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| h English (en) | <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Climate Change Example</span></p> <p></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is an example action that works very well for newer editors at small editathons: </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><strong>Write about climate change in your city or other region</strong> A lot more people read the articles about specific geographies than the general articles about climate change. By adding more contextually relevant information you can help connect climate change, which can be an abstract concept, with people’s sense of place.</span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">For example, at the time of writing, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami#Climate" target="[object Object]">article about Miami doesn’t mention global warming at all</a>. Yet, a quick google search shows that Miami is one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Florida" target="[object Object]">most vulnerable cities in the United States</a>, and the Wikipedia article is extensive. The Miami article should summarize this information and connect with the article about climate change in Florida.</span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 30px;"></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><strong><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;">Steps for contributing: </span></span></strong></p> <ul style="padding-left: 30px;"> <ul> <ul> <ul> <ul> <li><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Find your local community’s Wikipedia article. You can search for the name of your city, county, state or province, or country.</span></span></li> <li><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Search within the article for the concept of “Climate Change” or “Global Warming” (Ctrl+F in Chrome).</span></span></li> <li><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">If there is no mention, go to the “climate”, “geography” or "environment" section of the article.</span></span></li> <li><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In a separate tab, search Google or Google news, and search for articles describing the impact of climate change in your specific area.</span></span></li> <li><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read the piece about how your local community will be affected by climate change, and add a summary to the article</span></span></li> <li><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make sure to cite the source by clicking “Cite” in the visual editor, and generating a citation.</span></span></li> <li><span color="#000000" face="Arial" style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Click Save!</span></span></li> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> </ul> <p></p> <p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p> |