Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Resources

Guidelines and best practices

 * Online Ambassador guidelines
 * Guide to IRC for ambassadors
 * Education portal for professors on Outreach wiki
 * Assignments for student editors information page: advice for ambassadors

Videos
Needed:
 * 1) image upload video
 * 2) adding references video

Interactive lessons
These are interactive lessons that ambassadors (and others) can use when working with newcomers one on one to explore the basics of Wikipedia.

Classroom lessons and discussion plans

 * Discussion 1 - Introducing students to Wikipedia, answering questions, and fostering excitement
 * Discussion 2 - Introducing students to Wikipedia in a computer lab (1 - 1.5 hours)

Online chat lessons

 * Lesson 1 - Creating an account, creating a subpage, using talk pages
 * Lesson 2 - Basic markup, article structure, and citation formatting and norms

Learning tasks

 * Article tagging - Explore the structure of Wikipedia in a topic area by identifying and tagging articles related to a WikiProject

On-wiki tutorials

 * Tutorial - General introduction to Wikipedia
 * Article wizard - Walkthrough of the requirements for articles, including notability and sources
 * Picture tutorial - Explains how to insert pictures into Wikipedia articles using wikitext
 * Graphics tutorials (advanced) - advice about advanced image editing

User Template with a sandbox link
UserSand -

For welcoming students

 * Ambassador welcome - a welcome template that Online Ambassadors for the United States Education Program should use to add to students in their courses' talk pages. Be sure to substitute it:.


 * WAP student - This is for putting on students' userpages (or talk pages). It provides links to the course page, course talk page, mentor contact links, and an IRC link. See documentation for details on usage.

Awards

 * Wikipedia Ambassador Barnstar - a barnstar for thanking ambassadors for good work. Use it liberally!
 * The WikiPen - an award to recognize students for excellent work. Use it whenever you see great things from a student, at any stage of the process &mdash; whether a great outline, a great critique of an existing article, a great DYK submission, or a great final version of their article.

Tools

 * Course Info tool - a list of all the articles students in a particular course have edited
 * IRC Guide for Wikipedia Ambassadors