Acfo

Hello and welcome to Anna's talk page. Acfo (talk) 22:29, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello!! Thanks for all your help Anna!--Marianicolas (talk) 05:01, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Anna, thank you for the help. Divinia Divinia A. (talk) 06:07, 31 August 2011 (UTC) Sma1120 (talk) 19:59, 30 August 2011 (UTC)Hi Anna! Thanks for the cool Wiki handouts! -Susan

Hi Anna, hope this works! Rose S. Sutton (talk) 20:16, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Anna, I think this is how I talk to you. - Laura — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lpflynn (talk • contribs) 20:37, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Formal introduction time! Hi Anna! Mtarbox (talk) 03:51, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Anna! Thank you so much for the wikipedia help, you are a technological goddess! Lilimm (talk) 22:03, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

¡hola anna! i hope i'm doing this right - i'm so glad you're our ambassador! ~maru — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maru Salazar (talk • contribs) 23:45, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Hi Anna- I think I'm in!! Yay! Glad you're our helper- Dana Dandou1 (talk) 05:02, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello Anna! hoping this works!- amelia Ameliaclopez (talk) 06:26, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello, Anna! Thanks for all of your amazing help. You are an expert! Ayersm (talk) 16:28, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Hello Anna! Thanks for the email last night, I think I'm starting to get the hang of this! Vgbeaty (talk) 21:49, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi Anna- how do I create my own sandbox?Dandou1 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:35, 13 September 2011 (UTC).

Hi Anna, would have loved to meet up with you to set up the sandbox. SOrry we missed each other. Hope to see you soon! Ayersm (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:57, 15 September 2011 (UTC).

Some falafel for you!

You're so cool! acf 06:44, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

WP:COPYVIO

Hi! First off, I just wanted to say that I think the ambassador program and WP education program are really cool. I'm really excited to see how both end up changing Wikipedia and high education.

I've been an editor for about three years now and I spend most of my time patrolling new pages and reviewing them for flagrant issues that normally result in an article's speedy deletion. I recently ran across Organizational analysis and immediately saw some characteristics that are prevalent in articles that contain text that has been copy/pasted from another source. I started digging deeper and believe that the text has been copied, pasted, and slightly changed. I've found that the article is similar enough to warrant a further look but different enough that it probably doesn't qualify for speedy deletion meaning that I'll be asking editors who focus on copyright violation to review the article. My short investigation can be found on the talk page of the article.

As far as WP is concerned, this is business as usual. As for Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/MPP_Integrative_Core_I_(Mark_Henderson), that's not really my area but I thought you might be concerned. If you have any questions for me, I'd be happy to answer them or help out however I can. OlYeller^Talktome 18:39, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi there!

Happy to hear from you. (I'm also happy to hear that people are checking out new pages, and getting rid of bad ones, but that's for another time.)

I was guessing that that was perhaps what had happened with the Organizational analysis page, but I'm very happy that you let me know. The students responsible for the page where quite confused with things disappearing and such, but Mark (the professor for the course) suggested that that might have been the problem. Nonetheless, I will let the students who worked on that page know.

Anyhow, thanks for letting me know, thanks for doing the work you do, and thanks for being nice and polite!

acf 21:15, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Soylent Green is people!

acfo 21:17, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Survey

Hi Acfo!

I have put together a survey for female editors of Wikipedia (and related projects) in order to explore, in greater detail, women's experiences and roles within the Wikimedia movement. It'd be wonderful if you could participate!

It's an independent survey, done by me, as a fellow volunteer Wikimedian. It is not being done on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. I hope you'll participate!

Just click this link to participate in this survey, via Google!

Any questions or concerns, feel free to email me or stop by my user talk page. Also, feel free to share this any other female Wikimedians you may know. It is in English, but any language Wikimedia participants are encouraged to participate. I appreciate your contributions - to the survey and to Wikipedia! Thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 00:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	You rock! Espertus (talk) 21:44, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassadors update

Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.

You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Wikipedia:Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.

If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.

Please do these steps as soon as possible

First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.

Once you've got the ambassador rights, please set up at a Campus and/or Online Ambassador profile. You can do so at:

• Special:CampusAmbassadorProfile
• Special:OnlineAmbassadorProfile

Going forward, the lists of Ambassadors at Special:CampusAmbassadors and Special:OnlineAmbassadors will be the official roster of who is an active Ambassador. If you would like to be an Ambassador but not ready to serve this term, you can un-check the option in your profile to publicly list it (which will remove your profile from the list).

After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Wikipedia:Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

Communication and keeping up to date

In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:

1. The education noticeboard has become the main on-wiki location for discussion of the Education Program. You can post there about broad education program issues as well as issues with individual courses.
2. The Ambassadors Announce email list is a very low-traffic announcements list of important information all Ambassadors need to be aware of. We encourage all Ambassadors (and other interested Wikipedians) to subscribe to the list; follow the instructions on the link to add your email address.
3. If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the #wikipedia-en-ambassadors ^connect IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.

Ambassador training and resources

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)

Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 20:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)