews, news articles
Wikiquote, a collection of quotations
Wikisource, a library of source texts and documents
Wikiversity, educational material
Wikivoyage, a travel guide
Wikispecies, a taxonomic catalogue of species

Wikipedia Policies

Quick Editing Tips

Tools, Resources and WikiProjects

Coordination

TO AVOID EDITING THE SAME ARTICLES AS OTHER ATTENDEES, please use the Etherpad link below to share what you are currently editing. Remember to type 'Done' or 'Finished' when you are through making changes. REMEMBER TO PUBLISH (SAVE) OFTEN.

Click here for shared Etherpad document

Priority sources

NASEM reports:

Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda (2019)

Citation in Wikitext: {{cite report|title=Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda|authors=National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine|year=2019|publisher=The National Academies Press|place=Washington, DC|doi=10.17226/25259}}

Plain text citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration: A Research Agenda. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25259.

Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change (2016)

Citation in Wikitext: {{cite report|title=Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change|authors=National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine|year=2016|publisher=The National Academies Press|place=Washington, DC|doi=10.17226/21852}}

Plain text citation: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/21852.

Suggested Work Lists / Climate Change

Very broad topics

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Topic	Things to assess	Specific to-dos	sources / NAS report	Priority for improvement	av pageviews / enwp / day	wikidata QID	who is working on it
Global warming	Assess current coverage of NETs in this article. Is it correct? Is the weight appropriate? Add more content on effects and mitigation from the IPCC.	CO₂ removal is described under the heading of Climate engineering, and should probably be reworded. The article seems to already cover extreme weather attribution fairly well.	NAS-Neg IPCC-1.5	Top for NETs?	14,918
Climate change mitigation		Assess current coverage of NETs in this article. Is it correct? Is the weight appropriate?	IPCC 1.5 NAS-Neg		592

Negative Emissions Technologies and Reliable Sequestration (NAS-Neg)

Broad topics

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Topic	Things to assess	Specific to-dos	sources / NAS report	Priority for improvement	av pageviews / enwp / day
Agriculture	Ensure carbon sequestration practices are covered well		NAS-Neg IPCC	top?	3,599
Sustainable agriculture	Ensure carbon sequestration practices are covered well		NAS-Neg		791
Carbon sequestration	Needs thorough review, and better sourcing	Currently the article says tree-planting and forest restoration could sequester 160 - 205 GtCO₂, whereas the NASEM report uses the range of 2.7 - 17.9 GtCO₂. The article should include all the various estimates, and explain why the range is so large.	NAS-Neg	top?	665
Carbon sink	Needs fact-checking.	A lot of content is redundant with Carbon sequestration and should be moved there or deleted.	NAS-Neg		334
Carbon dioxide removal (Negative emissions technologies currently redirects here)	Should this page be merged with Carbon sequestration to make a single Carbon dioxide removal and sequestration page? Does it make sense for one article to cover "artificial" methods and the other to cover "natural" methods?	Also consider merging with CCS and climate change mitigation	NAS-Neg IPCC 1.5	top?	317
Climate engineering		This, and several other articles, classify all negative emissions technologies as "climate engineering". According to the NASEM report, this is an error that should be corrected.	NAS-Neg	top?	431
Biosequestration			NAS-Neg		52
Sustainable energy	Improve coverage of BCCS and CCS		NAS-Neg	top?	4000

Mid-level topics

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Topic	Things to assess	Specific to-dos	Sources / NAS report	Priority for improvement	Avg pageviews / enwp / day	Wikidata QID	Who is working on it
Blue carbon	review for accuracy; rewrite lede section	add a specific section about climate change impacts; rewrite lede to be less jargony and more concise, and add some info from "decline" section to lede"; condense sedimentation section	NAS-Neg		59
Wetland#Wetlands_and_climate_change	all info present? what about impacts of climate change on wetlands (like drying?)	add in some information to make this more digestable, eg comparison of wetlands to forests etc in carbon sink. Try to de-jargonify.	NAS-Neg	top?	1428
Wetland restoration	currently a redirect to Wetland#Restoration		NAS-Neg
Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)	add citations; fix up technology section; expand policy sections	copyedits for brevity and clarity	NAS-Neg		150	bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (Q2577671)	econterms
Carbon capture and storage	update all sections; compare with article above; review for accuracy	cut excessive detail under Carbon capture and utilization and move to that article	NAS-Neg	top?	836
Biomass			NAS-Neg		1200
Bioenergy			NAS-Neg		176
Biofuel			NAS-Neg		999
Direct air capture			NAS-Neg		179
Climate change and agriculture			NAS-Neg		591
Regenerative agriculture			NAS-Neg		292
Carbon farming	review for accuracy, consider renaming or merging. This seems to be our main article on the issue of carbon sequestration in agriculture.		NAS-Neg		46
Enhanced weathering			NAS-Neg		46
Reforestation#For_climate_change_mitigation			NAS-Neg		376
Afforestation			NAS-Neg		351
Sustainable forest management			NAS-Neg		185
Climate-smart agriculture			NAS-Neg		40
Trillion Tree Campaign		Put this into the context of overall mitigation strategy (if we plant a trillion trees, do we get to keep burning coal at current rates?), talk about feasibility and land use.	NAS-Neg	Top?	580

Narrow topics

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Topic	Things to assess	Specific to-dos	sources / NAS report	scope
Tidal marsh		add info about climate change effects, link to relevant articles	NAS-Neg	narrow
Seagrass		add info about climate change effects, link to relevant articles	NAS-Neg	narrow
Biochar		work could be done to expand this article's relationship to climate change	NAS-Neg	narrow
Petroleum reservoir		no coverage of the use of these reservoirs for carbon storage	NAS-Neg	narrow
Ultramafic rock		no discussion of the use of these minerals for CO2 mineralization	NAS-Neg	narrow
Serpentinite		one of the more common rock types for CO2 mineralization	NAS-Neg	narrow
Wollastonite		barely mentioned as a carbon mineralization topic	NAS-Neg	narrow
Municipal solid waste		No mentions of CO2 impacts of waste: (pg 158)	NAS-Neg	narrow
Construction waste		No mentions of CO2 impacts of waste: (pg 158)	NAS-Neg	narrow
wastewater		No mentions of CO2 impacts of waste: (pg 158)	NAS-Neg	narrow
Agricultural waste	currently a redirect to Agricultural wastewater (pg 155)		NAS-Neg	narrow
Energy crop	article needs a lot of work		NAS-Neg	narrow
Marginal land		limited discussion of potential use for afforestation and carbon capture (118)	NAS-Neg	narrow
Grassland		little to no discussion of use in carbon capture.	NAS-Neg	narrow
Grazing			NAS-Neg	narrow
Slash-and-char			NAS-Neg	narrow
No-till farming			NAS-Neg	narrow

Very narrow topics

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Topic	Things to assess	sources / NAS report	scope
Coastal Change Analysis Program		NAS-Neg	very narrow
American Carbon Registry		NAS-Neg	very narrow
Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group		NAS-Neg	very narrow
cement kiln dust		NAS-Neg	very narrow
Coastwide Reference Monitoring System		NAS-Neg	very narrow
National Ecological Observatory Network	needs work to be expanded	NAS-Neg	very narrow
Pulverized coal-fired boiler	under developed article, and no discussion of environmental impact described	NAS-Neg	very narrow
Verified Carbon Standard	needs to be expanded	NAS-Neg	very narrow
Global Thermostat		NAS-Neg	very narrow
Climeworks		NAS-Neg	very narrow
Low-carbon economy	probably lots of ways to improve this in the coverage of the article. Challenging.	NAS-Neg	broad
Carbon mineralization	now redirects to Enhanced weathering, but maybe should be a standalone article to encompass enhanced weathering and carbon utilization	NAS-Neg	mid
Geologic sequestration	(Geosequestration redirects to Carbon sink - is this right?)	NAS-Neg	mid

Attribution of Extreme Weather Events in the Context of Climate Change

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Topic	Things to assess	Specific to-dos	sources / NAS report	Priority	av pageviews / enwp / day
Extreme weather	Needs a lot of work. Seems to have a climate-skeptic slant.		NAS-Attr		290
Effects of global warming	Check accuracy, expand, make sure sources are up to date		NAS-Attr IPCC 1.5	top?	2475
Climate change and ecosystems	Check accuracy, expand, make sure sources are up to date	Example of a questionable statement: "In 2019 unusual wildfires in Australia caused by climate change and abandon of indigenous methods to prevent wildfires resulted in heavy damage to forests, including the koala population."	NAS-Attr		109
Create the article Extreme weather attribution to climate change. This was started on Friday at Draft:Extreme weather event attribution to climate change				Top?
Summary statements on extreme weather attribution to climate change		Write a one-sentence summary and a one-paragraph summary to add to articles on specific weather events		Top?
Heat wave		Section on global warming makes little sense, is sourced to old documents, and should be completely rewritten			349
Wildfire		Add to Climate section Discuss the emissions caused by wildfires		top?	2015
Tropical cyclone ("Hurricane" redirects here)	needs updating			top?	1757
Tropical cyclones and climate change	needs updating				75
Drought				top?	1467
Bushfires in Australia ("bushfire" redirects here)				top?	7746
Cold wave					166

Examples of articles about specific events

Hurricane Dorian
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Harvey - still gets around 1000 page views/day
2019 California wildfires - says nothing about climate change, still getting 988 page views/day, peaked at 12,000 page views/day last year