Wikipedia:WikiProject Effective Altruism/to do

Articles to create

There are many topics related to effective altruism that don't have an existing page despite meeting Wikipedia's notability criteria. See Help:Your first article for basic guidelines on how to write an article. For inspiration on article topic ideas, see the list of articles on the EA Forum Wiki (though note that many of the articles listed there will not meet Wikipedia's notability requirements). Here are some examples of pages which we could create:

Books

Concepts

Cooperative AI
Moral cluelessness (currently a redirect)
- Draft:CluelessnessTommyren (talk) 01:16, 12 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Just needs to cite additional sources. —Enervation (talk) 01:13, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Moral consideration
Moral trade
Moral uncertainty
Rationalist community
Superhot rock geothermal energy

Organizations

Albert Schweitzer Foundation
Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters
Animal Equality
Anima International
Center on Long-Term Risk
- All that EAF does now is the Center on Long-Term Risk. I don't think it is sufficiently notable. -- Ego.Eudaimonia (talk) 10:00, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Forethought Foundation
Giving Green
Global Priorities Institute (currently a redirect)
High Impact Athletes
Open Wing Alliance
The Life You Can Save (organization)
Wave (mobile money company) (note that Wave is different from SendWave, which was acquired in 2021)
xiaobuVEGAN
Better Chicken Commitment (Not an organization per se, but a set of broiler welfare standards that many organizations advocate for.)

People

Allan Dafoe (Director, Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford)
Alexander Berger (Open Phil co-executive officer)

Drafts

Draft:Ayuda Efectiva failed review in January 2024 -- may need more sources
Draft:Importance, tractability, and neglectedness (INT framework)
Draft:Sinergia Animal

Articles to improve

We also want to improve existing articles related to effective altruism. It may be relatively important and tractable to improve articles from "stub" or "start class" to "C class", so that the article meets the needs of a casual reader.

As of December 2021, there is an ongoing effort to improve the Effective altruism article to good article status. You can see Talk:Effective altruism/Archive 1#GA Review for a list of improvements that need to be made.

Here are some other articles that are especially in need of improvement:

Unlimit Health: sourcing needs major improvement as of January 2024
William MacAskill: as of December 3, 2021, the section summarizing Doing Good Better is quite poor and fails to convey the most important points of the book. This article had 1,621 views in the past 30 days.
The Life You Can Save: This article needs improvement. In particular, it does not provide page numbers when summarizing Singer's arguments. As of January 4, 2021, the article had 1,156 pageviews in the past 30 days.
Suffering risks: as of December 4, 2021, this is very brief and does not have any content on why such risks are plausible. This had 337 page views in the past 30 days.
Immigration reform is a stub. It had 1,333 page views in the past 30 days before December 4, 2021.
Scope neglect: On the talk page, someone wrote, "'Subjects were told that either 2,000, or 20,000, or 200,000 migrating birds were affected annually, for which subjects reported they were willing to pay $80, $78 and $88 respectively.[2]' I don't get at all why this is considered surprising. All this says is that people consider $80/year an amount they could relatively easily live without." I believe the study was designed in a way that was insensitive to the participants' income, so the article could be improved here.
Commitment to Development Index: update with the CDI scores from 2021
Psychological barriers to effective altruism needs further review.
Articles with templates (often "Multiple issues") that should be addressed and cleared:
Articles related to organ donation that need improvement:
- Organ donation (B class, mid importance)
- Organ donation in India (C class, low importance)
- Organ donation in Australia (start class, low importance)
- Organ donation in the United States prison population (start class, low importance)
- Organ Donation Taskforce (start class, mid importance)
- Organ donation in Jewish law (start class, low importance)
- Organ donation in Ireland (start class, low importance)
- Organ donation after medical assistance in dying (C class, low importance)
- Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Act 2019 (start class, low importance)
Articles related to economics (utility and discounting) that need improvement:
- Utility (marked as start-class; needs re-assessment)
- Isoelastic utility
- Marginal utility
- Social discount rate
- Economics of climate change mitigation
- Time preference

You can also browse the list of stub-class and start-class and try to expand them into C-class articles, or try improving the articles listed at User:Brian Tomasik/Pages to create or improve.

Improving images

We also want to supply images for entries that lack one, or supply better images for entries whose images have room for improvement.

People

Good images

Room for improvement

No images

Organizations

Has logo and at least one other image

Only has logo

Missing logo

Deworm the World Initiative (doesn't have its own logo; Evidence Action does)

Other subjects

File:X-risk-chart-en-01a.svg - versions in English and Arabic exist; let's translate it into more languages
Members of the Lead Exposure Elimination Project's Madagascar branch sample local paints to send to the lab to test for lead content.
Images released by Against Malaria Foundation to Creative Commons:
Images of people at EA Globals

Setting up this WikiProject

To-do items for setting up this WikiProject:

Populate Category:Effective altruism and its subcategories.
(mostly complete for the main articles) Add {{WikiProject Effective Altruism}} to the beginning of talk pages of relevant articles, with a class and importance rating. You can see pages that already have this template at Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:WikiProject Effective Altruism. One heuristic for how important a page is, besides its relevance to effective altruism, is how many views it receives. You can see this information by clicking "Page information" in the sidebar of Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Assessing articles for more information about how to rate the quality and importance of an article
Set up this Wikipedia bot so we can have a table of all EA-related articles by importance and quality: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Using the bot. Here is an example of this sort of table: Wikipedia:WikiProject Pokémon#Article status