Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/InverseHypercube
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- The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful Online Ambassador application.
Consensus show clear support from all discussion participants. Welcome to the Ambassador Program! --Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 23:27, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
InverseHypercube
[edit]InverseHypercube (talk · contribs)
- Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?
- I am interested in seeing Wikipedia grow, and I think the education program is a great way to gain quality, sourced information. As such, I want to help the students and teachers with Wikipedia formatting, style, and policy, and possibly foster new active editors.
- In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.
- On the English Wikipedia, I have over 9000 (meme reference not intended!) edits, the vast majority being to mainspace, and a variety of created articles (see User:InverseHypercube). On Wikimedia Commons, I regularly upload my own files and those of others, am a file reviewer, and run an upload bot.
- Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).
- The best articles I wrote are probably History of cotton and Whistler sled dog cull.
- How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?
- I place welcome templates on new users' pages when I see them, and do help new users (although I am not involved in the WP:Welcoming committee); for example, Commons:User talk:Sridhar1000#Regarding images. I try to be friendly and encourage users to ask me questions.
- What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?
- I think WP:Teahouse is a nice initiative, as is WikiLove and the automatic barnstar upon reaching 1000 edits.
- Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.
- No.
- How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?
- I edit Wikipedia for at least an hour a day, and am online almost all the time. I check my watchlist very frequently, so I can usually respond to queries in a matter of minutes.
- How would you make sure your students were not violating Copyright laws?
- If I suspect a text copyright violation, it is usually easy to verify on Google. With regards to images, I am quite familiar with copyright law and Commons policies, being an image reviewer.
- If one of your students had an issue with Copyright Violation how would resolve it?
- If it was a text copyvio, I would attempt to change it so as to remove the issue ("put it in my own words"). I would then contact the student responsible and remind them about Wikipedia policy. If it was an image, I would nominate it for deletion and contact the student.
- In your _own_ words describe what Copyright Violation is.
- With text, paraphrasing (or outright copying) of the source in a way that emulates it too closely, assuming it is not under a license compatible with Wikipedia. With images the same concept applies; if the image is an outright copy or a derivative work of a non-free source, it is a copyright violation.
- What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?
- I have helped with Wikipedia:Canada Education Program/Courses/Present/North American Environmental History (Tina Loo), although not as an official ambassador. I have made edits to articles, advised students, and talked to the professor regarding an issue (see User talk:Greentina#Regarding article length and User talk:InverseHypercube#Regarding Article Length), probably similar to the things I would be doing as an ambassador. Students responded quite well; see Talk:Trail Smelter dispute#work in progress and User talk:InverseHypercube#A barnstar for you!.
Thanks for reading!
Discussion
[edit]- Support Good credentials, and helping out unofficially for fun, shows good initiative. Epistemophiliac (talk) 03:45, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Comment I'm an OA for the class the applicant helped out with. IH showed the right demeanor for helping new users. Conscientious, patient, knowledgeable, I think IH would make a great OA. (I assume I shouldn't support/oppose due to me not being part of selection/steering team - is this correct?) The Interior (Talk) 18:13, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
- Support.--Pharos (talk) 19:19, 12 April 2012 (UTC)