User talk:BCarmichael

Hello
Hi! I look forward to meeting you at the training in Baton Rouge. Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 02:28, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of B.J.Carmichael/sandbox
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Block for Campus Ambassadors
I had created a new block for Campus Ambassadors because I was told there was not one yet. However, Basket of Puppies  also created one. I am removing the one that I created to keep it consistent. You can add it to your userpage by adding Lsukari (talk) 13:49, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 28 January 2011
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Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 2011
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Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011
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Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011
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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) 20:36, 24 May 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) 17:21, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi B.J. Carmichael
Thanks for helping me set up my user page!

Survey
Hi B.J.!

I have put together a survey for female editors of Wikipedia (and related projects) in order to explore, in greater detail, women's experiences and roles within the Wikimedia movement. It'd be wonderful if you could participate!

It's an independent survey, done by me, as a fellow volunteer Wikimedian. It is not being done on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. I hope you'll participate!

Just click this link to participate in this survey, via Google!

Any questions or concerns, feel free to email me or stop by my user talk page. Also, feel free to share this any other female Wikimedians you may know. It is in English, but any language Wikimedia participants are encouraged to participate. I appreciate your contributions - to the survey and to Wikipedia! Thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 21:42, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

signing your posts
Hi Becky! It's not necessary to add the four tildes to your edit summaries; just add them to the end of your comments in the main edit box where you want your name and a timestamp to appear, like when you post on a talk page. (In the edit summaries, the tildes don't get turned into a signature.) Also, it's very helpful for Wikipedia Ambassadors to enable email (which can be done through the preferences) so that others can contact you privately if need be. I hope your class is working out well so far, and let me know if need some help with anything!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Sage. I misunderstood and, unfortunately, have been signing my edits this way for quite some time. Thanks again for the assistance! BJC 16:44, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem! A number of people who start off by going through ambassador training end up doing that... it's something to fix with the training pages. :) --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 16:49, 12 September 2012 (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) 20:44, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Student Talk
Hi!Awil236 (talk) 20:30, 24 September 2013 (UTC) Ello Deezy1914 (talk) 20:32, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Dr. Carmichael. I just thought you should be aware that the section on your User page titled "Tulane University" is misspelled. -- Ncollins129 (talk) 19:42, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Ncollins129 for that catch! BCarmichael (talk) 20:01, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Education Program:Louisiana State University/GEOL 4066: Plate Tectonics (Fall 2013)
Hi BJC, I hae signed up for Education Program:Louisiana State University/GEOL 4066: Plate Tectonics (Fall 2013). Earlier I did not see this course on the list, and I was wondering earlier this week if the course was not being held this year. But it looks like it is going to happen. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 19:51, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Signing Posts on Talk Page
I am having trouble signing my posts with "B.J.Carmichael 04:11, 27 October 2013 (UTC)" on some pages. Why would the tildas be red and make it that I didn't sign my posts? Thank you B.J.Carmichael 04:11, 27 October 2013 (UTC) (this is in red)
 * Did you use four tildes to sign above? Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 09:15, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I used 4 tildas (B.J.Carmichael 15:04, 27 October 2013 (UTC)) and I also used the link below that says in bold Sign your posts on talk pages: B.J.Carmichael 15:04, 27 October 2013 (UTC). It still shows up red either way. B.J.Carmichael 15:04, 27 October 2013 (UTC) B.J.Carmichael 15:04, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Try going to Special:Preferences, scroll down to the section titled Signature then remove everything from the box and uncheck the box (which refers to wiki markup) below. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 02:40, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Callanecc. The above suggestion seems to be working. B.J.Carmichael (talk) 03:46, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * No worries, glad I could help. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:50, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

FeedBack
Hi, how are you doing? Scientist 2020 (talk) 19:48, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Links look good
Hmm, links to the Course Pages look correct now; you must have figured something out. So sorry you were encountering these problems! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:23, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

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Missing Cite option in Edit window
The Cite option with associated template dropdown menu is missing from my edit window. Can someone assist me? B.J.Carmichael (talk) 19:37, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Preferences... Gadgets... Editing... check refToolbar - that's what I have. Ron h jones (Talk) 20:01, 4 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Thank you! It's working again. B.J.Carmichael (talk) 15:50, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia Page for CxC
Hey there! There actually is a wiki page for CxC. Dylanstaley (talk) 23:11, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Dylanstaley !! B.J.Carmichael (talk) 23:25, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Instructor involvement
Becky, I hope that you are going to get involved in advising your students. Some of their content is pretty uneven and would benefit from some advice. Some guidelines that you might remind them about: Wikipedia is not a textbook (WP:NOTTEXTBOOK), Wikipedia is global (your students seem to be writing for a US audience, which is parochial), Wikipedia aims to rely on good secondary references, like books and reviews (WP:SECONDARY, Wikipedia is very careful about copyright.  Some of your student contributions are huge and pretty naively written, which places a burden on Wikipedia editors who feel the responsibility for maintaining the quality standards. If you need help or advice or simply want to say your bit, you can always leave comments on the Talk pages.--Smokefoot (talk) 13:52, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for highlighting this issue. While I am not the professor for the course, I will relay your thoughts. It would be extremely helpful if you would include these comments on the course Talk page for all students to see. It would be a great way for them to experience the global collaboration of a Wikipedia article.  B.J.Carmichael (talk) 20:00, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for participating and staying in the loop. Could you please get the students to stop?  The content is not very good.  As you know, Wikipedia evolves articles by consensus and incrementally.   It is just asking a lot for unsupervised young students to create large articles of the quality that meets Wikipedia standards.  Cheers and happy editing, --Smokefoot (talk) 14:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Your concern is understandable. This semester, the goal was to challenge students to learn content and provide them with experience in the publication process utilizing university resources. We wanted the students to engage in the editing process - to be bold, if you will - but with respect to adding scientific content in the Wikipedia framework. The students are not unsupervised. They just do not have the same level of experience both in writing and in editing Wikipedia. Assistance is much appreciated in making the overall experience a positive one. These are new editors excited to contribute and be a part of the Wikipedia community. These students are both passionate about their growing knowledge and increasing the access to information for the global audience. I will not have them stop adding content, but we will discuss what can be improved for future courses. We are continually working to improve both assignments, how content is added, and opportunities for students to interact with Wikipedia editors. I agree that content needs to be added incrementally with more opportunity for editors to evaluate it. Again, your constructive feedback will help these new editors become strong contributors. Best wishes B.J.Carmichael (talk) 19:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Trouble Getting Information to Display on Dashboard
Just letting you know that I have edited a stub for Wikipedia, an article on a landslide that occurred in India fifteen years ago. I made three edits, but the first two did not register under my account. (They have my IP address, though.) I am having trouble getting it to display on our class page that I made the edits, though. Also, I am confused about what the last instruction for this assignment means. Where do I link another Wikipedia article and what exactly should this article be?

Here is my edited article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Mumbai_landslide

Thanks! --Daniel Ducote (talk) 05:38, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Sandbox
Some of the students moved their sandbox articles and userpages into the mainspace, but no worries - I've moved them back. I was mostly just writing here to offer help with anything, if needs be. I'm an admin, so if a student's work gets deleted, let me know and I can restore it and move it to their sandbox or somewhere else in their userspace. The only exceptions to this would be if the content was a copyright violation or something similar that went against some of the bigger rules on Wikipedia. (Have to give that disclaimer, although I haven't seen anything that would be a problem so far.) Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  07:04, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, User:Tokyogirl79. Is there a particular class where you see this happening? This will help me address those students specifically. I really appreciate your help and letting me know! BCarmichael (talk) 19:43, 6 November 2015 (UTC)


 * It was Wiki Ed/Louisiana State University/Intro to WGS Sec 1 (Fall 2015). In all fairness, this is a pretty common thing with moving articles and I've done it myself on occasion, so it's mostly just a case of double checking before making the move. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:12, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Another quick note: one of the students (J chotto) had an article go up for AfD, but I've moved it to their sandbox so they'd have their edit history intact for class credit and so they could see if the content could be merged into the main article for Dallas Buyers Club. (The content was on Leto's character, but wasn't enough for its own article.) I've also left some suggestions for other articles they could improve on or write about in case they do have to create an article or edit it substantially. I'm really only mentioning this so that there's a record of this so the student doesn't loose points for something not being in the mainspace. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:26, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, another note! This is for the same class mentioned above. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:27, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * *Transunicorn is the instructor for this Women's Studies course. I have sent an email so they are aware. Thank you again for all your attention and assistance! BCarmichael (talk) 17:03, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * BCarmichael and Tokyogirl79 - thanks for the info and support. I'll be in touch with my students about all of this - and I appreciate the assistance with re-adding content to sanboxes and userpages! Transunicorn (talk) 21:39, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:28, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Some AfC copyright issues
Hi, I'm wia, a volunteer at Articles for Creation. It's nice to meet you! This evening, while reviewing AfC drafts, I came across several from a student in the Introduction to Environmental Sciences course. Each draft contained copyright infringements, and many of those drafts duplicated existing subject-matter on Wikipedia. The drafts in question are Draft:Global Warming's Impact On Aquatic Life, Draft:Ocean Acidification, Draft:Climate Change, Draft:Greenhouse Gasses and Its Effects, Draft:Melting Icebergs, Draft:Global Warming Long-Lasting Effects On Aquatic Life, and Draft:Global Warming's Effect On The Sea Level (which has since been deleted). Just bringing this to your attention. As it seems to have been a significant issue for this editor, copyright policy might be worth mentioning during the next in-class Wikipedia discussion. Cheers, /wia   /tlk  08:06, 4 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for alerting me of this situation. I will notify the course instructor so they can discuss this situation with the student directly. I do know that some students copy text into their sandbox they intend to incorporate and see large pieces without proper citation. Am I correct is seeing that the "Drafts" are actually live pages and not part of this user's sandbox? Thank you again. BCarmichael (talk) 17:43, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, not a problem! The drafts were not published to the main article space, but were in the draft space, not the user's sandbox. As can be seen, most of the drafts have been deleted by an administrator. Thanks! /wia   /tlk  17:47, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Two student editors: LGBT student movement
Hi, User:BCarmichael! Giving a heads up that each of us have students working on LGBT student movement. Let's work together to ensure that both sets of edits are kept. I will give you the heads up that my student will be significantly revising the lead section to be more global and generally better meeting WP standards. We also have a common ally in User:Tokyogirl79, whom I see is watching over (very well, I must say), articles that our students are working on. Cheers, and best of luck finishing up the semester! Prof.Vandegrift (talk) 18:37, 6 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello I am including the instructor of the course,  so they can discuss this in their class. Thank you for reaching out about this. All the best wishes! BCarmichael (talk) 03:50, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Cool - I'll try to keep an eye out! Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  11:26, 7 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi and  - we've pretty much wrapped up the semester so I don't know that my students will continue editing, but I'll let them know that a few other folks are also going to work on the page! Thanks! Transunicorn (talk) 14:25, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to Xavier editathon
Hi! I'm going to be in NOLA hosting an editathon at Xavier focusing on local visual artists of the African diaspora. Would love if you could join us or spread the word! Thanks! --Heathart (talk) 00:49, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Thank you for the invitation. If the event is reschedules, please let me know. There is a class that may potentially be interested in participating. I look forward to editing with you soon!  BCarmichael (talk) 18:58, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Perfect! will do!--Heathart (talk) 14:51, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Video about NPOV on your User page
That video has very incorrect instruction about NPOV and I have nominated it for deletion. See Jytdog (talk) 02:12, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the information. I need to update the list of resources and can remove this video. Best wishes, BCarmichael (talk) 17:53, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 18:00, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Sophie Warny
I have just published Sophie Warny - good work! Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:44, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you! BCarmichael (talk) 01:25, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

re: 2005 Hindu Kush earthquake
Hi BCarmichael,

This is a response from a message that you'd left me on my talk page almost a year ago. I'd bumped into one of your students on this earthquake article, and you'd taken notice and left some thoughts on how we might integrate and accommodate students. I guess I should start by saying that there's only been a couple of instances where there have been issues that required talk page interaction. I think it would be pretty difficult for someone who is not fluent in all the aspects of WP to come into this environment for an assignment and do everything efficiently, correctly, and not step on anyone's toes in the process. I think it's in part because it's the active editors that are the ones that are shaping how content is presented, organized, and managed. New users really don't have larger concepts of how content (especially with regard to WikiProjects) is being handled.

On the other hand, even some very active contributors don't quite have the best grasp of our processes, whether it's because they're an ESL editor or some other reason. Looking at the history of the 2014 Murmuri earthquake article shows what happens when different levels of experience and ability cross paths. That one started off with an active, but not necessarily fluent contributor, then one of your students, then me. This example isn't a problem of course. It's just that when I remembered that you'd left a message for me, I realized that it would be a good example of how it really just comes down to experience, and that there's probably not that many issues overall. I've found that time is on our side. Errors can be made, but they're eventually smoothed over.

Happy new year, Dawnseeker2000  23:02, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, BCarmichael, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Adam and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

I hope you enjoy editing here. If you haven't already done so, please check out the student training library, which introduces you to editing and Wikipedia's core principles. You may also want to check out the Teahouse, a community of Wikipedia editors dedicated to helping new users. Below are some resources to help you get started editing. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:11, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Courses Modules are being deprecated
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