Today is the last Wednesday that the 4 Cranfield University students are editing Wikipedia for us in the virtual workroom (the students were doing their 10-week industry project with SuSanA, as part of their MSc work).

I think they've done an awesome job and have progressed the WASH topics on Wikipedia significantly in English and in French!

If you want to use the opportunity today to learn from them, to say hi, or to ask your own Wikipedia questions live, then come and join us in the virtual workroom TODAY.

Here is the link:
seint.adobeconnect.com/wpeditathon/

The students will be in the room from 2-6 pm GMT, and I am in the room on and off all day today.

This is the last Wednesday for the students but it would be easy to keep this tradition going if any SuSanA members want to make use of this virtual workroom to connect and to collaborate on Wikipedia editing. Just let me know?

And if you are a lecturer and have access to undergraduate or postgraduate students, how about setting up something similar with them?
Wikipedia has many tools and examples for setting up "Wikipedia editing assignments":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProj..._student_assignments

Regards,
Elisabeth

Hi Everyone!

The Cranfield team is glad to announce that 13 articles have been translated into French.
Part of them are completly translated, others have only the leads translated, which encourage people to further edit them later. We also have worked on improving some articles where the LEAD where not developped.
Please see below the link of the articles

---- Articles recently translated to French from English article ----
- Changement de Comportement (Behavior Change)
- Gestion des boues fécales (Feacal Sludge Management)
- Défécation à l'air libre (Open defecation)
- Toilettes sèches à séparation d'urine (Urine-diverting dry toilet)
- Journée mondiale des toilettes (World Toilet Day)

---- French Articles created with only LEAD part translated from English version ----
- EcoSan (Ecological Sanitation)
- Assainissement Durable (Sustainable Sanitation)
- Engrais Organique (Organic Fertilizer)
- Journée Mondiale de l'hygiène menstruelle (Menstrual Hygiene Day)
- Journée Mondiale du lavage des mains (Global Handwashing Day)


---- French articles edited & improved ----
- Eau, Assainissement et Hygiène / EAH (WASH)
- Helminthiase (Helminthiasis)
- Assainissement (Sanitation)

Next week is our last Wednesday of Wikipedia edition (in both French and English) as part of our contract with SuSanA but hopefully not the last ones! We are hoping you could improve the articles as well, each contributions worth it and is useful!
Meet us on the Adobe Connect room next Wednesday if you are available even for a short time! seint.adobeconnect.com/wpeditathon/?launcher=false


All the best,
The Cranfield Team

Hello Everyone,

We have agreed with SuSanA team that our team (of 4 students of Cranfield) will be working on editing Wikipedia articles every Wednesday (about 10:00 am to 6:00 pm GMT, London time)! Please feel free to join us on the adobe chat room seint.adobeconnect.com/wpeditathon/?launcher=false every Wednesday ! We will discuss about our work and support you with any issue about Wikipédia editing!

As a result of yesterday session, 3 articles have been created, 2 in French and 1 in English.

1. World Toilet Day translated in French
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journ%C3%A9e_mondiale_des_toilettes

2. Urine-Diverting Dry Toilets (UDDT) translated in French
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilette_s%C3%A9parateur_d%27urine

3. Container-based sanitation English article created in English
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container-based_sanitation

Also we have been editing both Toilets and Waste water articles
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wastewater


We kindly invite you to contribute to improve those fresh new articles and others sanitation-related articles.

Have a nice day!

The Cranfield Team