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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.
If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.
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.
In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:
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) 20:44, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
There is discussion on the composition at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tiffen UV filter. I think I did what you suggested.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 01:42, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
You can close all three noms from that day.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 19:56, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for adding in the name of the picture taker. I'm still fairly new to FPC and don't know what do in some of these cases. AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 18:25, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
The development for TAFI has progressed significantly over the last few weeks, and we are prepared to launch the new feature on the main page for Feb 9th at 0:00 UTC. Concensus was established that the TAFI content should be placed below the DYK content. An example page has been created to show what it would look like. I would like to invite you and several other admins who have recently edited the Main Page to swing by this discussion to help us hammer out the final logistics of integrating the content onto the main page. --NickPenguin(contribs) 18:02, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
Sorry but at Portal:Geography/Featured picture/14, I had to change the sizing back, as image size was too big for the main portal page and was bleeding into the next column over and overlapping with it. — Cirt (talk) 20:35, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
Hey there Juju.....I have nominated List_of_counties_in_West_Virginia for FLC. I noted that you have ALOT of experience with county lists. Florida, looks GREAT. I used that list as a "template" for the WV list. It was in need of some work (no kidding). IF you could please take a look and let me know if you Support, Or want to Comment on the FLC page, I would be very gratefulCoal town guy (talk) 15:32, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
As a formerly active discussant at WT:FSC, I would like to call your attention to Wikipedia talk:Featured sound candidates#Proposal to revamp FS.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 18:09, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi Jujutacular,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Florida topographic map-en.svg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 3, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-03-03. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:12, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
Hey- Of all people who would know, I have hoped, you are it. One of the comments about the WV county luist FLC is "row headers are objectionable since the table is not complex." They also requested a caption for the table. I have checked all of the County lists for the United States. None have a caption. I did indeed look at WP:ACCESS and I have no idea how to imp-lement the caption, much less how to reply to "row headers are objectionable since the table is not complex." I have followed the accepted format for every county list. Can you help?Coal town guy (talk) 15:58, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello Jujutacular,
since you commented at the lists's first nomination I thought you might be interested in reviewing it again against the criteria. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 20:09, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Hey there. Thanks for the kind words. I was actually reading the US Counties page and I am very interested in getting other county lists to FL. My understanding is that IF enough of the county lists make FL, then, the Category/Topic would be come featured and that is a very cool thing, to me at least. It will be a labor of love, BUT I am fascinated with the idea of getting county data in the US up to that levelCoal town guy (talk) 13:30, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
The list of "counties" in Alaska, was in need of some work, which I did, however, I think I know of another FL which could help it. I was thinking of Texas as a approachCoal town guy (talk) 14:12, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
I can fix the refs, I have the data, BUT the intro needs word and the counties need linking in the list. I have asked the contributor to clarifyCoal town guy (talk) 03:13, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Hi. Can you offer your opinion on which photo is more appropriate for the Infobox in the Scott Allie article in this discussion? You don't need to know anything about Allie; I'm contacting you because you've worked on matters pertaining to photography. I tried contacting lots of editors who work on comics-related articles, but every time I do so, we wind up with the sentiments split down the middle, and no clear consensus. I'm thinking perhaps that people who work on matters dealing with photography might be able to offer viewpoints that yield a consensus. Thank you. Nightscream (talk) 15:40, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi Jujutacular,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Cabiria 1914 poster restored.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on April 18, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-04-18. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:35, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
Good photo collection, I'm very new in editing the articles I have less internet facility however every thing seems confusing to me. I'm a Masters student in Bioinformatics. I love to produce more and more articles in regarding to my field and other literature. Pls mail me lbalasubramanyam9@gmail.com Balasubramanyam (talk) 07:30, 9 April 2013 (UTC) |
Hi Jujutacular,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Paul Simonon mg 6692 crop.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on May 30, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-05-30. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:34, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi Jujutacular,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Mezcala Bridge - Mexico edit1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 22, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-06-22. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:20, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
Hi Jujutacular, just an FYI, as discussed at Wikipedia_talk:Featured_picture_candidates#Eliminating_delist_section_.28for_real_this_time.29, the delist and delist&replace nominations will be moved up into the "Current nominations" section. I don't think this should bother your script. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies 17:57, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar | |
Simply Spectacular! Mukeshmegnauth (talk) 19:32, 22 June 2013 (UTC) |
Hi Jujutacular,
Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Andersonville Prison.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 19, 2013. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2013-07-19. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:54, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello Jujutacular!
I found, that your file about Desargues' theorem would fit fine into the introduction of de:Projektive Perspektivität, which is a lemma on an (in german textbooks) a little fuzzy word meaning "nearly the same" as the english Homography, but out of historical reasons going back to the time of Pappos, growing harder with Pascal ... a little fuzzy as I said. Therefore I made your fine picture language-neutral by hand and changed some point names. As I am very OUT of time and older than 13 I know as well as nothing about the copyright-rules, which now apply. So if you find my changes unappropriate, please feel free to change the new file File:Desargues_theorem_language_neutral.svg as you wish.--KlioKlein (talk) 21:38, 3 August 2013 (UTC) (Answer me, if you wish on my german talk-page de:Benutzer Diskussion:KleinKlio)
why did you delete my dark net page? (talk)
Please feel free to close my account - I will seek the advice of someone who is experienced with Wiki and start again. Best Wishes, Will. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.200.63.130 (talk) 13:49, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
I really don't see how the proposed title is ambiguous. It is commonly used in the English-language media, the club itself uses that name on the English-language section of its own website and no other subject could conceivably lay claim to 1. FC Nürnberg as the title of an article. I really think you should reconsider declining the move. – PeeJay 19:37, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Jujutacular thanks for the feedback on my sandbox page re notability. I've included more sources now and would value your opinion on whether you think I've fixed the issue. MurrayMunch (talk) 13:37, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello Jujutacular, I have mailed the permission details on permissions-en@wikimedia.org 7 days ago and also written on (talk) talk page of Diannaa and on my talk page also Ron Gates | Talk and i requested Ayaan Chawla also to email on permissions-en@wikimedia.org if he can so please check, and restore the photo and if there is still problem in anything please revert back.
Regards
Ron Gates —Preceding undated comment added 09:41, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
First, thank you for all the work on keeping Wikipedia clean. I usually just edit, removing the promotion from company articles, which usually saves them, so rarely have them deleted anyway. However, regarding Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sachin Dev Duggal, it was quite a surprise that both of the articles went away, before much of a consensus was reached. Only one editor explicitly stated that both articles should be deleted. Not sure why one editor defines a consensus? It was not totally clear from the AfD that it applied to both articles. One other editor voted to keep, and one delete, but those two were not clear if they meant one or both articles. I proposed my compromise of keeping one neutral article on the company (which seemed to have survived the demise of its flamboyant founder). That seemed the consensus, so I did quite a bit of work on the Nivio article rewording into neutral tone and adding quite a few citations. It ended up bearing little resemblance to the one created by the editor with presumed conflict of interest. I would not have spent that much time trying to rescue it if there was a clear consensus emerging. Any chance we could revive the Nivio article and perhaps do another discussion that explicitly concerns that one, as it stood with all the citations and neutral tone? Or move into my user area so all that work is not lost. Alas, I did not have time to put into my user area before the trigger was pulled, although the discussion had been opened for about four weeks. The log seems to show the company had already been restored once back in 2009, but perhaps standards were not as tight back then? See Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion/Archives/June 2009 Thanks for any suggestions, such as if a WP:deletion review is in order, etc. W Nowicki (talk) 19:37, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Could you please delete User:Yids2010, User:Flat Out, User:100loves and User:Flat Out (with all entirely user pages, talk pages and contributions), I was heartbroken because I'd correction but users undid it. I think users are blind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.176.157 (talk) 04:23, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
I have noticed that on the 20th of August you deleted the page ANts P2P. I have been administrator of this project since 2004 and I believe the reasons for deletions are questionable. In particular you claim:
"I don't see how it's possible for the article to pass WP:NSOFT." This software was a pioneering step in anonymous p2p and it has been around for over 10 years. During this timespan it has been downloaded over 600.000 times as you can verify on sourceforge statistics for the project. It has been covered by thousands of pages and articles on the web as you can verify via a simple search for "ANts p2p" on google.
Furthermore, a search on google scholar for "ANtsP2P" returns over 50 academic articles that mention the software. Such as
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=H2VuBddvMLAC&oi=fnd&pg=PT41&dq=%22ants+p2p%22&ots=2HZM3quuHl&sig=m3KsPFWWMaGR3gePHv-90OaHQ3I http://www.tml.tkk.fi/Publications/C/18/saarinen.pdf
This contradicts your claim "There's just not enough written about it in WP:RS". I would like to kindly ask you to reconsider your decision and undo the deletion.
Regards,
Roberto Rossi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.4.2 (talk) 23:25, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
That's just ridiculous... I need to find a loophole around this nonsense. All I want to do is just have a picture on my user page, and that's it. But then it gets deleted for not being "free" enough? You have to admit, that's kind of stupid.
But since you're the one who deleted it, is there some other way I could reupload the image onto Wikipedia? Perhaps I could give it a copyrighted license owned by the original uploader of the picture?
I'm just trying to put a picture on my user page, and that's turning out to be a lot more difficult than it should be. --Matthew (talk) 13:09, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Can you remove the Block on SyTrueInc and put it on hold. We are going to put up a number of external links, research, and journal articles with Innovative Healthcare IT projects on our platform. We plan to offer those papers for review to our community of users. Thanks SyTrueInc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.231.235 (talk) 05:59, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi Jujutacular, thanks actually, for deleting one of the six files I requested to be deleted at Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2013_August_16. Could you please delete the others I submitted that day? I think their backlog is backlogged. They all say "Tintin cover". Thanks. —Prhartcom (talk) 00:44, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
You closed an AFD because there was an 'LA Times blog interview, yet the article, Deon Swiggs, has nothing from the LA Times in it, blog or otherwise. Did you close the wrong article? The article sucked, a puff piece written by a friend, but it's not the worst offender on Wikipedia, so I'm not requesting a change. But, still, I don't see anything credited to the LA Times in the article. Can you explain? --(AfadsBad (talk) 04:08, 6 September 2013 (UTC))
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