Wikipedia talk:Ambassadors



Class/project categorization
There seem to be a lot of "class categorization by quarter" inaccuracies, which I've been trying to address, but this led me up the category hierarchy and now I'm stumped by the following larger issue. What is the difference between, e.g., Category:Wikipedia Ambassador Program courses, 2012 Q1 and Category:United States Education Program courses, 2012 Q1? Obviously the former contains US and Canadian classes, which is fine as a roll-up, but it refers to Ambassadors in particular. Is the former for classes that had ambassadors assigned (if this isn't redundant)? (If so, I don't think that is reflected at all in actual categorization.) If it is simply a roll-up for the Education Project classes, that is also not clear given the title. I'm sure better categorization would aid historical understanding of this project, as it would have aided my own right now. :-) I just created Category:Wikipedia Ambassador Program courses, 2012 Q3 with the edit summary "this doesn't exist yet?", which follows the existing structure, but now I'm not sure why. What I meant was "there are no 2012 Q3 categories?", but there are. As an aside, someone should define Q1-Q4 somewhere (especially Q4). Riggr Mortis (talk) 00:02, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
 * That category and ones like it are roll-ups for all the education program classes; that naming scheme was from when "Ambassador Program" rather than "Education Program" was the name for it. So renaming those categories would probably be useful. As for the Q1-Q4, it's supposed to be:
 * Q1 - Classes starting from January through March (this should include typical "spring" classes in the US and Canada)
 * Q2 - Classes starting from April through June
 * Q3 - Classes starting from July through September (this should include typical "fall" classes in the US and Canada)
 * Q4 - Classes starting from October through December
 * --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 17:08, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Is there something going on in Namibia?
Greetings, I work WP:AFC, and I'm seeing a ton of new article submissions about the country of Namibia. I've probably reviewed 20 or more of them in the past two days, and since I'm not looking for them specifically, statistically I'd guess there must be close to 100 of them floating around the AFC queue and elsewhere.

Did some professor at Windhoek University suddenly start assigning Wiki-homework? Anyone got any leads, or ideas on ways to go about figuring this out? I've messaged a few of the new editors, but no reply yet. For what it's worth, maybe 75% of the articles aren't publishable, generally the usual noob issues of sourcing, but a good 25% have been, despite shaky formatting, properly referenced to at least the minimum bar of AFC. If these folks can be contacted and properly administered to, it'd be a great way to address some of the Anglo-American institutional bias here, I'm just not sure how to go about it so could use any advice from ambassadorial types here. Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk)
 * Good catch. Well, the first thing I'd like to do is to get in touch with the tutor and offer them help (frame it as a win-win kind of thing) but that's difficult if we don't know who that is or which account they're using. I'll try looking around... let us know if you find any other clues! Thanks very much for the heads-up. bobrayner (talk) 07:04, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah... I think this might be it: School and university projects/Polytechnic of Namibia. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:54, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Pgallert appears to be their wrangler, and per his Talk he's been having a bit of a kerfuffle dealing with the students, so I understand they've temporarily paused the project to give folks a few more classes on appropriate editing. I'll drop him a line though to mention that we are seeing a few good ones come through, and that the overall effort is appreciated. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:59, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Propose merging the "about" page into this one
The About page here is not very long, and it seems silly to have it as a separate page. It's definitely useful information which a lot of first-time visitors would want to know, so I'd like to move its content into the main Ambassadors page, and get rid of one tab.
 * +1. --Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 12:22, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Sage. Okay, I went ahead and did this, with a redirect from the old about page. Klortho (talk) 20:23, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

user rights for ambassadors
If you're an ambassador who is still participating in the program (or willing to do so), you'll need to get set up with the online volunteer and/or campus volunteer user right so that you can sign up as an ambassador on the new course pages. More detail about that will be coming soon (with a general update that I'll deliver to ambassadors' talk pages). If you need to get one of those user rights, please post at Wikipedia talk:Ambassadors/Become an ambassador and I (or any admin or regional ambassador, if they get to it first) can enable them for you.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 18:09, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Student article deleted, now at Deletion Review
Please see Deletion_review/Log/2013_April_21. I'd appreciate input from other ambassadors. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 12:06, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Who is allowed to vote on those? Anybody?  I agree with you that it shouldn't have been deleted. Klortho (talk) 17:47, 21 April 2013 (UTC)