User talk:Jentuser

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Wikipedians to help with your class

Hi! Awadewit pointed me your way. I think the "Online Ambassadors", a group of Wikipedians who are being organized for a pilot project right now to support instructors and student doing Wikipedia assignments, would be delighted to help. They've mainly been working with public policy classes, which is the focus of the pilot, but this would be a good chance to branch out. I can't promise you support before mooting the subject with the ambassadors group, but I'm pretty sure they'll want to work with you.

Basically, the way it would work is that you would have each of your students request one of the ambassadors as a mentor, start a page for your course to be the on-wiki hub of activity (with details about the assignments, and a place for students to list themselves and their topics), and then the mentors could help guide the students as they work on their editing assignments.

Can you tell me more about your assignment plans and the scope of the subject matter your students will be working on? We'll probably want to try to have the course be adopted by one of the WikiProjects, and I'm not sure which one would be the best fit for you.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:47, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for your message, Sage. We have modest ambitions at the moment: just to add a bit to the theory and criticism sections (or, in some instances, create them) for some of the nineteenth century American women writers whose work appears already on the site (Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall; Harriet Wilson's Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black; Edith Wharton's Bunner Sisters, and perhaps one or two others). Students have already posted short critical summaries to the talk page of Ruth Hall. It still needs editing. Perhaps the Online Ambassadors would be willing to work with one or more of these groups? Thanks again for your quick reply. I look forward to hearing from you. Jentuser (talk) 15:54, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a worthy project, and the Online Ambassadors want to support you. It looks like the best way to go will be to try to work with WikiProject Novels; we'll work on setting up a page for your class soon. I think one of the ambassadors, User:Sonia, wants to take the lead with coordinating the ambassadors to help you. It looks like your students have done a nice job summarizing relevant criticism of Ruth Hall; that approach of citing what others have written rather than trying to come up with original criticism is just the right way to do it. Please let me or Sonia know if you questions or requests or problems. But at this point, I would say you're on the right track, so your students should be bold and just start improving the Ruth Hall article.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:32, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again! I [[started a course page, with some structure based on how we've been working with other courses: Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/American women writers fall 2010. It's very flexible, though; feel free to use it however you like to fit the needs of your class. The best way to get help from Online Ambassadors is to have students request them as mentors; each student's mentor can then offer personal guidance and suggestions and help as the students make prepare for and make their contributions to articles. If you have any questions, User:Sonia and User:The ed17 have both offered to help coordinate things for your class. Good luck!--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:17, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

November 2015

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Orb Mellon, from its old location at User:Jentuser/Enter your new article name here. This is because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 02:14, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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