User:EMsmile/sandbox

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Welcome to Wikipedia and 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 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.

Here are some links about Wikipedia editing that you might find helpful when you are starting out with your Wikipedia editing journey:

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)
Quick introduction to Wikipedia
The five pillars of Wikipedia
Ten simple rules for editing Wikipedia

Please sign your name using four tildes (~~~~) when you post on talk pages. This will automatically produce your username and the date. Look for the "tilde" character on your keyboard; for example on English keyboards it is to the left of the "enter" key (accessible with the "alt gr" key).^[1]^[1]

Welcome to Wikipedia!

A video describing Editing Wikipedia for medical content (by WikiProject Medicine)

Welcome to Wikipedia and WikiProject Medicine

Hi Olliemaen, thank you for your contributions.

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

Please sign your name using four tildes (~~~~) when you post on talk pages. This will automatically produce your username and the date.

WikiProjects bring groups of editors together on particular topics. Below are three WikiProjects that I find very interesting, maybe you'd like to join me there?

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!

For people who are not new to Wikipedia:

Welcome to Sanitation Wikipedia!

Some cookies to welcome you!

Hi rajivkraman, I noticed that you added your name to the member list of the WikiProject Sanitation. Thank you! Please also register on the Outreach Dashboard of the Sanitation Wikipedia project here.

Hi rajivkraman, I noticed that you added your name to the Outreach Dashboard of the Sanitation Wikipedia project here. Thank you!

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.

By country

Water scarcity (or water crisis) in particular countries:

IT related things

Visual editing of a table

So you can force it by appending &veaction=edit instead of action &action=edit to a url, so you can actually add buttons like we did at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Climate_change/Small_to_medium_tasks&action=edit with buttons like Making some quick improvements So you could instead add one of those before each table "add myself to the table" or something like that.

Example page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/SDGs/Communication_of_environment_SDGs

[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Meetup/SDGs/Communication_of_environment_SDGs&veaction=edit&section=6#SDG_6 <br/><span class="mw-ui-button mw-ui-progressive" style="margin:.1em">Edit this table</span>]

SRM

As to the first sentence of the lead (which is super important), your proposed sentence is good but I worry that it is too long to be comfortably read by a lay person (?): Solar radiation modification (SRM), or solar geoengineering, refers to a range of large-scale methods that seek to limit global warming by intentionally increasing the amount of sunlight (solar radiation) that the atmosphere reflects back to space or by reducing the trapping of outgoing thermal radiation. The style guide WP:FIRST says "Do not overload the first sentence by describing everything notable about the subject. Instead, spread the relevant information out over the entire lead.".

Here is what chapt-gpt suggested: Solar radiation modification (SRM) refers to a set of geoengineering techniques aimed at reflecting a portion of the Sun's incoming solar radiation back into space to reduce global warming and mitigate the effects of climate change. Mind you, when I compare that with your sentence it is less accurate as it doesn't mention the option of reducing the trapping of outgoing radiation. Maybe this could work: Solar radiation modification (SRM) refers to a set of geoengineering techniques that either reflect some of the Sun's incoming solar radiation back into space, or that reduce the trapping of outgoing thermal radiation. The aim is to reduce global warming and mitigate the effects of climate change. However, the first sentence is maybe still too long and complicated like this?

^ ^a ^b Green, Graeme (2024-05-15). "Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of 43,000 cars, researchers say". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-17.

[:0-1] Green, Graeme (2024-05-15). "Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of 43,000 cars, researchers say". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-05-17.

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