Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/InverseHypercube

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful Online Ambassador application.

Consensus show clear support from all discussion participants. Welcome to the Ambassador Program! --Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 23:27, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

InverseHypercube

InverseHypercube (talk · contribs)

1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?

   I am interested in seeing Wikipedia grow, and I think the education program is a great way to gain quality, sourced information. As such, I want to help the students and teachers with Wikipedia formatting, style, and policy, and possibly foster new active editors.

2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.

   On the English Wikipedia, I have over 9000 (meme reference not intended!) edits, the vast majority being to mainspace, and a variety of created articles (see User:InverseHypercube). On Wikimedia Commons, I regularly upload my own files and those of others, am a file reviewer, and run an upload bot.

3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).

   The best articles I wrote are probably History of cotton and Whistler sled dog cull.

4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?

   I place welcome templates on new users' pages when I see them, and do help new users (although I am not involved in the WP:Welcoming committee); for example, Commons:User talk:Sridhar1000#Regarding images. I try to be friendly and encourage users to ask me questions.

5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?

   I think WP:Teahouse is a nice initiative, as is WikiLove and the automatic barnstar upon reaching 1000 edits.

6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.

   No.

7. How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?

   I edit Wikipedia for at least an hour a day, and am online almost all the time. I check my watchlist very frequently, so I can usually respond to queries in a matter of minutes.

8. How would you make sure your students were not violating Copyright laws?

   If I suspect a text copyright violation, it is usually easy to verify on Google. With regards to images, I am quite familiar with copyright law and Commons policies, being an image reviewer.

9. If one of your students had an issue with Copyright Violation how would resolve it?

   If it was a text copyvio, I would attempt to change it so as to remove the issue ("put it in my own words"). I would then contact the student responsible and remind them about Wikipedia policy. If it was an image, I would nominate it for deletion and contact the student.

10. In your _own_ words describe what Copyright Violation is.

    With text, paraphrasing (or outright copying) of the source in a way that emulates it too closely, assuming it is not under a license compatible with Wikipedia. With images the same concept applies; if the image is an outright copy or a derivative work of a non-free source, it is a copyright violation.

11. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?

    I have helped with Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Present/North American Environmental History (Tina Loo), although not as an official ambassador. I have made edits to articles, advised students, and talked to the professor regarding an issue (see User talk:Greentina#Regarding article length and User talk:InverseHypercube#Regarding Article Length), probably similar to the things I would be doing as an ambassador. Students responded quite well; see Talk:Trail Smelter dispute#work in progress and User talk:InverseHypercube#A barnstar for you!.

Thanks for reading!

Discussion

• Support Good credentials, and helping out unofficially for fun, shows good initiative. Epistemophiliac (talk) 03:45, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
• Comment I'm an OA for the class the applicant helped out with. IH showed the right demeanor for helping new users. Conscientious, patient, knowledgeable, I think IH would make a great OA. (I assume I shouldn't support/oppose due to me not being part of selection/steering team - is this correct?) The Interior (Talk) 18:13, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
• Support.--Pharos (talk) 19:19, 12 April 2012 (UTC)