I am a freelancer and edit on Wikipedia both in a volunteer capacity and also under various funded projects (see below in "About me" for more information on these projects). I manage the potential conflict of interest by ensuring the following:
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. SEI and Formas) align with those of the Wikimedia movement please see their websites.
I solicit contributions of content to Wikipedia and thus staff time from a number of organisations and individuals. 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 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 currently live in Germany. 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):
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 Formas (a Swedish government research council for sustainable development and a state authority under the Swedish Ministry of the Environment).
I presented at a training session called "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 Adaptation at Altitude. For slides and resources from the event see here.
From August 2020 to July 2022, I was working on a research communications project with Wikipedia that deals with SDG 6, SDG 13 and SDG 14 (Phase 1). It is funded by a Swedish research council. For more information see here.
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 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 am active in the WikiProject Sanitation which I co-founded in 2014. We have run 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.
Speedy deletion tag to make way for page move: {{db-move|page=Plastic soup|reason="need to delete this page to make way etc.}}
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Markup
Renders as
The brontosaurus is thin at one end.<ref name=elk1972>{{cite book |last=Elk |first=Anne |title=[[Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses]] |date=November 16, 1972}}</ref>{{rp|5}} Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.<ref name=elk1972 />{{rp|6}}
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The brontosaurus is thin at one end.[1]: 5 Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.[1]: 6
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IT things
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.
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).
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]]
Twinkle is a popular JavaScript Wikipedia gadget that gives autoconfirmed registered users many extra options to assist them in common Wikipedia maintenance tasks and to help them deal with acts of vandalism or unconstructive edits.
To edit my Twinkle javascript page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EMsmile/twinkleoptions.js
To edit the template for my Welcome note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki_loves_SDGs_invitation_1, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki4Climate_welcome_note_(newbies), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wiki4Climate_welcome_note_(oldies)
Templates
Revision deletion can be requested using the template {{copyvio-revdel}}: Place the template on the current version, and list in the template which diffs need to be hidden and why. Please see the template documentation for full instructions.
Tools
Who wrote that? - A tool to find out who write certain parts of Wikipedia articles.
This helpful description was provided to me by User:Efbrazil . "For that graphic I put the data in Excel, pasted the chart into Powerpoint, then added the text there along with stuff like the curly braces, exported as svg from powerpoint, then touched up the svg in notepad to get the fonts right and remove some weird span breaks in the text so that localization can be done. It's not very elegant I'm afraid. For a minor edit like that text change I mentioned I simply check the file out, open it in notepad, make the text change, then check it back in. No localization or anything else gets messed up that way. The other thing you can use is inkscape, which is an open source svg editor that works pretty well. It's pretty heavy duty though- feels a bit like an adobe product in terms of having a hundred toolbar buttons on screen at once. I use that to edit svg files visually."
You can send me an e-mail via Wikipedia like this: Special:EmailUser/EMsmile. If you have a gripe to settle with me, something that you think I have done wrong, something that annoyed you terribly, or some constructive criticism please consider using direct e-mail as it might help to clarify or defuse the situation more efficiently than writing publicly on an article's talk page might. Just something to think about in the interest of keeping things positive and less confrontational.
