User talk:ChemLibrarian

Welcome!

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Welcome to Wikipedia! Good Luck editing! MichChemGSI (talk) 19:55, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, MichChemGSI! Look forward to the fun!

ChemLibrarian (talk) 19:57, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Practice

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Welcome

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Hello, ChemLibrarian, and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are a course instructor leading a class project. We encourage you to read our instructions for teachers and lecturers. It is strongly recommended that you add your class to our list of school and university projects. For more help about educational projects using Wikipedia, see our classroom coordination project which was created for the very purpose of assisting course instructors who use Wikipedia for their courses.

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay after your assignment is finished! Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 15:58, 16 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiWomen's Collaborative

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WikiWomen Unite!
	Hi ChemLibrarian! 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) 04:03, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiWomen Unite!

Hi ChemLibrarian! 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) 04:03, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Ambassadors update

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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.

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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:

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.

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Ambassador training and resources

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)

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) 20:56, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Instructor enrollment

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Hi Chemistry Librarian,

I am a Regional Ambassador with the Wikipedia Education Program and, because the "Global Enterprise and Sustainable Development" course has not yet received an Online Ambassador, I am stepping in to fill that role. I notice that you are the Campus Ambassador for this course, but Professor Ming Xu has not yet signed onto the Wikipedia course page as the instructor. Would you be willing to encourage the professor to do so? That step will prove very useful in establishing contact between all parties involved. Thank you for participating in the Wikipedia Education Program! I hope it has been a good experience for you thus far.

Neelix (talk) 03:18, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK articles reviewed

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Template:Did you know nominations/Koller's sickle

DYK for Synergistic catalysis

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On 13 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Synergistic catalysis, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that synergistic catalysis works by activating both reacting substrates simultaneously? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Synergistic catalysis. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 00:05, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Borylation

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On 30 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Borylation, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that metal-catalyzed C-H borylation reactions are useful reactions for carbon-hydrogen bond activation? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Borylation. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Physical organic chemistry

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Hello! Your submission of Physical organic chemistry at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 20:19, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop by again. Your response has been responded to. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:38, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Physical organic chemistry

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On 22 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Physical organic chemistry, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that the term physical organic chemistry was coined by Louis Hammett in 1940 when he used the phrase as a title for his textbook? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Physical organic chemistry. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Nice work!

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		The Original Barnstar
		You've learned how to use basic wikicode in your sandbox. You can always return there to experiment more.

Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. ChemLibrarian (talk) 18:45, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Polyacetylene

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On 12 April 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Polyacetylene, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Hideki Shirakawa, Alan Heeger, and Alan MacDiarmid received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery and development of polyacetylene, an electronically conductive polymer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Polyacetylene. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

slakr^\ talk / 10:43, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Library interns

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Hey ChemLibrarian: User:Michael Barera said I should reach out to you since you are a librarian. Would you mind taking a look at this new resource page: WP:TWL/I and its associated course page? We are trying to develop a resource that makes it really easy for libraries and academic interns to begin editing Wikipedia. Also, would you be interested in running such an internship as a pilot? Sadads (talk) 20:47, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ACS Edit-a-thon in Boston

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Hi ChemLibrarian! This is Keith Lindblom (KLindblom), organizer of the Notable Chemists and Chemistry edit-a-thon in Boston. Thank you for signing up on the project page for this event and for being willing to train others! Please send me an email at k_lindblom (at) acs.org to confirm your RSVP for the event. See you in Boston! KLindblom (talk) 18:19, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Courses Modules are being deprecated

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Hello,

Your account is currently configured with an education program flag. This system (the Courses system) is being deprecated. As such, your account will soon be updated to remove these no longer supported flags. For details on the changes, and how to migrate to using the replacement system (the Programs and Events Dashboard) please see Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive 18#NOTICE: EducationProgram extension is being deprecated.

Thank you! Sent by: xaosflux 20:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]