Montyhasan

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We hope you like it here and encourage you to stay even after your assignment is finished! Chris Troutman (talk) 01:51, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Montyhasan, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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September 2014

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Thank you. Chris Troutman (talk) 20:38, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

October 2014

Hi there! Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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I noticed your recent edit to Peat swamp forest does not have an edit summary.Please make sure to provide a summary of every edit you make, even if you write only the briefest of summaries. The summaries are very helpful to people browsing an article's history.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Chris Troutman (talk) 16:33, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

SoCal edit-a-thon on October 25

Upcoming SoCal edit-a-thon: Unforgetting L.A. (10/25, 9am-5pm)

Hi. The Southern California Wikipedia community holds sporadic events year-round to meet in-person, welcome new editors, and teach each other the finer points of editing. The Unforgetting L.A. edit-a-thon and training workshop will take place at the 9th annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar, and is hosted by online magazine East of Borneo in partnership with L.A. as Subject. Join us on Saturday, October 25 from 9am to 5pm at Doheny Library (map). Please RSVP here if you plan to attend. I'm providing this message to you since it's on your campus. If you'd like, you can add your user name to our mailing list so you can be notified of other events in the area. Chris Troutman (talk) 23:35, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Great work!

Hi, I'm Eryk from the Wiki Education Foundation. I noticed the great work you did on the peat swamp forest article! I wondered if you'd be interested in sharing some of your experiences working on Wikipedia for our blog? We could use your real name or your Wikipedia username. We find students like to participate since it gives them a pretty positive search result related to the field they're studying in. If you have a minute, you can drop me an e-mail at eryk@wikiedu.org, mention your username and what course you were in, and answer any of the following questions, and I'd be excited to get some attention directed toward your good work.

1. What are your goals (career or academics wise?)
2. Did you have any experience with Wikipedia before the class started? What did you think of Wikipedia before you started work on this assignment?
3. How did you find the process of writing a Wikipedia article, compared to if you had written a traditional paper on the topic?
4. Do you think you learned more about your subject as a result of writing for Wikipedia? What kind of work did you have to do, or do differently, that you may not have needed to do otherwise?
5. Do you think you'll come back to Wikipedia now that the course is finished?
6. What drew you to this particular subject? Were you surprised it hadn't been covered on Wikipedia already?

Thanks for your time! Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:36, 8 January 2015 (UTC)