Wikipedia:WikiProject Disaster management
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Disaster Management (a.k.a. Emergency management). We have three main work areas:
- Theoretical and background information, including the phrases: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. This section also covers methods for managing disasters.
- Hazards and their impacts, which cause disasters. Examples of hazards include, earthquakes, drought and epidemics. When those hazards impact people, it creates a disaster, such as the Boxing Day tsunami and the World Trade center attack).
- Organisations and individuals involved in disaster management
Thank you for taking the time to be a part of educating Wikipedians about managing disasters. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
About the Project[edit]
Goals[edit]
- Create a categorisation of concepts and applied terminology
- Maintain one inventory page of disastrous events, see list of disasters
- Merge articles that describe similar concepts into one comprehensive article
Central articles[edit]
- Emergency management
- Emergency services
- Disasters, List of disasters
- Natural disasters
- ((Man made disasters))
- ((Mitigation ))
- ((Preparedness))
Participants[edit]
If you want to help out at , just add your name and join in by adding your name on the participants page! If you want to you can use this code {{User WikiProject DM}} to add the below member template to your user page:
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Standards[edit]
Definition, scope & structure[edit]
No classification of this project has been agreed upon. The subject is being discussed by project members on a dedicated talk page.
The scope of this WikiProject is any article relating to policies as well as implementations of disaster management. This include emergency services operations (police, ambulance, and fire service) as well as the phenomenological description of natural and man-made hazards. It also include individual disastrous events, e.g. hurricane Katrina and the Ethiopian famine in the 1980s.
Naming convention[edit]
A naming convention for such articles is also definitely required. It has been decided that all articles concerning individual disasters should be <<year>> <<place>> <<event>>. To illustrate the point with an example, the article October 11, 2006 New York City plane crash was recently renamed to 2006 New York City plane crash
Articles[edit]
Article alerts[edit]
The article alerts list provides information on which disaster management-related Wikipedia articles are subject to various discussions, including peer review requests, or are in need of urgent assistance and/or review.
Today's featured article requests
- 01 Mar 2024 – Paradise Airlines Flight 901A (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Did you know
- 25 Dec 2023 – 1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Daniel Case (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Nov 2023 – Effective accelerationism (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by WatkynBassett (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 19 Dec 2023 – Hajji Tower airstrike (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mooonswimmer (t · c) was closed as merge by Daniel (t · c) on 26 Dec 2023; see discussion (9 participants)
- 30 Nov 2023 – 2023 Karachi mall fire (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Natg 19 (t · c) was closed as keep by Schminnte (t · c) on 26 Dec 2023; see discussion (13 participants; relisted)
Categories for discussion
- 22 Dec 2023 – Category:Viral outbreaks in fiction (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Dec 2023 – Category:Bioterrorism in fiction (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 23 Nov 2023 – 2023 Rainbow Bridge bombing (talk · edit · hist) →2023 Rainbow Bridge explosion was RfDed by Liz (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 28 Oct 2023 – Tseax Cone (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Volcanoguy (t · c); start discussion
- 29 Aug 2023 – Hungerford massacre (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MIDI (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 28 Dec 2023 – Whiddy Island disaster (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Dec 2023 – February 2007 North American blizzard (talk · edit · hist) nominated for GA reassessment by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Requests for comments
- 22 Dec 2023 – 2023 Prague shooting (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Sawyer-mcdonell (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 11 Oct 2023 – Fountain Fire (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Penitentes (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 01 Jan 2024 – 2024 Sea of Japan earthquake (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved somewhere else by Borgenland (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Dec 2023 – Dominicana DC-9 air disaster (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to 1970 Santo Domingo Dominicana de Aviación DC-9 crash by GalacticOrbits (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Dec 2023 – Holocaust victims (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Victims of Nazi Germany by HadesTTW (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Dec 2023 – 2023 Prague shooting (talk · edit · hist) move request to Charles University shooting by Filelakeshoe (t · c) was no consensus; see discussion
- 20 Dec 2023 – 2022 Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis (talk · edit · hist) move request to 2022 Southwest Airlines holiday meltdown by Carguychris (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 01 Jan 2024 – 2023 Cairns floods (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Cyclone Jasper by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Nov 2023 – Taba and Nuweiba drone attacks (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Houthi involvement in the 2023 Hamas-Israel war by Sj (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 30 Dec 2023 – Chernobyl disaster (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Reconrabbit (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Dec 2023 – 1957–1958 influenza pandemic (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Buidhe (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Mar 2022 – 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by HurricaneEdgar (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Jan 2021 – Boeing 737 MAX certification (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rosbif73 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 26 Dec 2023 – Draft:Woestduin (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
New articles[edit]
- 17 Oct 2018 French Civil Protection
Please feel free to improve these new disaster management-related articles, listed here from AlexNewArtBot/Disaster_managementSearchResult.
Assessment[edit]
Disaster management articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 3 | 2 | 12 | 35 | 52 | ||
A | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
GA | 6 | 16 | 34 | 131 | 1 | 188 | |
B | 21 | 72 | 159 | 534 | 3 | 789 | |
C | 17 | 114 | 310 | 1,767 | 1 | 13 | 2,222 |
Start | 7 | 63 | 278 | 2,526 | 32 | 2,906 | |
Stub | 8 | 65 | 901 | 1 | 16 | 991 | |
List | 22 | 71 | 285 | 5 | 5 | 388 | |
Category | 2 | 12,242 | 12,244 | ||||
Disambig | 99 | 99 | |||||
File | 1 | 167 | 168 | ||||
Portal | 3 | 3 | |||||
Project | 12 | 12 | |||||
Template | 1 | 1 | 639 | 641 | |||
NA | 4 | 14 | 75 | 429 | 522 | ||
Other | 15 | 15 | |||||
Assessed | 54 | 301 | 945 | 6,259 | 13,613 | 70 | 21,242 |
Unassessed | 2 | 6 | 51 | 59 | |||
Total | 54 | 301 | 947 | 6,265 | 13,613 | 121 | 21,301 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 32,105 | Ω = 4.49 |
The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team requests that more disaster articles be assessed as to their quality and importance. To help facilitate this, Template:Disaster management could be modified to accept optional quality and importance arguments (and by default add articles to an "unassessed" category). See Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot for how to do this and how to set things up so a bot will automatically keep track of statistics on assessed articles. After the setup is completed, volunteers will need to go through Category:Disasters and assess all the articles there and in appropriate subcategories. (See below for ideas.) Some articles have been assessed already:
See also:
- Wikipedia:Article assessment/Natural disasters (inactive results from experimental assessment)
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects
- Checklist
This is a quick checklist of things to look for when systematically assessing articles, especially those for disaster events. If you find deficiencies you don't have time to fix yourself, create a to do list at the top of the article's talk page by adding {{To do}} there. Then you can edit the to do list and add items to it.
- Assign quality and importance according to the definitions at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. See the top of the talk page of the article of interest to see if this has already been done.
- Is the article in the correct categories?
- Does the title comply with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (most common English name) and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events)?
- Does the first paragraph give a concise explanation of the subject, including alternate names in bold, location, major causes, and major outcomes?
- Does the article use the correct infobox? Is everything in the infobox filled in?
- Is there a concise assessment of the loss to human life?
- Is there a concise assessment of the financial losses? Are figures clearly labeled as to whether they are in (for instance) 1900 dollars or 2007 dollars? Is a modern inflation-adjusted estimate available?
- Does the article cite its sources using footnotes, especially for statistics?
- Does the article have a map showing the area affected?
- Does the article have a photograph illustrating the event?
- Is the article in need of wikification, copy-editing, or other cleanup?
- Major articles should be linked from lists such as List of wars and disasters by death toll, and the statistics presented in lists need to be consistent with those found in articles (which hopefully have references)
To do list[edit]
WikiProject: Disaster management
- Improve: Random Hacks of Kindness, Ramstein airshow disaster, Emergency management, Canal Hotel bombing, Threat of the Dnieper reservoirs, I-35W Mississippi River bridge, Boys in Red Tragedy
- Expand: Disaster response, Stampede, Bambi bucket, Environmental hazard, Environmental disaster, 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, 1920 Gansu earthquake, 1998 Papua New Guinea earthquake, 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire, Counter-IED efforts, Thomas Fire
- Create: Vulnerability (society) see Vulnerability, Hazard (society) see Natural hazard
- Additional suggestions
- There is a lot of duplication of efforts and confusion of terminology surrounding disaster management on Wikipedia now. Examples include Disasters and Natural disasters. The current categorisation is also far from great, lacking in structure and logic. The task to clean up in this domain is immense, but it has to be done.
Editors' tools[edit]
Templates[edit]
This template is to be placed on the talk page of any article relating to disaster management:
Disaster management NA‑class | |||||||
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- {{disaster-stub}} for stubs relating to disaster management or disasters
Related Wikis[edit]
Portals[edit]
Natural Disasters are defined as the naturally occurring physical phenomena caused either by events that have immediate impacts on human health and suffering.These disasters include geophysical (earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, volcanic activity); hydrological (avalanches and floods); climatological (extreme Temperatures, drought, wildfires); meteorological (cyclones and storms/wave surges) or biological (disease epidemics and insect/animal plagues).
Wikipedia WikiProjects[edit]
Emergencies |
Hazards |
Transport
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Wikibooks[edit]
Wikiversity[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- Alexander, David E., 2002, Natural Disaster, Dordrecht, NL: Kluwer ISBN 978-0412047510
- Alexander, David E., 2002, Principles of Emergency Planning and Management, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0195218381
- Haddow, George D. and Jane A. Bullock, 2003, Introduction to Emergency Management, Amsterdam: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Quarantelli, E.L., 1998, What Is a Disaster? Perspectives on the Question, New York: Routledge
- Wisner, B., P. Blaikie, T. Cannon, and I. Davis, 2004, At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters, 2nd ed., London and New York: Routledge.
- ^ International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies