User talk:Cindy Allen

Welcome!

Hello, Cindy Allen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Sadads (talk) 18:12, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
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Welcome, this time, without a template!
Hi Cindy, and welcome to Wikipedia. I've volunteered to help out with some students, and thought I'd just pop by to say hello, and to offer you and your students (all of them, not just those I've accepted as mentorship candidates) assistance as and when required. Take care, all the best, and welcome again. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:21, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey it's Alex, since I can't be mentoring your class in person, I thought I would supervise the class from online and coordinate the Online Ambassadors that are working with your course. As The Rambling Man mentioned, I am definitely able to advise and help at any time during the semester. I would recommend that your students either direct questions to their Online Ambassador directly or leave comments on the discussion page for your class where you already thanked us that way other Ambassadors can respond in one central location. I also made a shortcut to the project page for the class at WP:USPP/C/11/PTE, so that students don't have to type in the full name for the page if they don't want to, Sadads (talk) 23:55, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

==Thank you both so much for all your help--we are truly enjoying getting to know Wikipedia!! Cindy Allen (talk) 22:09, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hi Cindy! I hope the class is going well so far. =) Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 00:34, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

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Students List: Course Page
Hi Prof. Allen

I noticed my profile account wasn't on the students' list of our course's webpage. I went ahead and added my profile and my mentor's name with the correct formatting to the bottom of the list. Was I suppose to add myself already, or was this a glitch?

If you need to, you can respond on my talk page > > > > Pietrogpjmu (talk) 22:53, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

p.s.- I learned today that the colon symbol at the beginning of line


 * will cause the paragraph to indent below the previous line.

Also, if you put a space at the beginning of a line the text in that line appears in a box. Cool trick, huh.

Lastly, I went ahead and added a 'userboxbottom' to your user page since you didn't one yet. You had the 'userboxtop' but not the bottom. Now your userboxes are enclosed in a virtual space, and will be easier to find and move in the future. If you had it set-up with the other formatting on purpose or if you want to revert it back to the way it was before, you can in the view history tab near the read/edit buttons. Just though I let you know. Pietrogpjmu (talk) 23:12, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring some of your students
Hi, I'm Banaticus and as an Online Ambassador, I've been asked to mentor some of your students, Fuerstem, Wood3cm, Joe stelfox, and Walla2jl. I don't want to supplant you in your role as professor -- I'm just here to help, if you'd like. I proactively left a message on their talk pages asking them if they'd like to step through my User:Banaticus/Adoption pages if they're unfamiliar with Wikipedia and am planning on periodically checking up on them and possibly offering suggestions. Banaticus (talk) 02:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

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Some resources for you
Hi Cindy! I enjoyed working with you in the workshop at the Summit. Chzz and I have made a page with some links to guides and resources to supplement the information we gave you at the workshop. You can find it at User:Chzz/gw. Feel free to ask either of us any questions you may come up with. Thanks, and good luck in the semesters to come! – GorillaWarfare (talk) 01:52, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

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Survey
Hi Cindy!

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) 23:04, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

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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) 20:54, 14 January 2013 (UTC)