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Quick Question

Hi Ben! In class we talked about a place in Wikipedia where you could go for live chat help/feedback. Do you know where I can find this?

Also, I'm trying to find ways to integrate other sources/content already in existance. For instance, this video I found is GREAT but I'm guessing I can only list media as a source? http://www.afirstlook.com/edition_7/theory_resources/Social_Information_Processing_Theory

Thanks for your help Wiki guru! Js967 (talk) 16:33, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey Jess! Check out the Getting Help tab on the Course page for details on accessing the chatroom for immediate assistance. I'll take a look at that other resource. At worst you could include it in the External Links section or as an Additional Source. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 16:41, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestions, Ben! Kommunication (talk)

Finishing up my Structuration page

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Hi, Ben! Thank you for your support re: references. I think that I took care of any problems that may have once existed in regards to the references. Then again, something I've learned is that I'm never done learning about Wikipedia and that there's no end to the edits one can make. I'd really appreciate another look; I've been trying to inspire a discussion re: the usability/comprehensiveness/readability/clarity of the changes that I've made (they've been pretty extensive). Thanks for your suggestions thus far, and let me know if you have any more on the Structuration Talk page! I've created a section specifically for discussion around my recent changes. Also, please let any of your editor-friends know that I'd really appreciate a look-over & suggestions, if possible! Thanks again for all your help! Mjscheer (talk) 07:04, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Re-using a reference

Hi Ben! I got a question: how do you cite the same source twice and not have it show up as a new reference? Thanks! M.elvira (talk) 17:45, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Its pretty easy! If you're using the citation tool, there is a spot for "ref name." Once you've created a reference with the tool, you can just put

<ref name="REFNAME"></ref>

to re-use it. Here's the official help page on the subject: WP:Referencing for beginners. Basically you should just be able to look at what its named in the first instance, and then use the markup above to recall it. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 04:54, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Ben, sorry but I still don't get it. What is the ref name? Is it the name of the author? Which part of the ref code is it?M.elvira (talk) 03:40, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

The name is totally arbitrary. You might have like... <ref name="whatever">{{cite web|blah|blah|blah}}</ref>, then to repeat that reference you can just do <ref name="whatever"></ref> without all the information. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 16:27, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

OMG, I feel so dumb for not being able to get it! may be you could show me on this example: ^[1] What I need to do to cite this reference second time? which part needs to be omitted? Thanks!M.elvira (talk) 02:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Totally fine! Hopefully this example that I made will make things clear! If not, let me know and I will do a little instructional video. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 05:12, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Well, the thing that I don't understand is where is "ref name" part. In my example above there is no ref name in quotations; it starts with <ref>{{cite journal.... so I don't understand what to insert the second time around.

Oh, I see. Easy fix, you just need to take the opening <ref> (before the {{cite journal...}} and add name="NAME" so it looks like this: <ref name="JournalABC">{{cite journal..}}</ref>. Then you can recall it using <ref name="JournalABC"></ref>. If you look, I named your first example JimmyBob, and then re-use it here: ^[1] MyNameWasTaken (talk) 18:25, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

It worked! Thank you, Ben. — Preceding unsigned comment added by M.elvira (talk • contribs) 02:17, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Diagram Copyright Question

Hi Ben! Thanks for checking in. I'm slowly but surely getting my material together and haven't put everything up on the page yet. I definitely want to add more, but it's also a case of trying to find the right material because there's not a whole lot on my topic because it's relatively new (year 2000) and more of a concept than a widely-held, vetted theory. However, I feel pretty confident in getting more material up there and also trying to get more links to my page and from my page (so it's not an orphan). My question now is about adding a diagram. The original journal article in which the concept was first introduced has the one main diagram used to explain it. I haven't seen this as a widespread image on Google; I think it's fairly specific to this article. You can see a gif of it here: http://lou.econ.uni-hamburg.de/wordpress/wp-content/wp-uploads//2009/11/mcphee_zaug_four_flows_of_communication.gif and the original journal article here: http://www.cios.org/EJCPUBLIC/010/1/01017.html. I'd like to be able to put the image in the Wiki article, but it is not on the Wiki Commons and I'm afraid it would be copyrighted? I'd rather not have to recreate it, but please let me know your thoughts. Thanks!! Bb437 (talk) 21:40, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey there! So, the opinion I got on this was that the image is ineligible for copyright since it is composed solely of basic geometric shapes. However, the image is super low resolution and quality. You probably should re-create the diagram unfortunately, although it shouldn't be that difficult since its a fairly simple chart. If you're really uncomfortable doing that, maybe we could find someone else in the class who has a bit of design know-how who would be willing to jam this out, or even I could I suppose. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 22:35, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Also check out of Originality MyNameWasTaken (talk) 22:42, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

You are Great!

	Wine Buddy!
	Cheers to your significant effort as a Campus Ambassador! Kelsey Brannan (talk) 18:18, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Kelsey! Looking forward to Friday. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 19:04, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki extension beta testers

Hi MyNameWasTaken, you'd indicated you were preliminarily interested in helping us test the new Education Program MediaWiki extension. Please check out Wikipedia_talk:Ambassadors#Beta_testers_needed_for_new_MediaWiki_extension for more details and to sign up to be part of the beta testing group. Thanks! -- LiAnna Davis (WMF) (talk) 20:46, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage engagement strategy released

Hey guys!

I'm dropping you a note because you filled out the New Page Patrol survey, and indicated you'd be interested in being contacted about follow-up work. This is to notify you that we've finally released both the initial documentation about the project and also the engagement strategy, which sets out how we plan to work with the community on this. Please give both a read, and leave any comments or suggestions you have on the talkpage, on my talkpage, or in my inbox - okeyeswikimedia.org.

It's awesome to finally get to start work on this! :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 02:26, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

β-testing

Hi! You indicated you'd like to help us beta-test the new MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Education Program. Click here to get started.

Thanks, Rob SchnautZ (WMF) ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:00, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

You're invited to DC Meetup #28!

DC Meetup #28: March 10 at Capitol City Brewery

DC Wikipedia meetup #28 is on Saturday, March 10, 2012, from 7pm on at Capitol City Brewery in downtown DC. (11th & H St NW).

Join us for an evening of socializing, chatting about Wikipedia, discussing Wikimedia DC activities and the latest preparations for Wikimania 2012. (RSVP + details)

Note: You can remove your name from the DC meetup invite list here. -- Message delivered by AudeBot (talk) 03:36, 7 March 2012 (UTC), on behalf of User:Aude

You're invited: Smithsonian Institution Women in Science Edit-a-Thon!

Who should come? You should. Really.
	She Blinded Me with Science: Smithsonian Women in Science Edit-a-Thon will be held on Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Smithsonian Archives in Washington, D.C. This edit-a-thon will focus on improving and writing Wikipedia content about women from the Smithsonian who contributed to the sciences. It will be followed by a happy hour meetup! We look forward to seeing you there!

Sarah (talk) 22:18, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Tamamushi Shrine

Hi! Very glad to see this article on wikipedia. Thank you! Since I don't spend much time on wikipedia these days, I was wondering if you are interested in additional references for this (or other) articles in order to expand it. For instance I could send you relevant pages from Mason, History of Japanese Art (c. 3 pages on the shrine alone) if you wish. A few more Japan related sources I could offer are found at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Reference library. bamse (talk) 17:35, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Open Badges

Hi, MyNameWasTaken. I'm responding to your appeal on the OpenBadges mailing list to get more updated information about badges up. I think we could definitely start a separate article on Digital Badges or Open Badges and also include more information in the [Badge] article. What do you think the article should include? Also, what should we name it? Digital Badges or Open Badges or are these two different articles? I want to get your thoughts on this and then maybe jump in and start a stub that we can recruit others to help us grow into a full article. Promelior (talk) 02:37, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey there! I knew there would be other Wikipedians out there! I think that Digital badges would be the best title, with a little expansion to Badge to justify a section about digital badges with a link to the new article. I'm inclined to start it in the user space until its reasonably sourced and over 1,500 characters so that we can submit it as a DYK and get some traffic from the front page. Maybe a good starting point would be a sandbox-type page to collect sources and start generating some article text? I went ahead and started a drafting page at User:MyNameWasTaken/Digital_badges. I think starting there with a goal of getting it to a solid B-Class and then going back to address red links would be a decent starting point. Your thoughts? MyNameWasTaken (talk) 02:50, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Just to clarify, I simply mean to get it to the bare minimum for DYK (1,500 characters, 3 good sources) and then move it to the article space and focus our work there until its fairly complete, and then move on to other pages that could be expanded, likely using information directly from that page. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 03:10, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

That works. I have no problem with that plan. Thanks for starting the ball rolling. Promelior (talk) 03:14, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey! On the openbadges list you mentioned a "did you know?" process / template...I can't find a link to it? ChrisMcAvoy (talk) 14:53, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Chris. You can find the main page here at WP:DYK. There's also a link to an introductory guide to DYK. I'm willing to handle the submission itself and the QPQ review for this article, but its a great opportunity to know about! MyNameWasTaken (talk) 16:52, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Comm Tech Class

Thanks for all your help adding comments to the talk pages of the students. It seems like many have not been successful soliciting feedback...MJ submitted her article for good article status which triggered feedback..it is a great example of how you have to understand the community to communicate with it...regardless students should have interesting things to talk about in describing why they were not interested in engaging the community..thanks for your help! Turnj (talk) 12:55, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Georgetown editor

You assistance here, please. I'm trying to be super nice considering the arrangement. Kuru (talk) 02:24, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Disregard, s/he has responded on my talk page. Kuru (talk) 02:31, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks for your patience! Next time I communicate to the class I'll include a reminder about Copyvio issues. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 03:42, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

penis

You are certainly welcome :D -badmachine 17:22, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

I was wondering if you could just glance at my article titled 'Jennings Chestnut' and let me know if there is any huge problems. Thanks Bwchest (talk) 00:16, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

9/11 portal

Hi! About this, it's actually an attempt to add another portal (Portal:2000s) WhisperToMe (talk) 07:12, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Duh, I totally should have seen that given that I replied to your help desk message. Just a habit to clean things up when they seem off! Glad to see you got it worked out. MyNameWasTaken (talk) 15:50, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Hello

I'm just testing the talk feature, just ignore what I'm saying la la la. I'm not saying anything I just want to write things to test talking... I don't see a box where I should provide an edit summary, but maybe I will see it once I save this post? Zoe Bertrand (talk) 13:52, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the message Zoe. I forgot to mention that when you use the "New Section" option the edit summary is automatically added as "Added new section XXX." MyNameWasTaken (talk) 15:51, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Hey there, also testing out this function. Howdy! Dumbartonvolta (talk) 19:05, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

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