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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay after your assignment is finished! Chris Troutman (talk) 00:29, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

The

Adventure

Hi Urbanature!! You're invited: learn how to edit Wikipedia in under an hour. Hope to see you there! Play The Wikipedia Adventure This message was delivered by Chris Troutman (talk) 00:30, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

SoCal edit-a-thon on October 25

Upcoming SoCal edit-a-thon: Unforgetting L.A. (10/25, 9am-5pm)

Hi. The Southern California Wikipedia community holds sporadic events year-round to meet in-person, welcome new editors, and teach each other the finer points of editing. The Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon and training workshop will take place at the 9th annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, and is hosted by online magazine East of Borneo in partnership with L.A. as Subject. Join us on Saturday, October 25 from 9am to 5pm at Doheny Library (map). Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I'm providing this message to you since it's on your campus. If you'd like, you can add your user name to our mailing list so you can be notified of other events in the area. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:37, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Departure

Professor, my time in California is at an end. I'll still be watching your students editing online through the remainder of the semester. Unfortunately there's no identified replacement for me but hopefully the Wiki Education Foundation will find a campus ambassador to serve USC in the future. You'll still be able to contact me through my talk page and e-mail if you have any questions. Chris Troutman (talk) 05:01, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Change in your user rights

Your Wikipedia account was previously granted a user right called "course instructor" by the Wiki Education Foundation. That right enabled you to create a course page through the EducationProgram MediaWiki extension. Starting in fall 2015, the Wiki Education Foundation has discontinued its use of this extension. Going forward, users should create course pages through the Wiki Education Foundation website. That application is more user-friendly, and any content is automatically mirrored to Wikipedia. To prevent confusion, we'll be removing your "course instructor" user right, as it is not needed with the new system. This is simply a notification of the technical change to your account. No action is needed from you at this time.

If you plan on teaching with Wikipedia for the fall 2015 term, please email me (helainewikiedu.org) for instructions how to create your next course page using our new system. --Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk), sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello from the other side! It's Zhantair from Arch 518

Zhantair (talk) 00:32, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

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