<i>This is exactly the kind of cluelessness i am referring to. The [[WP:COMPETENCE]] exists exactly for this purpose - we dont want "kids", who will "mess up" by "drawing mangoes and bananas" here. We want atleast semi competent, interested people who can act responsibly.</i><div>
<i><br></i></div><div><i>- </i>First of all stop playing those policy games, before looking at [[WP:COMPETENCE]] I would rather say to have a look at [[WP:DONTBITE]].</div><div><br></div><div><i>But then, i should expect this general cluelessness and ignorance from a "campus ambassador" with a grand total of 41 mainspace edits?. </i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div><div>- Dude you are getting personal here, I respect you obsession with numbers but the whole idea of a "campus ambassador" is to help others to edit, instead of writing articles for edit count. You just took one number and creating all the fuss but you ignored others like ...</div>
<div><br></div><div>Total Edits :705 (in last 5 months)</div><div><div>Article <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>49<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>7.09%</div>
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Talk<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.87%</div><div><b>User<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>185<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>26.77%</b></div>
<div><b>User talk<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>238<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>34.44%</b></div><div><b>Wikipedia<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>144<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>20.84%</b></div>
<div>Wikipedia talk<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>26<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3.76%</div><div>Template<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>37<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5.35%</div>
<div>Help<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>0.87%</div></div><div><br></div><div>For more stats : <a href="http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?name=Ramshankaryadav&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia">http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?name=Ramshankaryadav&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Apart from the numbers we got the experience of personally touching 1000+ students and interacting with Faculty and Directors, which you can not do by siting and editing Wikipedia in your living room. I'm not a 14000+ editor like you but I share the same philosophy of free knowledge, but instead of respecting us you are doing all the mud throwing, it's not acceptable at all!!</div>
<div><br></div><div><i>This sums up the problem of the IEP - designed by people clueless about how en wiki works and run by "campus ambassadors" who view wikipedia as a giant sandbox to play with students.</i></div>
<div>- You are crossing your limits here, we have repeatedly accepted our faults but this is too much, we tried something new things, and few worked few didn't by it doesn't gives you the authority to say whatever you like to!</div>
<div>Instead of coming up with "How we can make it better" you are more into the mode of "You did it wrong"!. </div><div><br></div><div>~Ram</div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Bala Jeyaraman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sodabottle@gmail.com">sodabottle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><br></div><div>-<i> If Hisham and Nitika were clueless why didn't to step-up and
asked them about the expectations. One more thing when you are starting
something new don't expect people will start reaching you from the Day1,
we need to build a relationship and get their faith that "we are here
to help you, and it's going to be great learning experience". Tell me
how many times did you reached out to students, even if you did and they
didn't responded don't loose the faith, they are new to this
environment just help them to take baby steps.<br><br></i>I remember doing this exactly on Oct 12 office hours. Here is the transcript snippet which srikanth has provided in the earlier mail. Again you are demonstrating your ignorance about what an OA role is.<div class="im">
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<span style="font-family:monospace, Courier;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(242, 242, 242)">Oct 12 15:34:32 <srikanthlogic> but</span><span style="font-family:monospace, Courier;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(242, 242, 242)"> i was on IRC, </span><span style="font-family:monospace, Courier;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(242, 242, 242)">got</span><span style="font-family:monospace, Courier;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(242, 242, 242)"> only one help req in a whole week</span><span style="font-family:monospace, Courier;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(242, 242, 242)">, my talk page was untouched. I am ready to help if people reach out :)</span><br>
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:monospace, Courier;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(242, 242, 242)">Oct 12 15:35:33 <Hmundol> srikanthlogic & soda bottle : yes, i know</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:monospace, Courier;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(242, 242, 242)"> that
more students ought to be reaching out but sometimes they don't even
know the mistake they are committing so don't reach out. …what the
Campus Ambassadors have been doing i s proactively going to contrib
histories and checking in. …unfortunately, that seems to the only way
that it's worked.</span></blockquote><br></div></div><i>.</i><br><div><div class="im">-
<i>First of all I didn't like the way you put this statement, if helping
someone by teaching them the right way is some kind of low grade job for
you, then I can surely say you are a misfit here! Just imagine you are
trying teach a kid to write, they will definitely mess it up by drawing
mangoes and bananas, and when you clear the slate you don't call it
janatorship, coz you know what you are doing, and having faith that the
kid will learn by doing mistakes eventually.<br><br></i></div>This is exactly the kind of cluelessness i am referring to. The [[WP:COMPETENCE]] exists exactly for this purpose - we dont want "kids", who will "mess up" by "drawing mangoes and bananas" here. We want atleast semi competent, interested people who can act responsibly.<br>
<br>But then, i should expect this general cluelessness and ignorance from a "campus ambassador" with a grand total of 41 mainspace edits?. <br></div><br>This sums up the problem of the IEP - designed by people clueless about how en wiki works and run by "campus ambassadors" who view wikipedia as a giant sandbox to play with students.<div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Ashwin Baindur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ashwin.baindur@gmail.com" target="_blank">ashwin.baindur@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
We have had a lot of responses and recriminations on this issue. In the light of all that has happened, please let us stop our grousing. Hisham has opened a new thread, and accepted full responsibility. That is the end of the blame-game as far as anybody is concerned. All of us are inviolved and all of us are both innocent and blameworthy, including and especially me. I know I should have done more.<br>
<br>Let us bring this thread to a close. Let all posts now be in response to his new thread only and couched in positive terms and offering useful suggestions or fresh input.<div><br><br clear="all">Warm regards,<br>
<br>Ashwin Baindur<br>
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<br><br></div><div><div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Ram Shankar Yadav <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramshankaryadav@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramshankaryadav@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Bala,<div><div><br></div><div><i>"Oh yeah. Do everything wrong and then blame the OA. Hisham, Nitika and apparently you are clueless what an OAs role is. I had no clue the OA role involved going through every edit and do the student's work. IEPs mails did not specify that the expectation about OA role was doing the student's homework. If you had made this clear, i would have never signed up."</i></div>
<div><br></div></div><div>- We are not putting blame on anyone. If Hisham and Nitika were clueless why didn't to step-up and asked them about the expectations. One more thing when you are starting something new don't expect people will start reaching you from the Day1, we need to build a relationship and get their faith that "we are here to help you, and it's going to be great learning experience". Tell me how many times did you reached out to students, even if you did and they didn't responded don't loose the faith, they are new to this environment just help them to take baby steps.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><i>It imagined them to be janitors who would cleanup after the students. (Dont believe me?, ask the other Indian guy who was an OA in both programs - MikeLynch).</i><br></div>- First of all I didn't like the way you put this statement, if helping someone by teaching them the right way is some kind of low grade job for you, then I can surely say you are a misfit here! Just imagine you are trying teach a kid to write, they will definitely mess it up by drawing mangoes and bananas, and when you clear the slate you don't call it janatorship, coz you know what you are doing, and having faith that the kid will learn by doing mistakes eventually.</div>
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<div><br></div><div><i>Another wrong fact. An Indian admin called spacemanspiff who tried to point Hisham and group in the right direction in early september when things started to go wrong (it was in the talk page of Moonriddengirl, where fluffernutter went to help with copyvios). He even designed a helpful Q&A page which Hisham did not use. Disgusted with the IEP attitude, Spiff quit trying to help. The whole issue could have been stopped right then and there if the warnings of multiple editors and admins had been heeded.</i></div>
<div><br></div></div><div>- Accept my apologies for not able to recall few Indian Admins who tired to help us, but if you see the big picture, the whole scene was dominated by editors from abroad. We needed your help and support when these folks were pointing fingers on Indian Education System. One more thing, after the first few instances of copyvios we reached out in person and took 35+ sessions in various classes but even after putting that effort few of them kept doing the copy-paste for last minute submissions.</div>
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<div><br></div><div><i>And why exactly do you need "Indian" community to help?. The newbie editors were getting plenty of help from the global community.</i></div></div><div><i>- </i>By "Indian" community I mean people like you and me and others you are either reading or replying this thread, guys we surely needed your support at the forefront.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We never denied the fact that we have failed in certain areas but that doesn't mean that overall program is a failure or dead. </div><div><br></div><div>We believe in learning from our mistakes and happy to do new ones to learn better.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ram</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Bala Jeyaraman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sodabottle@gmail.com" target="_blank">sodabottle@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>>><i>we never got the support which was required from an OA. Honestly
speaking there was no interaction between OAs and CAs and without
that coordination chances of success are quite low.
</i></div><div><div><i>My only point here is to all the OAs in this discussion is that if
Hisham/Nitika has not set the expectations right, why didn't you
approached them, then and there! Anybody can come and comment on
this failure story but even you were a part of this sinking ship.</i><br><br></div>Oh yeah. Do everything wrong and then blame the OA. Hisham, Nitika and apparently you are clueless what an OAs role is. I had no clue the OA role involved going through every edit and do the student's work. IEPs mails did not specify that the expectation about OA role was doing the student's homework. If you had made this clear, i would have never signed up. <br>
<br>So get this straight - IEP had no clue what Online Ambassador's did in the PPP. They just used the term in IEP and recruited a bunch of volunteer editors expecting them to cleanup after the students. This is not an issue of miscommunication, this is an issue of ignorance. The IEP didnt know what OAs do. It imagined them to be janitors who would cleanup after the students. (Dont believe me?, ask the other Indian guy who was an OA in both programs - MikeLynch).<br>
<br></div><div>>>,<i> I can't recall a single instance when an Indian Administrator came forward and found a copyvio/poor editing, etc<br><br></i></div>Another wrong fact. An Indian admin called spacemanspiff who tried to point Hisham and group in the right direction in early september when things started to go wrong (it was in the talk page of Moonriddengirl, where fluffernutter went to help with copyvios). He even designed a helpful Q&A page which Hisham did not use. Disgusted with the IEP attitude, Spiff quit trying to help. The whole issue could have been stopped right then and there if the warnings of multiple editors and admins had been heeded.<br>
<br>And why exactly do you need "Indian" community to help?. The newbie editors were getting plenty of help from the global community. You dont need a specific nationality editor to come and tell the students what to do and what not to do. A student who doesnt listen to "Do not copy paste" instruction coming from a American editor is not going to care if the instruction came from an Indian editor.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramshankaryadav@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramshankaryadav@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
+1 Srikanth!<div><br></div><div>Hey Folks!</div><div><br></div><div>I'm Ram and I'm one of the CA's worked closely with CoEP and SSE. I would like to share my views on this most discussed topic, coz the term "FAIL" is quite thought provoking, and now everyone has an opinion and I respect that. </div>
<div><br></div><div>As a Campus Ambassador(CA) we faced the heat on ground and nobody can feel the pain like us when we heard the discontinuation of IEP in CoEP coz we gave our personal time physically and virtually in every possible way to make this program a success, and I promise we'll keep doing that.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My views on IEP:</div><div><br></div><div>1. <b>Wikipedia India Education Program(IEP) for a CA</b> : The whole idea of this program like everyone knows is to get more editors, but we have our own set of challenges in the age of Facebook. What a bunch of CAs have done in as short span of 5 months can't be done in a couple of months by existing Community(local or global), coz we touched the students(1000+) personally, we had the experience of interactions with Faculty and Directors. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Our only aim was to tell them(students) that Wikipedia is "cool", and indeed we did that! in the way we taught wikipedia to them. Few things which we tell our students in our Wiki Sessions:</div>
<div><ul><li>Writing on Wikipedia will give you global audience, 400 million unique visitors</li><li>It will improve your Writing, Critical Thinking and Collaborative skills</li><li>It will add a bullet point to your resume and hence better placements</li>
<li>Lastly it will also give you marks if you follow the given deadlines </li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, I agree that we have seen setback coz of the copyvios, but I totally agree with Srikanth coz this was due to the scale and numbers. </div>
<div><br></div><div>2. <b>Faculty Involvement</b> : It is one of the weak link in IEP, though they knew the importance of this program, but they have their own set of obligations/mindset, and we always felt that not all the faculty members are tracking the students and their articles. We have some exemplary Profs who are so much involved that they reached every student's talk page and wrote message on it, and on the other side few never opened the course page itself!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Lesson for us is to enroll only those who are really interested and track them as well, drop the course if they are not putting effort as required, but this scenario was different 6 months back, coz no one knew about this program, and yes we did enrolled a few inactive faculty coz they showed interest but never lived up to the expectation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>3. <b><u>Online Ambassadors</u></b> : As Hisham already told that we got very late engagement of our OAs in this program as well as the OA expectation issue, we never got the support which was required from an OA. Honestly speaking there was no interaction between OAs and CAs and without that coordination chances of success are quite low. </div>
<div>My only point here is to all the OAs in this discussion is that if Hisham/Nitika has not set the expectations right, why didn't you approached them, then and there! Anybody can come and comment on this failure story but even you were a part of this sinking ship.</div>
<div><br></div><div>4. <b><u>India Community</u></b> : We really missed you throughout this program, I can't recall a single instance when an Indian Administrator came forward and found a copyvio/poor editing, etc. We don't bifurcate among community and we never taught our students that only Indian community will help, our aim was to make their "collaborative" skill better instead of creating a division among the community.</div>
<div>For my fellow Indian Wiki Community, folks we would love to hear from you and surely need your help and support in future.</div><div><br></div><div>5. <b><u>Global Community</u></b> : Firstly I would say "Thank you" to them for teaching the harsh lessons but we really liked the way you guys supported us. Yes, I know few folks who always crib and do the mud throwing on this program and it's implementation, but I know folks who have helped writing great articles, reviewing them and event doing copy-editing and cleaning. </div>
<div>We need to surely communicate better with them in future.</div><div><br></div><div>6. <b><u>Campus Ambassadors</u></b>: The best thing that happen to me coz of IEP is I found great friends who share the same philosophy of free knowledge. We gave our personal time not only in taking session but also training new bunch of CAs and helping students in every possible way. </div>
<div><br></div><div>We were the face of Wikipedia on campus and we love it! </div><div>Like Srikanth said yes we were overloaded coz of the number of students per CA was very large still we did our bit to help every students by either reaching out personally and virtually.</div>
<div>One point to note here that out of 40 selected CAs(Gen 1 & 2) only 30 are active and out of those 30 only 20 track/follow and reach out students, so in short we need more involvements for the dormant CAs.</div><div>
<br></div><div>7. <b><u>Students</u></b> : We found good and bad students, student I know has written a GA and I also know a student who in-spite of several warnings by phone/mail and personal visits they kept copy-paste! Between the two extremes there are folks who failed few times but did learned from it and had become great editors.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All in all the learning here is to, assess the level of students based on their skill(writing especially) and their educational background(rural or urban). Also we need to teach them the most important thing, NOT TO COPY PASTE!!!, from the very first day of the wiki sessions.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b><u><i>Summary</i></u></b>: We are challenging the status quo by bringing a new way of learning and teaching things and have learned some essential lessons for making this program a success in future. I would personally request my fellow Wikipedians to keep a faith on us and support us in every possible way coz <i>"helping hands are better than praying lips"</i>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let's make this world a better place!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ram</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com" target="_blank">srik.lak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 20:15, Theo10011 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:de10011@gmail.com" target="_blank">de10011@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Nitika <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ntandon@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">ntandon@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:</div></blockquote></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">I</span><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"> would also like to share with you all some of the good articles that students have written.</span></div>
</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Nitika, please use right terms from next time, "Good articles" mean entirely different thing in Wikipedia. <a href="http://enwp.org/WP:GA" target="_blank">http://enwp.org/WP:GA</a></div>
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<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_Economy" target="_blank">Robinson Crusoe Economy</a> -Another redirect, 'economy' is in lower-case.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>
Theo, </div>
<div>You got it wrong on that alone to best of my knowledge, probably you did it too fast. Its probably the lone GA which got churned out of the program and we could call it a lone success among several other things. Wish that editor continues wiki editing.</div>
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<div><br></div></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">-- <br>Regards<br>Srikanth.L<br>
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