User talk:McMormor

NASX Wiki-page Help
Hello, I have just finished inputting the majority of my group's article information into my sandbox. My user is kallie.chittenden. Could you check it out and let me know what you think/what needs help? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kallie.chittenden (talk • contribs) 01:59, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Campus Ambassador Hellos
Hello! I hope you enjoyed the training. How are things going at Montana State University? Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 21:41, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Messages
This is my message for a "classmate" on their page.Misstbird153.90.170.89 (talk) 19:24, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Misstbird, thanks for the note. I look forward to working with you in NAS426. And you were correct, the reason it was throwing the ip-address was because neither one of us was logged in. McMormorMcMormor (talk) 19:50, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Jackiewickens, I have no idea what I am doing here, but I am just navigating around trying to post on your talk page. So, hello! McMormorMcMormor (talk) 19:50, 31 January 2011 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackiewickens (talk • contribs)


 * Hi jackiewickens! Here's one way to think about messages. You left me a message on my user discussion page. I'm now answering your message on my user discussion page and when I'm finished you will get a message on your user page that I answered your message on my user discussion page.


 * Another way I could answer the message you left me on my user discussion page would be for me to go to your user discussion page and leave you a new message.


 * Why does it seem so complex and difficult? Well, sometimes it's very helpful to keep a record of the entire message conversation because the discussion is important information regarding an article so it's kept with the article. Other times the message conversation is just about a wikipedia process or formatting or in our case, connecting students with course ambassadors.


 * I'll be keeping regular office hours starting next week, so we can review all this again if you'd like to do a follow-up. McMormor (talk) 18:18, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Hello, McMormor. I am a campus ambassador at Rice University working with a professor named Dr. Strassmann. Dr. Strassmann says that she met you at a Wiki convention of sorts and she wanted to learn more about finding an Online Ambassador. She was hoping that you would be available but I don't see you listed on the United States Education Program list of online ambassadors. I think Dr. Strassmann would appreciate any feedback. Feel free to use my talk page to relay a message if you have the time. Thanks! Leejohnson898 (talk) 21:49, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Images
Basket of Puppies 16:31, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Basket of Puppies 05:39, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 28 January 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:33, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Gus Hormay
A tag has been placed on Gus Hormay, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect to an article talk page, file description page, file talk page, MediaWiki page, MediaWiki talk page, category talk page, portal talk page, template talk page, help talk, user page, user talk or special page from the main/article space.

If you can fix the redirect to point to a mainspace page, please do so and remove the speedy deletion tag. However, please do not remove the speedy deletion tag unless you are fixing the redirect. If you think the redirect should be retained as is for some reason, you can request that administrators wait a while before deleting it. To do this, affix the template   to the page and state your reasoning on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. DASHBot (talk) 23:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)


 * McM I went ahead and exerted my extraordinary admin powers and deleted this. Don't worry this normal --Mike Cline (talk) 23:07, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:24, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Re addition to de Kooning article
Bonnie, good job. Remember to set a good example and sign your posts to talk page with --~. Also, when you create a new section under an older one, remember to change the header in the edit summary to the new section header. This is less confusing for newcomers reading their watchlist. --Mike Cline (talk) 19:27, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:24, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello this is tasha. I have class wednesday during your office hours and wanted to know if i can please come in Tuesday. I have class 3:35-4:50 and other than that I am available to come see you. Please let me know if you have some time to meet with me. Thank you Tasha Misstbird (talk) 20:57, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for the reply, I will come in at 9am on Thursday and if you are busy then i can come back at 1 during your regular office hours. Thank you so much. Misstbird (talk) 03:16, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011
Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:34, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

re your graphics lab request
I'm not entirely sure what it is you want vectorized. Could you please clarify? sonia ♫  06:36, 26 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) 20:41, 24 May 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) 17:27, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Bibliographies
Glad to have you on board, McMormor! Not hard to guess who recruited you. I'll be interested to hear more about how these bibliographies are used. RockMagnetist (talk) 16:32, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Question from Edis' Class
Whazzup?

Re: Email push
Bonnie, yes go to your user preferences which has an email section. Select the options you want. I will be in Bozeman next week, can we get together on Monday or Weds? --Mike Cline (talk) 18:21, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

Contact
I will call you, Saturday, October 20, 2012 10:00 MT Kmpolacek (talk) 03:30, 20 October 2012 (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) 20:53, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

DYK Nomination August Gus Hormay
Good Job Bonnie! --Mike Cline (talk) 20:26, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

More good work --Mike Cline (talk) 13:27, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Re DYK and deleting user pages
On deletion, just put (without the noWiki) at the top of the page and someone will come along and delete it.

On the DYK, its hard to say when they will appear because there is a lot of DYK nominations in backlog. However, since I transcluded the nominations to your talk page, you will see when the DYK folks move them into the staging area and queue. Template:Did you know/Queue. Once it gets to staging and a queue, you will know exactly when it will appear on the main page. Make sure Kenning knows what you and jason have accomplished. --Mike Cline (talk) 13:56, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Montana State University Library
Hello! Your submission of Montana State University Library at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it 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! Yoninah (talk) 19:35, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The DYK talk page is the place for all comments on the DYK nomination. I moved your comment to there. Please see my new comment to you there, too. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 18:05, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * On the DYK template, as on any page, there is an "edit" tab at the top of the page that you click to get into the edit window. Best, Yoninah (talk) 21:16, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Montana State University Library
The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

OER inquiry
Hi, I'm sending you this message because you're one of about 300 users who have recently edited an article in the umbrella category of open educational resources (OER) (or open education). In evaluating several projects we've been working on (e.g. the WIKISOO course and WikiProject Open), my colleague Pete Forsyth and I have wondered who chooses to edit OER-related articles and why. Regardless of whether you've taken the WIKISOO course yourself - and/or never even heard the term OER before - we'd be extremely grateful for your participation in this brief, anonymous survey before 27 April. No personal data is being collected. If you have any ideas or questions, please get in touch. My talk page awaits. Thanks for your support! - Sara FB (talk) 20:45, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Re: MSU Affiliated User template
You mean like this:  In this box the link is to the MSU Library article. --Mike Cline (talk) 17:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Uh, yeah, just like that!! LOL ... I think it will help newbie MSU related Wikipedians and our established old-timer Wikipedians by identifying those affiliated with MSU who are actively participating in learning and contributing to Wikipedia in an academic and professional Wikipedia manner. What do you think? McMormor (talk) 17:44, 30 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I was thinking it would be cool for other colleges and universities to do up boxes to acknowledge faculty or academic staff, though I'd fret a wee bit about WP:OUTING.  Montanabw (talk)  22:22, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Hmmm. Museum of the Rockies?
Hmmm. You are at MSU, you have an interest in wikipedia in academe and I have a dream: Getting the Museum of the Rockies to release the Schlechten collection (and any other historic photo collections) under a free use license that would allow historical images to be used on Wikimedia commons. For example, in Albert, Alfred and Chris Schlechten, I could only use a fair use image of the individuals (and for only one of whom could I find an image), and so, for example the photos from the infamous 1933 annual could not be used and Clarence Mjork will thus be invisible to posterity! (smile). I actually have similar thoughts for the Montana Historical Society, but I suspect that will be a tougher egg to crack. Thoughts? Montanabw (talk) 22:30, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Zizek Bibliography: deletion of Russia Today publications
Hello McMormor,

I write to you, because you are mentioned as a participant of the WikiProject Bibliographies. I'm editing the Zizek bibliography. Here I also mention the op-ed publications on Russia Today. There is a WP editor who holds the opinion, that these edits violate RSP. I can't see how this is applicable. You can read my argument here. The editor doesn't respond.

If you have an interest in the subject, I would be happy, if you could contribute your opinion. If you don't have an interest, maybe you know someone else who might have?

With kind regards.

--Quin451 (talk) 13:01, 2 September 2021 (UTC)