[WikiEN-l] Wanted: Wikipedia Online Ambassadors

[Peter Coombe]

On 22 July 2010 20:15, Sage Ross <ragesoss+wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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_Policy/Online_Ambassadors
>

You haven't mentioned it, but I guess this is only open to people in the US?

Pete / the wub