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Hi MichChemGSI! I noticed that you made mention of Michigan State University on your userpage. If you are a current undergraduate, graduate student or staff member there, I would like to let you know of an opportunity to become a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador for MSU! As a campus ambassador you will be working closely with students who are editing Wikipedia as a class project at MSU! If you are interested in using technology for educational purposes and enjoy teaching and support open-source knowledge, the Wikimedia Foundation wants you! It is a great opportunity to gain leadership and teaching skills. For more information please go to: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Campus_Ambassador
If you are interested in applying, please leave me a message here or at my talk page on Wikimedia Outreach. And please pass this along to anyone you know who may be in the area and who are interested! The deadline for the spring 2011 semester is Dec 3, 2010! --MichChemGSI (talk) 05:02, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
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Hi MichChemGSI,
I apologize if it seems like the students are ignoring requests made by the community. Wikipedia editing is quite a beast and there are a lot of details in teaching these students how to edit that get overlooked as result of a lack of time. I will notify them how to check right away.
Our goal is to improve selected pages by substantially adding content to pages missing relevant data, or completely creating new pages. However, the students do not realize that they are being communicated to through their talk pages. In order to control the content that is being added, we hold an internal peer review process, so the information being posted is not entirely unchecked.
Despite being new to Wikipedai's editing system, the students are aware of their readership and work hard to write entries that reflect that. However, if you and your collegues would give more substantial and constructive feedback specifically on the content in question (instead of a blanket comment about logistics and policies of Wikipedia), it goes without saying that such comments are welcomed wholeheartedly. The students will happily address those comments Or feel free to change some of the content yourself.
Additionally, in regards to a reference issue, many of them are already aware of the necessity of DOI numbers and are in the process of filling those in; however, that is a small issue in reference to the big picture and the improvements that their research has made to the page.
Best,
MichChemGSI (talk) 03:10, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
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