User:EMsmile

{{Babel|de|en-5|fr-3|nl-1}}I am a freelancer and edit Wikipedia both in a volunteer capacity and also under various funded projects.

I always retain my own editorial judgement. If you disagree with any of my edits, please feel free to take it up on my talk page or the article's talk page. To see how my partners' or funders' goals (e.g. in the past [https://www.sei.org/ SEI] and [https://formas.se/en/start-page/about-formas.html Formas]) align with those of the Wikimedia movement please see their websites.

In my paid editing arrangements, I always have full editorial independence. The contents of my edits are not directed by any organization and any errors and biases in my work are my own.

I regularly contact other people, for example climate scientists to ask them to help with Wikipedia articles. My wish to retain positive relationships with these organisations is not a conflict of interest.

When I am editing Wikipedia as part of my professional duties, I always strive to strictly abide by Wikipedia's accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability. I will always work in the best interest of Wikipedia, because that's what I believe in and it's also is in line with the missions of those organisations who have funded my time so far (philanthropic foundations, NGOs, government entities).

I have currently exactly one paid editing arrangement: It is with Utrecht University and goes until 30 April 2025. The details of this arrangement are shown below under "Milestones and projects".

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I started Wikipedia editing in October 2014 after being inspired by the work of James Heilman with WikiProject Medicine. To find out more about my work on Wikipedia, please look at my contributions. My background is in process engineering. I am a freelancer and work for myself since 2012. I am a female Wikipedian and am interested in reducing gender bias on Wikipedia.

Some of my Wikipedia milestones and projects (most recent first, and any potential conflict of interest aspects will be handled as per my disclosure statement above):

• From July 2024 to April 2025, I have been supporting Utrecht University with integrating key results from publications that have come out of the [https://globalgoalsproject.eu/ Global Goals project] into relevant Wikipedia articles. The articles edited were: earth system governance, Earth System Governance Project, environmental governance, environmental policy, environmental politics, global governance, green bond, Millennium Development Goals, planetary boundaries, policy coherence for development, SDG, SDG 3, SDG 10, SDG 13, SDG 16, SDG 17, sustainability, sustainable development, World Bank). The Global Goals project was a five–year programme to assess and explain the steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals. I also created the article on Frank Biermann, the project's leader, in August 2024 (this was outside of the paid editing arrangement).

• From June 2024 to 17 February 2025, I had a small consultancy project with the Earth System Governance Foundation. During the project I provided advice and training on Wikipedia editing, and I improved the Wikipedia article on solar radiation modification. I also made some small improvements to the articles on stratospheric aerosol injection and marine cloud brightening so that they fit better with the SRM article. Please note: the Earth System Governance Foundation has no political or advocacy positions. It is a small charity under Dutch law, created to support scientific research on earth system governance and to assist with knowledge dissemination. The relationship between ESG Foundation and ESG Project (a network of academics and scholars) is explained [https://www.earthsystemgovernance.org/earth-system-governance-foundation/ here].

• From August 2022 to July 2024, I have been working on a research communications project that deals with SDG 13 (action on climate change). This project is administered by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and funded by [https://formas.se/en/start-page/about-formas.html Formas] (a Swedish government research council for sustainable development and a state authority under the Swedish Ministry of the Environment). The articles that I edited as part of this project are shown here for Phase 1 and here for Phase 2 (2022-2024). I also made improvements to the article on Kevin Trenberth.

• From April 2022 to October 2024, I was working to support the [https://reachwater.uk/ REACH programme] in the UK (a global research programme with the title "improving water security for the poor"). My services are administered through [https://skat-foundation.ch/ Skat Foundation]. Here, the idea is to improve relevant Wikipedia articles that touch on climate resilient WASH topics, namely the Wikipedia articles on water security, WASH, effects of climate change on the water cycle, effects of climate change, groundwater, water resources, climate resilience (other Wikipedia articles might have been touched up as part of this project, but not edited in a major way). In August 2024 I improved the article Rural Water Supply Network (this was not part of a paid editing arrangement).

• I presented at a training session called "[https://www.imc2022.info/why-and-how-to-use-wikipedia-for-science-communication/ Wikipedia for Science]" at the International Mountains Conference (IMC) in Innsbruck on 12 September 2022. There, we encouraged early career researchers in the area of mountains (for examples mountains and climate change adaptation) to take up Wikipedia editing to improve that content on Wikipedia. My time to help prepare this training session was covered by the program [https://adaptationataltitude.org/adaptation-at-altitude Adaptation at Altitude]. For slides and resources from the event see [https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/adaptation-in-mountains/wikipedia-for-science-communication here].

• I participated in WikiForHumanRights Challenge in April 2021 by editing the article effects of climate change on humans and related articles.

• From August 2020 to July 2022, I was working on a research communications project with Wikipedia that dealt with SDG 6, SDG 13 and SDG 14 (Phase 1). It was funded by a Swedish research council. For more information see here.

• In November 2020, I was acting as a moderator, trainer, advisor and editor for an online edit-a-thon on climate change topics, with a focus on Africa (24 November to 1 December). This was done under a consultancy contract with [https://southsouthnorth.org/ SouthSouthNorth (SSN)] in South Africa. The event was connected with WikiProject Climate Change and Wikimedians for Sustainable Development. It is relevant for Sustainable Development Goal 13.

• From July to September 2020, I was involved as a coordinator, facilitator, trainer and editor for an online edit-a-thon on SDGs during Global Goals Week. This was done under a consultancy contract with [https://www.project-everyone.org/ Project Everyone] in the UK. This is part of the larger initiative "Wiki loves Sustainable Development Goals" which was started in late 2019, see here on Meta.

• I joined the WikiProject Climate change in September 2019.

• I was at the Wikimania Conference in Stockholm in August 2019 (my only Wikimania attendance so far).

• I was active in the WikiProject Sanitation which I co-founded in 2014 (however, the project is now dormant as of 2025). We ran two drives to update WASH-related content on Wikipedia. They took place in March and November 2017 for World Water Day and World Toilet Day, respectively. See our Meetup page with more information here. In 2015 I improved the Wikipedia article on Sustainable Sanitation Alliance.

Part of the Wikimedia Science Communication Network.

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1. Dry toilet
2. Emergency sanitation
3. Failures of water supply and sanitation systems
4. Fecal sludge management
5. Global Goals Week
6. Greenhouse gas emissions (created April 2021 as spin off from greenhouse gas)
7. Groundwater pollution
8. List of abbreviations used in sanitation
9. List of water supply and sanitation by country
10. Malnutrition in children
11. Menstrual Hygiene Day
12. Menstrual hygiene management (created June 2019 as spin off from Menstrual Hygiene Day)
13. Ocean temperature
14. Reuse of excreta
15. Sanitation worker
16. Sewer mining
17. Sustainable Development Goal 1
18. Sustainable Development Goal 2
19. Sustainable Development Goal 3
20. Sustainable Development Goal 4
21. Sustainable Development Goal 5
22. Sustainable Development Goal 6
23. Sustainable Development Goal 7
24. Sustainable Development Goal 8
25. Sustainable Development Goal 9
26. Sustainable Development Goal 10
27. Sustainable Development Goal 11
28. Sustainable Development Goal 12
29. Sustainable Development Goal 13
30. Urine-diverting dry toilet
31. World Toilet Day|colwidth=30em}}

• Meetup pages for two virtual edit-a-thons on sanitation topics in 2017

• Wiki loves SDGs online edit-a-thon in Sept 2020

• Communication of 3 environment SDGs in Sept 2020

• Wiki4Climate online edit-a-thon Nov 2020

• Who wrote that? - A tool to find out who wrote certain parts of Wikipedia articles.
• Enabling a script: On the wiki you'd like to enable the script, add importScript('User:EpochFail/ArticleQuality.js') to your common.js page. So here en:User:EMsmile/common.js.
• Readability tool: To install this script, go to your common.js and add the following line: importScript('User:Phlsph7/Readability.js'); // Backlink: User:Phlsph7/Readability.js
• A tool to find unreliable sources in the ref list, marking them in colour: User:Headbomb/unreliable (add that to your common.js page, see above).
• [https://admin.toolforge.org/tools Overview of tools]
• [http://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ WPPageHistStat] looks at the stats of the history of an article
• Link to a tool that can pick up [https://copyvios.toolforge.org/ copyright violations].
• Explanations about excerpt tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Excerpt
• [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=grey+water%2Cgreywater%2Cgray+water%2Cgraywater&year_start=1980&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cgrey%20water%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgreywater%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgray%20water%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cgraywater%3B%2Cc0 Google books search results changes over time]
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• To edit my Twinkle javascript page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EMsmile/twinkleoptions.js

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You can send me an e-mail via Wikipedia like this: Special:EmailUser/EMsmile. In general, I am happy to receive direct e-mails as this might help to clarify or defuse the situation more efficiently than writing publicly on an article's talk page might. My interest is to keep things positive and less confrontational.

I am to notify you that by community consensus, you're topic-banned from:

• All organisations that are employers or paying clients of yours, or that have been employers/paying clients in the past 10 years, to include all organisations that contribute funding;

• People who hold key positions in these organisations;

• Projects and initiatives closely affiliated with these organisations; and

• People with whom you have a current or past (up to 10 years) reporting relationship.

You're permitted to mention these topics to make COI declarations and to answer questions about your COI.  This topic ban is appealable after 12 months.

There's a log of community-imposed topic bans at WP:EDRC.—S Marshall T/C 22:56, 4 March 2025 (UTC)