User talk:Hec7

HiJysg23 (talk) 18:40, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Mentors, and online ambassadors
hey. There's an Online Ambassador program etc., and it has a list of mentors. I'm sure some of them will check in to offer their services. Ping me or any one of them for any kind of advice or help. &bull; Ling.Nut 02:33, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Confession of 1967
Good job improving the Confession of 1967 article. Why have you reverted your work? Feel free to ask me any questions (on my talk page). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 18:29, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can see it. Personally I think you are in good shape to go live now, but if your instructor wants you to wait, he may have his reasons. Here's another thing to keep in mind: lead of the article should not contain any new information, only summarize the existing sections. So you'll need to incorporate existing content into yours, leaving it as a lead will not be the best solution. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 00:48, 21 October 2010 (UTC)


 * top improvements; if you want a review, please feel free to leave me a note here (o:, all best --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 13:12, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

This article should be eligible for appearing on the main page as a "Did you know" entry, if it is nominated it soon; it is supposed to be nominated within 5 days of being created or significantly (5x) expanded.

The instructions for nominating it are at Template talk:Did you know. Basically, all you need to do is take this code:

and write the hook, a concise and interesting bit of info from the article beginning with "... that" and ending with a question mark. The info from the hook has to be present in the article and supported (in the article) with a citation. Someone will double-check to make sure the source says what it's claimed to say.

Once you've come up with a hook, fill in your username as the author and fill the title of the article, then add the above code, including your hook following the "hook=" part, to the top of the appropriate section for the day the article was started on the DYK template talk page. The code will produce an entry formatted like the others. After that, just keep an eye on the entry; if anyone brings up an issue with it, try to address it. I'll keep an eye out as well. If everything goes well, it will appear on the Main Page for several hours a few days from now. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:54, 22 October 2010 (UTC)


 * very well, your requested kick off review ;o), all best --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 12:56, 24 October 2010 (UTC)


 * I see this is your first DYK nomination. I'd like to suggest that next time, you use this template when nominating articles. It gives more detailed descriptions and ensures that you'll get the formatting right. Can you please go back to the hook and insert all relevant wikilinks?  Schwede 66  17:22, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

hi Hec7, i replied like last time on the workbench, all best --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 15:05, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

the lower comment is yours, all best --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 16:38, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Bottomposting
Just so you know, on Wikipedia, we use bottomposting. Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 19:01, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Confession of 1967
Hello! Your submission of Confession of 1967 at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! StrPby (talk) 09:11, 26 October 2010 (UTC) Regards, StrPby (talk) 09:11, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've responded there. Strange Passerby (talk • c • status) 12:41, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Confession of 1967
Gatoclass (talk) 18:02, 2 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Good job! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 20:19, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations!! The "Confession of 1967" article received more than four thousand views on November 2nd. WOW! Keep up the good work. Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 07:32, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

pierre
hi Hec7, I looked into the changes during your DYK-day (congrats, btw (o: ) and re-corrected some stuff. I do not disagree personally with the two passages about the liberal point of view but I have no realible reference at hand right now and will try to stop by in the institutes library for religios studies tomorrow. regarding your self criticism: philosophy knows, at least since duhem, that there is most likely more than one equally satisfactory way to come up with a theory for every collection of evidence. don't worry ;), all best --Jan eissfeldt (talk) 23:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 28 January 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:32, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

question
Hi Hec7. I was wondering about this edit. Are you basing this estimate on any source? It seems highly unlikely, and the original number 2,02,161 seems much more likely. --Muhandes (talk) 19:31, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey I left a message on your page. I am in a wikipedia training session and I misunderstood the comma. Hec7 (talk) 19:38, 24 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh, I see, you mistook the 2 lakh for 2 million. Took me some time to get used to Indian numbers too. Your edit does make sense, about 200,000 is better than about 202,161 so I just removed the extra zero. Just a tiny note - there was no need to let me know on my talk page, since if I asked you something on your page I would be watching here for an answer. Best regards, and happy editing! --Muhandes (talk) 20:07, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:23, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:33, 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) 20:39, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Meow!

Drmies (talk) 17:52, 9 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) 17:24, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Finally
I finally got everything to start working! MercedesSS (talk) 00:19, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Hey Haley, I'm a little concerned now, I can't pull up my page- it's been redirected to Afghan Art and none of my writing is there. What do I do?MercedesSS (talk) 02:40, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Hey! I saw that. Let me do some investigating! Hec7 (talk) 02:43, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Comic Books and Terrorism is Live
Just went live with my page (finally). I'd appreciate any insight or thoughts you have on it, content/structure or otherwise. Thanks - Bowhead 45 (talk) 18:06, 5 November 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) 20:40, 14 January 2013 (UTC)