Wikipedia:WikiProject Higher education/Outreach
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The outreach department of WikiProject Universities is a centralized work area for project recruitment and member interaction efforts. The new programs currently underway are a monthly project newsletter and a welcoming message for new members of the project; further ideas are always welcome, of course!
Newsletter
editThis newsletter was created in October 2007 and is based on the WikiProject Military History newsletter. Each issue will be published at the beginning of every month summarizing the happenings in the past month. For example, the September issue will be published at the beginning of October and will contain a summary of September's activity in the WikiProject. Feel free to help with the process!
Current issue
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Archives
editDelivery options
editBy default, we will provide a link to the current issue of the newsletter on your talk page when it comes out. If you would prefer, you may choose to have the contents delivered to you directly (in other words, to have the full newsletter added to your talk page), or to not receive the newsletter in any form.
If you are not a member of the project but would like a copy of the newsletter, for whatever reason, you may add you name here as well.
Full contents
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Non-members
editInstructions
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{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities/Outreach/Newsletter {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}} —~~~~
Welcoming new members
edit- To welcome new members using this message, paste: {{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities/Outreach/Welcome|—~~~~}}
Hi, and welcome to WikiProject Universities! Our goals are to standardize the structure and content of all college and university articles, improve Wikipedia's coverage of these articles (hopefully propelling them to featured article status), and serve as the central resource for all discussions and information related to colleges and universities on Wikipedia.
A few features that you might find helpful:
- Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
- The university infobox is one way we hope to standardize our coverage of university articles. All university pages should have this infobox, and relevant fields should be filled in and sourced.
- Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
- The project has a few expanding departments, which handle article quality assessment, member recruitment and project awareness and article improvement collaborations.
- We have a Student Affairs task force that focuses on Student affairs-specific articles.
- We've developed a variety of guidelines for article structure and content, template use, categorization, and other issues that you may find useful.
- Check out our to do list to get started!
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask one of the project participants or post a question on the talk page. We'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!
Project advertisements
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Paste [[Image:Wikiprojectuniversities.png]] to use this banner
Our ad is now in the Wikipedia Ads circulation. Help promote WikiProject Universities by displaying this image on your userpage, or to place Wikipedia Ads to your user page, you may add {{Wikipedia ads}}.
- Display only certain ads: Here's the script to only display certain ads (so you can have people see our Universities ad more often (or just only display this ad only). Note: WikiProject:Universities Ad is #106.
{{Wikipedia ads|ad={{#switch:{{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 12}} <!-- mod 12 is the number of ads total-->
|0=24 <!--Change the the ad number of your choice here. Remember, -->
|1=45 <!--this is an array, so the count starts with 0, and ends -->
|2=73 <!--with one number lower than the total number of ads. :-) -->
|3=77 |4=86 |5=94 |6=104 |7=106 |8=106 |9=106 |10=106 |11=106}}}}