User talk:만두 - Wikipedia

August 2011[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not replace pages with blank content, as you did with this edit to 만두/briefcase, as this is confusing to readers. The page's content has been restored for now. If there is a problem with the page, it should be edited or reverted to a previous version if possible; if you think the page should be removed entirely, see further information. Thank you. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^Talk ^Email 14:33, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. I see. Thank you. I was going to find a way to see if there was a way to delete that page entirely.--만두 (talk) 14:37, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Plate tectonics[edit]

Hello Kristi, I hope that the plate tectonics class is a good one for you as an ambassador. It is good that you told me your name otherwise I would have trouble remembering "Mandu" when I read "만두". I will be checking out the work of the students and will help them with comments. So I will be keen to see the students sign up, so I know who they are! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:56, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Haha. Yeah, the username is rather confusing for most, but it's not an easy username to find, so it's okay for me. Haha. Anyways, I was able to put up 7 students into the course page, though I'm told that there should be 10 total. I'll try to get either the other Campus ambassador, or myself to see what's going on with the missing three and get them up and running as soon as possible. :D--만두 (talk) 01:58, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering about the missing three. I have watch listed the seven proposed sandboxes, and will keep an eye on their contributions. One has already uploaded an image on commons. Dealing with images is one of the tougher things to do here. I am hoping that the article choices will avoid speedy deletions, as I have seen this happen with another class. Did you get to meet the class personally? You must be spread across many classes. You may wish to set up your on wiki email address so that students or I can email you with Special:EmailUser/만두 Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:19, 23 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kristi, Could you remove the last names of the students on Alex's course page and also hide their User IDs (you can still link them; see what we did for these students). I was going to attempt this myself, but I didn't want to mess up whatever the "user7" code is - I'm unfamiliar with that. The reason for removing last names is due to student privacy/FERPA requirements. Thanks! Rburdette (talk) 14:21, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I put in user7 template to get quick links to the contributions and talk page, so that we can easily see activity. Some student(s) have also uploaded images to commons. There are a whole series of user templates with different numbers after then to link to user related pages. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:11, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Great to know! Thanks for all your help Graeme; our LSU students appreciate it as do our onsite Campus Ambassadors who are working to keep up with the 7 WP courses we have going this semester! Rburdette (talk) 20:55, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anne M., Independent Student Project[edit]

Hi Kristi, Please meet Anne M.. She will be editing the WP article on Capillaria hepatica and an extra project within her LSU biology course. I've gotten her set up to begin her project and told her we would both be available for support during the semester. Thanks for all your great work! Rburdette (talk) 20:55, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome. I'll put her on my watchlist! :D --만두 (talk) 06:51, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Symbiosis School of Economics: Masters Degree Macroeconomics[edit]

Hi Kristi. I saw that you were assigned to check a lot of student articles for copyvio on this list. Just a note to let you know that this class has a deadline of November 14th and I'm noticing a flurry of stuff being added in the last couple of days. I suspect there'll be a lot more to come. It's probably better wait until the deadline has well and truly passed before reviewing. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 19:28, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dumpling. This is Goldlionist, one of the users on the list mentioned in previous post. I happen to be one of the late-risers and it is notbody's fault but mine. My topic is Lucas island model. Since my topic is too theoretical can you advice me on how I could go about it so a lay-man could make sense and read the article? Oh on a completely unrelated note, I love dumplings, the Asian delicacy. Looking forward to working with you (last minute nevertheless!). Peace. Goldlionist (talk) 18:33, 12 November 2011 (UTC)Goldlionist[reply]

Wikipedia Ambassadors update[edit]

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.

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Please do these steps as soon as possible

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

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:

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.
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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.

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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) 20:42, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]