It has been suggested that this page be merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject Water. ( Discuss) |
This is a
WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
|
Welcome to WikiProject Sanitation. We are a group of Wikipedians interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of sanitation related topics. This project was started in December 2014. The WikiProject Sanitation aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's article that touch on sanitation-related topics. We edit articles and discuss all manner of issues on our talk page.
The WikiProject Sanitation seeks to provide up-to-date information to the general public and to people working in the WASH sector or related sectors. Topics that this project aims to improve relate to sanitation in the broadest sense: they include for example topics in the field of health, infrastructure and international development.
As with all Wikipedia articles we want to provide information to people which they can all read, appreciate, and respect, free of charge.
The project may cover sanitation issues around the world; however special emphasis is 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.
The objectives of this WikiProject Sanitation are to:
What is a WikiProject? A WikiProject is a group of contributors who want to work together 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. Further information on WikiProjects is here.
WikiProject Sanitation
assessment statistics
|
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):
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):
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: /info/en/?search=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
A list of popular articles of this Wiki Project (on a monthly basis) is available here: List of popular pages for this Wiki Project.
Here is another tool that can be used for this purpose: Massviews Analysis You can run it for all the articles in the category "Sanitation": /info/en/?search=Category:Sanitation (however, this is not identical with the articles tagged with this WikiProject Sanitation)
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 2016. Previous yearly reports are avilable here.
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):
We have grouped the articles that have been tagged for the WikiProject Sanitation by the following thematic categories:
The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance has 13 working groups which have the following topics:
The following Wikipedia users are members of this project:
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|IsaacNyameke}}
This will look like this after you have saved your edit:
9. Mary13 (talk · contribs)
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:
This user is a participant in WikiProject Sanitation. |
If you don't like userboxes, you can also add [[:Category:WikiProject Sanitation participants]] to your user page.
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.
When Wikipedia started it only had the source editor (tab "Edit source"). As of April 2015, a visual editor (tab "Edit") is available by default to users. If you can't see both tabs then you need to adjust your Wikipedia Preferences by clicking on "Preferences" at the top right, then click on "Editing" and at the pull-down menu next to "Editing mode" select "show me both editor tabs". This will let you choose between the Source Editor ("Edit source") and the Visual Editor ("Edit").
When should I use which editor?
Use the source editor (tab “Edit source”) when you want to:
Use the visual editor (tab “Edit”) when you:
These Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia are worth reading when starting out as an editor on Wikipedia.
Please consult the Style advice for sanitation-related articles for advice on editing and formatting articles related to sanitation. Giving all sanitation articles a similar, consistent structure and style helps readers to quickly find what they are looking for.
Choose something easy from the list below and see for yourself how easy it is. Pick the low hanging fruit, and just get started. We have also set up a detailed list of options on how to help on the events page of our Wikipedia edit-a-thon on 19-21 March 2017, see here.
Some topics aren't covered accurately or were written before additional research was available. See what you can do to:
The content may be fine in terms of accuracy, brevity and clarity. However, if there aren't enough references to back up assertions being made, the article needs your help.
Want to learn about the especially high standards of reliability for health-related content on Wikipedia? Click Identifying reliable sources of medical content
The Wikipedia explanation on how to add references (also called citations or sources) to Wikipedia is here: Citing sources. An even better one for beginners it this one: Referencing for beginners.
We also have a shorter description for you below:
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 in most cases. Another method is to use this template generator.
If you want to copy a reference from one Wikipedia article to another then you need to use the source editor.
The readability of many Wikipedia articles is low, meaning they are difficult to understand. Here are some examples how you can help to improve the situation:
A helpful tool is Hemingway App. It highlights long and complex sentences, passive voice verbs, and adverbs (which are often, but not always, unnecessary). It also provides some statistics and a grade-level reading score. It doesn't choke on jargon which is important. If you want to try it, then just copy your text, go to the website, and paste it into the middle of their webpage (as if to replace the description/instructions there).
Another tool to check the readability of a specific Wikipedia page is by using this tool (webfx) or this tool (online utility) (we used to recommend this tool (readability of Wikipedia) but it no longer seems reliable as of July 2020). Then, see if you can improve the readability score. On the 0-100 scale, higher is better for the Flesh reading ease score. Aim for at least 55.
What Wikipedia calls the "Lead" appears first--just before the table of contents and the first section of every article. Help to improve the lead section of Wikipedia articles.
The lead section (also known as the lead or introduction) of a Wikipedia article is the section before the table of contents and the first heading. The lead serves as an introduction to the article and a summary of its most important contents. The lead is supposed to summarise the article in four easy-to-understand paragraphs. More information about the lead is here.
Be aware that it's the content of the lead that gets used in digital assistants like Siri or Amazon’s Echo, or indeed Google’s own efforts to provide answers to questions using voice assistants, the Google Knowledge Graph, Google answer boxes and so on (source and more information here).
Some readers only want an overview. A good lead will inspire people to read more.
The lead should:
You can assess the quality of the lead by looking at readability (using Flesch score and this website), the image and image caption used, and comprehensiveness.
An example of a good lead in terms of length is the one for pit latrine (although readability can still be improved!).
The official guide to adding images in Wikipedia is here. There is also a short video about adding images available here.
A picture is worth a 1000 words. Adding images can greatly increase the value of Wikipedia articles. Many sanitation-related images already exist in Wikimedia Commons which is the image repository for Wikipedia. Here is what you need to know:
Everything on Wikipedia comes under the open access licence CC BY SA and Wikipedia is very strict about copyright rules. All images have to be under the CC-BY SA or a more open licence, like CC-0.
Therefore, you can only use images that are either your own or those that have been released under this open access licence (CC BY SA). If the image is yet to be released under this licence, it can be done by e-mail to the person who owns the photo: "Are you willing to release this image under the open license CC BY SA? If so please respond yes and we will take care of the rest and make sure you get proper attribution". Once you receive the "yes" by e-mail you forward the e-mail trail to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org . Another option is to use the online copyright release form which is accessible through the Wikimedia Commons image uploader.
Two more places to find sanitation images:
Plenty of people are working on articles in the English Wikipedia. The sanitation community of practice needs more content in other languages. French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Odia, Russian, Swahili, Urdu, Yoruba, Twi... all welcome here.
There are short videos available which explain how to use the translation tool on Wikipedia: Video 1, Video 2, Video in Spanish
It is fairly easy to translate in Wikipedia. After signing up as a user, tick Translation in the Beta Menu, then go in via the Contributions Menu. The program gives you a first draft of the text (which is not very good), but the important thing is that it maintains the links to the bibliography and tries to recreate the wiki links to words.
You can see at the left of the article which other language versions already exist for that article. If you want to know how many Wikipedia articles exist already in lesser known languages check here.
Some 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 are available in the full guidelines for all of Wikipedia and also the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles.
Help us improve all sanitation-related articles by using the Manual of Style (Sanitation) which is explained here. Using standard headlines on all articles as much as possible makes it much easier for readers to access and absorb information quickly.
Previous Wikipedians have created an amazing List of Wikipedia pages on Water Supply and Sanitation You'll find one article for each of 86 countries, but some articles are incomplete or outdated.
Wouldn't it be great if the average user could find information about water supply and sanitation when they look up a country article in Wikipedia?
If you work in a university (or similar) environment consider setting up a student assignment to create or improve articles related to sanitation. Anyone considering using Wikipedia for student assignments would do well to read through the guidance at outreach:Education. There are a lot of resources available as well at the outreach:Education/Resources page, and anyone setting up a programme should make use of the meta:Programs & Events Dashboard to help organise the assignments. Means exist for putting organisers in touch with experienced Wikimedians, either locally or online.
If you put this: Template:Student on the talk page of a new editor who is a student, they get some helpful hints for student editors (set up by the Wikiproject Medicine).
If you are interested in learning more on how to use Wikipedia in teaching, have a look at the example courses listed below.
Examples of courses where students edit Wikipedia pages on water, sanitation, hygiene ( WASH) topics:
{{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:
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). EMsmile |
The following applies to the WikiProject Medicine, but over time we may build up similar points for this project:
Medical Wikipedia is a mobile app which provides offline access to health information on Wikipedia. On June 10th, 2015 Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland launched an android app that contains all of English Wikipedia's health care content: It includes a broad range of medical, anatomy, medication, and sanitation related articles (i.e. articles that have been tagged with the respective WikiProjects).
That means it includes all articles that have been tagged with this WikiProject Sanitation.
For more information and to download the app to your mobile phone, see here.
A banner to raise awareness of the app is here. Discussion is here.
It looks like this:
We have an offline version of our healthcare content. Download the app and access all this content when there's no Internet. ( other languages) |
The consensus was to not have a banner at the top of the article but rather at the bottom right under external links: {{offline|med}}
All events of this WikiProject are available here.
None scheduled
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!
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:
The following is taken from WikiProject Medicine which is serving as inspiration for editing sanitation articles:
Guidelines and Policies
Reliable Sources | Manual of Style | |
Conflicts of Interest | How to edit |
The following Wikipedia "templates" are sometimes added to the end of sanitation-related articles and need to be kept up to date:
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.
The Sanitation Barnstar | ||
message ~~~~ |
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 |
---|---|
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]] |
It has been suggested that this page be merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject Water. ( Discuss) |
This is a
WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
|
Welcome to WikiProject Sanitation. We are a group of Wikipedians interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of sanitation related topics. This project was started in December 2014. The WikiProject Sanitation aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's article that touch on sanitation-related topics. We edit articles and discuss all manner of issues on our talk page.
The WikiProject Sanitation seeks to provide up-to-date information to the general public and to people working in the WASH sector or related sectors. Topics that this project aims to improve relate to sanitation in the broadest sense: they include for example topics in the field of health, infrastructure and international development.
As with all Wikipedia articles we want to provide information to people which they can all read, appreciate, and respect, free of charge.
The project may cover sanitation issues around the world; however special emphasis is 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.
The objectives of this WikiProject Sanitation are to:
What is a WikiProject? A WikiProject is a group of contributors who want to work together 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. Further information on WikiProjects is here.
WikiProject Sanitation
assessment statistics
|
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):
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):
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: /info/en/?search=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
A list of popular articles of this Wiki Project (on a monthly basis) is available here: List of popular pages for this Wiki Project.
Here is another tool that can be used for this purpose: Massviews Analysis You can run it for all the articles in the category "Sanitation": /info/en/?search=Category:Sanitation (however, this is not identical with the articles tagged with this WikiProject Sanitation)
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 2016. Previous yearly reports are avilable here.
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):
We have grouped the articles that have been tagged for the WikiProject Sanitation by the following thematic categories:
The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance has 13 working groups which have the following topics:
The following Wikipedia users are members of this project:
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|IsaacNyameke}}
This will look like this after you have saved your edit:
9. Mary13 (talk · contribs)
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:
This user is a participant in WikiProject Sanitation. |
If you don't like userboxes, you can also add [[:Category:WikiProject Sanitation participants]] to your user page.
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.
When Wikipedia started it only had the source editor (tab "Edit source"). As of April 2015, a visual editor (tab "Edit") is available by default to users. If you can't see both tabs then you need to adjust your Wikipedia Preferences by clicking on "Preferences" at the top right, then click on "Editing" and at the pull-down menu next to "Editing mode" select "show me both editor tabs". This will let you choose between the Source Editor ("Edit source") and the Visual Editor ("Edit").
When should I use which editor?
Use the source editor (tab “Edit source”) when you want to:
Use the visual editor (tab “Edit”) when you:
These Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia are worth reading when starting out as an editor on Wikipedia.
Please consult the Style advice for sanitation-related articles for advice on editing and formatting articles related to sanitation. Giving all sanitation articles a similar, consistent structure and style helps readers to quickly find what they are looking for.
Choose something easy from the list below and see for yourself how easy it is. Pick the low hanging fruit, and just get started. We have also set up a detailed list of options on how to help on the events page of our Wikipedia edit-a-thon on 19-21 March 2017, see here.
Some topics aren't covered accurately or were written before additional research was available. See what you can do to:
The content may be fine in terms of accuracy, brevity and clarity. However, if there aren't enough references to back up assertions being made, the article needs your help.
Want to learn about the especially high standards of reliability for health-related content on Wikipedia? Click Identifying reliable sources of medical content
The Wikipedia explanation on how to add references (also called citations or sources) to Wikipedia is here: Citing sources. An even better one for beginners it this one: Referencing for beginners.
We also have a shorter description for you below:
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 in most cases. Another method is to use this template generator.
If you want to copy a reference from one Wikipedia article to another then you need to use the source editor.
The readability of many Wikipedia articles is low, meaning they are difficult to understand. Here are some examples how you can help to improve the situation:
A helpful tool is Hemingway App. It highlights long and complex sentences, passive voice verbs, and adverbs (which are often, but not always, unnecessary). It also provides some statistics and a grade-level reading score. It doesn't choke on jargon which is important. If you want to try it, then just copy your text, go to the website, and paste it into the middle of their webpage (as if to replace the description/instructions there).
Another tool to check the readability of a specific Wikipedia page is by using this tool (webfx) or this tool (online utility) (we used to recommend this tool (readability of Wikipedia) but it no longer seems reliable as of July 2020). Then, see if you can improve the readability score. On the 0-100 scale, higher is better for the Flesh reading ease score. Aim for at least 55.
What Wikipedia calls the "Lead" appears first--just before the table of contents and the first section of every article. Help to improve the lead section of Wikipedia articles.
The lead section (also known as the lead or introduction) of a Wikipedia article is the section before the table of contents and the first heading. The lead serves as an introduction to the article and a summary of its most important contents. The lead is supposed to summarise the article in four easy-to-understand paragraphs. More information about the lead is here.
Be aware that it's the content of the lead that gets used in digital assistants like Siri or Amazon’s Echo, or indeed Google’s own efforts to provide answers to questions using voice assistants, the Google Knowledge Graph, Google answer boxes and so on (source and more information here).
Some readers only want an overview. A good lead will inspire people to read more.
The lead should:
You can assess the quality of the lead by looking at readability (using Flesch score and this website), the image and image caption used, and comprehensiveness.
An example of a good lead in terms of length is the one for pit latrine (although readability can still be improved!).
The official guide to adding images in Wikipedia is here. There is also a short video about adding images available here.
A picture is worth a 1000 words. Adding images can greatly increase the value of Wikipedia articles. Many sanitation-related images already exist in Wikimedia Commons which is the image repository for Wikipedia. Here is what you need to know:
Everything on Wikipedia comes under the open access licence CC BY SA and Wikipedia is very strict about copyright rules. All images have to be under the CC-BY SA or a more open licence, like CC-0.
Therefore, you can only use images that are either your own or those that have been released under this open access licence (CC BY SA). If the image is yet to be released under this licence, it can be done by e-mail to the person who owns the photo: "Are you willing to release this image under the open license CC BY SA? If so please respond yes and we will take care of the rest and make sure you get proper attribution". Once you receive the "yes" by e-mail you forward the e-mail trail to: permissions-commons@wikimedia.org . Another option is to use the online copyright release form which is accessible through the Wikimedia Commons image uploader.
Two more places to find sanitation images:
Plenty of people are working on articles in the English Wikipedia. The sanitation community of practice needs more content in other languages. French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Indonesian, Odia, Russian, Swahili, Urdu, Yoruba, Twi... all welcome here.
There are short videos available which explain how to use the translation tool on Wikipedia: Video 1, Video 2, Video in Spanish
It is fairly easy to translate in Wikipedia. After signing up as a user, tick Translation in the Beta Menu, then go in via the Contributions Menu. The program gives you a first draft of the text (which is not very good), but the important thing is that it maintains the links to the bibliography and tries to recreate the wiki links to words.
You can see at the left of the article which other language versions already exist for that article. If you want to know how many Wikipedia articles exist already in lesser known languages check here.
Some 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 are available in the full guidelines for all of Wikipedia and also the specific guidelines for medicine-related articles.
Help us improve all sanitation-related articles by using the Manual of Style (Sanitation) which is explained here. Using standard headlines on all articles as much as possible makes it much easier for readers to access and absorb information quickly.
Previous Wikipedians have created an amazing List of Wikipedia pages on Water Supply and Sanitation You'll find one article for each of 86 countries, but some articles are incomplete or outdated.
Wouldn't it be great if the average user could find information about water supply and sanitation when they look up a country article in Wikipedia?
If you work in a university (or similar) environment consider setting up a student assignment to create or improve articles related to sanitation. Anyone considering using Wikipedia for student assignments would do well to read through the guidance at outreach:Education. There are a lot of resources available as well at the outreach:Education/Resources page, and anyone setting up a programme should make use of the meta:Programs & Events Dashboard to help organise the assignments. Means exist for putting organisers in touch with experienced Wikimedians, either locally or online.
If you put this: Template:Student on the talk page of a new editor who is a student, they get some helpful hints for student editors (set up by the Wikiproject Medicine).
If you are interested in learning more on how to use Wikipedia in teaching, have a look at the example courses listed below.
Examples of courses where students edit Wikipedia pages on water, sanitation, hygiene ( WASH) topics:
{{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:
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). EMsmile |
The following applies to the WikiProject Medicine, but over time we may build up similar points for this project:
Medical Wikipedia is a mobile app which provides offline access to health information on Wikipedia. On June 10th, 2015 Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland launched an android app that contains all of English Wikipedia's health care content: It includes a broad range of medical, anatomy, medication, and sanitation related articles (i.e. articles that have been tagged with the respective WikiProjects).
That means it includes all articles that have been tagged with this WikiProject Sanitation.
For more information and to download the app to your mobile phone, see here.
A banner to raise awareness of the app is here. Discussion is here.
It looks like this:
We have an offline version of our healthcare content. Download the app and access all this content when there's no Internet. ( other languages) |
The consensus was to not have a banner at the top of the article but rather at the bottom right under external links: {{offline|med}}
All events of this WikiProject are available here.
None scheduled
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!
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:
The following is taken from WikiProject Medicine which is serving as inspiration for editing sanitation articles:
Guidelines and Policies
Reliable Sources | Manual of Style | |
Conflicts of Interest | How to edit |
The following Wikipedia "templates" are sometimes added to the end of sanitation-related articles and need to be kept up to date:
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.
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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]] |