Wikipedia:Writing Wikipedia Articles course/Round 2/Teams

Course Teams

For the Writing Wikipedia Articles course, students will divide themselves into teams of about four.

Do this:


 * Introduce yourself to your teammates, by writing a couple sentences about yourself below. Copy the format of the instructors' entries to insert your username, etc. You might consider addressing (A) What are you hoping to get out of this course? and (B) Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia (or another wiki)?
 * Connect with your team. (New: some tips in this short screencast.) It's up to you how extensively you want to interact, and what tools you want to use. We suggest the following as a minimum; but feel free to explore other options if you are finding your teammates helpful!
 * Connect initially by email; you can email another user by visiting clicking his or her name, and then clicking "email this user" in the lefthand navigation.
 * Choose a team name, and replace "Team X" with your name!
 * Every week, share something you've done, or learned about, in your homework with each other.
 * As you get more comfortable on Wikipedia, use each other's user talk pages. You can also use Twitter, IRC, or even get together on your own time using a tool like Google Hangout.
 * Consider this section your team's own space to use as you see fit. If you can think of something helpful to to add to this page…do it!



Pete Forsyth
I am the course instructor. I have been a Wikipedia contributor since 2006, and teaching others to do so in various contexts for most of that time. I am serving as Project Lead for Communicate OER. You can learn more about me at my web site: http://wikistrategies.net/pete-forsyth

Sara Frank Bristow
Hi! I'm the WIKISOO course coordinator. I am mainly an e-learning researcher, focusing on K-12, higher education and informal learning. I'm very interested in open educational resources and wikis in general, and have been editing Wikipedia since 2006 myself (primarily wrt grammar until ~2010). I'm proud to be project manager for Communicate OER. My twitter handle is @SalientResearch.

Serena Reavis
I am an educator and instructional technologist at one of the largest community colleges in the county. I believe in open culture and technology and am excited to be learning how to contribute to Wikipedia. I have dreams of incorporating Wikipedia into my English composition class, but I am not sure how I will accomplish that within the limits of a standard syllabus. I do, however, believe it holds great potential for teaching information literacy.

Chris Sheats
Yawnbox (talk) 00:57, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

(A) I hope to learn more than I already know about Wikipedia, which is not a lot. I also want to learn more about the Wikimedia community. (B) I've created a couple of new articles and edited a couple others. I'd really like to contribute more.

WakaWakaBirdBoing
I am a Crazy NewGrounder Anarchist who believes in free culture and limited government.

What are you hoping to get out of this course?

To learn how to edit wikis so that I could edit the Synfig Wiki http://wiki.synfig.org/wiki/Main_Page

Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia (or another wiki)?

Yes

Jacqueline Wernimont
I am an assistant professor of English at Scripps College. I'll be watching the archived sessions and catching up virtually because we have a young child at home. I work on issues around gender in technology and literature. I've done some Wikipedia training and editing.

Nick
Hi, my name is Nick and I have an general interest in the use of wikis. I'm taking this course to better familiarize myself with the creation and maintenance of wikis. The resources available here are highly appreciated!

Tania Burgos-Lucero
I'm very excited about what technology brings to society, and anxious at the same time about how it will impact those left out by the changes -- and how they will react.

Thelma Belo
I am a sociologist, antrophologist and lawyer from Brasil, and also a volunteer at a colaborative community called "Teia Social" (Social web), where we use the wikimedia sistem. That's why I'm here, to learn more about editing pages.

Lorrie Graham
Hi, all. I'm in Albany, NY, working at Excelsior College in the Test Development sub-unit of the Center for Educational Measurement. Part of my job is to maintain our WikiEducator page, so I'm here to learn the ins and outs, the rules of the Wiki world, and to experience interacative online learning. GramaLorrie30 (talk) 15:14, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

EJade Castain
My interest is bibliography, so I'd like to learn how notations are done and how I can help improve that aspect of Wikipedia articles.

Bron
Hi I'm a doctor interested in Free Online Access to Meducation (Medical Education). I've just started working on Wikiversity projects, but I'd like to start editing Wikipedia too.

Hi, I sent an email to you through Wiki. Lorrie (talk) 18:03, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Glen Gatin
ggatin on Twitter and Skype

Online mentor for doctoral elearning program. Teaching ejournalism courses for a land based university. Generally interested in digital humanities and emergent theories of collective social behavior on the internet.

Just watching the lab recording of Week 2 lab and working on a reversion issue for an entry that I created on the page for euphemisms in the examples section. I entered "appeared tired and emotional" as an euphemism for "drunk". The entry was reverted for lack of footnote. So I undid the reversion and added a footnote. I think I was a little rough with my coding and had to make a few saves before I got the table wiki text correct. I like the idea of B:BOLD, goes with my blood type B+

Is this a good way to converse with team or is their a better common conversation space for the team?

Lorrie Graham
Glen, I was wondering the same thing. What is the best way to communicate with each other? Lorrie (talk)

Lorrie Graham
Hi, Team WikiPIEdians. It seems that we are to choose a topic to work on this week. Any suggestions?Lorrie (talk) 18:09, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Jeannette Lee
I am an educator who teaches digital writing and iPad classes and am an open educational resources wizard.

Clem
Passionate about learning and technology, I have a background in teaching, learning technology and (a while back), some web development.

Melisse
I am just getting started and am interested in posting articles related to local history.

Brian Kelly
I've worked in higher education for many years but am now about to start work as an independent consultant. Passionate about the value of social media to support learning and research. Prolific blogger on my UK Web Focus blog.

Team OER focus New folks
New folks

Patricia Loeblein
Patricia Loeblein I am brand new to Wikipedia. I work for PhET Interactive Simulations which is also funded by Hewlitt and we want to build our first page. I do think Wikipeida is great and I encourage mys students to use it. We are excited to begin building a presence. patricia.loeblein@colorado.edu

klidessau
Hi, I'm Kathy and from Colorado. I'm with PhET Interactive Simulations and want to learn more about writing Wikipedia articles.

Margaret
Hi! I'm an artist and educator. Interested in open digital libraries/collections and in K12 self-learning. I used to edit articles for typos and grammar. My twitter handle is @MargaretJeanArt.

Shironica
Hi, I am Shironica, a teacher educator from Sri Lanka. I too am new to Wikipedia. I am very interested in Instructional Design and Open Educational Resources.

Molly McGowan
Hi I am Molly. I am currently Interning at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto Canada. Part of my responsibilities include running the ROM's E-Volunteering Program WikiProject Public art/EVolunteerPlan/ROM. I am hoping to learn how to edit and add wikipedia pages more effectively. I have edited a few wikipedia articles so far including the Royal Ontario Museum page and the Royal Ontario Museum Iconic Objects page.

Cammie
I enjoy trivia and I'm also trying to study to get into grad school while working and residing in Southern California. I see Wikipedia as a great opportunity to use research and writing skills. Hoping to experience crowd sourcing in action with a supportive team.

I've been on Wikipedia for several months and have done simple edits consisting of typos, citations, and adding external and/or reference links.

Kunleru
I am a doctorate student at the Australian Catholic University. I am interested in learning how to navigate through Wikipedia and particularly how to add and edit articles.

JohnnyTecmo
I am joining this team about a week late but now we will at least have four members. I am a librarian that just graduated from my Masters program and looking for my first full-time position in either an academic or public library. I thought this team was appropriate as several of you are students and there are also great connections between librarians and museum archivists. Anyways, lots of library users tend to use Wikipedia but feel foolish about it. I want patrons to know that librarians like Wikipedia and even publish some articles. After seeing my initial edits since January though, I need some more skills to do so.

Valerie
Vtaylor12 I am a part-time community college instructor and regular K-8 volunteer. I am currently working on a project to promote engineering in a kid-friendly online self-directed format. Engineering is the E in STEM but doesn't get much attention or credit. I am a long time supporter of open resources. Since I contributed to Wikipedia early on when there were only 1000s of pages, the process and rigor have been formalized and improved. I'm here to find out what I missed.

Hafl
Language and sociology student with emphasis on pedagogy and psychology

FEProctor
Originally from the US, I have been living in Hong Kong for the past 15 years. I started my own small publishing company a few years ago. I am very much a newbie - I've made a few ad hoc edits in the past but did not really know what I was doing. We all rely on wikipedia so much today, that I want to understand how to be a good and responsible contributor.

Sarah
I'm Sarah, an intern at the OpenUCT initiative. I have been interested in interacting more with Wikipedia for a while and this class is my first step towards achieving that.

Cazalinks
Hola a todos, quisiera unirme a un grupo pero dado que mi dominio del ingles es muy limitado estoy interesado en formar parte de un grupo de trabajo con compañeros que sepan español para facilitar la comunicación en ambos sentidos. Estoy aquí con la intención de aprender como colaborar con el proyecto Wikipedia de la manera más eficiente dentro de mis posibilidades. Tan solo en una ocasión generé edité un articulo de wikipedia pero fue eliminado al no ajustarse dentro de lo requerido para este proyecto y es por ese motivo que deseo aprender como hacer las cosas del modo adecuado. Un saludo.

Fernando Lopez Anido
Hola estoy dispuesto a unirme a este grupo aunque leo inglés, me interesa aprender a editar mejor en wikipedia--Fernando Lopez Anido (talk) 22:31, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Christine Bush
Hola, yo trabajo traducir mi introducion. Bienvenida!

"I live in Silicon Valley with my spouse and three wonderful cats. I have a long, undistinguished history with both web technologies and education, so I am taking this cool WikiSOO course a second time because I am interested in developing and facilitating online learning events and was curious to experience the "second draft" of Pete and Sara's course as a way of informing my own efforts. As a writer, I am interested in discourse analysis (Derrida, Lacan, Žižek.) As an independent researcher (unaffiliated with an academic institution), I am interested in studying the English-language Wikipedia itself as an emergent object of epistemological and sociological interest. I contribute to Wikipedia, but I don't self-identify or participate as a Wikipedian.

Since I have taken this course before and used Wikipedia for many years, I am glad to correspond with anyone about any aspect of the course, or about Wikipedia in general, acknowledging up front that I bring a critical perspective to the latter."

Sitared
--Sitared (talk) 22:37, 18 May 2013 (UTC)I'm a writer, researcher, and curator with a particular interest in history and sociology of museums, South Asian art, and medicine/science. I'm brand new to Wikipedia and have never edited an article, but eager to learn more.

Nguyen Huu Thanh Canh (talk)
Hi everybody! My name is Canh. I am a high school student. I am very interested in Wikipedia and want to learn something about it. I love programming and playing games. Nice to make friend with all of you!!!

Shepherdsong
I am interested in the creation and maintenance of wikis. I work in the visual arts, working with artists on various projects. I am new to Wikipedia and dont full understand how this works yet.

Marie-Laure Le Guen
Books, travel and languages are my life-long passions. You can find some of my writing in French at Mon Impatriation and in English at Open4learning.

I hope to get to know other Wikipedians and learn the basics of editing Wikipedia so as to contribute to this amazing community.

Acrolith
New Wikipedia editor, I live in New York, NY. I'm a trained art historian with an MA from NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, and hope to contribute to a wide variety of articles.