User talk:Bejinhan/Archive 7

The Signpost: 7 February 2011
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keep up the good work

 * Thank you =) Bejinhan   talks   10:32, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your comments! Though no, the assignment was not to rewrite the article. My teammates have attempted to make more changes and I hope you'll have the time to look at them. Thank you for your time. (Burrisan (talk) 15:15, 11 February 2011 (UTC))

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 2011
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The Signpost: 14 February 2011
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Account Creation Improvement Project
Hello,

You signed up on the Account Creation Improvment Project on the Outreach wiki. Thanks.

Now, we are looking for help. We are going to test the pages that are in the account creation process right now, against any pages that you create. More information.

Best wishes, SvHannibal (talk) 16:30, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

coordinate Ellen Rosell's class?
Howdy! Would you be willing to be the coordinating ambassador for Ellen Rosell's Public Policy Making course at Troy University?

It looks like this class is working in teams, so they may not need a mentor for every single student... maybe just one or two per team. (It looks from the syllabus that they were supposed to have requested mentors already, but it seems they haven't; Annie will be trying to figure out how they want to use mentors soon.) So your main role would be to keep an eye on how the class is going overall, and get the attention of other ambassadors when more help is needed. Thanks!--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:09, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

PS: If you'd like to do more, like coordinate another class, just let me know.


 * Hello Sage! Yeah, sure. I'll keep an eye on them. They certainly look behind schedule. Bejinhan   talks   02:26, 17 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Great! Thanks! --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 02:35, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Potential Articles
I selected potential articles for me to start working on for my public policy project. I listed them in my userpage. Could you take a look at them and give me some feedback and help me choose the best one? Thank you! Sfofana (talk) 23:40, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring students: be sure to check in on them
This message is going out to all of the Online Ambassadors who are, or will be, serving as mentors this term.

Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!

If you aren't mentoring anyone yet, it looks like you will be soon; at least one large class is asking us to assign mentors for them, and students in a number of others haven't yet gotten to asking ambassadors to be their mentors, but may soon. --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:05, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 February 2011
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Burrisan
I'm glad to be able to say that we've made more edits, and in the last series of events we hope to hear from you soon (Burrisan (talk) 15:04, 17 February 2011 (UTC))

WikiCup 2011 February newsletter
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to (first, with 487 points) and  (second, with 459), who stormed the first round. finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.

Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.

Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:37, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 28 February 2011
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PPI Assessment Team Spring Recruiting
Hi Bejinhan, Your work assessing article quality is really valuable and generated some excellent results from fall semester. The assessment process has been streamlined and dates are clearly posted for the upcoming assessment rounds. The Initiative has a lot more classes signed up for spring, so I would like to recruit some more Wikipedian assessors, and I was hoping you could help with that. I think community members would be more likely to participate if they are recruited by Wikipedians like yourself who have a good reputation. The strategy that worked last semester was to leave an individual message on the talk pages of non-adversarial Wikipedians. I looked for people by contributions to public policy related articles and those active on the 1.0 Editorial Team. I usually mentioned in the message what specifically about their work history made me think they would be a good assessment team participant. This is super time consuming to contact like 50 people, but only doing a few is not so bad. Also, I am looking for feedback about assessing with PPI, so please check out the discussion on the assessment tab, and let me know there if you have a chance to recruit some other assessors. I hope you are looking forward to another great semester working on this project. Drop me a line - ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 06:38, 1 March 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassador Program
Please take a look at this project page and see if you can be a mentor to one of the many Areas of Study. If you can, please put your name in the "Online Mentor" area of the Area of Study of your choice and then contact the students you will be working with. As the Coordinating Online Ambassador for this project, please let me know if I can be of assistance. Take Care... Neutralhomer •  Talk  • 04:31, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Just did at here. Bejinhan   talks   04:33, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Thanks! :) -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 04:46, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello from Wikimedia Philippines
Hello Bejinhan.

I am exec8, one of the board members of Wikimedia Philippines. I will be in Kuala Lumpur by May 2011 for my new professional assignment and will take a leave of absence from my duties in the Philippine chapter. I would like to meet with Wikipedians in Malaysia in my free time there. --Exec8 (talk) 19:23, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Do you have the exact dates you'll be here? Bejinhan   talks   05:29, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Lat
You might already know, but...I just noticed - the "Today's Featured Article" for tomorrow (5 March) is Lat, a Malay cartoonist.  Chzz  ► 18:57, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I didn't know that. Thanks for informing me! It's wonderful seeing it on the main page. :) Bejinhan   talks   03:41, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 7 March 2011
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Wikipedia Public Policy -Direct Lobbying Project
Hi!

Just wanted to shoot a hello. My name is Anna and I am one of the group members of the direct lobbying group. I was wondering you if had any idea on what perspective we can take!

Thanks and I look forward to working with you! Chlopeck (talk) 05:25, 12 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Anna! How about the perspective of direct lobbying for a free media, telecommunication, or internet movement? What perspectives do you and the others have in mind? Try to choose something that has sufficient reliable sources. Bejinhan   talks   02:56, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi! This is Daniel and I another one of the group members of "direct lobbying." Sorry for posting this so late, but I look forward to working with you. Thanks! Vert3x (talk) 17:03, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 March 2011
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Marking articles students are working on
Howdy, Online Ambassador!

This is a quick message to all the ambassadors about marking and tracking which articles students are working on. For the classes working with the ambassador program, please look over any articles being worked on by students (in particular, any ones you are mentoring, but others who don't have mentors as well) and do these things:


 * 1) Add  to the articles' talk pages.  (The other parameters of the WAP assignment template are helpful, so please add them as well, but the term = Spring 2011 one is most important.)
 * 2) If the article is related to United States public policy, make sure the article the WikiProject banner is on the talk page: WikiProject United States Public Policy
 * 3) Add Category:Article Feedback Pilot (a hidden category) to the article itself.  The second phase of the Article Feedback Tool project has started, and this time we're trying to include all of the articles students are working on. Please test out the Article Feedback Tool, as well.  The new version just deployed, so any bug reports or feedback will be appreciated by the tech team working on it.

And of course, don't forget to check in on the students, give them constructive feedback, praise them for positive contributions, award them The WikiPen if they are doing excellent work, and so on. And if you haven't done so, make sure any students you are mentoring are listed on your mentor profile.

Thanks! --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:10, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

mentors for Rosell's course
From the syllabus, it looks like they were planning to have the students request mentors, rather than have us assign them. Obviously, that hasn't happened (yet?), but I haven't heard anything from their professor or Campus Ambassador indicating that they want mentors assigned by us. Maybe Tony Garrett can give us a better idea of what the current plan is.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 14:29, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

Professor Obar Concerns
Got a message about an hour ago from Professor Obar of the Media and Telecommunication Policy project and I think it is viewed best in full:

"Can you please communicate to the online mentors that I DO NOT want them moving student material into the main space for them. This is a big problem. I have noticed that this has happened with a number of the projects already, for example, in the broadband.gov article and the media cross-ownership article. We need the students to be doing this on their own, of course so they can learn how to do it, and also so that I can grade what they've done. How am I supposed to follow student submissions if the data is associated with online mentors? A BIG PROBLEM ALREADY... please help me with this. None of you responded to my post about this on the discussion page. This is about to get out of hand. Jaobar (talk) 05:27, 20 March 2011 (UTC)"

With that, of course, please only give instructions on how to move, don't do it for them. Please only let them know what to do and let them do it themselves. If they run into problems, provide further instructions. Do not it for them. This seems to be making a mess of Prof. Obar's grading system and I would like to avoid that. Thanks. -  Neutralhomer •  Talk  •  Coor. Online Amb'dor  • 06:14, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation
 You recently made a submission to Articles for Creation. Your article has been reviewed and declined; it is now located at Articles for creation/Abigail Keam. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. Feel free to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved. (You can do this by adding the text to the top of the article.) Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Bejinhan  talks   06:33, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * User:Ptkeam made the AFC submission. I just fixed the submission as part of my WP:NPP efforts by substituting Template:AFC submission/submit, an AFC step Ptkeam forgot to do. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:18, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It was an automated message. I've gotten it corrected. My apologies. Bejinhan   talks   06:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank. I just got another automated message message from someone else on my talk page. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 12:18, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Please take a look at Automatic delivery of Template:Afc decline. Alterntaively, if you can let me know how an AFC editor determines which talk page to place the Template:Afc decline (is it User:EarwigBot?), I can work to get it fixed. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 22:48, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011
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The Signpost: 21 March 2011
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The Signpost: 28 March 2011
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WikiCup 2011 March newsletter
We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is with 231 points, who leads Pool H.  (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered "vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see WikiCup/Scoring.

A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round three is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 00:52, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Assessment with WP:USPP is the ultimate!
hi Bejinhan, A new assessment round is posted. This round is mostly starts and stubs, so evaluation should be really quick. WP:USPP Assessment 2.1 The Public Policy Initiative is super exciting this term. The topics are really interesting this term and the student's are producing some really good quality content. Recent numbers indicate that our project is actually contributing a significant amount of content to Wikipedia. There is a group of about 20 subject matter experts who are assessing, but the Wikipedians are so consistent, that I really need your scores to measure article quality. On another note, are you going to Wikimania? I am looking for people to co-present with, as both an active ambassador and an assessment team member you would be a real asset to some presentations at Wikimania, so let me know if you are going or interested in going! Best, ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:58, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring Direct Lobbying article TC210
This is Elif, I am assisting TC210 policy course. Just wanted to let you know that I created the talk page for this group. Have you been in touch with them? Let's start communicating about this group. If you need to ask anything you can contact me via my talk page. Let's get this project going! Elifyilmaz (talk) 04:43, 3 April 2011 (UTC)Elifyilmaz


 * WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Media and Telecommunication Policy spring 2011 (Obar)/Direct lobbying  Chzz  ► 11:37, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi again, Thanks for your prompt reply. The discussion page is to make sure they are receiving feedback from both of us and they discuss the development of the article among themselves. Best, Elif — Preceding unsigned comment added by Elifyilmaz (talk • contribs) 05:49, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Better Than Today peer review.
Hello. If you have spare time, could you peer review a good article aiming for featured article status? It is about the song "Better Than Today". I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you in advance.  I Help, When I Can. [12] 04:28, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 April 2011
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Make sure that you are checking in on your students work for WP:USPP/C/11/PTE
Hey, just a happy reminder to make sure that you are regularly checking in on your mentees work for JMU'S Technical editing class, Sadads (talk) 11:01, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

April 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
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PP
Hiya, I know you've got your own students, and so on - but please, can you do me a great favour - and have a look at two articles (part of PP), and provide any feedback/comments etc on the talk page?



Anything - any comments at all - would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,  Chzz  ► 03:54, 16 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Sure, will do. Bejinhan   talks   11:32, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Direct lobbying
Thanks for this article Victuallers (talk) 00:04, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 April 2011
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Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011
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Addl Feedback on U.S. Foreign Aid to Sudan article
Hi Bejinhan, I'm one of the students who is working on the article, United States policy on conflict mitigation and reconciliation in Sudan and will be rewriting the lede per your suggestion. I am unable to determine just from the letter grade if there are other areas for improvement I should be focusing on in order to meet Wikipedia's standards - any additional feedback would be greatly appreciated! --Saehawkins (talk) 13:02, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 April 2011
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New Assessment for article improvements with PPI
hi Bejinhan, Another assessment round is posted. This round is the follow-up to the previous assessment, so it should reflect some big improvements to the articles. WP:USPP Post Assessment 2.1 There is a group of about 25 subject matter experts who are assessing, and last week I sent them a tutorial video on how to leave comments on talk pages. So if you see any newcomers on the discussion pages, please help me welcome them. You are doing a really amazing job, in fact, here at WMF, we are using your ratings as the “gold standard” to test the Article Feedback Tool and see how well it works. I will be presenting lots of research in the coming months. Thank You! Best, ARoth (Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 21:24, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Public Policy Making spring 2011 Team 3 Tobacco in Alabama
Further to earlier discussion, please see User talk:Sross (Public Policy). I wasn't sure whether to write there, or here - but it seems best to keep things in one place. Cheers,  Chzz  ► 02:09, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 April newsletter
Round 2 of the 2011 WikiCup is over, and the new round will begin on 1 May. Note that any points scored in the interim (that is, for content promoted or reviews completed on 29-30 April) can be claimed in the next round, but please do not start updating your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. Fewer than a quarter of our original contestants remain; 32 enter round 3, and, in two months' time, only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. , who led Pool F, was our round champion, with 411 points, while 7 contestants scored between 200 and 300 points. At the other end of the scale, a score of 41 was high enough to reach round 3; more than five times the score required to reach round 2, and competition will no doubt become tighter now we're approaching the later rounds. Those progressing to round 3 were spread fairly evenly across the pools; 4 progressed from each of pools A, B, E and H, while 3 progressed from both pools C and F. Pools D and G were the most successful; each had 5 contestants advancing.

This round saw our first good topic points this year; congratulations to and  who also led pool H and pool B respectively. However, there remain content types for which no points have yet been scored; featured sounds, featured portals and featured topics. In addition to prizes for leaderboard positions, the WikiCup awards other prizes; for instance, last year, a prize was awarded to (who has been eliminated) for his work on In The News. For this reason, working on more unusual content could be even more rewarding than usual!

Sorry this newsletter is going out a little earlier than expected- there is a busy weekend coming up! A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 19:08, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

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May 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
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Nomination for "Good" article
Greetings,

Can we nominate this article for the "Good" article award? Jaobar (talk) 06:48, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

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Peer review for Eveline Hanska?
Hello there Bejinhan! I'm working to take the article about Eveline Hańska (wife of Honoré de Balzac) to FAC. Do you have time for a quick peer review? Thanks in advance! Scartol •  Tok  12:24, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure Bejinhan   talks   12:58, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I won't be touching the references, but I think it might be good if you can use shortened footnotes. Here's an example of shortened footnotes at work. Click on the inline citations and then click on the linked references. The reference in used would be highlighted in light blue. This works wonderfully well if you are citing a few offline books. Bejinhan   talks   13:27, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I've had this recommended several times, but the templating involved has made me want to stick to standard ref tags. I may consider it for future articles. Thanks in advance for your feedback! Scartol  •  Tok  16:06, 11 May 2011 (UTC)