Wikipedia:WikiProject Risk

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Welcome to WikiProject Risk. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the interdisciplinary topic risk, and the organisation of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project, and then see the to-do list, below, or inquire on the talk page for suggestions about how to help.

Goals and objectives

The goals of this project are to:

• Provide guidelines, recommendations, and standards for articles related to risk and the many related subtopics
• Provide overarching conceptual frameworks to ensure that articles are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive, including navigational devices and knowledge taxonomy, as needed
• Provide a forum for discussing topics related to articles about risk

The objectives of this project are to:

• Organize the structure of topics related to risk, partly by way of navigational templates
• Recruit additional members
• Identify clear gaps in article topics
• Agree on quality standards and requirements for articles
• Assess and prioritize improvement needs for existing articles

Scope

• Improve and help to maintain the taxonomy tree under Category:Risk:

• is anything missing that should be included?
• is anything included that should be excluded or refiled?

• and the articles thereunder:

• do any of the articles contradict each other, and if so, how can this best be remedied?
• which articles need which kinds of attention?

• Create and help to maintain any templates that are or would be appropriate for use in those articles, and that relate to risk.
• Collaborate with WikiProjects whose scopes overlap with WikiProject Risk, to minimise conflict and to facilitate constructive collaboration.

Editing advice

Risk is a complex, interdiscplinary field. Wikipedia is targeted at a broad audience, and ideally its articles should be at least somewhat satisfying to all of them.

WikiProject Risk recommends that its participants structure articles within its scope so as to include the following kinds of coverage, as far as other Wikipedia guidance, such as the Manual of Style, will allow:

1. An opening summary (lede), readily comprehensible to the lay audience, to introduce the subject of the article and to distinguish it from other subjects (if any) with which it is likely to be confused.
2. First tier of explanation: comparatively informal/unmathematical; comprehensible to the interested layperson.
3. Second tier: intermediate; likely to be of interest to undergraduate students or passing professionals.
4. Third tier: formal, technical explanations that use mathematical terminology where appropriate, and that might not be readily accessible to laypeople or even to juniors in the field.

This is, in essence, an inverted three-level pyramid.

Whether the article as whole, or its subsections, should follow this structure, will depend upon the length of the article. For short articles, it may be appropriate for the article as a whole to follow the structure; for longer ones containing subsections, any subsection substantive enough to reasonably support such a structure should be constructed to do so.

Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Risk: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2024-09-13 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests: see requests Categorization: mk subcats, sort articles • Category:Risk • Category:Risk management Collaborate: • Threat (security)Threat (security) - make general, compare with Threat • Risk appetite - beginnings of 'risk measurement' Stubs: • make {risk-stub}

Participation

To display your collaboration on the project, feel free to use {{User WP Risk}} on your user page:

This user participates in WikiProject Risk.

Articles

Review and assessment

Categories

• To display all subcategories click on the "►":
  Risk (15 C, 53 P) Risk analysis (7 C, 66 P) Risk management (13 C, 119 P) AI risk (3 C, 9 P) Aviation risks (1 C, 66 P) Crisis (5 C, 19 P) Existential risk (8 C, 9 P) Financial risk (6 C, 55 P) Future problems (7 C, 18 P) Gambling (17 C, 1 P) Hazards (18 C, 7 P) Health risk (3 C, 18 P) Natural hazards (7 C, 10 P) Operational risk (18 P) Public liability (4 C, 36 P) Vulnerability (3 C, 17 P)

Resources