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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:
    Recovery
    . This section also covers methods for managing disasters.
  • 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

Goals

  1. Create a categorisation of concepts and applied terminology
  2. Maintain one inventory page of disastrous events, see
    list of disasters
  3. Merge articles that describe similar concepts into one comprehensive article

Central articles

  • Emergency management
  • Emergency services
    • Public safety
    • Civil defence
  • List of disasters
    • Natural disasters
    • ((Man made disasters))
    • ((Mitigation ))
    • ((Preparedness))

Participants

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:

This user participates in
WikiProject
Disaster management.

If you don't like userboxes, then just add [[Category:WikiProject Disaster management participants]].

Standards

Definition, scope & structure

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

man-made hazards. It also include individual disastrous events, e.g. hurricane Katrina and the Ethiopian famine
in the 1980s.

Naming convention

Main page: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disaster management/Naming

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

2006 New York City plane crash

Books Articles

Article alerts

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.

Did you know

Articles for deletion

Redirects for discussion

Featured article candidates

Good article nominees

Requests for comments

Peer reviews

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

New articles

Please feel free to

improve these new disaster management-related articles, listed here from AlexNewArtBot/Disaster_managementSearchResult
.

This list was generated from these rules. Questions and feedback are always welcome! The search is being run daily with the most recent ~14 days of results. Note: Some articles may not be relevant to this project.

Rules | Match log | Results page (for watching) | Last updated: 2024-04-23 20:20 (UTC)

Note: The list display can now be customized by each user. See List display personalization for details.

Assessment

Disaster management articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 3 2 12 36 53
A 1 1
GA 7 16 35 133 1 192
B 21 77 165 564 7 834
C 17 118 327 1,821 28 2,311
Start 9 62 269 2,563 56 2,959
Stub 9 62 888 29 988
List 22 75 293 5 8 403
Category 2 13,327 13,329
Disambig 101 101
File 1 174 175
Portal 3 3
Project 12 12
Template 1 1 642 644
NA 4 15 85 440 544
Other 17 17
Assessed 57 310 962 6,387 14,721 129 22,566
Unassessed 6 67 73
Total 57 310 962 6,393 14,721 196 22,639
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 32,854 Ω = 4.48

The

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:

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.

To do list

WikiProject: Disaster management

Here are some article-related tasks you can do to improve coverage of disaster management topics on Wikipedia:
view • edit • discuss • history • watch
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

Templates

This template is to be placed on the talk page of any article relating to disaster management:

Disaster management on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Disaster managementWikipedia:WikiProject Disaster managementTemplate:WikiProject Disaster managementDisaster management articles
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
  • {{disaster-stub}} for stubs relating to disaster management or disasters

Related Wikis

Portals

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

Wikibooks

Wikiversity

Bibliography

  • 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.



  1. ^ International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies
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