[Wikimedia Education] Wikipedia Ambassador Program seeks Regional Ambassadors - Apply!

[Annie L. Lin]

Hi everyone,

The Wikipedia Ambassador Program - consisting of volunteers who support 
professors and students on Wikipedia-editing class assignments - is 
currently recruiting for a new, super important leadership role called 
the "Wikipedia Regional Ambassadors," and I would encourage you to 
apply! If you enjoy being in a coordinator, leader, manager, organizer, 
and/or facilitator role, and if you believe in free knowledge and 
Wikipedia's potential in education, you will really like this role. More 
details - including role descriptions, qualifications, benefits, time 
commitments, and information about how to apply - are available at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Regional_Ambassadors.


A bit more background information for those of you less familiar with 
the Ambassador program:

The Wikipedia Ambassador Program 
<http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Ambassador_Program> is an 
effort to help new Wikipedia users and reach out to new potential 
Wikipedia contributors---particularly professors who want to incorporate 
Wikipedia into the classroom and their students who are assigned to edit 
Wikipedia. Many professors around the United States (and abroad) have 
started using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, and are assigning their 
students to edit or create Wikipedia articles related to the subject the 
students are learning in class (professors from Harvard, Georgetown, UC 
Berkeley, and a large number of other universities have already come on 
board). Wikipedia Ambassadors work closely with these professors to 
design effective Wikipedia-editing assignments, and then teach students 
in these classes throughout the semester how to edit Wikipedia. All 
Wikipedia Ambassadors have to go through a screening/selection process 
and a training.

Wikipedia Regional Ambassadors 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Regional_Ambassadors> are 
crucial leaders in the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. The Regional 
Ambassador role is distinct from the regular Ambassador role mentioned 
above - Regional Ambassadors lead, coordinate, and facilitate the work 
of the regular Ambassadors, and are also responsible for recruiting 
professors (to incorporate Wikipedia-editing into their classes) and 
recruiting regular Ambassadors. In other words, whereas regular 
Ambassadors focus on teaching and mentoring students, Regional 
Ambassadors focus on coordinating, recruiting, organizing, and leading. 
This is a new (volunteer) role that provides significant leadership 
development and networking opportunities. The time commitment is 
approximately 3-5 hours a week.


I would highly encourage you to apply. You'll notice on the page linked 
above that we've divided the U.S. into 12 "regions," each of which needs 
one or more Regional Ambassadors.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me: alin [at] 
wikimedia [dot] org.

Thank you!

Annie Lin
Campus Team Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
alin at wikimedia.org <mailto:alin at wikimedia.org>

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