Docjay57

Edit-a-thon

Hi Docjay, looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for the Wikipedia intro and edit-a-thon tomorrow morning! Hope you can still make it. We'll have an intro for beginners at 10am; if you're a more experienced Wikipedian, join us at 11am.

Click here for directions: Offices of EchoDitto, 1 Davis Square, Somerville. (Next to the Red Line station, upstairs from CVS.) -Pete (talk) 23:21, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for coming today! Memory is already starting to fade…you are the BC person, yes? I know I was going to follow up with you, but losing track of which person went with which account name! Feel free to contact me by email or leave a note on my talk page. -Pete (talk) 03:55, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Welcome!

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay after your assignment is finished! Kevin Rutherford (talk) 06:49, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Online ambassador

Hi Docjay57. I noticed that you're still lacking an online ambassador for your History of the American West course - whilst neither an American nor a historian, I'd nonetheless be happy to take on that role for you. Let me know (either here or on my talkpage) if you're interested. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 02:52, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Well this is awkward... Since posting that message to you, I've been assigned as ambassador to two other courses. That I can manage, but I'm concerned that if I end up working on three courses at once I'll be spread a bit thin, and won't be able to provide students with sufficient support. Thankfully, I see that you've got two extremely experienced and competent Campus Ambassadors, so your students already have a wealth of Wikipedia knowledge to draw upon.

I'll see instead if I can find another editor who would be a good online ambassador for you; I already have someone in mind. I apologise wholeheartedly for the inconvenience, but having seen who you're already working with, I have every confidence that your course will be a success without my input. Yunshui 雲‍水 08:07, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, Docjay57. Yunshui contact me and I am now [online] ambassadoring this course! It seems Gabe has been giving you resources to help you but if you need anything else, give me a shout. In the meantime, I will be watching over your course and looking for ways to help! :) -- Cheers, Riley 03:40, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks RileyDocjay57 (talk) 03:48, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

leaving a message

Hi Professor Johnson,

I'm leaving you a message.

GabrielF (talk) 16:27, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

welcome from your campus ambassador

(I'm posting this on the student's talk pages, Gabe)

Hello,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm your campus ambassador Gabe and I enjoyed talking with you yesterday about Wikipedia. I've put a few notes and helpful links, particularly about how to find images here: Education Program talk:Boston College/History of the American West (2013 Q1). Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about editing Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy this assignment and I look forward to seeing your contributions. Best, GabrielF (talk) 17:29, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Gabe, for all these resources. I'll be getting their proposal topics tomorrow, so we should be getting underway soon. And thanks again for coming to BC and running the session!

reference question

Hi,

I took a look at what you added to the Richmond, California article:

<ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Shirley|title=To Place Our Deeds|year=2001|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley}}</ref>

The problem is that when you use the <ref></ref> tags it takes the stuff in between <ref> and </ref> and puts it all in the references section and then it creates a footnote link to that entry in the references. If you just want to add something to the bibliography without footnotes, just omit <ref> and </ref> and it should work fine.

Hope that helps, Gabe GabrielF (talk) 05:19, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Help us improve the course page system!

Hi Prof. Johnson, I'm very interested in your opinion and experiences as an instructor of History of the American West (Fall_2014). We prepared some questions to gain deeper insight in user experience. Please let me know, if you could spare some time and help us improve the design of the Wikipedia course page system in regards of the need of all users (instructors, students and volunteers). This won't take too long (about 30 min live) and you are also very welcome to answer questions by mail if preferred so. Please feel free to forward this to anybody who might be interested. Thanks for your support. I'm glad to answer your questions. Sputniza (talk) 14:15, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Courses Modules are being deprecated

Hello,

Your account is currently configured with an education program flag. This system (the Courses system) is being deprecated. As such, your account will soon be updated to remove these no longer supported flags. For details on the changes, and how to migrate to using the replacement system (the Programs and Events Dashboard) please see Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive 18#NOTICE: EducationProgram extension is being deprecated.

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