Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/Koavf

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful Online Ambassador application.

Welcome to the team. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 22:16, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

Koavf

Koavf (talk · contribs)

1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?

   I've been one on campus, but that option isn't available this semester

2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.

   I've done a little of this and a little of that for about eight years now.

3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).

   Lots: Illinois (album), George Orwell bibliography, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, etc.

4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?

   Campus Ambassador and some mentoring

5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?

   Get them excited about free culture in general and how it benefits them.

6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.

   You can see my block log--it was huge in 2005/2006, but my conflicts have tapered off since then.

7. 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?

   Several times a day--two hours is nothing.

8. How would you make sure your students were not violating copyright laws?

   http://duckduckgo.com/, common sense, and asking them.

9. If one of your students had an issue with copyright violation how would resolve it?

   Talk to him first and try to determine if he understood what happened and why. If it seems irreconcilable, contact the professor. It's entirely possible that he just doesn't "get" copyright laws or plagiarism, so unintentional copying or misuse could happen and that's light years away from deliberate copyright violations.

10. In your _own_ words describe what copyright violation is.

    The illegal reproduction of someone else's intellectual property. (Bearing in mind that there is a distinction between copyrights, patents, trade secrets, and trademarks...)

11. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?

    User:Koavf

Endorsements

(Two endorsements are needed for online ambassador approval.)

• Support. I'm not excited about blocks for edit warring, but you're a productive (!) contributor and have worked as a campus ambassador, and the answers you give are fine. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 02:22, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support Edit count is a bit thin, but I'll make an exception. The Interior (Talk) 01:08, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
• Support, for sure.--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)