Thanks Ajay, Arno and Jan!

SuSanA's Wikipedia World Water Day Editathon (19th/20th March) is being organised under the Gates Foundation Phase 3 Grant.

As one of the partners in this grant, Oxfam will be supporting WG8 to get involved in the Edit-a-thon.

I will start by proposing some Wikipedia pages which WG8 members may be interested in editing.

Here are some suggestions:

Sanitation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation
Latrine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrine
Appropriate Technology en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
Disaster Risk Reduction en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_risk_reduction
Emergency Management en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_management
Container Based Sanitation (new page to be created)
Emergency Sanitation (new page to be created)


What does the group think about focusing on these pages? Have you got ideas of more useful/relevant ones? Please enter your views here in this thread

The Edit-a-thon runs from 19th-20th March, and you can get involved from wherever you are in the world, for whatever amount of time you can spare! Soon, I'll be sharing some short videos which explain how you can make basic edits on Wikipedia pages.

Looking forward to hearing the thoughts/questions and comments from WG8!

Dear Members of SuSanA Working Group 8 (Emergency & reconstruction situations)!

Your expertise is needed!

SuSanA has announced an Edit-a-thon to commemorate World Water Day and to improve WASH-related Wikipedia articles. Educating the public is critical to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal Number 6 (SDG6): "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all".

Therefore, this event is taking place:

What: World Water Day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
When: 19-20 March 2017
Where: Wherever you and your computer are.
Who: You can contribute solo, or work with a group of friends.
Why you? You are committed to achieving SDG6.
Why now? Achieving water and sanitation for all requires educating and informing all stakeholders. Wikipedia is the 5th most often visited website in the world.

Next steps for you:

1. Register your interest by replying in this thread and posting “Yes, I’m interested because...” to this thread.
2. Look at the list of suggested articles to work on below, and provide your feedback or comments. Which article would you like to work on?
3. Have a look at what the other working groups will work on here: forum.susana.org/component/kunena/213-wo...clock-together#20524
4. Learn to edit Wikipedia articles by giving it a go (this page can get you started: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sanitation) and by viewing short videos which we will post here next week: forum.susana.org/component/kunena/213-wo...d-the-clock-together

What if I can’t make it on 19-20 March?
No problem. You can edit Wikipedia anytime. Please let us know what you’re working on. This effort is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to SuSanA . The project team wants to know how many SuSanA members contribute to the Edit-a-Thon.

What if I don’t have a reliable internet connection?
As an editor you can help in so many ways. Write new content. Improve existing content. Correct errors. Add images. Add references with links.

What if I have more questions?
Just ask. We want to make it easy for you.

Let’s pull together for SDG6! Please join this Edit-a-thon.

Kind regards,

Jan Spit, Arno Coerver and Ajay Paul
Leads for SuSanA Working Group 8


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Wikipedia articles that WG 8 members could work on:

• Disaster Risk Reduction en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_risk_reduction
• Emergency Management en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_management
• Latrine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrine
• Pit Latrine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_latrine
• Sanitation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation

Possible new articles:

• Container Based Sanitation (or integrate this content first into the existing article on sanitation)
• Emergency Sanitation (or integrate this content first into the existing article on sanitation)

... What else?

Again we could also think about languages other than English, like we had discussed here for Working Group 11: forum.susana.org/component/kunena/64-wg-...or-groundwater#20556