User talk:Abenaa07

Welcome
Hello, Abenaa07. Welcome to Wikipedia. I am Mlpearc I'm a volunteer with the Account Creation Team and I received your account request. You are also welcome to leave questions, comments on my talk page at anytime Here. Here is some useful information to get you started. Mlpearc  powwow  16:45, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

GA nominations
Hi Abenaa,

I noticed your class has been making a large number of GA nominations this weekend--thanks for all the work you all are doing! It's wonderful how much some of these species articles have been expanded.

If I'm not being too presumptuous, I wanted to make a few suggestions about the GA part of it. I'm interested in your project and its potential--obviously, this would be a great set of articles to get to GA--but I and some other reviewers were a bit concerned by the number of "drive-by" nominations. Unfortunately, it's a pretty small band who does our reviewing (particularly in this topic area), and it looks like many of your class of 57 are nominating 2-3 articles apiece. If we take a standard approach, this is probably going to be a few solid months of work for the regular reviewers, especially as the articles are pretty raw; many have obvious problems like not having leads or having active clean-up warnings and big chunks missing inline citations, and all are likely to need at least some work. You can see a thread starting about this at Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations.

There's a couple things you could do that might help. First, if anybody from the course has previous experience doing GA reviews (you, your TAs, your Wikipedia ambassador), any help they could give with the backlog would be great. Also, if there's any way obviously incomplete nominations can be caught and fixed on your end rather than ours, that'd be a help, too. (Perhaps, for example, your students could suggest their potential nominations to you and the TAs so you could sort them a bit.) Second, if you haven't already, you might consider reaching out to some relevant WikiProjects (Biology, Insects, Fish, etc.) to ask if any editors there would be willing to help with these reviews; that would relieve pressure on our regulars and help get more of these reviews done before your students go on winter break. Third, you might consider limiting your students to one GA nomination apiece, and ask them to nominate only articles they themselves have worked on; this would be a better guarantee of quality and long-term student investment. (Unfortunately, our backlog is generally 2-4 months, which means most of these reviews won't begin till the spring; unless yours is a year-long course, my experience is that few students will see this project through to completion.)

I should hasten to add here that I'm by no means an official representative of the GA project (no one is), so feel free to take everything I said above with a grain of salt or just disregard it entirely! Thanks again for your contributions, and good luck with the course, -- Khazar2 (talk) 01:49, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Upcoming event at the WWI Museum in Kansas City
Hello! I would like to invite you to a Wikipedia editathon about WWI and Dissent on November 22 at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. Join us for the U.S. branch of this international event as we write more social history from the era around WWI into Wikipedia! All editors are welcome, contributors to topics around WWI other than Dissent also encouraged! Food and drinks will be supplied by the WWI museum, Sadads (talk) 21:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)