User talk:Mappy1974

Thanks for helping out with the Wikipedia Ambassador program for CSI Theredproject (talk) 16:04, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello! Perhaps, you wouldn't mind signing your name on the ambassadors list so the rest of the class can message you from the class page Nboffa (talk) 05:10, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Research Topics
Hello, hello. I was wondering if you would like to check out some of my topics for the research paper on my user page. Comments are welcomed to be posted on my talk page. Nboffa (talk) 05:33, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

adding you to the course page list
Hi Mappy! I've added you to that course index. The way that page works is that it transcludes a page for the current term, which is what you have to edit to change the list. Here's the actual list for the current term, which you can edit: United States Education Program/Courses/2011 Q3. When you try to edit a page that transcludes other pages, there will be a list of links at the bottom (beneath the edit window) showing all the pages that are being transcluded. So if you run into a similar problem and want to edit the underlying content, try exploring those links and you can usually find what you're after. Cheers --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 14:06, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * You are on the page now, listed as one of the CAs for Mandiberg's class.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:25, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

How to add yourself to the list of trained ambassadors
First off, I'll apologize because this isn't as easy as it should be (or will be in the future). Here's what you do: where you replace The George Washington University with the name of your school. They you can copy and paste the formatting from that example page, too. page. Just find where the college would be alphabetically, then enter the school with a ===section header=== and paste this below the section header:
 * create the page for your school (since it doesn't exist yet), like Campus_Ambassadors/The_George_Washington_University/Trained_Ambassadors
 * Add that entry to the United_States_Education_Program/Campus_Ambassadors/Trained

Cheers --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:09, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I've started the page; you can fill in your profile there. Campus Ambassadors/CUNY, College of Staten Island/Trained Ambassadors. Let me know if there's anything else I can help with. Don't worry, this stuff is always very confusing for newcomers (and even experienced editors); it's not very self-explanatory how these pages fit together.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:03, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Nope, you didn't remove any other profiles as far as I can tell. Looking good!--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:35, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
 * If you did something and then cannot find it, you can click on the my contributions link or Special:Contributions/Mappy1974 to see where you changes went. If you cannot see what changed on the page, click the diff links to find out.  I can see you edited Campus Ambassadors/CUNY, College of Staten Island/Trained Ambassadors and United States Education Program/Campus Ambassadors/CUNY, College of Staten Island (which should probably be deleted as a test page, add  to the top if you don't want to use it), as well as United States Education Program/Campus Ambassadors/Trained. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:10, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Mark-oct-2010-SoHo-small.JPG
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License tagging for File:Mark-oct-2010-SoHo.JPG
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Talkback
Jamietw (talk) 07:27, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Two versions of a Wikipedia page
This can happen because of the caching that can happen for non logged-in users. Since the pages these people see are not customised they are stored in a fixed form before being sent out. This is fixed with a cache bypass reload (control-shift-R) in some browsers. Wikipedia can get into this out of date situation on that page, because it transcludes templates. The templates get changed, but the software does not realize that the outer shell should be changed. so United_States_Education_Program/Campus_Ambassadors/Trained changed but that is not reflected in United_States_Education_Program/Campus_Ambassadors or United_States_Education_Program. This can be overcome with a null edit to the outer page, or [ Purging the cache]. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 21:11, 25 September 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) 20:57, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Ambassador---> Wikipedia project starting at York College
Hi, I'm at York and I'm starting a Wikipedia project for my I/O Psych course. I just wanted a little feedback if you have the time.

Dr Ashton (talk) 22:16, 19 January 2013 (UTC)