Jodi.elizabeth
Hello all and students from Aaron Frank's Environmental Law Class:
I am a Campus Ambassador for the Public Policy Initiative. During the spring 2011 semester, I will be working with Professor Aaron Frank and his Environmental Law II class at the University of San Francisco. In May 2010, I received a Master's of Science in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco. I am particularly interested in the topics of Environmental Policy and Law, Sustainable Agriculture and Land Conservation. I currently work for the Wine Institute's Environmental Affairs Department as an Environmental Coordinator and help to implement their Sustainable Winegrowing Program.
If you are a student in the class or interested in our project, visit our Course Page and the WikiProject Jodi.elizabeth (talk) 02:17, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Wiki Commons edit
Hi Jodie: I sent my online ambassordor an email but I know that my mentor only checks it once a week and I thought I could ask you this and get a faster response. I am trying to get a picture from wiki commons, I know how to get my picture on my website but I forgot how to shrink it dow and add it to the right side of my page. I am having trouble navigating though the instructions on wiki. Thanks. Anderskr (talk) 11:10, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
Time Zone Changed, Thanks edit
HI Jodi:
I have used view history but I haven't looked at the user contribution until now. Thanks for sharing this. It helps me view what has been done so far. Also, thank you for telling me about the time zone change. Anderskr) 8:30, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
- No worries! Jodi.elizabeth (talk) 18:38, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Help edit
Hi Jodie: This is Kristan Anderskr doing a case for Aaron's class. I have a question about my history. When I was viewing it, it looks like I have the wrong time zone. For example: yesterday, Sunday the 17th, I contributed to my sandbox but when viewing my history it said I added it a day ahead? Am I reading this right and if so how do I change it so my assignments do not look a day late. Thanks Jodie. (Anderskr) 8:30, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 21 March 2011 edit
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Happy to help edit
Hello, Please let me know how I can help. I've agreed to mentor several students, and so far have had only one request for help. Thanks for reaching out. Cullen328 (talk) 18:52, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Cullen328, I thought that I would let the Students pick their own mentors, but if you see an article that they are working on that is of interest to you, you are welcome to reach out to them. They will be listing their article titles on our course page soon. Our class just started last week, so I am sure you will be getting requests for help soon. Thanks again! Jodi.elizabeth (talk) 17:51, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
mentoring edit
Hello Jodi,
I have volunteered to one of the online mentors for the environmental law course. Should i pick my own mentees /group or will they be assigned to mentors / pick mentors themselves?. (Also i noticed only three of us signed up in the course page. It maybe because a lot of us haven't subscribed to the mailing list. There are a few more available mentors listed here. If you want more mentors, this is the place to go)--Sodabottle (talk) 04:36, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! Yes, I thought that I would let the Students pick their own mentors, but if you see an article that they are working on that is of interest to you, you are welcome to reach out to them. I will be sure to check the list you mentions. Thanks again for your help. Jodi.elizabeth (talk) 17:49, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
hey edit
- I was an ambassador, then had to quit because of time issues in real life. I posted my name on your project page. I'm happy to chip in with any kind of request, but can't commit to solid blocks of time... • Ling.Nut (talk) 06:07, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
- Great, thanks for agreeing to help out when you can. We really appreciate it. I encouraged students to post questions on the Online Ambassador page and to reach out to available Online Ambassadors or whoever posts their usernames on our Course Page. I expect most students will have adhoc questions and will not need constant guidance, so I am sure they will appreciative your help. Jodi.elizabeth (talk) 16:32, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Hey Jodi edit
Hi Jodi I'm a student in Aaron's class for the semester and working on the Wiki project. I contacted my ambassador and he was interested in maybe setting up a wiki help session for one of our Saturday classes. I'll display the message below. Kkihara (talk) 01:27, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
Hello Kimiye,
I've made some comments on selecting a topic on my talk page. Am I correct that your class meets on Saturday? If so, perhaps I could visit the class at some point in the future, if the professor would be interested in having an experienced Wikipedian answer a few questions. Let me know if that would be useful. Cullen328 (talk) 23:18, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
- Hi Cullen (and Kkihara) - so sorry for the delay in responding to your question and Kimiye's question. Thanks for your offer and willingness to come to class to help out. I discussed this with Aaron Frank, our Professor and we think it is a great idea. Would the afternoon of 4/16 work for you? I was thinking we could ask one more wikipedian to come and help. I think it would be good to have a brief presentation of some of the things I haven't covered yet and then a Q&A session. Jodi.elizabeth (talk) 21:46, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
Jodi, Thanks for getting the wikipedians to come to class Saturday. I will connect with them to be mentors for our article. Gbfalcone (talk) 17:18, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter: 22 April 2011 edit
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THANKS! edit
Thanks for all your help this semester! Scfavrot (talk) 18:12, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
- You're welcome!!! It was fun working with the class. Jodi.elizabeth (talk) 20:23, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
Please take the Wikipedia Ambassador Program survey edit
Hi Ambassador,
We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.
WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_talk
Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!
Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:40, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
Ambassador Program: assessment drive edit
Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.
In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.
Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.
--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:25, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
Come hang out with us online! edit
Hi! I wanted to let you know that we have created an IRC channel for "countering systemic bias one new editor at a time", aka closing the gender gap! Come hang out at #wikimedia-gendergap if that subject interests you. We hope this channel can serve as a safe haven to hang out, talk about Wiki, brainstorming, women in Wikimedia, article alerts and foster friendships. I hope you join us! (And if you need any IRC help, just let me know!) See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 12:57, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Survey edit
Hi Jodi!
I have put together a survey for female editors of Wikipedia (and related projects) in order to explore, in greater detail, women's experiences and roles within the Wikimedia movement. It'd be wonderful if you could participate!
It's an independent survey, done by me, as a fellow volunteer Wikimedian. It is not being done on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. I hope you'll participate!
Just click this link to participate in this survey, via Google!
Any questions or concerns, feel free to email me or stop by my user talk page. Also, feel free to share this any other female Wikimedians you may know. It is in English, but any language Wikimedia participants are encouraged to participate. I appreciate your contributions - to the survey and to Wikipedia! Thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 21:46, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
You're invited: San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon 2! edit
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Wikipedia Ambassadors update edit
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.
- Please do these steps as soon as possible
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.
- Communication and keeping up to date
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:
- The education noticeboard has become the main on-wiki location for discussion of the Education Program. You can post there about broad education program issues as well as issues with individual courses.
- The Ambassadors Announce email list is a very low-traffic announcements list of important information all Ambassadors need to be aware of. We encourage all Ambassadors (and other interested Wikipedians) to subscribe to the list; follow the instructions on the link to add your email address.
- If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the #wikipedia-en-ambassadors connect IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.
- Ambassador training and resources
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) 20:55, 14 January 2013 (UTC)