Re: [WikiEN-l] Wanted: Wikipedia Online Ambassadors

The Wikimedia Foundation is now recruiting Online Ambassadors for the Public Policy Initiative.  (The Initiative is a new program in which university students will contribute meaningful work to Wikipedia as part of their classes -- but we need a corps of Wikipedia Ambassadors to help professors and students throughout the semester and to lay the groundwork for new, more effective, and more systematic ways of helping new users.) We are finalizing a list of Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors who will be available in person on the college campuses, but we also want Wikipedia Online Ambassadors who can coordinate with professors and assist students via email, on the wiki, and on IRC. We need experienced Wikipedians with a track record of helping newbies who will be able to commit at least 2 hours per week in the fall semester to join.  We want the Online Ambassadors program to be something that continues on and expands after the Public Policy Initiative concludes, as a more systematic way to help new users and put Wikipedia's friendliest face forward.  So the idea is to develop a community, and best practices, for focused welcoming of new editors, especially students assigned to edit. If you're interested, please visit our Online Ambassadors page for more details on the position and how to apply: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Pol…