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The Signpost: 10 December 2012

  • News and notes: Wobbly start to ArbCom election, but turnout beats last year's
    At the time of writing, this year's election has just closed after a two-week voting period. The eight seats were contested by 21 candidates. Of these, 15 have not been arbitrators (Beeblebrox, Count Iblis, Guerillero, Jc37, Keilana, Ks0stm, Kww, NuclearWarfare, Pgallert, RegentsPark, Richwales, Salvio giuliano, Timotheus Canens, Worm That Turned, and YOLO Swag); four candidates are sitting arbitrators (David Fuchs, Elen of the Roads, Jclemens, and Newyorkbrad); and two have previously served on the committee (Carcharoth and Coren). Four Wikimedia stewards from outside the English Wikipedia stepped forward as election scrutineers: Pundit, from the Polish Wikipedia; Teles, from the Portuguese Wikipedia; Quentinv57, from the French Wikipedia; and Mardetanha, from the Persian Wikipedia. The scrutineers' task is to ensure that the election is free of multiple votes from the same person, to tally the results, and to announce them. The full results are expected to be released within the next few days and will be reported in next week's edition of the Signpost.
  • Featured content: Wikipedia goes to Hell
    Eight articles, four images, six lists, and one topic were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week.
  • Technology report: The new Visual Editor gets a bit more visual
    The Visual Editor project – an attempt to create the first WMF-deployable WYSIWYG editor – will go live on its first Wikipedias imminently following nearly six months of testing on MediaWiki.org. A full explanatory blog post accompanied the news, explaining the project and its setup. Once a user has opted-in, the editor can handle basic formatting, headings and lists, while safely ignoring elements it is yet to understand, including references, categories, templates, tables and images. At the last count, approximately 2% of pages would break in some way if a user tried the Visual Editor on them; it is unclear whether any specific protection will be put in place beyond relying on editors to spot problems.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProject Human Rights
    In celebration of Human Rights Day, we checked out WikiProject Human Rights. Started in February 2006, the project has grown to include over 3,000 articles, including 12 Featured Articles, 3 Featured Lists, 66 Good Articles, a large collection of Did You Know entries, and a few mentions "in the news". The project monitors listings of popular pages and cleanup tags. We interviewed Khazar2, Cirt, and Boud.

GOCE mid-December newsletter

End of Year Events from the Guild of Copy Editors

The Guild of Copy Editors invites you to participate in its events:

  • The December 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest is currently in the submissions stage. Submit your best December copy edit there before the end of the month. Submissions end, and discussion and voting begin, on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC).
  • Voting is in progress for the November 2012 Copy Edit of the Month Contest. Everyone is welcome to vote, whether they have entered the contest or not.
  • From Sunday 16 December to Saturday 22 December, we are holding a Project Blitz, in which we will copy edit articles tagged with {{copyedit}} from January 2012. The blitz works much like our bimonthly drives, but a bit simpler. Everyone is welcome to take part, and barnstars will be awarded.
  • January 2013 Backlog elimination drive is a month-long effort to reduce the size of the copy edit backlog. The drive begins on January 1 at 00:00 (UTC) and ends on January 31 at 23:59 (UTC). Our goals are to copy edit all articles tagged in January, February, and March 2012 and complete all requests placed before the end of 2012. Barnstars will be awarded to anyone who copy edits at least one article, and special awards will be given to the top five in the following categories: "Number of articles", "Number of words", "Number of articles of over 5,000 words", "Number of articles tagged in January, February, and March 2012", and "Longest article". We hope to see you there! – Your drive coordinators: Stfg, Allens, and Torchiest.

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This Month in Education: December 2012



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The Signpost: 17 December 2012

  • News and notes: Arbitrator election: stewards release the results
    Seven days after the close of voting, the results of the recent Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) elections have been announced by two of the four stewards overseeing the election, Mardetanha and Pundit. Of the 21 candidates, 13 managed to gain positive support-to-oppose ratios, and the top eight will be appointed to two-year terms on the committee by Jimbo Wales, exercising one of his traditional responsibilities.
  • WikiProject report: WikiProjekt Computerspiel: Covering Computer Games in Germany
    In the past year, we've tried to expand our horizons by looking at how WikiProjects work in other languages of Wikipedia. Following in the footsteps of our previously interviewed Czech and French projects, we visited the German Wikipedia to explore WikiProjekt Computerspiel (WikiProject Computer Games). The project dates back to November 2004 and has become the back-end of the Computer Games Portal, which covers all video games regardless of platform. Editors writing about computer games at the German Wikipedia deal with unique cultural and legal challenges, ranging from a lack of fair use precedents to the limited availability of games deemed harmful for youths to strong standards for the inclusion of material on the German Wikipedia.
  • Op-ed: Finding truth in Sandy Hook
    This week's big story on the English Wikipedia is obviously the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (which, by the time you read this, may be renamed 2012 Connecticut school shooting). Quickly created and nominated for deletion not once but twice, and both times speedily kept, the article saw the expected flurry of edits (a look at the history suggests an average of at least one a minute over the first day and a half) and more than half a million page views on the first full day.
  • Featured content: Wikipedia's cute ass
    Four articles, three lists, and five images were promoted to 'featured' status on the English Wikipedia this week, including a picture of a three-week old donkey (also known as an 'ass').
  • Technology report: MediaWiki groups and why you might want to start snuggling newbie editors
    MediaWiki users (including Wikimedians) can now organise themselves into groups, receiving recognition and support-in-kind from the Wikimedia Foundation. The project, backed by new Wikimedia technical contributor coordinator Quim Gil, has seen five proposals lodged in its first week of operation. The idea of MediaWiki groups mimics that of Wikimedia User Groups.

Greetings!

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Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's solstice or Christmas,
Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus,
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this is a special time of year for (almost) everyone.

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Merry Christmas and a happy 2013
10:37, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
  • You rock, Gareth! Hope you have an awesome week, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year. Your work on Wikipedia is appreciated. And your kindness is a welcome breath of fresh air. Again, hope you have a Merry Christmas. You deserve the best that Santa can bring! Cindy(talk to me) 17:58, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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China Communications Standards Association

Dear Cindy, I have found an article from NTT technical review discussing CCSA (NTT is the principal Japanese telephone company, a bit like AT&T in America). https://www.ntt-review.jp/archive/ntttechnical.php?contents=ntr201012gls.html Is this a reputable enough source? David e cooper (talk) 20:37, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

Winter Wonderland

Peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, peoples rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension.

Hope all is well. Happy Holidays to you and yours.. ```Buster Seven Talk 07:25, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

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An accidental mix of French and English user name brought confusion

Hello Cindamuse, You are telling me in a comment I received that I might be using two identities... It is true that I have two identities but one (Edgard Poe)was for French articles I was working on. When I started writing an article in English, I thought I could use the same user name as for the French articles, but the system rejected it, so I had to created De Medicis. So I create a new account with a new user's name. Then accidently, the two sites were open at the same time and as I was trying to log in with the other name(De Medicis)it was refused and the system gave me instead the other user name (Edgard Poe) so I continued with my French user name and all this created confusions. I am very sorry for that and did not intend to have two identities in English. The system did'nt work at the time for me to prevent this kind of technical error... And being accused of playing with two identities is hurting... I will quit writing as soon as I finish dowloading the picture on the article. It will be some times before I start writing again for Wikipedia. It is always a tremendous challenge and specially in English which is not my mother tongue... Anyway, have a Good Christmas and a Happy New Year. I kwnow you are not responsable for this. Thank you for reading me. Edgard Poe--Edgard Poe (talk) 00:57, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

  • Edgard, sorry that the system didn't work out as expected when you logged on. Not sure what happened there. The message I left on your talk page was merely a notice about the two accounts, assuming good faith, rather than an accusation. The note is a recommendation to identify yourself on both accounts, in order to forgo any confusion. I highly recommend that you only use Edgard Poe on the English Wikipedia, as a global account already established on the French Wikipedia. Just make sure not to use both accounts on the English Wikipedia. If you need help or have questions, please feel free to contact me. (And Merry Christmas to you too!) Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 01:10, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

John E. Braun

Why did you undo my changes to John E. Braun? Your version of the lead paragraph has no mention of his party. You cannot find another politician where their party isn't mentioned in that section. I mimicked my changes after Ed Murray. If its wrong on his page, you're going to have to change a lot of wikipages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Champ68 (talk • contribs) 01:51, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

  • The changes to the opening sentence, paragraph, and section headings were made in accordance with the Manual of Style; see also WP:OPENPARA. In essence, the edits you have made do not comply with community guidelines. When we create articles, it is essential to provide a clear summary of the article's content. The content in the lede sentence needs to be concise, while providing additional content within the paragraph overall. As far as other pages, see WP:OSE. If you have more questions, please feel free to contact me. Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 02:09, 26 December 2012 (UTC)


The Signpost: 24 December 2012

  • News and notes: Debates on Meta sparking along—grants, new entities, and conflicts of interest
    As part of its new focus on core responsibilities, the Wikimedia Foundation is reforming its grant schemes so that they are more accessible to individual volunteers. The community is invited to look at proposals for a new scheme—for now called Individual engagement grants (IEGs)—which is due to kick off on January 15. On Meta, the community is once again debating the two new offline participation models—user groups (open membership groups designed to be easy to form) and thematic organizations (incorporated non-profits representing the Wikimedia movement and supporting work on a specific theme within or across countries). In a consultation process on Meta that will last until January 15, the community will be discussing WMF proposals for a new guideline on conflicts of interests concerning Wikimedia resources. The draft covers COI issues for both volunteers and organizations across the movement.
  • WikiProject report: A Song of Ice and Fire
    This week, we spent some time with WikiProject A Song of Ice and Fire, which focuses on the eponymous series of high fantasy literature, the television series Game of Thrones, and related works by George R. R. Martin. The project was started in July 2006 and has grown to include 11 Good Articles maintained by a small yet enthusiastic band of editors.
  • Featured content: Battlecruiser operational
    Seven articles and two lists were promoted to 'featured' status this week, including List of battlecruisers. The article covers all of the battlecruisers—which were a type of warship similar in size to a battleship but with several defining characteristics—ever planned or constructed. The last British battlecruiser built, HMS Hood, is pictured at right.
  • Technology report: Efforts to "normalise" Toolserver relations stepped up
    Efforts were stepped up this week to sow a feeling of trust between the major parties with an interest in the future of the Toolserver. The tool- and bot-hosting server – more accurately servers – are currently operated by German chapter, Wikimedia Germany, with assistance from the Foundation and numerous volunteers, including long-time system administrator Daniel Baur (more commonly known by his pseudonym DaB). However, those parties have more recently failed to see eye-to-eye on the trajectory for the Toolserver, which is scheduled to be replaced by Wikimedia Labs in late 2013, with increasing concern about the tone of discussions.

The National Currency Foundation

I saw two conflicting notices of deletion- speedy and discussion. I am very new to writing for Wikipedia so I'm still learning where responses go. I left comments on the deletion discussion. Please let me know what (if anything) I can do to prevent this article from being deleted. Thank you. Godot13 (talk) 18:57, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

  • Hey there! There are different steps to the deletion process on Wikipedia, which includes a system of checks and balances. This is a healthy and productive part of the collaborative nature of the project. Just another pair of eyes. The article was initially placed for what we call speedy deletion, based on the promotional content. Another editor then came along and thought there may be some significance shown in the citations, so s/he recommended that we open up the article for community discussion. This allows more eyes to take a look at the subject. Oftentimes, other editors may know a bit about the subject that some may not be aware of. I like the collaborative nature of Wikipedia and working with others. I learn something new through various articles that I didn't previously. For example, I think the National Currency Foundation is very interesting, although I really don't know anything about the hobby (although I DO like money), but I digress. I think it's a bit too soon for the NCF article. I've provided an assessment of the article's sources. Your comments were appropriate. Just go back and place the word "keep" in front of your recommendation. See this link for the process of deletion discussion. Please feel free to contact me again if you have questions. Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 03:34, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Funny, I just now saw your response, after responding to your deletion discussion comments. I think I reached the same conclusion as you ;-) What I'm not clear about is your comment above about placing the word "Keep." Does that refer to keeping my comments or keeping the article?
I noticed that you are part of various Smithsonian groups on wikipedia. Is there a way for me to add some kind of sign/tag/acknowledgment for articles that are based in large part on information or images from the Smithsonian. For example, my first article- or list- List of people on United States banknotes is comprised of portraits from notes at the Smithsonian... Thanks for your constructive comments and help - Godot13 (talk) 21:10, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Technical Analysis

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Re:White Peony

Hi Cindy, I admit I have very limited knowledge in the area but when I had a quick look at the sources, they seemed to establish that White Peony is notable and appears to be a female figure in Chinese mythology. If the stuff on ejaculation and other sexual content is all nonsense surely only those parts can be deleted instead of deleting the entire article? I apologise if I am missing something and making a fool of myself but I still think that the concept of Bai Mudan itself is valid. GizzaTalk © 12:11, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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Autopatrolled?

Hi Cindy. Would you mind if I change your user right status to "autopatrolled"? At new pages, I keep seeing your great articles on books covered by yellow strips, and I don't think it is necessary. Thanks for any answer and ... Happy New Year :) --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 16:31, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

  • No, I don't mind. I'll be working on several new articles over the next few weeks, so it should alleviate the extra work for patrollers. Thanks for the kudos and Happy New Year to you too! Cindy(talk to me) 17:57, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
Done. I wish you a speedy recovery :) --Vejvančický (talk / contribs) 22:11, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll be having major surgery in a couple weeks, which will leave me relatively bedridden over the next month, so my plans are to work on creating a bunch of articles to alleviate the boredom in between bouts of pain. ;) Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 22:15, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Happy New Years, and get well soonValleyspring (talk) 04:51, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Washington: A Life

"Reception" section of this article, Washington: A Life, may need some rework. --George Ho (talk) 06:00, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

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GOCE 2012 Annual Report

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The Signpost: 31 December 2012

  • From the editor: Wikipedia, our Colosseum
    In the impersonal, detached Colosseum that is Wikipedia, people find it much easier to put their thumbs down. As such, many people active in the Wikimedia movement have witnessed a precipitous decline in civil discourse. This is far from a new trend, yet many people would agree that it all seemed somehow worse in 2012.
  • In the media: Is the Wikimedia movement too 'cash rich'?
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  • Technology report: Looking back on a year of incremental changes
    In the first of two features, the Signpost this week looks back on 2012, a year when developers finally made inroads into three issues that had been put off for far too long (the need for editors to learn wiki-markup, the lack of a proper template language and the centralisation of data) but left all three projects far from finished.
  • Interview: Interview with Brion Vibber, the WMF's first employee
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  • WikiProject report: New Year, New York
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  • Recent research: Wikipedia and Sandy Hook; SOPA blackout reexamined
    Northeastern University researcher Brian Keegan analyzed the gathering of hundreds of Wikipedians to cover the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. ... A First Monday article reviews several aspects of the Wikipedia participation in the 18 January 2012, protests against SOPA and PIPA legislation in the USA. The paper focuses on the question of legitimacy, looking at how the Wikipedia community arrived at the decision to participate in those protests.

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Deletion of Contract Based Education WVSD (Spokane)

Hello Cindy, You have recently deleted Contract Based Education WVSD (Spokane) page. To avoid any confusion I set the page to redirect to West Valley School District (Spokane) (the district that school is currently under). Just letting you know... if you have any concerns please let me know. Cheers! →Glebby (talk) 01:52, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 07 January 2013

  • Op-ed: Meta, where innovative ideas die
    Meta is the wiki that has coordinated a wide range of cross-project Wikimedia activities, such as the activities of stewards, the archiving of chapter reports, and WMF trustee elections. The project has long been an out-of-the-way corner for technocratic working groups, unaccountable mandarins, and in-house bureaucratic proceedings. Largely ignored by the editing communities of projects such as Wikipedia and organizations that serve them, Meta has evolved into a huge and relatively disorganized repository, where the few archivists running it also happen to be the main authors of some of its key documents. While Meta is well-designed for supporting the librarians and mandarins who stride along its corridors, visitors tend to find the site impenetrable—or so many people have argued over the past decade. This impenetrability runs counter to Meta's increasingly central role in the Wikimedia movement.
  • WikiProject report: Where Are They Now? Episode IV: A New Year
    The dawning of a new year offers both a fresh slate and an opportunity to revisit our previous adventures. 2012 marked the fifth anniversary of the WikiProject Report and was the column's most productive year with 52 articles published. In addition to sharing the experiences of Wikipedia's many active projects, we expanded our scope to highlight unique projects from other languages of Wikipedia, and tracked down all of the former editors-in-chief of the Signpost for an introspective interview ... While last year's "Summer Sports Series" may have drawn yawns from some readers, a special report on "Neglected Geography" elicited more comments than any previous issue of the Report. Following in the footsteps of our past three recaps, we'll spend this week looking back at the trials and tribulations of the WikiProjects we encountered in 2012. Where are they now?
  • News and notes: 2012—the big year
    The past 12 months have seen a multitude of issues and events in the Wikimedia foundation, the movement at large, and the English Wikipedia. The movement, now in its second decade, is growing apace in its international reach, cultural and linguistic diversity, technical development, and financial complexity; and many factors have combined to produce what has in many ways been the biggest, most dynamic year in the movement's history. Looking back at 2012, we faced a difficult task in doing justice to all of the notable events in a single article; so the Signpost has selected just a few examples from outside the anglosphere, from the English Wikipedia, and from the Wikimedia Foundation, rather than attempting to cover every detail that happened.
  • Featured content: Featured content in review
    Over the past year, 963 pieces of featured content were promoted. The most active of the featured content programs was featured article candidates (FAC), which promoted an average of 31 articles a month. This was followed by featured picture candidates (FPC; 28 a month). Coming in third was featured list candidates (FLC; 20 a month). Featured topic and featured portal candidates remained sluggish, each promoting fewer than 20 items over the year.
  • Technology report: Looking ahead to 2013
    Following on from last week's reflections on 2012, this week the Technology report looks ahead to 2013, a year that will almost certainly be dominated by the juggernauts of Wikidata, Lua and the Visual Editor.

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Thank you for your latest 'talk' regarding Alexander. D. Henderson. The citations provided are important reflections of what his peers have said about Henderson. I understand that Independent sources are important. Henderson's death was in 1925 so it is hard to find a lot of Independent sources. I will continue to research secondary and Independent sources as you recommend and will update the page accordingly. --Greg Henderson 9 January 2013. —Preceding undated comment added 02:24, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

  • For the sake of continuity, it is important for you to respond within a conversation. Lacking that, I honestly have no idea what you are referring to here. (Please remember to sign your comments with four tildes, i.e., ~~~~) Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 02:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

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Reserving special hold for Washington: A Life

In discussion, you requested that it be held for February 18. However, Washington's birthday is February 22. Should it be run normally, or be held on February 22, his birthday? --George Ho (talk) 15:54, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Either one is fine. While his birthday is the 22nd, it is celebrated on President's Day in the US, which is the 18th this year. Again though, either one is fine. Thanks for contacting me! I will only be available intermittently over the next couple of months due to an illness and major surgery, followed by recuperation. If you need to reach me, you can contact me here or through email, since I'm not watching pages right now. Best regards, 22:12, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassadors update

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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.

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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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!

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The Signpost: 14 January 2013

  • Investigative report: Ship ahoy! New travel site finally afloat
    After six years without creating a new class of content projects, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has finally expanded into a new area: travel. Wikivoyage was formally launched—though without a traditional ship's christening—on 15 January, having started as a beta trial on 10 November. Wikivoyage has been taken under the WMF's umbrella on the argument that information resources that help with travel are educational and therefore within the scope of the foundation's mission.g
  • News and notes: Launch of annual picture competition, new grant scheme
    On January 16, voting for the first round of the 2012 Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest will begin. Wikimedia editors with 75 edits or one project are eligible to vote to select their favorite image featured in 2012. ... On January 15, the foundation launched its latest grant scheme, called Individual Engagement Grants (IEG).
  • WikiProject report: Reach for the Stars: WikiProject Astronomy
    This week, we set off for the final frontier with WikiProject Astronomy. The project was started in August 2006 using the now-defunct WikiProject Space as inspiration. WikiProject Astronomy is home to 101 pieces of Featured material and 148 Good Articles maintained by a band of 186 members. The project maintains a portal, works on an assortment of vital astronomy articles, and provides resources for editors adding or requesting astronomy images.
  • Special report: Loss of an Internet genius
    Comforting those grieving after the loss of a loved one is an impossible task. How then, can an entire community be comforted? The Internet struggled to answer that question this week after the suicide of Aaron Swartz, a celebrated free-culture activist, programmer, and Wikipedian at the age of 26.
  • Featured content: Featured articles: Quality of reviews, quality of writing in 2012
    Continuing our recap of the featured content promoted in 2012, this week the Signpost interviewed three editors, asking them about featured articles which stuck out in their minds. Two, Ian Rose and Graham Colm, are current featured article candidates (FAC) delegates, while Brian Boulton is an active featured article writer and reviewer.
  • Technology report: Intermittent outages planned, first Wikidata client deployment
    The Wikidata client extension was successfully deployed to the Hungarian Wikipedia on 14 January, its team reports. The interwiki language links can now come from wikidata.org, though "manual" interwiki links remain functional, overriding those from the central repository.

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