User talk:Alliecat47

TC 210 Discussion Page: Introduce Yourselves
Hi Allie! My name is Letia Armstead and I am excited about this project becuase its better than writting a paper...AND, I want to learn how to use wikipedia. Letia Armstead SpartyParty (talk) 23:13, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie! My name is Courtney Houldsworth and I am excited about this project because it gives us something other than assigned readings, makes it interesting :) Courthoulds Courthoulds (talk) 23:29, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, I'm Zoran - again. I've added some stuff to my Sandbox, can you see if I'm doing anything wrong? Thanks! Zorantb (talk) 23:54, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello Allie, my name is Ricky Whidby and I am both excited to learn more about wikipedia as well as contribute on my group topic. My page is Mediaphyte Mediaphyte (talk) 08:37, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie!!! My name is Brittany and this project should be a lot of fun :) [] Balbaugh (talk) 06:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Kubatbek Alimbekov and I am excited to discover Wikipedia. My page is Qbkspit (talk) 06:51, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey David, I am Derek Schlau am I am excited to learn how to use wikipedia more efficiently user:schlaude Schlaude (talk) 05:36, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, My name is Elaina Wilson. I'm excited to be part of an inititive that involves other universities. My page is WilsonComm WilsonComm (talk) 05:09, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, I'm Joseph Tuohey. I'm excited for this project because we get to make a significant contribution to Wikipedia. My page is tuoheyjoTuoheyjo (talk) 00:29, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, I'm Andrew Wardell. I'm excited for this project because Wikipedia is one of the greatest sources of information on the internet. It gives links to sources and keeps it's information up to date. My page is Genorok Genorok (talk) 20:00, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello Allie! My name is Shane Cann. I'm excited to work on this project because it's innovative and fun. My page is user:CannshanCannshan (talk) 05:26, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, my name is Brandon Banks. I like this project because it something I have never done before and is interesting so far. You can check me out at user:banksbr2Banksbr2 (talk) 23:25, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Daniel Hesselschwerdt. I'm excited about this class because I haven't had time to learn how to edit wikipedia. My page is Hesselsc Hesselsc (talk) 23:01, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, My name is Allen Moy. I am really excited for this class and looking forward to working with you guys. Heres my page amoy48473 Amoy48473 (talk) 19:09, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie! My name is Samuel Agot and I am excited about this project because I want to learn how to use wikipedia. Heres my page Khalismatic Khalismatic (talk) 21:09, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Dearest Allison, You are the coolest cat I know. I miss our classes last semester. You can party on my talk page AestheticFriends (talk)

-Paulums — Preceding unsigned comment added by AestheticFriends (talk • contribs) 18:32, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, I'm Jaclyn Nagel and I can't wait to learn more about Wikipedia through this TC 210 course. Heres my page! user:Nageljac09Nageljac09 (talk) 18:51, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, I'm Anthony Hamer. I am very excited to be a part of this project as I hope you are aswell. User:Hamer19 Hamer19 (talk) 13:46, 1 February 2011 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.61.139.84 (talk)

Hey Allie, I'm Cassie and I'm excited about TC 210. Here's my page user:BellercaBellerca (talk) 14:02, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allison, my name is Zoran and I'm starting to love Wikipedia and it's all stuff! user:Zorantb! Zorantb (talk) 14:00, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allison. This is Kyle Snage in the TC 210 course. I'm excited for this project because I have never done editing on Wikipedia until this class. user:kylesnage Kylesnage (talk) 14:02, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, my name is Nick Fisher and I am excited to contribute to Wikipedia and the initiative. - user:Fishern6 Fishern6 (talk) 14:02, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Chris Buller and I am looking forward to using wikipedia with my class! User:sirhc3j7 Sirhc3j7 (talk) 14:07, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Hunter Baum. I'm very excited to get the opportunity to share knowledge with the world! user:Hbaum16 Hbaum16 (talk) 14:09, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, I'm Daniel Symanzik. This is such an exciting class! Please check out my page: user:Vert3x Vert3x (talk) 14:13, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, I'm Brad Abel. I'm excited to do wikipedia things. Bcca15 (talk) 14:15, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, I'm James Silvers.I'm excited to see how much I can rub it in all my previous teachers that Wikipedia is reliable =) My page is James (talk) Silversj4467 (talk) 05:37, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Sup, I'm Stephanie. I love Wikipedia. That's why I'm excited for this project. Feel free to visit my user page here. Stephanie Sundheimer (talk) 14:18, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello Allie, I'm Alex Dietrich and I am looking forward to this assignment so I can learn more about Wikipedia. My user page is user:awdietrich. Awdietrich (talk) 14:20, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, it's Nick. I look forward to working closely with you on this project. Naperkins (talk) 14:23, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, I'm Eric Endlich. I am excited for this project because I'm getting more experience with using Wikipedia. My user page is User:Ericendlich. Ericendlich (talk) 15:53, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie! I'm Laura Ene. I'm really excited to start working with you on this Wikipedia assignment!! Thanks so much for taking the time to be our Wikipedia ambassador! User:Laurnicole17 Laurnicole17 (talk) 17:56, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie - I'm Devan Sayles. I think our Wikipedia project is going to be great because I'd much rather contribute to Wikipedia than write a regular paper! My user page is User:Dsayles08 Dsayles08 (talk) 19:26, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Eric Stewart. I love this project already, its so fun and it Holds my attention cant wait to learn More. My user page is Ignite63 Jan 28, 2011 Ignite63 (talk) 20:28, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Nick Pingtella. This project is going to me much better than writing a paper. Pingtell (talk) 00:14, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie. My name is Nicholas Baker. I'm excited to finally be able to give back to the Wikipedia community after all that they have taught me. Bakern10 (talk) 01:09, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie. My name is Gerald Schuster. This Wikipedia project should be interesting. It sure beats writing a paper. User:Schust38 Schust38 (talk) 11:54, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, my name is Wesley Warnell, and I'm excited to learn more about Wikipedia. Warnellw (talk) 21:20, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie. My name is Michael Rossi. I've never edited Wikipedia before so this is pretty exciting. Rossimi2 (talk) 02:28, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello Allie. My name is Xiaotian Li. I hope I will have fun on Wiki. Let us see what will happen.Xiaotian Li (talk) 20:27, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi, my name is Jesse Lupinski, and I'm excited about the project because I've never edited Wikipedia before. I'm also interested in social computing applications. Jassu86 (talk) 17:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi, my name is David Gill, This should be more interesting than your run of the mill projects you get in most classes as we will truly be contributing to general knowledge dissemination. Gilldav2 (talk) 17:50, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello Allie, I am Alex Stepien and I am glad to add to Wikipedia since I've used it as long as I can remember.Stepiena (talk) 20:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Hello Allie, this is James Komara. I am excited for the discussions we will have and the content we will create on wikipedia. Talk to me and navigate to my page. J Komara (talk) 01:45, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello Allie, My name is Hyung-Joo Lee. wikipedia project is getting fun! Scannah (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 03:34, 1 February 2011 (UTC).

Hi! My name is Annabella Roiger. I am excited to contribute to Wikipedia and become part of the Wikipedia community. Ayroiger (talk) 17:43, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, I am Jessica Sonntag, I am excited for this class because editing and making our own wiki pages is something new for a class. My user page is Sonntag6.Check ya laterr Sonntag6 (talk) 19:57, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Gina Holder. I'm excited to give back to Wikipedia since I use it so often!35.11.33.122 (talk) 22:17, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Rob Murphy and I am looking forward to learn as much as possible about wikipedia over the course of the semester. My user page is Murph146. Take care. Murph146 (talk) 23:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie. My name is Blair Ellison. I am excited to learn about the ins and outs of Wikipedia and the process that I have to go through to make a Wikipedia page. Elliso56 (talk) 00:14, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Justin Sucher. I am excited to finally discover more of Wikipedia's abilities and learn something to help me in future projects.Sucherju (talk) 01:03, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie! My name is Chris Long, and I am excited to start working with Wikipedia and see everything it has to offer! Chriszlong (talk) 02:35, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, it's Michael Williams. I am excited to contribute to Wikipedia and cannot wait to see the finished product! Mike32389 (talk) 02:39, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Osup home-skillet. My name is Phil Finazzo and I'm thrilled to be learning specific markup so I can use wikipedia to the fullest extent. ColdChicken ColdChicken (talk) 04:46, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Ello Allie. My name is Ashley McClellan. I am excited about this assignment because I will be learning more about the other side of the Wikipedia world a.k.a editing. User:Mcclel71 Mcclel71 (talk) 07:40, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie! My name is Robyn Whalen. I am excited to be a part of this Wikipedia Project and learn more about Wikipedia and how it works! Spartans24 (talk) 15:44, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey David, my name is Rob Cortez. I am pretty excited to learn about how to use Wikipedia and to use the information learned for personal gain. Ltezl (talk) 19:10, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, my name is Collin Lochinski. I am excited to add to Wikipedia because so many people think wikipedia is not a reliable source. And I will be able to tell people how much effort goes into it. Daxter21 (talk) 04:54, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi, my name is Sung-ki Shin. I really thank you teach me how to use Wikipedia! nalihero (nalihero) 21:43, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Allie, I'm Kyle Hermann. I'm excited cause I think this will be fun.KyleHermann (talk) 04:32, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Allie, I'm Marissa Berman. I am really excited to contribute to wikipedia and learn more about it! Mberman23 (talk) 01:46, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey, my name is Jared Schmeichel. I'm excited for this assignment and help with this wiki initiative. Schmeic4 (talk) 04:31, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 28 January 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:30, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Looking for a brave Spartan to help me...


Alliecat:

Could you (or a friend or even a student in your class) take a photo for me?

I am looking for a photo of a fossilized painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) from the MSU Natural History museum. Will go into "Painted turtle.

Have had the deuce of a time tracking down an image I could license or even a sample to look at. MSU had a very famous paleontologist, Holman, who took many samples before his death (we even mention him in article and redlink him). I've already communicated with the museum director and he will allow a photo to be taken but did not have the staff to do it for me.

Any takers? Get to learn how to upload a photo to Commons. Fun, fun! But seriously, is for a good cause and would be an extremely illustrative image for the article.

TCO (talk) 00:32, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:20, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Media and Telecommunication Policy project
Hey Allie, hope all is well. Just wanted to drop a note letting you know that I am the Coordinating Online Ambassador for the Media and Telecommunication Policy project/class, as of yesterday. I have added my username and information on the second row of "The TC 210 Team" section (look for the goofy South Park character), so the students can find me quickly. I have some experience with radio and television stations, along with their companies, so I can be of more assistance than just showing people where to go for information. My talk page is open 24/7 and I try to answer posts immediately when I am online and as soon as I see them when I have been offline. Please let me know if I can be off assistance. Take Care.... Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 07:39, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Dr. Obar's class
I'm sending the same message to D guz and Alliecat47, as the two MSU Ambassadors for Dr. Obar's public policy course. I'm mentoring two different groups, who will have 2 very different challenges. My first group, Media Access Project will be creating a new article from scratch, and are probably going to need to worry most about establishing the notability of the group through reliable sources (it seems to probably meet our guidelines, but not certainly). The other group, National Broadband Plan (United States) will be working on an article that is already quite extensive with a lot of sources, if not in the best condition. I'm concerned that it may be difficult for the second group to show their performance in as clear a way as the first group. Do you know how the assignments will take these differences into account? Qwyrxian (talk) 01:45, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:20, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:30, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Please take the Wikipedia Ambassador Program survey
Hi Ambassador,

We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.

WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_talk

Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!

Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:35, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Region 5 announcement
Hey there; you'll want to add our region's noticeboard to your watchlist: Ambassadors/Great Lakes. Anything that needs to be handled at a regional level will be posted there. Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 18:21, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Continuing?
Will you be continuing your role as a campus ambassador this fall? Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs) 20:18, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Ambassador Program: assessment drive
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.

In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.

Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:20, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassadors update
Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.

You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.

If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.

First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.
 * Please do these steps as soon as possible

Once you've got the ambassador rights, please set up at a Campus and/or Online Ambassador profile. You can do so at:
 * Special:CampusAmbassadorProfile
 * Special:OnlineAmbassadorProfile

Going forward, the lists of Ambassadors at Special:CampusAmbassadors and Special:OnlineAmbassadors will be the official roster of who is an active Ambassador. If you would like to be an Ambassador but not ready to serve this term, you can un-check the option in your profile to publicly list it (which will remove your profile from the list).

After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:
 * Communication and keeping up to date
 * 1) The education noticeboard has become the main on-wiki location for discussion of the Education Program. You can post there about broad education program issues as well as issues with individual courses.
 * 2) The Ambassadors Announce email list is a very low-traffic announcements list of important information all Ambassadors need to be aware of. We encourage all Ambassadors (and other interested Wikipedians) to subscribe to the list; follow the instructions on the link to add your email address.
 * 3) If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the  IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)
 * Ambassador training and resources

Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 20:45, 14 January 2013 (UTC)