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Mentor

Hi Elekhh, My name is Nasro Farah and I am a junior at Simmons College. This semester my public relations seminar class is participating in the United States Public Policy Wiki project. I would appreciate it if you became my mentor! — Preceding unsigned comment added by NasroF (talk • contribs) 17:58, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Potential Mentee

Hi! My name is Carrie and I'm a graduate student at Indiana University. I'm in an Environmental Economics and Policy course for which we're are creating or rebuilding a Wikipedia page on a policy topic. I am new to Wikipedia (besides the quick search for a random piece of trivia). I would appreciate the opportunity to have you as my mentor, as I might have questions in the development of our page. I can be reached through my e-mail: caalbrig@indiana.edu or perhaps through my Wikipedia userpage? (Yes, this is how little I know if Wikipedia's offerings!)Let me know what you think!

Thank you, Carrie — Preceding unsigned comment added by BloomingtonWriter (talk • contribs) 14:23, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentee

Hi Elekh,

I'm a second year graduate student in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. This semester, our environmental economics class has been tasked with creating or adding content to wikipedia. Right know I'm not sure what our group topic is going to be but it will have some relation to the environment. I hope that you will consider adopting me as a mentee.

Thanks,

Shan Weatherbee —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.56.161.230 (talk) 00:52, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Request for being my Mentor for Wiki Project on United States Public Policy

Hi Elekhh,

I am a student at School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington. I would like to have you as a mentor for United States Public Policy wiki project. Please consider my request. --Swgarg (talk) 14:12, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry Swgarg, depending on a confirmation, looks like I'm full already. --Elekhh (talk) 21:01, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Way Kambas National Park

Orlady (talk) 18:02, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 2011

Newsletter 2

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 1, 28 January 2011 This is the second issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter, with details about what's going on right now and where help is needed. Userboxes and profiles - Add an ambassador userbox to your page, and make sure you've added your mentor profile! Be a coordinating ambassador - Pick and class and make sure no students fall through the cracks. New screencasts - Short videos on watchlists and a number of other topics may be useful to students. Updates from Campus Ambassadors - Ambassadors are starting to report on classroom experiences, both on-wiki and on the Google Group. Other news - There's a new on-wiki application for being an Online Ambassador, and Editing Friday #2 is today! Things you can do - This is just a sample; if you're eager for something to do, there's plenty more. Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:22, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

A few article options

In my user talk page I have included some links to articles I hope to edit for the public policy project. If you have any suggestions or feedback on the them I would greatly appreciate it! NasroF (talk) 10:30, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Mentoring students: be sure to check in on them

This message is going out to all of the Online Ambassadors who are, or will be, serving as mentors this term.

Hi there! This is just a friendly reminder to check in on what your mentees are doing. If they've started making edits, take a look and help them out or do some example fixes for them, if they need it. And if they are doing good, let them know it!

If you aren't mentoring anyone yet, it looks like you will be soon; at least one large class is asking us to assign mentors for them, and students in a number of others haven't yet gotten to asking ambassadors to be their mentors, but may soon. --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 20:06, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

William Burges

You very kindly commented on this last year. I've done some further work on it, bearing your comments in mind. In particular I have sought to reference it more fully and have tried to tone down the personal comments, although, as a Burges fanatic, it's bloody hard. I'm now thinking I'd like to have it peer reviewed, as you suggested. I'd really appreciate any further thoughts you have on its weaknesses before I do so. I would love to improve its rating, partly, I must admit, through vanity, but really because if any architect deserves a GA rating, then Burges does. There's me being POV again.

Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 22:42, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Again. I'm now begging for help. I've tried to put the Burges article through for peer review, as you suggested, but I'm so poor at Wiki-editing that I can't even make William Burges appear as a title on the Peer Review: Requests page. I've tried and re-tried but I just can't do it. Would you be really kind and help me out? Better still, would you review the article and improve it. I'd be really, very grateful. With sincere thanks. KJP1 (talk) 21:35, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, thank you, thank you. KJP1 (talk) 22:00, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome! Hope to find time soon to review it, and hopefully other reviewers will also pop up. --Elekhh (talk) 22:28, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

I hope so too and I'd really appreciate your suggestions/amendments if you have time. Regards and thanks again. KJP1 (talk) 16:18, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

I really appreciate the B but I appreciate your efforts and taking the time even more. I'll keep working on it. Best regards. KJP1 (talk) 22:31, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Philharmonie Luxembourg

Hi Elekhh. You were of course right about the image. As you probably saw, it was deleted. See: Architecture of Luxembourg. Rather a pity. You may be interested in looking at the message I left on Jameslwoodward's talk page. It really does seem strange to me that the Luxembourgers face little or no problems in this respect - although I notice many of them do not upload their photos to Commons but just to the LB Wikipedia. - Ipigott (talk) 17:14, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Online Ambassador Program

Please take a look at this project page and see if you can be a mentor to one of the many Areas of Study. If you can, please put your name in the "Online Mentor" area of the Area of Study of your choice and then contact the students you will be working with. As the Coordinating Online Ambassador for this project, please let me know if I can be of assistance. Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • 04:24, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

No worries. :) About an hour after I sent you that, we had a rush of mentors and went full up within that hour. I wish you good luck with your mentees. :) Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • Coor. Online Amb'dor • 01:48, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Deconstructivism FAR

Hi Elekhh - The Deconstructivism FAR (review page at WP:Featured article review/Deconstructivism/archive1) has been moved to the FARC section, where keep/delist votes are made. If you have the time, could you please return to the review page to give your opinion on whether the article should be kept or delisted? Thank you, Dana boomer (talk) 20:11, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

illustrations and renewable energy

Hi Elekhh. I'm an online mentor too and happened to notice your introduction there. My ears perked up when I read of your dual interests in illustrations and renewable energy. If you might have time to make some good illustrations, I know of one particular renewable energy article that is in need of some good graphics to illustrate various forms in which this particular renewable energy technology is taking in early design prototype efforts. The article I'm thinking of is Floating wind turbine. And if not, no problem. Glad to see you are mentoring. Best, N2e (talk) 00:55, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Hi N2e, nice to meet somebody passionate about RE. If you are looking for technical drawings of RE systems I might not be the best editor to ask. So far I've did some layout design for P:RE, simple charts and maps as well as obtaining images with free licenses such as this. If these are not the kind of illustrations you had in mind, I am sorry to disappoint. In any case, let me know what exactly did you have in mind for that article. --01:10, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind response. I was thinking of some potential graphics that would help illustrate the distinctive differences between the (rapidly becoming ubiqitous in Europe) shallow-bottom, fixed-foundation (generally, a monopile foundation) offshore wind technology and the deep-water, floating wind technologies (which are much newer and much less well understood by the lay Wikipedia reader). As a secondary idea, graphics to illustrate differences between the basic design of various floating structures (spar buoy type like Hywind, or platforms and more complex water structures in the various proposed concepts would be useful. There might be more ideas, but those are mine for now. I am a graphical/illustration illiterate. On the map idea, I think a map will begin to be more interesting in a couple of years after there are more deployments of this technology; right now just one is operating, and it is off the coast of Norway. N2e (talk) 18:51, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

What do you think would help illustrate that article on this important emergent RE technology? N2e (talk) 18:51, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

I guess something like this with a conventional fixed-foundation also in the same style in the row for comparison... I'm sorry for not being a specialist though in these kind of illustrations, (and very busy atm), but maybe somebody at Wikipedia:Graphic Lab could help right away. --Elekhh (talk) 01:44, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look at this. I think that the sort of comparitive graphic you suggested is exactly what would work really well for that article. Like you, I'm a bit too busy to pursue it right now, and illustrations aren't my thing anyway, but I do hope that floating wind turbines get some better illustrations over time, in the great emergent phenomenon that is Wikipedia. Cheers. N2e (talk) 00:16, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Marking articles students are working on

Howdy, Online Ambassador!

This is a quick message to all the ambassadors about marking and tracking which articles students are working on. For the classes working with the ambassador program, please look over any articles being worked on by students (in particular, any ones you are mentoring, but others who don't have mentors as well) and do these things:

1. Add {{WAP assignment | term = Spring 2011 }} to the articles' talk pages. (The other parameters of the {{WAP assignment}} template are helpful, so please add them as well, but the term = Spring 2011 one is most important.)
2. If the article is related to United States public policy, make sure the article the WikiProject banner is on the talk page: {{WikiProject United States Public Policy}}
3. Add Category:Article Feedback Pilot (a hidden category) to the article itself. The second phase of the Article Feedback Tool project has started, and this time we're trying to include all of the articles students are working on. Please test out the Article Feedback Tool, as well. The new version just deployed, so any bug reports or feedback will be appreciated by the tech team working on it.

And of course, don't forget to check in on the students, give them constructive feedback, praise them for positive contributions, award them {{The WikiPen}} if they are doing excellent work, and so on. And if you haven't done so, make sure any students you are mentoring are listed on your mentor profile.

Thanks! --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:11, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011

Newsletter 3

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 3, 21 March 2011 This is the third issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter, with details about what's going on right now and where help is needed. Where the courses are - A brief summary of how each of the 31 Public Policy Initiative courses are faring so far in the Spring 2011 term, as of 9-11 March. Feel free to add more detail. Tracking students' articles - Make sure students' articles are tagged with {{WAP assignment}} on the talk pages, and have the newly improved Article Feedback Tool active. Education portal in progress - Wikimedia staff have started work on an outreach portal for information about teaching with and about Wikipedia. Please help develop it! Online Ambassadors logistics - If you don't have a Wikipedia Ambassador sweatshirt, now's your chance to get one! (Also, some other more mundane, but important, details.) Steering committee preparing proposals - Look for discussions about two major proposals about the future ambassador program soon: the "Regional Ambassador" role, and elections for a new committee. Editing Friday returns - This Friday, join fellow ambassadors and others real-time collaboration on Wainwright Building. Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:22, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

Mentee - Transnational NGOs

Hello!

I am a student at Syracuse University in the Transnational NGOs course. I was hoping that you could be my online ambassador. I am interested in the following areas: Environmental Issues (particularly sustainability and urban agriculture, however, I am hoping you could broaden my horizons with articles that need to be edited or created. I was hoping to expand the Citizens Campaign for the Environment page), LGBT Issues, Latin American studies, and education reform. I would really like to work with you seeing that many of the interests you expressed are shared by myself.

Cheers, Lsmroczk32 (talk) 21:16, 22 March 2011 (UTC)lsmroczk32

Re Independent opinion

Hi Elekhh,

That's a bit of a worry that I was the last good faith editor of Tim Flannery. Actually, having a look at the page history since, I think it is well due for protection. Flannery has just embarked on a nationwide tour to explain climate change and carbon pricing (as part of the thing I added), so I reckon chances are pretty good this article is going to be attracting a lot of trolling.

Re the piece you mention, I haven't followed the link, but I find it believable that Flannery may have said it. However I believe it's being taken out of context in its current usage – i.e., he would have been highlighting the need for urgent action, which is not really how it reads in the article (it's been put as though he's saying we're wasting our time acting, which is the type of thing Bolt and Price, both well known and influential local climate change deniers (esp. Bolt), would have been pushing for - just read your talkpage comments, and it sounds like you are already aware of this). It also reads rather as a news report, adding nothing substantial to the article, i.e., in contravention of WP:NOTNEWS.

Given that Special:Contributions/Wadeoski sole contributions are to Tim Flannery, it looks to be a single use account to beat a drum. I see Special:Contributions/58.168.75.93 has now also got involved, quite clearly the same user. I think the points you make on the talkpage are valid. I will add a comment there as well. In the meantime I might revert the latest reversion and direct them to the talkpage, but I'd say Wadeoski/58.168.75.93 has already contravened 3Rs, so is liable for a block. Cheers, --jjron (talk) 02:46, 27 March 2011 (UTC)