Welcome to Wikiproject Sanitation. This is a group of Wikipedians interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage on sanitation related topics. This project began in December of 2014.
Contents
- 1 What is a WikiProject?
- 2 Goal and objectives
- 3 Scope
- 4 Wikipedia articles of relevance
- 5 Members
- 6 Available Manuals of Style (MOS)
- 7 Start editing
- 8 What else you can do to help
- 9 How to add citations or references
- 10 List of abbreviations
- 11 Glossaries
- 12 Awards
- 13 Templates
- 14 Categories
- 15 Related Wikipedia Wiki projects and portals
What is a WikiProject?
A WikiProject is a group of contributors who want to work together as a team to improve Wikipedia. These groups often focus on a specific topic area, a specific location or a specific kind of task (for example, checking newly created pages). The English Wikipedia currently has over 2,000 WikiProjects, each with varying levels of activity.
A WikiProject's pages are not used for writing encyclopedia articles directly, but as resources to help coordinate and organize the group's efforts at creating and improving articles.
Goal and objectives
Goal
The WikiProject Sanitation began in December 2014 and seeks to benefit the world by giving the general public and professionals in all areas that touch on sanitation topics (such as public health, infrastructure, water, agriculture, gender, environment, poverty, etc.) information which they can all read, appreciate, and respect, free of charge.
Objectives
The objectives of this WikiProject Sanitation are to:
- improve sanitation related articles on Wikipedia
- add links to sanitation issues into articles where such links were so far omitted (for example article on malnutrition)
- ensure that the lead paragraph of articles are written in basic, clear English such that they are understandable to as wide an audience as possible and can easily be translated into other languages as part of WikiProject Medicine Translation Taskfore
- promote further engagement by other sectors (medical, humanitarian organisations, public health, environment, agriculture) with sanitation topics
- raise awareness amongst the general public in developed countries (in particular USA, Europe, Japan, Australia etc.) about the sanitation crisis in developing countries and countries in transition and what could be done about it — partly with their tax money that goes into development cooperation activities
Scope
The project may cover sanitation issues around the world; however special emphasis will be given to sanitation issues in developing countries and countries in transition as the need for improvements is greatest there. As can be seen by the list of articles below, articles of interest to this project range from purely sanitation-related topics (like sanitation, toilet) to articles that are more on the public health and medical side (like neglected tropical disease, diarrhea, helminthiasis), articles in the field of natural sciences (like groundwater pollution) and so forth.
Wikipedia articles of relevance
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Lists by quality and importance
The table to the right provides an overview of the Wikipedia articles that we deem part of this Wikiproject.
To view the article pages, you need to click on the column headers (top, high, mid, low importance) or row labels (e.g. level B, C, start, stub quality). This takes you to a new page where the articles are listed alphabetically.
Alternatively, you can access the articles with these links, which link you to the talk pages of the articles (from the article's talk page, click at the top left on "article" to then get to the article):
- Articles with top importance: Top importance sanitation articles
- Articles with high importance: High importance sanitation articles
- Articles with mid importance: Mid importance sanitation articles
- Articles with low importance: Low importance sanitation articles
You can access the articles grouped by their degree of completion or quality (from the article's talk page, click at the top left on "article" to then get to the article):
- Articles with a quality "Good article (GA)": GA-class articles
- Articles with a quality "B": B-class articles
- Articles with a quality "C": C-class articles
- Articles with a quality "Start": Start-class articles
- Articles with a quality "Stub": Stub-class articles
- Articles that are classified as "list": List articles
How to tag articles and connect them to this project
To tag an article as sanitation related you need to add the following code to the talk pages of that article articles (here for the example of class being "start" and importance being "low"): {{WikiProject Sanitation|class=start|importance=low}}
. If the talk page has more than two projects already then you should use the collapsed version to save space. {{WikiProjectBannerShell|1={{WikiProject Sanitation|class=B|importance=high}}}}
.
The result will look like this for example, see at the top of this talk page of the sanitation article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sanitation
On this page you can check which articles have recently been added to the WikiProject Sanitation or have been re-assessed: Tracking of new tags
Articles to assess
Articles that still need to be assessed for quality and importance can be found here: Unassessed sanitation articles
Lists by content
We have grouped the articles that have been tagged for the WikiProject Sanitation by the following thematic categories:
- Agriculture and reuse
- Behaviour
- Concept or program
- Hygiene (includes cleaning products)
- Material to be sanitized or treated
- Medical and health
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- Medical, helminths
- Organization, special UN Day or notable person
- Specific location, country or incident
- Technical, scientific
- Technical or technology
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- Technical, standards and norms
- Technology
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- Technology (toilets and sanitary ware equipment)
- List article
- Society and culture, e.g. movies, books
- Various, e.g. linguistic terms, historical terms, history articles, local slang terms, humanities, professions
The table below shows all articles that have been tagged with this WikiProject by thematic area (please do not add a new articles to this table unless you have tagged it with the WikiProject Sanitation on its talk page, except for terms in the last column which are for articles yet to be created):
Assessment scheme for tagged articles
- All articles that are tagged are assessed for quality and importance. This assessment scheme is explained here: Explanation of the assessment scheme for articles.
- An article can progress from low quality (e.g. "stub" or C) to higher quality (e.g. B or utimately to GA which stands for good article standard).
List of popular pages
A list of popular articles of this Wiki Project is available here: List of popular pages for this Wiki Project.
A list of popular articles for all the Wikipedia articles is available here for a weekly time period: List of popular pages for all Wikipedia articles (top 5000)
And see here for a yearly time period: Popular pages for all Wikipedia articles (top 5000) for 2014 and for 2013. More years will be available here in future.
Members
Current members
The following Wikipedia users are members of this project:
- Doc James (talk · contribs)
- EvMsmile (talk · contribs)
- mll_mitch (talk · contribs)
- Bio-CLC (talk · contribs)
- JMWt (talk · contribs)
- Cryacrem (talk · contribs)
- David Allen Still (talk · contribs)
- ASRASR (talk · contribs)
- Gruster (talk · contribs)
- Jknappe (talk · contribs)
- RobynWaite13 (talk · contribs)
- Kevintayler (talk · contribs)
- FloNight (talk · contribs)
- CFCF (talk · contribs)
How to add yourself to the member list
If you like the idea of this Wiki Project, then please become a member. All you have to do is to add yourself to the end of the list. For example if your user name is Mary13 then you would add the following to the end of the list (use the "edit source" button which you see next to the heading "Members" for this section):
# {{User|Mary13}}
This will look like this after you have saved your edit:
9. Mary13 (talk · contribs)
Showing on your user page that you are a member of this project
You can also show your support by adding the Project's "user box" on your user page. If you don't have a Wikipedia login yet, then do create one, as that makes it much easier to discuss articles, ask questions about edits etc.
You can then add this template {{User WikiProject Sanitation}}
to your userpage. That code can be pasted in if you use the source editor, not VisualEditor. You can also add the template in VisualEditor by going to the "Insert" menu and inserting a template with that name. When you save the page, the result will look like this:
If you don't like userboxes, you can also add [[:Category:WikiProject Sanitation members]] to your user page.
Available Manuals of Style (MOS)
Please consult the Manual of Style for sanitation-related articles for advice on editing and formatting articles related to sanitation.
See also:
- Manual of Style for Medicine-related articles
- Wikipedia Manual of Style
- Wikipedia Manual of Style for spelling issues
- Manual of Style for lists in an article
Start editing
Would you like to help, but you're not really quite sure what to do? WikiProject sanitation pages will have many opportunities for improvement (even this page, which you can ). You don't need to be an expert.
Wikipedia is a work in progress, so nearly all articles could use improvement. A list of articles that have been tagged so far as sanitation-related and which could use improvement is provided via the table shown above.
Before doing any edits: do turn on VisualEditor
The new Wikipedia editing environment is a rich-text editor (almost "what you see is what you get") and is much easier to use for novices than the source editor. However, by default, the "Edit" button is not visible, only the "Edit source" button is visible. To change that, go to "Preferences", then "Beta features" and then set the tick at "VisualEditor". Now the "Edit" button is visible in the top menu bar and you can edit Wikipedia pages in comfort.
Ten simple rules for editing Wikipedia
These Ten simple Rules for Editing on Wikipedia are worth reading when starting out as an editor on Wikipedia.
Add images
- Many sanitation-related images already exist in Wikimedia Commons. You can easily insert them into an article by clicking on edit, then "insert", then select "Media" from the drop down menu.
- If you have additional images to share (they need to be open access images, the licence is called CC-BY), then click on "Upload file" to the left of this page.
- Another option is to add your photos first to the flickr photo database of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance. This is explained here and here.
- See also Wikipedia:Pictures for medical articles, a guidance essay that you could also help improve.
What else you can do to help
The following applies to the Wikipedia project Medicine, but over time we may build up similar points for this project:
- You could help with missing articles or redirects. You might even claim the trophy! You could help us come up with technical ideas/solutions for improving Wikipedia content at m:WikiProject Med/Tech
- Add high-quality references. Correct and reliable references are vital. Adding references is easy with this tool (which is explained in detail here and also see step 5b of WP:MEDHOW for an alternate method). Just submit the PubMed ID, ISBN, or other identifier, and copy and paste the resulting output (xxxx) into the page between <ref> xxxxx </ref> Alternatively, if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox (2.0+), then Wouterstomp's bookmarklet can automate this step from the PubMed abstract page.
- Check for retracted papers. See Category:Articles citing retracted publications for articles that may wrongly cite retracted publications.
Maintain the integrity of articles
- Check recent changes to medical articles for accuracy, vandalism, etc., at Recent changes/Medicine.
- Remove inappropriate external links. Some medicine-related articles attract inappropriate links, such as internet chat boards and advertisements. You can review the external links in any article, or you can use Special:Linksearch to find articles containing a specific link, such as *.clinicaltrials.gov or *.groups.yahoo.com Details available in the full guidelines for all of Wikipedia and also the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles.
Student assignments
If you are interested in learning more on how to use Wikipedia in teaching, expand the box below to learn more.
How to use Wikipedia in teaching — click on "show" to the right to expand |
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Consider a student assignment to create or improve articles related to sanitation. See also: Dispatches: Featured content from schools and universities, The Wikipedia Signpost, May, 9. 2008 |
Collaborate
- Stay in touch. Put this page on your watchlist, and feel free to communicate on the talk page.
- Recruit members. Assist in public relations and outreach by recruiting editors interested in medicine to contribute to Wikipedia (m:Wiki Project Med is a non-profit corporation that shares this goal). Invite good editors to join us. Personal messages are best when inviting Wikipedia editors.
Work behind the scenes
- Tag the talk pages of sanitation-related articles. Add
{{WikiProject Sanitation|class=|importance=}}
to the article's talk page and assess the article according to our assessment scale.
The following "work behind the scenes" tasks relate to the WikiProject Medicine and have not yet been adapted to the WikiProject Sanitation:
- Help evaluate articles nominated for deletion. Help identify deletion discussions that relate to medicine. Figure out whether these articles with unclear notability should be deleted.
- Sort stubs. See the list of specific stub templates. Replacing {{stub}} or {{med-stub}} with a more specific template is very helpful.
- Improve categorization of articles. Several popular Wikipedia categories like Medicine and Category:Diseases and disorders need people to sort articles into more specific subcategories. Tools like HotCat may make this easier.
How to add citations or references
The Wikipedia explanation on how to add references to wikipedia is here: Citing sources.
We also have a shorter description for you here:
At the top of the screen there is a menu, which says on the right: Read — Edit Source — Edit — View History
Method 1:
- Click on Edit Source (this shows the source code for the whole page)
- At the top of this page is a menu and the furthest option on the right is to cite
- This then displays a menu on the top-left of templates and then you choose the one you want to use (cite journal, cite web etc)
- You then get an additional box where you put in all the information you have about the reference and click insert. The reference should then appear with all the correct information.
If your document has an ISBN number or a DOI, then Method 1 is great because you can simply enter the ISBN number or the DOI and click on the search icon (magnifying glass). This will then fill in the other fields automatically. The fill-in tool does not always work, however. Another method is to use this template generator.
Method 2:
- Click on edit. This shows the graphical editor tool.
- Top of the page shows the option cite, drop down and choose the correct template.
- Insert information as before.
Each section of the page will have both an 'edit source' and an 'edit' option, so you should always be able to use the graphical tool if you want to. You can either use the graphical editor, or edit the code directly.
List of abbreviations
When an abbreviation or acronym is first used, it should be spelled out and the abbreviation put in brackets behind the long version. For longer articles, a repeat of the long version of the abbreviation every now and again is helfpul.
You can consult this list of abbreviations used in sanitation to find out what an abbreviation or acronym means. Please also help us improve this list!
Glossaries
We are not planning to develop our own glossary of terms for this WikiProject. For technical terms of the sanitation system we point you to the glossary of the Eawag-Sandec "Compendium of sanitation systems and technologies".[1]
Other available glossaries on Wikipedia:
Awards
Writing good sanitation-related articles and trimming poorly cited article content can be hard work! Why not reward someone you've seen do some good work in the area? Any editor may present an award to any person as a reward for and public recognition of good work (we have yet to created awards for the WikiProject Sanitation but in the meantime we can use those of the Wikiproject Medicine).
Example: I could copy this barnstar onto the talk page of another user if that user has done good work on revising the page on sewage sludge.
The Cleanup Barnstar | ||
Excellent work on Sewage sludge (example). EvM-Susana |
Templates
The following Wikipedia "templates" are sometimes added to the end of sanitation-related articles and need to be kept up to date:
- Template: Natural resources - the command to be used in the source editor is {{natural resources}}
- Template: Pollution - the command to be used in the source editor is {{pollution}}
- Template: Public health - the command to be used in the source editor is {{public health}}
- Template: Toilets - the command to be used in the source editor is {{toilets}}
- Template: Wastewater - the command to be used in the source editor is {{wastewater}}
- Template: Waste - the command to be used in the source editor is {{waste}}
Other interesting templates:
So far, we have not created templates for the Wikiproject Sanitation, but if needed, one could adapt these ones from the Wikiproject Medicine.
- Welcome messages (all of these copied onto a user's talk page):
- {{subst:WPMED-welcome}} - Welcome message for new Wikipedians (with invitation to join us) old, basic
- {{subst:WPMED welcome}} - Welcome message for new Wikipedians (with invitation to join us) - newish, with video
- {{subst:MedWelcome}} - Welcome template to greet new Wikipedians and invite them to join WikiProject Medicine. - includes general intro links
- {{subst:MedInvitation}} - Invite for established Wikipedians to join WikiProject Medicine.
- {{subst:MedGreeting}} - After editor added to participation list.
- {{subst:Welcome medical student}} - For welcoming new editors who appear to be students associated with a course
- [[File:New medical editor.ogv|thumb|right|thumbtime=2:59|right|320px|Welcome to Wikipedia and [[WP:MED|Wikiproject Medicine]]]] A video that can be transcluded onto the pages of new users.
Categories
Categories serve like overviews of groups of articles that are grouped together to find related articles more easily. The link to categories can be added to the end of an article. Relevant categories for this project include:
Category page | Command to be used in source editor |
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Category:Sanitation | [[category:Sanitation]] |
Category:Hygiene | [[category:Hygiene]] |
Category:Public health | [[category:Public health]] |
Category:Water supply and sanitation by country | [[category:Water_supply_and_sanitation_by_country]] |
Category:Sewerage | [[category:Sewerage]] |
Category:Toilets | [[category:Toilets]] |
Category:Water pollution | [[category:Water pollution]] |
Category:Environmental engineering | [[category:Environmental engineering]] |
Related Wikipedia Wiki projects and portals
- Countries
- Environment
- International development
- Medicine
- Water
- Wikipedia Portal:Water
- Water supply and sanitation by country
- Water supply and sanitation - former project, now renamed and redirected to Water supply and sanitation by country
- See also disambiguation page: Water and sanitation
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