The proposed WikiProject was not created. Closing stale proposal. There was some support a year ago for this, and most of the supporters remain active. If you wish to re-list the proposal or go ahead and create the project, be my guest. If you need help getting started, ping me or post on the proposals or WikiProject Council talk page. Happy editing! Ajpolino (talk) 18:48, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
Risk is both a set of concepts and phenomena, and an interdisciplinary field of study intended to better understand and communicate these concepts and phenomena. This wikiproject is intended as a place for interested editors to gather and to co-ordinate improvements in Wikipedia's coverage of these things.
In particular, it would be useful for Wikipedia to have a place where editors can co-ordinate efforts to more effectively and concisely convey the distinctions (or lack thereof) between risk and related concepts such as uncertainty; and between various different concerns or specialisations that fall under the umbrella of Category:Risk. This activity would include, for instance, finding relevant WP:RS, citing the relevant points, and updating relevant articles' ledes accordingly.
I understand that a WikiProject is a group of people, not a set of pages. However, pages are helpful for communication. To help communicate what I hope a WikiProject Risk's pages would look like, I started a userspace draft here. Zazpot (talk) 12:25, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
Also, specify whether or not you would join the project.
A compromise naming option – given that the Risk and probability suggestion is trying to get away from a single word that might be ambiguous, to a name indicating a specific range of study/practice – would be Risk analysis. It's an entire category here and the subject of multiple discipline-specific articles, and seems to be the actual intended scope for the most part. It would obviate the vague concern I expressed above about scope. And it's broad enough that a few things that technically are outside it, either prerequisites of or results of risk analysis, or historical precedents, or tools of risk analysis but also tools of other fields, could still be considered within-scope for wikiproject purposes (direct analogy: the WP:WikiProject Cue sports project also includes both modern derived and ancient ancestral games without an actual cue stick, and video games that 3D-model pool, billiards, and snooker). Project scopes are not mutually exclusive.
If peeps don't like Risk analysis, I would recommend the shorter title Risks, both for concision and because the probability-related articles declared to be within scope are so declared because they relate strongly to risk analyses, and say so in their leads. Probably hundreds of articles that relate to probability and statistical modeling in general were not listed, because they don't. "Probability" being added to the project name is likely too broad (or would often be interpreted over-broadly, even if the project page closely circumscribed the scope).
At any rate, the proposal has been open since April and has already attracted more than average support for new wikiprojects in this day and age, so I don't think there's any issue with proceeding after a name is chosen. Nor does it seem an obvious case of "no, make this a taskforce/workgroup".
PS: It seems most conventional to follow the "WP:WikiProject First second and third words" capitalization pattern. There are "WP:WikiProject Capitalize Like Mad" exceptions but they seem to be dwindling. Someone should probably mass-WP:RM them all in one direction or the other.
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 07:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)