This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation'sTerms of Use, discloses that she has been paid by various clients within her self-employed freelancer status since 2012 for her contributions to Wikipedia.
I am a freelancer and edit Wikipedia both in a volunteer capacity and also under various funded projects.
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. in the pastSEI andFormas) align with those of the Wikimedia movement please see their websites.
In my paid editing arrangements, I always have full editorial independence. The contents of my edits are not directed by any organization and any errors and biases in my work are my own.
I regularly contact other people, for example climate scientists to ask them to help with Wikipedia articles. 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 ofJames Heilman withWikiProject Medicine. To find out more about my work on Wikipedia, please look atmy contributions. My background is in process engineering. I am a freelancer and work for myself since 2012. I am a female Wikipedian and am interested in reducinggender bias on Wikipedia.
Some of my Wikipedia milestones and projects (most recent first, and any potential conflict of interest aspects will be handled as per my disclosure statement above):
From June 2024 to 17 February 2025, I had a small consultancy project with theEarth System Governance Foundation. During the project I provided advice and training on Wikipedia editing, and I improved the Wikipedia article onsolar radiation modification. I also made some small improvements to the articles onstratospheric aerosol injection andmarine cloud brightening so that they fit better with the SRM article. Please note: theEarth System Governance Foundation has no political or advocacy positions. It is a small charity under Dutch law, created to support scientific research on earth system governance and to assist with knowledge dissemination. The relationship between ESG Foundation andESG Project (a network of academics and scholars) is explainedhere.
From August 2022 to July 2024, I have been working on a research communications project that deals withSDG 13 (action onclimate change). This project is administered byStockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and funded byFormas (a Swedish government research council for sustainable development and a state authority under the Swedish Ministry of the Environment). The articles that I edited as part of this project are shownhere for Phase 1 andhere for Phase 2 (2022-2024). I also made improvements to the article onKevin Trenberth.
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 programAdaptation at Altitude. For slides and resources from the event seehere.
From August 2020 to July 2022, I was working on a research communications project with Wikipedia that dealt withSDG 6,SDG 13 andSDG 14 (Phase 1). It was funded by a Swedish research council. For more information seehere.
From July to September 2020, I was involved as a coordinator, facilitator, trainer and editor for anonline edit-a-thon on SDGs during Global Goals Week. This was done under a consultancy contract withProject Everyone in the UK. This is part of the larger initiative "Wiki loves Sustainable Development Goals" which was started in late 2019, seehere on Meta.
I was at theWikimania Conference in Stockholm in August 2019 (my only Wikimania attendance so far).
I was active in theWikiProject Sanitation which I co-founded in 2014 (however, the project is now dormant as of 2025). We ran two drives to updateWASH-related content on Wikipedia. They took place in March and November 2017 forWorld Water Day andWorld Toilet Day, respectively. See our Meetup page with more informationhere. In 2015 I improved the Wikipedia article onSustainable Sanitation Alliance.
Who wrote that? - A tool to find outwho wrote certain parts of Wikipedia articles.
Enabling a script: On the wiki you'd like to enable the script, addimportScript('User:EpochFail/ArticleQuality.js') to your common.js page. So hereen:User:EMsmile/common.js.
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]]
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).
When using content from publications that are under a compatible licence we can indicate the attribution in an inline citation as in the following: |doi-access=free}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Text was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]</ref> (there isa table with compatible licenses at the Copyright FAQ).
Twinkle is a popular JavaScriptWikipedia gadget that givesautoconfirmed registered users many extra options to assist them in common Wikipedia maintenance tasks and to help them deal with acts ofvandalism or unconstructive edits.
To edit my Twinkle javascript page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EMsmile/twinkleoptions.js
You can send me an e-mail via Wikipedia like this:Special:EmailUser/EMsmile. In general, I am happy to receive direct e-mails as this might help to clarify or defuse the situation more efficiently than writing publicly on an article's talk page might. My interest is to keep things positive and less confrontational.
I am to notify you that by community consensus, you're topic-banned from:
All organisations that are employers or paying clients of yours, or that have been employers/paying clients in the past 10 years, to include all organisations that contribute funding;
People who hold key positions in these organisations;
Projects and initiatives closely affiliated with these organisations; and
People with whom you have a current or past (up to 10 years) reporting relationship.
You're permitted to mention these topics to make COI declarations and to answer questions about your COI. This topic ban is appealable after 12 months.
There's a log of community-imposed topic bans atWP:EDRC.—S MarshallT/C 22:56, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation'sTerms of Use, discloses that she has been paid by various clients within her self-employed freelancer status since 2012 for her contributions to Wikipedia.
