User talk:Jami (Wiki Ed)

UCSD Internet Industries class question
Jami - Hi there! I have a question. On our course page, enrolled students are listed in a table and the right side column for each of them has a form box "Add an article". Once they add an article, they can click a button to add a reviewer. Can you point me to where I can learn about what this functionality is? I was not introduced to it in the orientations I saw.

Lirani (talk) 05:07, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

New Mexico State class
Jami-- I want to post a "support" for Joe Smith at New Mexico State but his request has been archived in archive 7 & I don't know how to do it. He has a good proposal that should get started. ''Name Joe Smith institution New Mexico State University, Doña Ana Community College Course title and description L SC 255 Special Topics: Wikipedia: let's use it, edit it and write in it. Students will be second year community college. Most are working toward Associate of Applied Science Degree in Library Science. This eight week course is about learning to use and edit Wikipedia. Students will create a Wikipedia account, make edits to articles already written and have the opportunity to write a paragraph or short article about a topic of their choice.'' Rjensen (talk) 08:34, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for catching that! I granting User:Joeatnmsu the instructor user right, so he can create a Course Page for the class. Do you want me to reach out to him and connect him with you once I hear back, or do you want to send him a message? Let me know either way, and I'll get on it asap. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:59, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you Jami and Rjensen!Joe (talk) 00:52, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Email
Chris Troutman ( talk ) 23:04, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
 * So sorry I missed your request while I was on vacation! I'm glad you found someone else to help you with your project. Let me know next time!! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:39, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Life is a Dream: Translation/copyright issue for student editor
Hello, Jami! Can you please comment on this translation/copyright issue at Talk:Life Is a Dream? Thanks for any guidance, as this is outside my area of experience. -- Ssilvers (talk) 23:52, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm on the same boat as you. :) I did read through the arguments and started to comment, but it really was just my opinion that had nothing to do with best practices or policies. I'd probably lean toward the translation being like original research, since there are "expert" translators who have produced their versions, but that's just my cautious opinion. Sorry I don't have any advice! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:17, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Jami. This seems to be a tricky little problem. If you run across anyone who you think might have dealt with this issue before, kindly steer them our way.  All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:28, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Absolutely will do :)! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:39, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Education Program technical update: New features of course pages (test message)
Several noticeable improvements to the EducationProgram extension (in addition to some small bug fixes) will go live on or around 2014-01-23:

Notifications
 * All participants in a course (students, instructors, volunteers) will receive Notifications whenever their course talk page is edited. Thus, editors can use course talk pages to send messages they want the whole class to be aware of, and the class participants are likely to see them.

Special:Contributions student notice
 * For users enrolled as students in courses that are active, a notice will appear at the top of Special:Contributions noting which course(s) they are enrolled in. This will make it easy for users who come across the work of student editors to find out that they are part of a course and identify other class participants.

Adding articles
 * Course instructors and volunteers will be able to assign article to student editors, instead of all articles needing to be added by the student editors themselves.

Adding students
 * Instructors and volunteers will be able to add users as students in courses, instead of all student editors needing to enroll for themselves. This makes it easier to maintain complete lists of students, and also makes the extension more suitable for tracking participation in edit-a-thons, workshops and other collaborative projects beyond the Wikipedia Education Program.

If you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know! --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

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Education Program Course Set-up Assistance
Jami- I am having issues locating my EducationProgram course and providing a link to students. It registers as an external link instead of a Wiki page. Any suggestions? Did I set up the course page incorrectly? B.J.Carmichael (talk) 17:08, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm finding it at this page. Is that working for you? Is that the only one you uploaded/couldn't find? The extension takes some time because it caches old versions, sometimes for up to a few hours. That may be why you couldn't find it after you listed it. In just a few weeks, you'll be able to get to any Course Page you're signed on to from your "Contributions" link at the top right. Students will be able to do that, too, so hopefully it will make it a lot easier! Let me know if there's still another page you're not finding, and I'll investigate. Not currently seeing other pages other than past terms, though. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:30, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The link provided is working for me. I have not created the other classes, but sent the information to you to create. I feel that may be the best option and I will continue to explore things on my end. The "Courses" link is very helpful at the top right of the page, by the way. Thank you! B.J.Carmichael (talk) 21:39, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

New features for course pages
Several noticeable improvements to the EducationProgram extension (in addition to some small bug fixes) will go live on or around 2014-01-23:

Notifications
 * All participants in a course (students, instructors, volunteers) will receive Notifications whenever their course talk page is edited. Thus, editors can use course talk pages to send messages they want the whole class to be aware of, and the class participants are likely to see them.

Special:Contributions student notice
 * For users enrolled as students in courses that are active, a notice will appear at the top of Special:Contributions noting which course(s) they are enrolled in. This will make it easy for users who come across the work of student editors to find out that they are part of a course and identify other class participants.

Adding articles
 * Course instructors and volunteers will be able to assign articles to student editors, instead of all articles needing to be added by the student editors themselves.

Adding students
 * Instructors and volunteers will be able to add users as students in courses, instead of all student editors needing to enroll for themselves. This makes it easier to maintain complete lists of students, and also makes the extension more suitable for tracking participation in edit-a-thons, workshops and other collaborative projects beyond the Wikipedia Education Program.

If you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know! --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 18:14, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for getting me started! DrX (talk) 19:21, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello Jami (Wiki Ed) ! Thanks a million for helping me get started with the Course Page so quickly. As the weeks roll, I'll be putting together the specific assignments for the class and so look forward to your advice. Cheers, DrX (talk) 19:21, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Minor typo in student training module
I noticed a minor typo last night on this page: Visial instead of Visual in second paragraph. I don't know how to edit these pages myself as it links to another page. Biolprof (talk) 22:00, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for catching that and letting me know! Those pages are tricky because they use a template that hosts the text on another page. Thanks for looking out, and glad to see you and your students are using the training! :) Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:38, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

New userrights
Hi Jami - I just went ahead and granted your account a bunch of new userrights that you are likely to have reason to make use of at one point or another. Most of them are fairly simple (and I assume you've had them before anyway,) but two are slightly odd. Accountcreator, besides letting you exceed the six account a day creation limit, also lets you change editnotices and pagenotices as needed - so you'll be able to create those as needed for education-related pages. +Massmessage will allow you to send out bulk messages as needed to participants in the education program. Using massmessage can get vaguely tricky, so it would probably be a good idea to look over the relevant documentation before playing around with it for anything important. Best, Kevin Gorman (talk) 22:13, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, Kevin! I will definitely make use of the massmessage and accountcreator user rights. These things make life a bit simpler, so thank you for that :)! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:21, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

re: OA for a class?
Hey, you have a reply at my talk page, for when you have a moment  czar  ♔  04:11, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

Education Program technical update, February 2014
We've started working on "editor campaigns", a system that we expect will eventually be able to replace our current Education Program extension (and be useful for many other purposes as well). The early work with that project will focus on a system for signup up new editors for editing campaigns (such as courses, but also edit-a-thons, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.). Because of that, progress will be slow on the current course page system. However, we have several improvements that should be available within the next few weeks.

As part of the effort to make course pages behave more like regular wiki pages, we've enabled editing of course pages by anyone. Users who currently have the right to edit courses will have access to all the fields (so that they can change the start/end dates, and change the enrollment token). Users who currently cannot edit courses will be able to edit only the "page text" portion. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
 * Anyone can edit the main text of course pages

We've considerably simplified the interface for editing course pages, removing the options to rename courses. Changing the title of a course would also move the course page, creating confusion and leading to a number of bugs. Several other parts of the course editing interface were not very useful, so we've removed them to make it easier on newcomers. This change should take effect on 2014-02-27.
 * Simplified course editing interface

Two students participating in the Facebook Open Academy mentorship program are currently working on additional Notifications for course pages. For the first of these, users will be notified whenever someone else adds them to a course.
 * Additional Notifications

Once again, if you have feedback about these new features, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let me know!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 17:38, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

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L SC 255 Special Topics: Wikipedia: let's use it, edit it and write in it (Spring 2014)
Hi Jami -

The L SC 255 Special Topics: Wikipedia: let's use it, edit it and write in it (Spring 2014)course is wrapping up now.

Thanks for getting me the rights I needed to create the course.

Here are the links to the reflections for those that chose to do in via Word
 * Person 1
 * Person 2
 * Person 3
 * Person 4
 * Person 5

Here is the link to one that used the sandbox

Lizb07

The last assignment will be recommendations to improve the course and will be in each person's sandbox.

Best wishes,

--Joe (talk) 16:55, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for granting the right.
Hi Jami, thanks for granting the right. Yes, I am doing my research on the Wikipedia education program. This Friday, I have an interview with a professor from Stanford University for my formative analysis. This one, along with another two analysis (hierarchical analysis & heuristic analysis) will help our team to decide the focus of the testing project. The testing report (with potential testing area and methodology) will be ready next week after the preliminary data analysis. And we will definitely keep you posted. Also, is it still possible for you to send us the survey for the professors? I will help to send it to the other group members if it's ok for you. We will use it ONLY for the testing purpose. My email address: zhoulijie0930@gmail.com, let me know! Thanks so much and have a good business trip. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LijieZHOU (talk • contribs) 00:07, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Bi531 Class Project
Hi Jami, my group members and I are working on the triclocarban page for the Bi513, Environmental Disruptors of Development course at Boston College. We have run into a problem with bias on our page that we are looking to resolve. A user commented that our page, particularly the opener for the article, seemed very single-sided. We rewrote the opener and went through the text of the page to double check that all biased language was removed from the article. We also made sure to place extra emphasis on more objective topics like the synthesis, structure, and mechanism of the chemical. I know that the user who commented was looking for us to include another side to the subject that would show support for triclocarban's usage. However, there do not seem to be any academic sources or peer-reviewed research articles that support another view. In this sense, we are limited by what information is available on the subject. I was hoping you might be able to help us out with this predicament. Thank you so much! Row131er (talk) 16:37, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for joining our class
Hello Jami-- I just saw you volunteered to help with our Kindred project and wanted to thank you on behalf of everyone in the class. See you in cyberspace! --DrX (talk) 12:48, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Alternate accounts and WP socking policy
Jami, I believe you also edit as User:Jami430. Is that true?

If so, do you think you could put a link to that account from this one, and vice versa, as per WP socking policy.

Many thanks. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 22:21, 18 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi, I note that Jami430 has retired. None the less, if that is you, could you please put your various userpages in line with Wikipedia socking policy.  Many thanks.  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 17:30, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * JB: your revert on the WEF page doesn't make very much sense. It's not a violation of any section of ENWP's socking policy for someone to not list their personal account on an organization's page.  It's a pointy reversion that doesn't seem to serve a purpose. Kevin Gorman (talk) 18:02, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I truly apologize for any undue stress this has caused anyone. I was always just trying to make (pretty meaningless and not very significant) edits from a personal account so I could relate more to new student editors and instructors about their experiences in the article namespace. I did not want my personal account associated so publicly online with my full name, though I understand I've linked the accounts before when someone I respected at WMF asked me not to use a WMF account to comment on an RfC. I am happy to retire my personal account for that problem but don't see the greater good in disclosing a retired account that I'm no longer using from a page that is prominent in a web search. It just seems that the only person affected is me and in a way that I'm not super comfortable with, but that feels like a pretty selfish thing to "say aloud." :) I never want to violate any Wikipedia policies or any editors' trust, so I can add it in if that feels like the best route. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:17, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * It would be good to disclose that you had formerly edited under a personal account on your current userpage (in the same way that I have disclosed that I have a WMF account on my personal userpage, heh,) but I see absolutely no benefit in linking your account from the WEF's page. It's certainly not a violation of any policy to not have it linked from WEF's page.  I would also encourage you not to retire it ;) Kevin Gorman (talk) 18:23, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * And yes, once the disclosure has been made on Jami's various userpages (which I didn't want to edit myself), of course we can remove the reference from the WEF page. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 18:31, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

For what it's worth, and beyond the socking policy that mandates you link your various accounts, I think it's a good thing for you and for the education program that you do in fact edit Wikipedia, and it's nothing to be shy about. On the contrary, I think that Wikipedians will be pleased that you demonstrate interest in the project beyond the terms of your paid employment. This is in line also with various pronouncements and discussions on wikimedia-l. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 18:30, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think the socking policy at all requires that Jami links her various accounts together. I would consider the privacy section of SOCK to encompass WMF and WEF staffers using alternate accounts to edit Wikipedia without their edits receiving excessive scrutiny. I think it would be valuable for Jami to be able to edit Wikipedia, anonymously if she chooses, and think that given our sock policy, especially given that her WEF account never edits mainspace, it would be perfectly acceptable for her to have an anonymous editing account.  It might even be beneficial, since it would let her experience what new editors experience without the effects of a known WEF/WMF afiliation. Kevin Gorman (talk) 05:13, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Kevin, I think the discussion around Zack Exley / User:Wikitedium suggests quite the opposite. Again, however, I do think that Jami's editing Wikipedia in a private capacity is definitely beneficial. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 15:21, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Education Program technical update, April 2014
Since the last update, development of the editor campaigns project has been continuing, and it's almost at the point that it will be useful to users running edit-a-thons and other non-course outreach events. (If you are planning such an event soon and would like to beta test it for tracking the contributions of newcomers, get it touch.) In the meantime, we've made a few small improvements and bug fixes to the Education Program extension:

The default end date for courses is now approximately six months in the future, instead of immediately. This will prevent the common problem where a user creates a new course page but does change the default dates, resulting in a course that is immediately considered "ended" and thus cannot be enrolled in.
 * Default course end date

Whenever a user gets added to a course by someone else, they will now receive a Notification.
 * Notifications when you get added to a course

The student profile special page (Special:Student/Username, not to be confused with Special:Students) is a page that lists the courses a student editor is enrolled in, and is also supposed to list the articles that user is working on. However, the list of articles can include incorrect data in cases where an instructor or volunteer assigned the articles to the student editor. These profiles are being removed from the extension altogether. This change should go into effect Thursday, May 1. (Logs are still available to find out which courses a user is enrolled in.)
 * Disabling individual student profiles

A nearly complete patch from Facebook Open Academy student Jeff Lloyd will add a new type of Notification: students will be alerted to edits made by others to the article(s) they are assigned (as well as the corresponding talk pages). Expect to see this feature within the next several weeks.
 * Article edit notifications for students coming soon

Bugs in the course page creation process (now fixed) led in some cases to duplicate listings for the same course at Special:Courses. This happens when the same course page had two (or more) different course ID numbers. It is possible to clean up such duplicate entries using by making calls to the API. I've documented this process and written a Python script for it.
 * Duplicate courses and API deletion

If you have feedback about these changes, or other questions or ideas related to course pages, please let Anna Koval or me know!--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 19:23, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

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Denise Trauth
Hi Jami--I don't want to get in anyone's way, but I have to make sure that this article conforms to our BLP guidelines. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 18:55, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi! No problem—is there anything you need from me? If you want to start a conversation with the student editors, I recommend pinging them on their talk pages! Thanks for helping them work on this article! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:24, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Feedback requested on meta-editathon workshop.
I am a librarian who explores ways that Wikipedia can be used to teach students research skills and information literacy. And I would welcome any suggestions you can provide on my latest project. (Even if it's simply to tell me all the ways I'm likely to go off the rails with this.)

I'm planning to facilitate an interactive workshop at a libraryland conference next month (May 10 at LOEX in Grand Rapids), and both the subject and format of the workshop will be "editathon." I have worked on projects where students edited Wikipedia as part of the course, and students learned a great deal of what we hoped. But now I'm curious to see if a supershort Wikipedia-editing burst can accomplish some percentage of the same learning. (Mainly because a 50-minute, one-time-class-visit-to-the-library instruction session is what librarians are most often invited to teach.)

This conference abstract excerpt does a decent job of summing this up (I hope): "...what if library educators could harness a much shorter editing blitz to teach information literacy skills? How about an editathon that would fit into a brief one-shot instruction session? This interactive workshop--part hands-on learning activity, part brainstorming session--will be a mini-editathon itself, along with a debriefing discussion and deconstruction. ... This session should give participants the opportunity to a) experience firsthand how editathons can teach information literacy lessons, and b) collaboratively generate and refine those teaching points." --http://www.loexconference.org/sessions.html#grandrapid (I'm also linking to the longer workshop description, which gives more details about how I imagine structuring the interactive workshop.)

What I imagine you could most help with are suggestions about:
 * Any technical considerations that could trip up this kind of teaching event
 * Identifying articles to target for revision

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you could provide. Sorry for the short notice. (I sent an email last week but only just now noticed that requests of your attention should go through this Talk page. Sorry.)--Infoenergy (talk) 15:34, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Survey for editors who mentor newcomer
Dear Wikipedia Ambassador,

I am seeking input on your experience as a mentor to new Wikipedians. This survey is designed to provide insight for the development of a new mentorship support tool on Wikipedia. If you have a moment, please take this survey, it should not take more than 10 minutes of your time to complete.

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V2SSrhU2NFOVAV

Also, if you are able to, I would greatly appreciate it if you would send the following survey to the mentee you worked with:

https://syracuseuniversity.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4V1quUdMZ1By3Ah

Thank you in advance for your participation, Gabriel Mugar 13:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Enrolling in class
Hey I can't Enroll In the course. What Is Token? — Preceding unsigned comment added by सर्वेश मिश्रा (talk • contribs) 05:35, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what class you're talking about. Please specify; thanks. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 07:55, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Hey I'm Taking about courses! — Preceding unsigned comment added by सर्वेश मिश्रा (talk • contribs) 09:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Question
Hi Jami,

I am new to Wikipedia talk pages so I hope I am doing this correctly.

I am with the American Folklore Society and we are interested in working with the Wikimedia Foundation in order to mobilize people from our professional organization to create and help edit Wikipedia articles pertaining to our field.

We were referred to your talk page by someone working on a similar initiative at the American Sociological Association.

If you would be available to have a phone conversation, we would appreciate it.

Thank you!

http://www.afsnet.org/?

AFSIntern (talk) 19:26, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi! Thanks for your note—and great job using my talk page! :) Please shoot me an email (jami@wikiedu.org) so we can set up a phone call about your proposed initiative. I do want to clarify that I work for the Wiki Education Foundation. We are separate from the Wikimedia Foundation and have been working with ASA to promote their initiative and support instructors from their organization. Since you don't have an email account associated with your user account, I will be on the lookout for an email from you. Happy to hear you guys want to improve Wikipedia! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:32, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikimania 2014
Are you going to attend Wikimania this year? --In actu (Guerillero) &#124; My Talk  20:45, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I will be at Wikimania! Will you be there? Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:17, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I will! Are you going to the hackathon or just the conference? --In actu (Guerillero) &#124; My Talk  18:37, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I will be at the education pre-conference (on the 6th and 7th) and at the full conference. There's going to be an Ambassador training session on the 6th if you want to join (not sure if you'll be at the hackathon during it). It's geared toward a global audience but also toward folks in the UK, but it would be great to have more people with experience to share their knowledge and advice! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:07, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Archaeology courses?
Hi, Jami -- do you know of any classes being run that relate to archaeology? I'm working on the radiocarbon dating article, and was thinking about trying to get an academic with interest in Wikipedia to review it. If there are any archaeology professors already working with Wikipedia, I figured they might be good people to approach. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:10, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I believe we've only ever had Grant Aylesworth as an archaeology participant, and he no longer teaches with Wikipedia. If any new folks come up for this term, I will absolutely let you know. Or if you want to recruit someone by luring them in with your article ;). Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:06, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I did find one user and got a response on Talk:Radiocarbon dating which was very helpful. I think she recently posted a course rights request to the ENB, which is how I saw her, so you may see an archaeology class this fall. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 14:16, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I must have missed that or that it was archaeology. Who was the editor? Also, I forgot about User:Comtebenoit, who may be a good person to talk to. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:41, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It's Ninafundisha; this is the link to her request for course instructor rights. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 01:15, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Hello! and Yes, I'm the archaeology prof in question - I did indeed post a request for course instructor rights, although nobody responded and I believe it was auto-archived. I'm working on writing up a more detailed explanation of my course assignments, and once I've done that I'll post the request again and hopefully it can get approved. I recruited User:Comtebenoit to help out as an Ambassador, who's been really helpful. About the radiocarbon article, I won't be teaching archaeological methods this fall, so I'm not sure I'll be able to find students to help. I can ask my colleagues, though, and see if I can find anyone to take a look. Ninafundisha (talk) 01:51, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi - you've already been very helpful, so please don't feel under any obligation to assist further with the article, though of course it would be great if you did find someone who's interested. I am about to read the links you posted -- I have had trouble finding good links on the Bayesian approach, so I'm really looking forward to that.  Thanks again. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 02:00, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Any time! Oh, I should mention, if you don't have access to an academic library you might not be able to read the full text for all of those links. I don't have pdfs, but let me know and I can try to track them down for you once I'm back on campus in September. Ninafundisha (talk) 02:07, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Classes start next week!
Hi Jami, I emailed you a few weeks ago but haven't heard from you back yet. A little freaking out because classes start next week and I am not set up with a course page, ambassadors, etc. Please help! Thank you so much LeshedInstructor (talk) 15:32, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I was out for 2 weeks and am still catching up on a few emails—I'll take a look at yours now and get you the info you need. You actually have the user rights to create your own course page, since you have done it several times before, but I can help create the outline for you to follow the prompts! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:16, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Ambassador program
I fundamentally disagree with your reply. The community ire over student editors can be ameliorated with the introduction of ambassadors who know their way around wiki. I don't know if WEF is so frightened over losing participating professors that you feel it necessary to let them have their way, but this practice is (in my opinion) a bad idea. Not only is it an affront to ambassadors like me, but it also gives short shrift to both the students and Wikipedia. The teaching assistant in question hasn't been trained, doesn't have any experience on wiki, and will ultimately fail to properly teach the student editors.

I regularly see new editors with more experience than some TA ask on the education noticeboard to become campus ambassadors only to get rebuffed. Your approval of this professor and his actions is why you have posts to the education noticeboard complaining about problems. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 17:39, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't think we're frightened about losing instructors at all. There are instructors who want to teach with Wikipedia, and we want them to have as much support as possible. The TA in question is signed on as a campus volunteer because that's the designation on the education extension that allows people helping the course to use the activity feed and enroll students' usernames (which are absolutely necessary if we want to monitor their contributions). The TA does have experience in the course topic, teaching, mentoring students, giving assignments, and helping students learn how to do well in the classroom. And Wikipedia editing basics and community norms/expectations are something someone can learn with practice, but I think we have to give people who want to help student editors the opportunity to learn. Of course it would be great if every single new editor could get support from an editor with 10,000+ edits, but that's not really plausible if we want to grow Wikipedia.


 * Meanwhile, Jonathan has been teaching with Wikipedia for a long time, and we don't exercise that much control over experienced instructors who have done this several times. We provide resources and recommendations, and we always share new learning outcomes, but I don't think anybody can really control every aspect of a classroom. Though I believe his TA has gotten some training about Wikipedia, I'm not sure s/he has been properly trained yet or what the timeline looks like for that. You're right about it not being ideal, and this is, in general, not how we like classes to go. But I know Jonathan wants support from a trained Wikipedian in addition to the TA, as he requested an Ambassador earlier this month. Fortunately, we've now hired two Wikipedians who started this week, so they will be providing much of that oversight in cases when there were no other Ambassadors available. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:05, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Please Read
Hello,

I recently enrolled in Education Program:Cornell University/Online Communities (Fall 2014) by accident. Is it possible to be removed from it?

Thanks,

Batreeqah ( Talk ) ([https://tools.wmflabs.org/supercount/index.php?user=Batreeqah&project=en.wikipedia 02:33, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

I just found the disenroll button. Nevermind. Thanks anyway!

Batreeqah ( Talk ) ([https://tools.wmflabs.org/supercount/index.php?user=Batreeqah&project=en.wikipedia 02:35, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Glad you found it! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:14, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Articles for Education Program:Brock University/NUSC 1P10 Professional and Therapeutic Communications (Fall 2014)
Hi Jami, I am a doctor and wikiproject medicine educator. I noticed Alzheimer's disease was added. I am not sure what criteria are used for adding articles but I would not recommend adding articles that are Featured Articles as they are generally reasonably complete and most of the time additions are just removed as they will be primary sources or somesuch. So to save the pain of this and actually give folks a chance of seeing their work stick and maybe improve some articles in a worse off condition, I'd recommend looking in Category:Start-Class medicine articles or even Category:C-Class medicine articles (the stub class ones are often esoteric, though Renal colic is pretty general and accessible). Folks will much more likely find something integral missing and feel some joy adding it. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:06, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Guidance
Hello Jami,

We are students of the Bioinorganic Chemistry course at the University of Toronto Mississauga taught by Professor Judith Poe. Our course code is CHM333. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LithiumCHM333 (talk • contribs) 13:29, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the information! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:35, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Signpost
Hi Jami and. Hope all is well! I recently joined the Signpost (SP) Editorial Board as the Personnel/Recruitment Editor and I'm reaching out to you because of that. I've been speaking with various editors, asking if they'd like to contribute an article to the SP and some have replied that they're not sure what to write or how to write an article for a newpaper. The Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom has some links which give information about the Desk and some Guidelines, but just because someone is comfortable editing an encyclopedia doesn't mean they're comfortable editing a newspaper. Right? So, I had this idea that a student intern might be a bridge between the Wikipedia editor and the SP. The thought is, we could use the talent and experience we have in the SP to work with a student intern. The student intern could liaise with editors who known the WMF world, but aren't connected with the "journalism" world. If the student isn't a "wiki" person, perhaps they'd have a background or interest in free-knowledge/copyright/internet freedom etc. and we could help them gain an understanding of how things relate to the WMF world. We could write up (1) skills that might be acquired, exercised; (2) kind of feedback we’d give; (3) interactions expected; (4) range of topics (negotiable), and so on. I'm hopeful that WikiEdu has a journalism class or two signed up for next semester, and if so, that you might see the value of a student interning with the SP. Thanks for considering it. --Rosiestep (talk) 07:26, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Rosie, so sorry about the delay! We are still working out our list of courses that will be participating next term. I will make sure our team has this in mind if (and hopefully when) a journalism course comes on board! I'll let you know if we get any interest from them. Thanks for thinking of it—interesting idea! Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:29, 30 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the update, Jami. Keeping my fingers crossed that there's an eager journalism student/newsroom intern out there somewhere. I think it could be an exciting new collaboration. :)

More boys and their toys
Hi Jami--that list of FAs etc. by content, that was very helpful. Can I get that from you one way or another? Seeing User_talk:Drmies made this even more...what's the word...pressing, after I followed some links and saw articles like Fnatic. Thanks! Drmies (talk) 00:59, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Don't know how I missed this! I always update my chart with numbers pulled straight from the FA list, using the headings they're already categorized in. Are those the numbers you're looking for? Thanks for being at that event! I wish I could have been there the whole time. Jami (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:38, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Sure thing--thanks Jami! Drmies (talk) 12:53, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

Spelman & Rolemodels
Tell us when you know more .... interest in Canada, Spain, Korea, Nigeria .... Victuallers (talk) 23:27, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Courses Modules are being deprecated
Hello,

Your account is currently configured with an education program flag. This system (the Courses system) is being deprecated. As such, your account will soon be updated to remove these no longer supported flags. For details on the changes, and how to migrate to using the replacement system (the Programs and Events Dashboard) please see Education noticeboard/Archive 18.

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Event coordinator
Hi, the English Wikipedia recently created a new user permission for editors involved in off-wiki outreach work, event coordinator. This new permission allows users to mark accounts for confirmed for up to 10 days, and also allows them to create accounts for events without rate limits without some of the features of the account creator right that aren't used at edit-a-thons and other events. I have added the event coordinator permission to your account and removed the account creator permission, as you appear to have been using it mainly for outreach work.This should have no noticeable impact on your ability to create accounts, and will give you the extra ability to temporarily confirm accounts if you need to. For more information, you can see the information page on the right, or you can ask me if you have any questions. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:48, 22 May 2018 (UTC)