User talk:BozMo

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Please put messages at foot. I will delete them when I have read them. If you are replying to a message I left I don't mind where you reply but try to keep conversations together. If you are offering to help with the Schools DVD I would be very glad to hear from you. There is loads to do at present and we are working through the new subject index:

Art Business Studies Citizenship Countries Design and Technology Everyday life Geography History IT Language and literature Mathematics Music People Religion Science

The new selection of articles is about two weeks away. We are still hand checking version numbers (yawn) and still aiming for about 5500 articles to fit on a DVD. Just to update the selection of articles has just moved off wiki to allow a quicker automated run but it will come back. --BozMo talk 06:58, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstars

Thank you for the appreciation which I have moved off as they clutter the page. --BozMo talk 18:35, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Signpost: 06 February 2012

[edit] MSU Interview

Dear BozMo,


My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.


So a few things about the interviews:

  • Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
  • Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
  • All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
  • All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
  • The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.


Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 16:14, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

[edit] The Signpost: 13 February 2012

[edit] Need for semiprotection of the article on microcredit?

I wondered if the indefinite semi-protection of the article Microcredit is still needed. I wanto to encourage an expert on the topic who is not yet registered on Wikipedia to contribute to the article, but I understand that he won't be able to do so as long as the page is semi-protected. On other articles I have seen quite constructive edits by anonymous users. I would suggest to remove the semi-protection for a while to see if any problems will occur, with the option to reinstate it if needed. Since you semi-protected the page I believe you know the reasons why this was done. What do you think about my proposal?--Mschiffler (talk) 20:49, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Am happy to try, and have unprotected the page. There was a persistent problem with an IP wanting to credit someone without adequate sources but they may well have gone away. --BozMo talk 23:12, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Thank you!--Mschiffler (talk) 19:52, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

[edit] The Signpost: 20 February 2012

[edit] hi there

hi there bozmo. how are things? hope all's well. feel free to be in touch. it's been a while. glad your efforts are continuing. thanks. :-) see you. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 17:51, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

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