User:Seddon/Campus Ambassadors

Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors are volunteers who provide face-to-face support to university students on how to edit Wikipedia, work with professors to incorporate Wikipedia assignments into classrooms, help recruit new Wikipedia contributors on campus, and participate in real life activities in support of free knowledge. Campus Ambassadors are part of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program being piloted through the Public Policy Initiative. The estimated time commitment is approximately 3-5 hours a week, with some variations throughout the semester. Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors can be undergraduate students, graduate students, university staff members, faculty members, or anyone geographically close to the university -- the main qualification is that you must enjoy teaching people and spreading your passion for free knowledge.

Campus Ambassadors will:
 * 1) Provide face-to-face training and support for students on Wikipedia-related skills
 * 2) Consult with professors around designing and implementing Wikipedia assignments
 * 3) Organize engaging on-campus events to encourage people to edit (and continue editing) Wikipedia
 * 4) Help identify and recruit other interested professors and Ambassadors
 * 5) Represent Wikipedia and the Ambassador program
 * 6) Communicate with other stakeholders (Wikimedia Foundation, fellow Ambassadors, etc.)

Getting involved

 * Teachers and professors - If you are interested in working with Wikipedia Ambassadors to run Wikipedia assignments in your classes, add yourself as an "Interested instructor" on the interest list for your school or university. If your institution is not listed yet, you can add it to this page.


 * Interested ambassadors - If you want to be a Campus Ambassador, please add yourself as an "Interested Campus Ambassador" the school or university at which you are available. If it is not listed yet, you can add it to this page.  You can also get involved with the Wikipedia Ambassador Program by applying to become an Online Ambassador, which is open to friendly and experienced Wikipedians and does not require attending an ambassador training event.

Campus ambassador training events will occur in different regions of the U.S. in early January 2011, and likely before or after Wikimania 2011 in Haifa as well.

If you can't find what you're looking for, write to ambassadors-en@undefinedwikimedia.org The logo denotes a country with an active Wikipedia Ambassador Program.