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
Goals
- 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
- Emergency management
- Emergency services
- Disasters, List of disasters
- Natural disasters
- ((Man made disasters))
- ((Mitigation ))
- ((Preparedness))
Participants
If you want to help out, 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
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 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
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
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
- 27 Sep 2022 – National Firefighter Registry (talk · · hist) was nominated for DYK by John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 29 Sep 2022 – List of rampage killers (mass murders committed using grenades) (talk · · hist) AfDed by Hemiauchenia (t · c) was closed as merge by Liz (t · c) on 06 Oct 2022; see discussion (5 participants)
Redirects for discussion
- 23 Sep 2022 – People finder (talk · · hist) →Google Person Finder was RfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 08 Oct 2022 – 2020 Beirut explosion (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Prodrummer619 (t · c); start
- 17 Sep 2022 – COVID-19 pandemic (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c); start
- 27 Aug 2022 – 1920 Xalapa earthquake (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Dora the Axe-plorer (t · c); start
- 22 Aug 2022 – Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Balon Greyjoy (t · c); start
- 04 Aug 2022 – 1968 Borrego Mountain earthquake (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by SamBroGaming (t · c); start
- 04 Aug 2022 – 1997 Bojnurd earthquake (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by SamBroGaming (t · c); start
- 02 Jun 2022 – Humanitarian protection (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by CT55555 (t · c); start
Featured article reviews
- 03 Oct 2022 – Hurricane Juan (talk · · hist) was put up for FA review by SandyGeorgia (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 07 Oct 2022 – Bloody Sunday (1972) (talk · · hist) has an RfC by Bastun (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Oct 2022 – List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust (talk · · hist) has an RfC by GizzyCatBella (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 18 Sep 2022 – 1995 Aigio earthquake (talk · · hist) has been put up for PR by SamBroGaming (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 07 Oct 2022 – 2022 Nong Bua Lamphu attack (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to Nong Bua Lamphu attack by Jim Michael 2 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Sep 2022 – Akihabara massacre (talk · · hist) move request to 2008 Akihabara massacre by Pilaz (t · c) was moved to 2008 Akihabara massacre (talk · · hist) by Amakuru (t · c) on 06 Oct 2022; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 29 Sep 2022 – 2022 Chad floods (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 Africa floods by Quake1234 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Sep 2022 – 2022 Rwanda floods (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 Africa floods by Quake1234 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Sep 2022 – 2022 Antananarivo floods (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 Africa floods by Quake1234 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Sep 2022 – 2022 Bukavu floods (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 Africa floods by Quake1234 (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Sep 2022 – 2022 Eastern Cape floods (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 Africa floods by Quake1234 (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Aug 2022 – Escondido mosque fire (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to Poway synagogue shooting by Pyraminxsolver (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Aug 2022 – 2022 monkeypox outbreak in New York (state) (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 monkeypox outbreak in New York (state) by Elijahandskip (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Aug 2022 – 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United States (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 monkeypox outbreak in New York (state) by Elijahandskip (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jul 2022 – 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to 2022 Sri Lankan protests by Sgnpkd (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Apr 2022 – List of massacres in Palestine (talk · · hist) is proposed for merging to List of massacres in the Palestinian territories by Dunutubble (t · c); see discussion
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Articles to be split
- 17 Sep 2022 – 2022 South Asian floods (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Quake1234 (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Mar 2022 – 2020–2022 Taal Volcano eruptions (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by HurricaneEdgar (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Jan 2021 – Boeing 737 MAX certification (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rosbif73 (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Nov 2020 – Castle Bravo (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by Rod57 (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jan 2019 – List of structural failures and collapses (talk · · hist) is proposed for splitting by PlyrStar93 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 03 Oct 2022 – Draft:Ramsey Green (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by DMS64 (t · c)
- 31 Aug 2022 – Draft:Provincial Disaster Management Authority (Punjab) (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 103.141.159.231 (t · c)
- 12 Jul 2022 – Draft:Roof collapse (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SunDawn (t · c)
New articles
- 17 Oct 2018 French Civil Protection
Please feel free to improve these new disaster management-related articles, listed here from AlexNewArtBot/Disaster_managementSearchResult.
Assessment
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
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
Templates
This template is to be placed on the talk page of any article relating to disaster management:
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- {{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).
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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.
- ^ International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies