User talk:BriannaMaxim

Welcome

Hello BriannaMaxim, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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BriannaMaxim, good luck, and have fun. --MathewTownsend (talk) 11:16, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Please leave me comments with your signature , Thank you BriannaMaxim (talk) 00:28, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Volvariella surrecta

Hi,

Thanks for contributing to the article.[1]

There were a couple of minor editing mistakes, which I fixed.

• "and wrote that it ws" - I fixed to "was"
• "[[Miles Berkeley],]" - I fixed to Miles Berkeley

Very good for a first edit! I'm going to add a Welcome template below. Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions or comments. Best wishes, MathewTownsend (talk) 11:15, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for the Welcome template and the comment! I appreciate it. If I need any help, I'll be sure to ask you!BriannaMaxim (talk) 21:25, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Welcome

Hi Brianna! I have added your talk page to my watchlist. You could add my talk page to your watchlist, too. My page is User:Kbarchard. Kim Barchard (talk) 17:59, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Campus Ambassador at UNLV for Wikipedia Education Program

Hi, Brianna! Congrats on joining the Wikipedia Education Program as a Campus Ambassador. Looking forward to working with you this semester. JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 19:58, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi JMathewson! Thank you for the welcome! I look forward working with you this semester as well. BriannaMaxim (talk) 20:18, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! BriannaMaxim, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us!

I, and the rest of the hosts, would be more than happy to answer any questions you have! SarahStierch (talk) 16:11, 2 September 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's Collaborative

WikiWomen Unite!

Hi BriannaMaxim! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative. As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by: Liking the WikiWomen's Collaborative on Facebook and share your tips, projects, and connect with other WikiWomen Join the conversation on our Twitter feed Reading and writing for our blog channel We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can participate! Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 05:14, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Education Program: student survey!

Hi, Brianna! I work with the Wikipedia Education Program, and I'm hoping to get your feedback about your experience this semester! In order to help other students like you enjoy editing while contributing positively to Wikipedia, it would be very helpful to hear from real program students about their experience, so we know what to change. The survey takes no more than 10 minutes, and I'd really appreciate your response!

Thanks so much! JMathewson (WMF) (talk) 23:27, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassadors update

Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.

You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Wikipedia:Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.

If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.

Please do these steps as soon as possible

First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.

Once you've got the ambassador rights, please set up at a Campus and/or Online Ambassador profile. You can do so at:

• Special:CampusAmbassadorProfile
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Going forward, the lists of Ambassadors at Special:CampusAmbassadors and Special:OnlineAmbassadors will be the official roster of who is an active Ambassador. If you would like to be an Ambassador but not ready to serve this term, you can un-check the option in your profile to publicly list it (which will remove your profile from the list).

After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Wikipedia:Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

Communication and keeping up to date

In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:

1. The education noticeboard has become the main on-wiki location for discussion of the Education Program. You can post there about broad education program issues as well as issues with individual courses.
2. The Ambassadors Announce email list is a very low-traffic announcements list of important information all Ambassadors need to be aware of. We encourage all Ambassadors (and other interested Wikipedians) to subscribe to the list; follow the instructions on the link to add your email address.
3. If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the #wikipedia-en-ambassadors ^connect IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.

Ambassador training and resources

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Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 20:43, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Assignment 2 Talk

Hi Brianna, I'm leaving a comment for assignment 2's homework. Mortona8 (talk) 20:07, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Brianna. Here's a kitten for you. Thank you for your diligent and enthusiastic work!

Kim Barchard (talk) 21:21, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Big Five personality traits

Hey there! Looks like you're doing some good work with Big Five personality traits. I did want to ask that if you could, please provide an edit summary when you blank out sections, as you did with this edit. This makes it easier for recent changes patrollers to distinguish constructive edits from vandalism. Thanks and cheers! — MusikAnimal ^talk 19:21, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Okay! Thanks for the information. I knew I had to leave a summery but I didn't think about adding one for each edit. Thank you! BriannaMaxim (talk) 19:29, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Creating A Wikipedia and APSWI Account.pdf

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