My role as a Campus Ambassador is explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Campus_Ambassadors The specific course that I am CA to is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Poli...
Basically, I go to a 2nd year graduate level course at Boston University where I function as a Teaching Assistant. I introduced the students to Wikipedia, including the principals of Wikipedia, how to edit, how to create sandboxes, etc. I have been to the class three times (including today) and assist the professor and students along the way.
As for me, I have been editing Wikipedia for *several* years. I have two Good Articles to my credit and have experience in new page patrolling, anti-vandalism, copy editing and other areas.
I would like to create a formal Boston/New England Wikimedia Chapter and would be happy to do a bit of the legwork in getting it off the ground. Who is interested?
B Stone
On 3/22/11 4:01 PM, Bill McLaughlin wrote:
I think many of us would like to hear about the ambassadorship program.
Maybe we could have a meetup with an agenda instead of a generic meet and greet.
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:52:12 -0400 From: meta.sj@gmail.com To: baruchstone@gmail.com CC: wikimedia-boston@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-boston] Chapter?
Hello Baruch,
We are currently a regional meetup group, not a chapter; currently planning a few events in the area. Our events to date have not required incorporating (though it might have been handy when we hosted Wikimania). There is some interest in starting one - talk of a Boston or New England chapter was on the agenda at the recent recentchangescamp.
Feel free to share any specific ideas you have. We should definitely get the local campus ambassadors to pool their thoughts about how things are going on their campuses.
SJ
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Baruch Stone
baruchstone@gmail.com wrote:
Hey folks. Is this chapter active? Does it exist?
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