Theoretical and background information, including the phrases: Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery.

This section also covers methods 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 thetalk page and see the to-do list there.
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1 About the Project

o 1.1 Goals o 1.2 Central articles

2 Participants 3 Standards

o 3.1 Definition, scope & structure o 3.2 Naming convention

4 To Do List 5 Article Specific

o 5.1 Assessments o 5.2 Quality Statistics o 5.3 Article checklist

6 Editors' tools

o 6.1 Templates o 6.2 Infoboxes o 6.3 Categories

7 Related Wikis

o 7.1 Wikipedia WikiProjects o 7.2 Wikibooks o 7.3 Wikiversity

8 Bibliography 9 External links

About the Project[edit]

Goals[edit]
1. 2. 3. 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

Public safety Civil defence

Disasters, List of disasters Natural disasters

Severe weather
Man-made disasters

Participants[edit]
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:
This user is a member ofWikiProject Disaster management.

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

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

Naming convention[edit]
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 renamed to 2006 New York City plane crash

To Do List[edit]

There is a lot of duplication of efforts and confusion of terminology surrounding disaster management on Wikipedia now. Examples includes 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.

WikiProject: Disaster management Here are some disasters related tasks you can do:

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, CounterIED efforts

Create: Vulnerability (society) see Vulnerability, Hazard (society) see Natural hazard, 2000 Pingxiang steel plant oxygen generator explosion see bottom of [1], West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WCATWC) see official website. view edit discuss history watch

Article Specific[edit]
Assessments[edit]
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 to 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 already been assessed for Version 0.5. SeeWikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/WPHumanities#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Disaster_managem ent. See also:

Wikipedia:Article assessment/Natural disasters (inactive results from experimental assessment) Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects

Quality Statistics[edit]
Disaster management articles by quality and importance

Quality

Importance

Top High Mid Low NA

???

Total

FA

12

24

GA

19

23

18

69

13

28

52

65

41

199

31

65

75

76

256

Start

34 113

341

188

681

Stub

12

43

192

147

394

List

16

10

14

51

NA

503

508

Assessed

33

115 316

719 513

488 2,184

Unassessed

1,066 1,068

Total

34

115 316

720 513 1,554 3,252

WikiWork factors (?)

= 7,530

= 4.63