User talk:Jordanliff
Welcome
[edit]Hello, Jordanliff and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you are participating in a class project. If you haven't done so already, we encourage you to go through our training for students.
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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Stuartyeates (talk) 00:58, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
Did You Know? and The Last Drop of Water
[edit]Hi Jordanliff, Looking at your draft it seems like this is a big improvement over our current article, Walker and Williams in Dahomey. When you add to that article with your draft content you may be interested in the "Did You Know?" process, where community members highlight new or expanded articles on the front page. Once you add your contributions to the page you'll have 7 days to nominate the article should you choose to do so.
You can see an overview of the process here, but the gist of it is that you come up with a short hook (~100-150 characters) illustrating a salient or interesting fact on the subject and add that hook to the nominations page (see the handout for how to do that, exactly). Another volunteer will evaluate the submission and if it is successful (once the article is nominated that 7 day clock stops) it will be placed on the front page for a period of time. Articles featured through the "Did You Know?" process often see 1-3 thousand page views while they are on the main page (Which can be kinda cool).
Let me know if this is something you'd be interested in doing and I'd be happy to help with any of the steps along the way. Thanks! Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:11, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
Added your content
[edit]Hi Jordanliff. I saw that you added the draft template to your page. Because there is an article on the same subject already, Walker and Williams in Dahomey, I've moved the contents of your sandbox to that page. You've done a great job with this article. Remember that if you'd like, there's a 7 day window for you to have your article shown on the front page. Let me know if you're interested in that and/or need any help with it.
I've also made a few edits to the page, adding a source which was used in the old article and breaking what was the second paragraph of the intro section. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:13, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Nice work
[edit]Hi, I'm Eryk from the Wiki Education Foundation. I happened to notice the really great work you did on your article, particularly uploading that playbill. I wondered if you'd be interested in sharing some of your experiences working on this site for our blog? We could use your real name or your Wikipedia username. We find students like to participate since it gives them a pretty positive search result related to the field they're studying in. If you have a minute, you can drop me an e-mail at eryk@wikiedu.org, mention your username and what course you were in, and answer any of the following questions, and I'd be excited to get some attention directed toward your good work.
- Did you have any experience with Wikipedia before the class started? What did you think of Wikipedia before you started work on this assignment?
- Where did you find that playbill for Walker and Williams in Dahomey? It's a really cool find and added a lot to the article. Did you find the playbill first, or decide to work on your article first?
- Do you think you'll come back to Wikipedia now that the course is finished?
- What are your goals (career or academics wise?)
Thanks so much for your time!