User talk:Chaiwe

Welcome to Sanitation Wikipedia!

A video describing Editing Wikipedia for medical content (WikiProject Medicine) - also very relevant for sanitation content (WikiProject Sanitation)

Hi Chaiwe,

I am EMsmile, and I am a part of a group of people wishing to improve sanitation-related articles on Wikipedia (which also includes topics around water supply and public health). If you have any questions about this work, please feel free to leave me a message on my talk page.

We ran a SuSanA Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for World Water Day in March 2017, following by a joint editing drive for World Toilet Day in November 2017. We've put together an outline of how such an editing drive can work here in our Meetup page. We are currently focussing on a select few number of articles (we have chosen 70). Also we are focussing mainly on improving their readability scores and their leads.

Can you help? Then please start editing and improving any number of those 70 articles which are listed here. And please get in touch with us on the talk page of that meetup page because it is always more fun to feel part of a team effort!

Also if you are interested in improving sanitation-related articles in general, you may want to join WikiProject Sanitation as well, which is a longer term effort, not limited to World Toilet Day.

Here are some pages about Wikipedia editing that you might find helpful:

Welcome to Wikipedia and Wikiproject Medicine - a project that WikiProject Sanitation is trying to emulate

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EMsmile (talk) 04:20, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Water supply and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hello Chaiwe and welcome to Wikipedia. Could you please make sure you cite your sources as soon as you add content to Wikipedia? And if you are copying from a compatibly licensed journal article, you need to provide attribution. I've added the attribution for the above article. Please make sure that you follow this licensing requirement when copying from compatibly-licensed material in the future. If you need help learning how to format your citations, please see the help page Help:Referencing for beginners. Thanks. — Diannaa (talk) 14:38, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the edit-a-thon on SDGs in September 2020

Hi,

I am EMsmile, and I am a part of a group of people wishing to improve SDG-related articles on Wikipedia. We are organising this online SDG edit-a-thon during Global Goals Week, 18-26 September 2020. Please take part in it! If you have any questions about this work, please feel free to ask your question on the event's talk page here. The event page itself is here. EMsmile (talk) 06:59, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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+++Hello @EMsmile thank you for highlighting this. I was certain this was a failed upload for that same reason. Thank you for pointing this out. The image will be deleted.

CMSand (talk) 09:54, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Chaiwe, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Emergency sanitation have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 21:43, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Diannaa, I'd like to review the edit that User:Chaiwe made which you reverted. What I don't understand is from the revision history I can't see her edit from 22 Oct. It looks like it's crossed out. Is that because you restored a version from April? Or why are all the previous verions and edits crossed out? See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emergency_sanitation&action=history? This is baffling me because I thought that every edit ever made is traceable on Wikipedia. But now I can't figure out a way to see the edit that Chaiwe made on 22 October. EMsmile (talk) 04:57, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The revisions containing the copyright material were hidden from view under under criterion RD1 of the revision deletion policy, and that's why you can't access them any more. Some of the overlapping content was added by Chaiwe and some had been there for quite a while - added by someone else back in April. Chaiwe had copied the key actions from page 133 of the document. I can send you a copy of ~~his~~ her addition via email if you like.— Diannaa (talk) 11:27, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Diannaa, yes, please send it to me by e-mail. Also, I would like to see what had been added here: 13:02, 21 April 2020‎ WashCapacity talk contribs‎ 10,458 bytes +1,218‎ added SPHERE standards because this was added in April and I vaguely remember seeing it and judging it as OK (I guess I was wrong). But surely something can be salvaged there, at the very least the actual reference because SPHERE is well known for emergency standards. Also, I would like to see what Chaiwe (she is female by the way; just saying because you said "his") had added because I know she is aware of copyright and quite likely with more paraphrasing her additions should be salvageable. The other edits that were also deleted were made by student editors. Hence, it would probably be wise to write on the instructor's talk page because I am assuming the instructor looked at the student's work at some point and must have judged it as OK (?). It was part of this course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/Soka_University_of_America/WRIT101-03_(Spring_2020) Now that the edits are no longer visible though it will be hard for the instructors to judge / evaluate /learn. Is it necessary to make them invisible? Wouldn't a normal "restore earlier version" have worked just the same? Just wondering. EMsmile (talk) 15:02, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Revision deletion is done so that copyright content is completely removed from the page history, which is otherwise still visible to the public. It's not up to me to communicate with teachers (regardless, I don't have time); that could be undertaken by the liaison person. For this course it was Shalor (Wiki Ed). The material that was removed was added by Chaiwe and by WashCapacity; the edits by the course participants were not removed and I assume they were okay. — Diannaa (talk) 18:13, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am confused: As far as I can see you removed the edits from 3 course participants in April and May, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emergency_sanitation&action=history - The edits by User:Zbraverman, User:Leandragp3 and User:Katzenjamming were all removed, and not just removed but completely deleted with no option for restoring (at least not for non-admin people). Bringing this also to the attention of the course instructor, User:Shalor (Wiki Ed). - Also, if I understand right the "revision deletion" is done by an admin but doesn't have to be done like that, i.e. a normal user (like me for example) could have also just clicked on "undo" which would have the advantage that people can follow better what happened, and restore/modify/improve content wherever possible. EMsmile (talk) 04:14, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Revision deletion was performed on those edits, but they were not removed. You can see their additions in this big diff which shows the additions between April 18 and October 23. For example, the paragraph "The creation of provisional hand washing stations or the distribution of hand sanitizer (that contains 60% of alcohol or more) are put into practice so that people keep their hands clean and thus eliminate the propagation of germs" was added by Leandragp3 on May 3 at 19:31 and is still present in the article.

In order to completely remove the material from the page history, all the intervening edits have to be hidden, from the time of insertion of the copyright material to its removal. This means that in many instances, harmless edits have to be hidden. But they are not removed, and they were not removed from this article.— Diannaa (talk) 11:44, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

EMsmile and Diannaa i am glad this discussion has happened here. It helps me know what really was behind the deletion because i definitely was going to make the same grave error on other edits. Similar to the other editor Washcapacity, it appears our input had similar oversites. This brings me to a question about the lesson that i think i missed during my schooling years haha!. How does one quote bulletin points correctly? Regards CMSand (talk) 19:40, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to the online edit-a-thon on climate change topics in November 2020

Hi,

I am EMsmile, and I am a part of a group of people wishing to improve climate change-related articles on Wikipedia. We are organising the "Wiki4Climate" online edit-a-thon from 24 November to 1 December 2020. Please take part by registering here. This event is organised by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and Future Climate for Africa (FCFA). If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to ask your question on the event's talk page here. Please also join us in the event's Slack channel for easier communication and to make this into a collaborative effort. To join the Slack channel, please click here.

We also recommend this new guide to you: Guide: How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia (Baker, E., McNamara, L., Mackay, B., and Vincent, K. (2020). How to contribute climate change information to Wikipedia: A guide for researchers, practitioners and communicators. Cape Town: Climate and Development Knowledge Network and Future Climate for Africa). EMsmile (talk) 02:38, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]