Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/InverseHypercube


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

Consensus show clear support from all discussion participants. Welcome to the Ambassador Program! --Best regards,  Cindy  ( talk to me ) 23:27, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

InverseHypercube

 * 1) Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * I am interested in seeing Wikipedia grow, and I think the education program is a great way to gain quality, sourced information. As such, I want to help the students and teachers with Wikipedia formatting, style, and policy, and possibly foster new active editors.
 * 1) In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
 * On the English Wikipedia, I have over 9000 (meme reference not intended!) edits, the vast majority being to mainspace, and a variety of created articles (see User:InverseHypercube). On Wikimedia Commons, I regularly upload my own files and those of others, am a file reviewer, and run an upload bot.
 * 1) Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
 * The best articles I wrote are probably History of cotton and Whistler sled dog cull.
 * 1) How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
 * I place welcome templates on new users' pages when I see them, and do help new users (although I am not involved in the WP:Welcoming committee); for example, Commons:User talk:Sridhar1000. I try to be friendly and encourage users to ask me questions.
 * 1) What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
 * I think WP:Teahouse is a nice initiative, as is WikiLove and the automatic barnstar upon reaching 1000 edits.
 * 1) Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
 * No.
 * 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 edit Wikipedia for at least an hour a day, and am online almost all the time. I check my watchlist very frequently, so I can usually respond to queries in a matter of minutes.
 * 1) How would you make sure your students were not violating Copyright laws?
 * If I suspect a text copyright violation, it is usually easy to verify on Google. With regards to images, I am quite familiar with copyright law and Commons policies, being an image reviewer.
 * 1) If one of your students had an issue with Copyright Violation how would resolve it?
 * If it was a text copyvio, I would attempt to change it so as to remove the issue ("put it in my own words"). I would then contact the student responsible and remind them about Wikipedia policy. If it was an image, I would nominate it for deletion and contact the student.
 * 1) In your _own_ words describe what Copyright Violation is.
 * With text, paraphrasing (or outright copying) of the source in a way that emulates it too closely, assuming it is not under a license compatible with Wikipedia. With images the same concept applies; if the image is an outright copy or a derivative work of a non-free source, it is a copyright violation.
 * 1) What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * I have helped with Canada Education Program/Courses/Present/North American Environmental History (Tina Loo), although not as an official ambassador. I have made edits to articles, advised students, and talked to the professor regarding an issue (see User talk:Greentina and User talk:InverseHypercube), probably similar to the things I would be doing as an ambassador. Students responded quite well; see Talk:Trail Smelter dispute and User talk:InverseHypercube.

Thanks for reading!

Discussion

 * Support Good credentials, and helping out unofficially for fun, shows good initiative. Epistemophiliac (talk) 03:45, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm an OA for the class the applicant helped out with. IH showed the right demeanor for helping new users.  Conscientious, patient, knowledgeable, I think IH would make a great OA. (I assume I shouldn't support/oppose due to me not being part of selection/steering team - is this correct?)  The Interior  (Talk) 18:13, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Support.--Pharos (talk) 19:19, 12 April 2012 (UTC)