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Online Ambassador application: Zppix[edit]

Zppix[edit]

Zppix (talk · contribs)

  1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    To help people and to assist others with education
  2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
    I edit Wikipedia with anti vandal tools have pending changes and reviewer permissions. I've been using wikipedia for 3 years been editing on this account for 1
  3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
    Please read my contributions page as I cannot list off the top of my head.
  4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
    Yes
  5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)
  6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
    No
  7. How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?
    Yes
  8. How would you make sure your students were not violating copyright laws?
    Google the sentences if I find the exact or very similar sentences I will take action
  9. If one of your students had an issue with copyright violation how would you resolve it?
    Remove the copyvio issues and tell them how to fix it for later reference.
  10. In your _own_ words describe what copyright violation is.
    Plagarism or copy pasting copyrighted content
  11. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)

Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ (talk) 14:24, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Endorsements[edit]

(Two endorsements are needed for online ambassador approval.)

  • As of now, I'm neutral because of 2 main reasons. One, most of your contributions are using automated tools to make changes and don't demonstrate actual editing or understanding of policies. Two, you disclosed that you had other accounts in question 2. This raised a red flag because we had an issue which used multiple accounts and engaged in deep-reception scheme in this program. Would you mind telling us more about your other account or disclose the account name? OhanaUnitedTalk page 19:33, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Online Ambassador application: FiendYT[edit]

FiendYT[edit]

FiendYT (talk · contribs)

  1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    I would like to be a Wikipedia Ambassador to help educators and students achieve their goals and ensure that they are following Wikipedia's standard guidelines.
  2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
    I have been around at Wikipedia for 6 months and mainly focus on content creation, vandalism-fighting, and other minor work. I have edited a few times on WikiVoyage and Wiktionary and understand some of their policies.
  3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
    A few articles I have contributed to have been two DYKs, ACE Air Cargo Flight 51 and Carson Air Flight 66, and 1 DYK nominee, Conair Aviation Flight 448.
  4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
    I have been heavily involved with welcoming and helping new users. I mainly focus my attention on the #wikipedia-en-help chat on IRC and occasionally welcome editors with one of my custom-made Welcome templates.
  5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
    Some important ways we could welcome newcomers is to be polite and non-technical. Editors are often scared of Wikipedia every time a warning notice or even a caution notice appears on their talk page, and many leave Wikipedia due to complicated policies and standards.
  6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
    At the time of submitting this application, I have not had any major conflicts, blocks or bans, and involvement in arbitration.
  7. How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?
    I am on Wikipedia for about 3-5 hours daily. Yes, I will available for at least two hours per week.
  8. How would you make sure your students were not violating copyright laws?
    To make sure my students were not violating copyright laws, I will first ask my students if they have copy and pasted any text or submitted any pictures. I will then check the copy and pasted text and see if they have paraphrased it or not. For pictures, I would make sure the picture was their own work or used in fair use. This will go for all other copyright areas.
  9. If one of your students had an issue with copyright violation how would you resolve it?
    If one of my students had an issue with copyright violation, I would resolve it by giving he or she a lesson and tips about copyright. I will also guide them on how to avoid future copyright violations.
  10. In your _own_ words describe what copyright violation is.
    A copyright violation is an occurrence, in which a person is using intellectual property and other material that isn't approved to be made for free use or the standard free use guidelines.
  11. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)
FiendYT ★ 02:52, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Endorsements[edit]

(Two endorsements are needed for online ambassador approval.)

Online Ambassador application: Bivek bhattarai[edit]

Bivek bhattarai[edit]

Bivek bhattarai (talk · contribs)

  1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    To help wikipedia grown better.
  2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)
  3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
    YOUR ANSWER
  4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
    Yes i have been welcoming and helping new users
  5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)
  6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
    No,I don't have conflicts with other editors. Neither Blocks and bans.Not involve in arbitration
  7. How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?
    Yea I will be available regularly for more than two hours per week.
  8. How would you make sure your students were not violating copyright laws?
    At first I will warn them.and again if they do then i will charge them to donate to wikipedia as a result wilipedia will be develop.
  9. If one of your students had an issue with copyright violation how would you resolve it?
    Same as above.
  10. In your _own_ words describe what copyright violation is.
    Copyright voilation is the process of voilating rules made by mentors or higher level.
  11. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)

Bivek bhattarai (talk) 16:25, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Endorsements[edit]

(Two endorsements are needed for online ambassador approval.)

  • You seem to be more interested in reporting usernames to admins (and not doing a good job anyway) rather than actually writing content. That's a no from me. OhanaUnitedTalk page 08:05, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Online Ambassador application: Omni Flames[edit]

Omni Flames[edit]

Omni Flames (talk · contribs)

  1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    I'd like to be an ambassador because I've found that helping new users is something which I generally enjoy doing on Wikipedia. I would like to encourage and assist educators and students in working to improve Wikimedia projects.
  2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
    I'm most active here, on the English Wikipedia. However, I've also had some experience with Commons, and working with images there. I'm semi-active on the Simple English Wikipedia, mostly reverting vandalism and patrolling new pages. In addition, I'm a member of the small-wiki monitoring team, and often hang out on #cvn-sw on IRC. However, I'm relatively new to cross-wiki countervandalism, and so haven't participated in it much as of yet.
  3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
    I worked heavily on fried chicken, and recently got it to GA status. I have seven DYK credits: Munin (video game), Banton, Romblon, Rokh (video game), Snail Mail (video game), Mayday! Deep Space, Give It Up! (video game) and Sneaky Sneaky, six of which were created by myself. I also created three articles which are currently good article nominees: Space Marshals, Sneaky Sneaky and Mayday! Deep Space.
  4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
    I'm a trainer at the CVUA and am currently training 5 users. You can see my work here. I'm active on the #wikipedia-en-help IRC channel, and have helped numerous new users there. I also occasionally welcome new users and IPs with Twinkle.
  5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
    We have a lot of policies and guidelines, and many of them are very complicated for new users. I feel that there should be simpler versions of policies to make it easier for inexperienced users to understand. I think that processes such as adoption are very useful for new contributors who are eager to help build an encyclopedia, but many new users never even find this page, so maybe these kinds of links should be easier for new users to find.
  6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
    None that I can think of off the top of my head. I occasionally close and comment on discussions at ANI and I've done a lot of work in contentious areas such as AFD, but I haven't been involved in any large-scale conflicts as of yet.
  7. How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?
    I generally edit Wikipedia for a few hours a day, although longer on weekends as I have more time for it.
  8. How would you make sure your students were not violating copyright laws?
    If I had any concerns that there could possibly be any copied and pasted text in the work of one of my students, I would try asking them if they took anything in their work from anywhere else. If they said no, the duplication detector and Earwig's copyvio detector are two very useful tools for finding copyright violations that I use occasionally, and would check if I still believed that there was a copyright violation.
  9. If one of your students had an issue with copyright violation how would you resolve it?
    I would try explaining to them what a copyright violation is, and how to avoid it. I would also inform them of why it's important not to use copyrighted material on Wikipedia (except in some situations listed under fair use, although this requires attribution). I would then link them to some other helpful pages which explain copyrights, most likely WP:COPYVIO, and (if applicable) WP:CLOP.
  10. In your own words describe what copyright violation is.
    A copyright violation is the illegal use of any material (including text, images, or other media) which is protected by copyright law.
  11. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)

Omni Flames let's talk about it 11:08, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Endorsements[edit]

  • Yup - Looks good to me -- samtar talk or stalk 15:15, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
  • Account is a little bit new (about 4 months old) but the user seems to know his/her way around and adhered to policies in his/her edits. So a yes from me. OhanaUnitedTalk page 19:41, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Online Ambassador application: Chongkian[edit]

Chongkian[edit]

Chongkian (talk · contribs)

  1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    I wish to contribute more of the free knowledge spreading outside the web, and also to make more and more people (especially in the education sector) to be more aware of the existence of Wikipedia and its useful offline purposes.
  2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
    I've been editing Wikimedia since 2009. I've written more than 1,400 articles & made more than 48,000 edits in Wikipedia, uploaded more than 800 photos (from 12 countries/regions) to Wikimedia Commons, arranged 3 Wikipedia Meetups (1 in Singapore and 2 in Malaysia).
  3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
    Islam in Taiwan, Agriculture in Taiwan, 2014 Kaohsiung gas explosions, Electricity sector in Taiwan, Electricity sector in Macau, Wang Yu-chi, Wang Jin-pyng, New Taipei City, Kinmen, Matsu Islands, Jiang Yi-huah, 2014 Wang–Zhang meetings, Taiwanese local elections, 2014, Islam in Hong Kong, 2014 in Taiwan, 2015 in Taiwan, Malacca, List of power stations in Taiwan, Taipei Grand Mosque, Eric Chu, Hung Hsiu-chu
  4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
    Particularly no, because I've never encounter anyone declaring themselves as new comers. Of course I keep doing improvement to any existing articles in the case of wrong format/style of writing.
  5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
    A set of guideline for editing/creating/uploading contents to Wikipedia, general overview information on other projects within Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary etc), maybe a list of users for them to communicate in the case of misunderstanding or unknowing how to contribute properly.
  6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
    Quite often. In the case of continuing conflicts, it's better to stay away first (instead of being involved in edit war). Then what I did was to bring the matter into the talk/discussion page of that article, and sometimes involve 2 or 3 other users (in which we know each other already). When there are two parties involved in a dispute, it's better to bring both of them together into a discussion board to find a common consensus. If dispute persisted, then I shall refer to any existing guideline.
  7. How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?
    At least around 3-4 hours per day and almost everyday. Ongoing discussion it depends on the number of contributors, but in average at least every 2 or 3 days. I'm more than happy to spend more than two hours per week as a mentor.
  8. How would you make sure your students were not violating copyright laws?
    Have a proper mentoring first at the beginning prior to their first time editing, followed by monitor them from time to time for any new development they have made (including making comments, corrections, improvements), and of course lastly is to emphasize to them what copyright laws violation is and to keep monitoring on that.
  9. If one of your students had an issue with copyright violation how would you resolve it?
    Check the basic writing style, probably he/she forgets to include the reference. If there is a further dispute, then I'll bring it to the discussion board related to any copyright violation/dispute to ask for suggestions/help.
  10. In your _own_ words describe what copyright violation is.
    When someone doesn't give due full credit to the writer of the original research/article written.
  11. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    The important thing to do is to make Wikipedia contribution as part of our daily life activity (to have a continuous and sustainable support from the volunteers), not just active during university time, but "retired" after university graduation. Maintaining that spirit and momentum of keep sharing knowledge to everyone everyday is the most important part. Keep spreading the Wikipedia words and noble cause, as well as keep recruiting new/young editors to continue the work.

Chongkian (talk) 08:59, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Endorsements[edit]

(Two endorsements are needed for online ambassador approval.)

Course Co-ordinator user access level[edit]

I previously had these access level when I was working at Wikimedia UK (User:Fabian Tompsett (WMUK)). In conjunction with Wikimedians in London we shall be using the course extensions as a way of taking editathons to a new level. I would be grateful if someone could grant me co-ordinator privileges? Leutha (talk) 17:15, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Yes check.svg Done OhanaUnitedTalk page 18:21, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Problem with Article banners (Template:Course assignment)[edit]

There is some kind of problem with Article banners (Template:Course assignment). I was adding them to articles my students edited in Education Program:Hanyang University/Collective Intelligence in Practice: Understanding Wikipedia (Spring 2016) and Education Program:Hanyang University/Sociology of Everyday Life (Spring 2016), but the template is locked at the "Spring 2015" assignment, instead of the correct 2016 ( {{Course assignment | course = Education Program:Hanyang University/Collective Intelligence in Practice: Understanding Wikipedia (Spring 2016) | term = Spring 2015}}). The course seems properly defined for 2016, and the only place 2015 appears in the page is in template. This can be adjusted manually, of course, on article's talk pages, but overall seems like a bug someone should look into (if you reply here, please WP:ECHO me back, thank you). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:50, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Update: it is fixed now, through I have no idea how of by whom, or whether the fix is related to my report here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 00:53, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Campus Ambassador application: SantoshiWiki[edit]

SantoshiWiki (talk · contribs)

  1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    I have been engaged in Wikipedia (Other sister projects) since long. I have formed Wikipedian community in Nashik, conducted many workshops and editathons, meetups and Summit in the city recently.I want to engage other students/professionals too in the Wikipedia community. By being Campus ambassador I can spread a word and do my bit!
  2. Where are you based, and which educational institution(s) do you plan to work with as a Campus Ambassador?
    I am based in Nashik. I can manage to involve different educational institutions from Nashik and be Campus Ambassador.
  3. What is your academic and/or professional background?
    I am Computer Engineer from MET(Nashik). Currently I am working as Executive Manager at MIT Kumbhathon and Facilitator at TCS's Digital Impact Square, Nashik.
  4. In three sentences or less, summarize your prior experience with Wikimedia projects.
  1)I have taken up "Wiki takes Nashik" initiative, organized Different editathons and activities in schools and colleges.
  2)I have Proposed the bid for Wikiconference India 2016 for Nashik City and Organize Nashik Community regular Meetups and tracks activities Update-  Nashik Meetups and activities
  3)I have Organized Wikipedia Summit Nashik (200+ attendess) to boost up local language and get in more female editors.
  1. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
  • Proposed the bid for Wikiconference India 2016.[[1]]
  • Member of Wikimedia India Foundation.Membership ID : INDI- 654
  • Nominated for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2015 [[2]]
  • Nashik Wiki Community members at CIS-A2K Train-the-Trainer and MediaWiki Training ( मेडीयाविकी आणि ट्रेन द ट्रेनर स्थानिक प्रशिक्षण कार्यक्रम ) [CIS A2K TTT & MWT program]
  • Organize Nashik Community regular Meetups and tracks activities Update- Nashik Meetups and activities
  • I have managed to get Collaborators to support Nashik Community - Nashik municipal corporation, kumbhathon and IEI(Institution of Engineers,India.


Discussion

Online Ambassador application: REEMA KUMARI[edit]

Reema Kumari (25)[edit]

Reema Kumari (25) (talk · contribs)

  1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    To gather more knowledge and contribute to Wikipedia.
  2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
    I am not involved in any Wikipedia projects.
  3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
    I have made contributions in article "proto industrialisation".
  4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)
  5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)
  6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
    Yes,once I was blocked because i tried to add autobiography. But, thereafter, I promised to contribute Wikipedia positively.
  7. How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?
    I will
  8. How would you make sure your students were not violating copyright laws?
    YOUR ANSWER
  9. If one of your students had an issue with copyright violation how would you resolve it?
    YOUR ANSWER
  10. In your _own_ words describe what copyright violation is.
    YOUR ANSWER
  11. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
    YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)

From Reema Kumari 13:47, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Endorsements[edit]

(Two endorsements are needed for online ambassador approval.)

New course announcement: Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/University_of_Western_Ontario,_Anthropology/Language_revitalization_in_practice_(Summer_2_2016) (instructor: User:Tgranadillo)[edit]

I have created a new course — Language revitalization in practice — at dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/University_of_Western_Ontario,_Anthropology/Language_revitalization_in_practice_(Summer_2_2016). If you'd like to see more details about my course, check out my course page.--Tgranadillo (talk) 15:53, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

New course announcement: Wikipedia:Wiki_Ed/SUNY_College_at_Oneonta/COMP_100-16_Composition_(Fall_2016) (instructor: User:Suzanne oneonta)[edit]

I have created a new course — COMP 100-16 Composition — at dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/SUNY_College_at_Oneonta/COMP_100-16_Composition_(Fall_2016). If you'd like to see more details about my course, check out my course page.--Suzanne oneonta (talk) 17:18, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

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