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Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hi Matt, welcome to Wikipedia! We're excited about your DeCal course! Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 03:14, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Annie! Mattsenate (talk) 17:20, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Derrick's Awesome Tool

Derrick's Awesome Tool Saudade7 23:01, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Getting contact info for prospective Wikipedia Club

Hi Matt, it was nice meeting you at the Campus Ambassador training. Could I get you to e-mail me your e-mail address? I'm thinking of setting up a mailing list for the prospective Wikipedia Club, because one of my goals is to recruit more new users interested in trying out Wikipedia so I'd like to have some kind of off-wiki communication to facilitate that. Let me know your thoughts. Good luck with your class! Dcoetzee 02:32, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 28 January 2011



This is the first issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program newsletter. Please read it! It has important information about the the current wave of classes, instructions and advice, and other news about the ambassador program.



Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:33, 29 January 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 13 February 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) 18:24, 11 February 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 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.


Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:24, 21 March 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011



This is the fourth issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter, with details about what's going on right now and where help is needed.


Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:34, 22 April 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Please take the Wikipedia Ambassador Program survey

Hi Ambassador,

We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.

WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_talk

Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!

Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:41, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some falafel for you!

Thanks for reminding me to assume good faith when things got heated. Maximilianklein (talk) 15:00, 10 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Tea in my eyes and on my face...but thanks anyway!

Matt, I just thanked Sage for the cup-o-tea, and got corrected. I actually did see your name there, but was writing to him about something else and got my wires crossed. Much on the plate just now. But, hey, I have now some tea to wash it down with, so, no problem! Thanks for the appreciation. Hope things are going swimmingly on YOUR end of the universe...

Ambassador Program: assessment drive

Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.

In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.

Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]


You got mail

Hello, Mattsenate. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Thelmadatter (talk) 18:24, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A brownie for you!

Hi Matt, thanks a googol for all you've already done as a Wikipedia Regional Ambassador, including your efforts in coordinating a California Campus Ambassador training and your totally awesome initiative in spreading the word about this program to Mexico! I speak for the entire Wikipedia Global Education team when I say that I really really appreciate it.

I'm not sure why I picked a brownie versus other items to give you. Maybe it's the reputation of the co-op you were in. =) Annie Lin (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 22:12, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OA ≠ OA publishing and green OA is not a form of publishing

Only gold OA publishing is a form of publishing. Green OA self-archiving is definitely not a form of publishing. Publishing is something a publisher does. Self-archiving is done by the author, not the publisher. A green publisher is not an OA publisher but a non-OA publisher that has given its authors the green light to self-archive. If the publisher makes the articles OA, it's an OA (gold) publisher.

Conflating OA with gold OA, and misdescribing green OA as a "form of publishing" is the single most widespread and persistent misunderstanding about OA; Peter Suber and I have been trying to correct it for years, but it just keeps popping up, because people find it so much easier to think of OA as a publishing matter: It's not. It's an access matter. If authors provide the access, publishing has not changed; only accessibility has changed. harnad (talk) Stevan Harnad 03:53, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Harnad, thanks for posting the message. I understand and agree. I did not intend to suggest green OA is a form of publishing. Perhaps my thoughts are best phrased as a question. Gratis/Libre OA describes the licensing qualities of "access" but not necessarily the "materials," though it is fair to extend "Gratis/Libre" to the materials themselves (a "libre journal article" uses a copyleft license). On the other hand, Green/Gold describes the ways the material are made accessible (Jeffrey even says "OA can be delivered in two ways:"), but this does not extend logically to the material itself (I would not say a "green journal article"), correct? This is the ambiguity I was trying to resolve. It's easy to misinterpret "OA" to mean the material itself, is there a way to be more clear? Lastly, it seems to me there is an additional layer of nuance in how journals adopt Green/Gold methods as policies. Mattsenate (talk) 04:23, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Matt, what you wrote was "There are at least two methods academic journals use to provide open access": This is incorrect because there is only one "method," namely, to make the item free online. The difference is that with gold OA, it is the publisher that makes it free online, and with green OA it is the author.
Yes, there are further nuances (and these are described further in the Open access entry. The difference between Gratis versus libre OA (in the special case of OA, unlike the case of, say, Open software) is not a difference in license, but just a difference in degree. A gratis OA article is merely freely accessible online. A libre OA article is both freely accessible online (i.e., gratis) and in addition has certain further re-use rights (there is some scope for variation in which rights are specified). Yes, libre OA is often indicated in the form of a CC license, but gratis OA usually is not. The article is simply made free online by the author. In the case of "green" publishers -- n.b., not "Green OA publishers," because there is no such thing: an OA publisher is a gold OA publisher -- in the case of "green" publishers, they have formally endorsed their author's right to make their articles green OA by self-archiving them immediately upon acceptance for publication. This endorsement usually does not take the form of a "license," but merely a formal statement by the publisher, or a clause in the author/publisher copyright transfer agreement. (A CC license is not between author and publisher but between author and user or between publisher and user.) See SHERPA RoMEO.
Further nuances on gratis green OA include which version is made OA: The version with the fewest publisher restrictions is the author's final, refereed, revised draft, immediately upon acceptance for publication. That is the version for which most green publishers endorse author self-archiving, not the publisher's proprietary version-of-record. Hence that is the default option for gratis green OA. (There are also further nuances as to where the article may be made Green OA: the author's institutional repository or a "central," institution-external repository. These further distinctions begin to get rather silly, considering the nature of free online access and the nature of the web, but there you are.)
About differences between "OA publishers" and "OA articles," see "OA means free (and permanent) online access immediately upon publication" in Talk:Open_access. Being an OA article is a state, whereas being an OA publisher is a trait...
Hope this helps. harnad (talk) Stevan Harnad 12:15, 22 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Aha, I think I realized what I was trying to say before. I'd like to make the lead paragraph more accessible and clear for a general encyclopedic audience. Is there a way to more briefly and summarily state the green/gold access definition, and include a more substantive, but clear discussion below it? I'd like to help improve the structure of the article overall. I'm happy to start moving these thoughts to the discussion page of the article. Mattsenate (talk) 05:08, 28 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

For Matt.

Tvol (talk) 02:21, 30 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Howdy Skier Dude,
Thanks for the note, I attached it to this article, where I originally intended to place it: Aim for Featured Article course page. Hope this suffices - Mattsenate (talk) 06:28, 8 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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question

Hi Matt, I just completed making revisions and adding new content to a wiki page on my sandbox. I requested to have my sandbox page moved to the wiki page, but the request was denied. It was suggested that I should integrate my changes to the current page. I was wondering how I should go about doing this. Should I just delete what's on the current page and paste the content of my sandbox there. I've already integrated the content of the wikipage onto my sandbox. Thanks Ylor916 (talk) 23:54, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

San Francisco meetup at WMF headquarters

Hi Mattsenate,

I just wanted to give you a heads-up about the next wiki-meetup happening in SF. It'll be located at our very own Wikimedia Foundation offices, and we'd love it if some local editors who are new to the meetup scene came and got some free lunch with us :) Please sign up on the meetup page if you're interested in attending, and I hope to see you soon! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 01:03, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude (talk) 03:47, 21 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lunch tomorrow!

Hi, thanks for signing up for the meetup/lunch at the Wikimedia Foundation. Just a reminder that this is happening at noon tomorrow, Saturday the 4th. Our office is located at 149 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco, a short walk from the Montgomery Station BART stop – please see the meetup page for more details. Looking forward to seeing you there! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 00:51, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Open Access, PLoS, GLAM and the BHL

Hi Matt,

Sorry, I didn't see your messages on #wikimedia-us until just now, just after you left! I don't know if you've seen Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access; User:Daniel Mietchen, who recently facilitated a really fantastic project between PLoS Computational Biology and Wikipedia. If you work at PLoS, you should definitely think about getting involved with the US GLAM initiative: I'm going to be summer-interning at the Biodiversity Heritage Library, another virtual library, and I'm hoping to draw them into the Wikipedia orbit with a lot of help from GLAM-WIKI.

Anyway, I mostly wanted to pass these links on to you. Let me know -- on or off Wikipedia -- if I can help in any way with bringing about more Open Access linkups on Wikipedia!

cheers, Gaurav (talk) 02:12, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Gaurav, this stuff is great. I'm surprised I haven't heard about PLoS Computational Biology's WP project, it looks awesome. I'll touch base with some folks at the office tomorrow and see what's going on. Further, I agree there's an opportunity to work with the GLAM initiative, though Plos is neither a library nor an archive, it's really an academic publisher. But the content is CC-BY so there should be more stuff to do like what Plos CompBiol is up to!
mattsenate 05:41, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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