Hi all,
 I am User:Netha Hussain from India. I have been editing ml-wikipedia for more than an year. I am appointed as an online ambassador of India education program. My job is to help the campus ambassadors and students with editing Wikipedia. Presently, I am assigned a class of engineering students, and I am to help them with editing wikipedia. I have not been in touch with campus ambassadors other than that of my allotted class. Though I am not very experienced, I'd be more than happy to mentor and support other women campus ambassadors of India education program.
Anything I could do towards it?

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Netha Hussain
nethahussain.blogspot.com
swethaambari.wordpress.com

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:
So this morning I happened to start off by clicking a link on the talk page of Maggie Dennis that involved concerns about one of the project's newer education wikiprojects, and ultimately wound up on the page featuring the Campus Ambassadors for the India Education Program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Campus_Ambassadors

Notice anything interesting there? I was immediately taken by the high proportion of women who have signed up to become Campus Ambassadors for this program.  Many are very new to the Wikipedia projects, so they have the double challenge of familiarizing themselves with the project as a whole, and also supporting new editors.

It strikes me that this is precisely the demographic that could use some assistance and support from those of us with more experience; they're obviously interested and eager to participate, but we've seen so many times that it takes more than enthusiasm and knowledge to succeed. Mentoring from experienced women may help them to flourish in our environment.  Anyone up for doing so?

Risker/Anne

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