Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/LadyofShalott

LadyofShalott

 * 1) Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * I enjoy working on Wikipedia and helping others to navigate within our system. I particularly like working collaboratively here. I think I can help students to do their best work here so that both they and the encyclopedia benefit.
 * 1) In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
 * I have been an editor since 2006 and an administrator since 2008. I have worked on a wide variety of topics, in ways that vary from little gnoming efforts to entire article creation.
 * 1) Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
 * I earned a GA for Camak House. I have DYKS in topics such as Zanthoxylum americanum, Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, Lucy Cobb Institute, and Wayne Greenhaw (not exhaustive). Much of that work has been collaborative.
 * 1) How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
 * I do some NPP, and as such come into contact with new editors. I frequently give them a welcome template. I often try to do general cleanup work and wikifying to make new articles more in line with our standards. If the new editors have questions, I try to answer them and, if relevant, point them to the proper policy or guideline pages.
 * 1) What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
 * I think providing patient answers to questions is crucial. We were all "newbies" at some point, and have to remember that it can be scary to work on a topic and then look like it might disappear.
 * 1) Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
 * I have no blocks or bans and only the most minimal contact with arbitation (I once offered an opinion on whether a case should be taken). I have been involved in a mediation case regarding contents of Peter Yarrow. I was involved in discussions at Talk:Matt Sanchez when that was a contentious part of the site.
 * 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 almost every day, and spend many hours a week here. It should be no problem to refocus at least a couple of those hours to helping with the OA program.
 * 1) What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
 * I'm not sure. Is there anything else you'd like to know in particular?

Discussion

 * Support no brainer --Guerillero &#124; My Talk  17:58, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Support, per Guerillero.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:05, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
 * certainly. sonia ♫  21:12, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Support No reason to delay. -- My76Strat (talk) 15:49, 16 September 2011 (UTC)