Rebeccaech

Welcome

Rebecca,

Welcome to Wikipedia. I am an Online Ambassador and I will be working with your class. I will be available (on Wiki time, i.e., usually within 24 hours) to answer questions. I may also offer suggestions and/or make gnomish edits to your work. If you have any questions, you can leave a message for me on my talk page, or you can send me an e-mail using the link on my user or talk page. -- Donald Albury 13:48, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Referencing question

If you were asking about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples article, look at what I did to the citations in the Content section (go to the page history and click on "prev" in front of my name at the top of the list of edits). Using the

<ref name=some name>source information</ref>,

you only need to enter the information about the source one time, using

<ref name=some name/>

for all later material you want to cite to the same source. If you want to cite individual sections or pages within a source, however, it is better to place the reference description,

{{cite web|title=United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples|url=http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf|publisher=United Natons|accessdate=22 February 2012}},

in this case, in the Reference section at the bottom of the page, and use a cite such as

<ref>UNDRIP: 4</ref>.

It looks like the citations in that article need further rationalization. There are tools to help with that, and users that search through articles just to fix things like that. There is something to be said to fixing a few cases like this as a learning experience. There may be some judgement calls, as well, on whether particular citations are pointing to the best source. Let me know if you have more questions or want help on formatting citations. -- Donald Albury 01:29, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Proposed article

I see that you are considering creating an article called Free and prior informed consent. Please note the existing articles Informed consent and Consent of the governed. Informed consent has strong medical connotations. You may want to consider expanding Consent of the governed to address the position of indigenous peoples. In any case, I think that Free and prior informed consent does not convey a sense that the article is about indigenous rights. -- Donald Albury 01:03, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Rebeccaech, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Sarah (talk) 22:45, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Peer Review

Your article is well researched and and detailed. I think you did a great job. Sarahg.2009 (talk) 04:01, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Wow, you really put a lot of work into this article and it clearly shows. Though Wikipedia states "[disambiguation needed]" , I'm still not sure what that means precisely, I thought you did a great job of explaining the policy, as well as not creating a bias by posting the criticisms of the policy. --Anthro321 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:36, 9 May 2012 (UTC).

Wikipedia Education Program Student Survey

Hi! Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey about the Wikipedia Education Program. This is our opportunity to improve the program and resources we provide students, so your feedback and input is integral to our future success. Thank you so much! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Copyright problem: Stronger Futures policy

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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) 20:56, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:53, 24 November 2015 (UTC)