Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/Gobonobo


 * The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful Online Ambassador application.

Gobonobo

 * 1) Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * I'd like to help new editors learn how to edit and interact on Wikipedia. Editing Wikipedia can be tremendously daunting and Ambassadors play an important role as a public face of Wikipedia. I'm interested in seeing Wikipedia in the Classroom projects succeed.
 * 1) In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
 * I am most active at the English Wikipedia, though I also make contributions to Wikimedia Commons. I primarily contribute content to Wikipedia and work on maintenance backlogs. I participate in a few different WikiProjects.
 * 1) Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
 * I've started many articles, mostly biographies. Recently I've worked on Blanche Lazzell, Nellie Stone Johnson and Hannah Kempfer.
 * 1) How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
 * I regularly place welcome templates on new users' talk pages.
 * 1) What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
 * I believe that most newcomers appreciate receiving a welcome message shortly after they begin editing. I think that responding to inquiries quickly and clearly makes a huge difference, especially for editors having difficulties or students trying to complete their assignments on time.
 * 1) Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
 * I've not had any major conflicts, blocks, bans or involvement in arbitration.
 * 1) How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions?  Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?
 * I typically edit on a daily basis and monitor discussions that I am involved with. I would be willing to dedicate three to four hours per week to a mentoring role.
 * 1) How would you make sure your students were not violating Copyright laws?
 * I would use CopyTracker to check content submitted by students. I would also use the techniques outlined at the Detecting subsection of WP:PARAPHRASE to help identify close paraphrasing.
 * 1) If one of your students had an issue with Copyright Violation how would resolve it?
 * If there were a specific incident, I would explain how it was a copyright violation and why it was not appropriate for Wikipedia. I would try to help students find a way to complete their assignments without violating copyright.
 * 1) In your _own_ words describe what Copyright Violation is.
 * Copyright violations can take many forms, but they are most often plagiarism or a direct cut and paste of someone else's work. Copyright violations may also involve using non-free images and can include close paraphrasing.

Discussion

 * Support I have worked with this user several times and he has always been excellent. -- Guerillero &#124;  My Talk  14:19, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Support In particular if Guerillero is vouching for him. Epistemophiliac (talk) 03:42, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Support.--Pharos (talk) 19:20, 12 April 2012 (UTC)