May your family have
a joyous holiday season
and a new year blessed
with hope and happiness.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

• The Ceremonies for Christmas Day (Robert Herrick) Kindle the Christmas brand, and then    Till sunset let it burn; Which quench'd, then lay it up again    Till Christmas next return. Part must be kept wherewith to teend    The Christmas log next year, And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend    Can do no mischief there.

  If you don't celebrate Christmas ... Happy (belated) Hanukkah! Happy Eid al-Adha! Happy Kwanzaa! And of course, Happy Festivus! May this holiday season bring you the music of laughter, the warmth of friendship, and the steadying hand of love. ☃

/ƒETCHCOMMS/ 05:18, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have solicited many in the chemistry Wiki Community about inserting animations in key reaction mechanisms.

I very much welcome any and all of your comments on how to make this type of media a learning tool for the readership of articles on chemistry reaction mechanisms.

Re this specific animation:

• Too fast.
• I would use E⁺ for an electrophile, rather than A⁺, and the animation appears to use A+, without a superscript
• I am uncomfortable with the resonance structures appearing to be a separate 'step' as the most common student misconception about resonance is that it is some kind of equilibrium process, interconverting between resonance structures
• Why not show the electrophile approaching along a more realistic trajectory, given the position in which the resulting C–A bond is shown?
• Since charge is conserved, why does the animation sometimes show a full '+' charge and sometimes only a partial 'δ+' charge?
• It is hard to tell because of speed, but does the base B become BH or BH⁺, because again conservation of charge is important

I hope these comments are useful. EdChem (talk) 17:10, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi... I notice that you have more students creating accounts, which is great, but they seem to be creating user names based on their real names. WP:Username policy, and in particular the section on real names notes that this can have disadvantages. Students may not want every edit they make on-wiki to be available to a potential future employer for the rest of their lives - one simple example of why may be that they choose to edit pages relating to their personal interests, and may not want all those interests to be easily discoverable by future employers / colleagues / stalkers / whoever. Many of us choose to use a pseudonym, and may or may not reveal a first name to select people, so as to maintain our privacy. In general, I would advise anyone to avoid revealing a real name without carefully considering the consequence. Your students could reveal to you off-wiki their chosen user name (say by email from their university account) so you can track their chemistry contributions without revealing their real names to the entire world. Users who have already created accounts can consider asking for renaming, or simply abandon the accounts and begin a new pseudonymous one if their isn't much edit history worth pursuing. Having been around WP for a while and seen some of the nastier things that can happen, I strongly advise you to at least get the students to consider whether adopting a pseudonym would be appropriate for them. For example, one user I know who has used a real name and ended up developing a mental illness that is now mentioned on wiki. Information on that user is now locatable to those who search for it in the correct places, which is not the sort of situation I would want to see happen to anyone else. Privacy is hard enough to protect in the online world, it makes no sense (to me, at least) to make personally identifiable information easily locatable. Just FYI.  :) EdChem (talk) 00:34, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 1, 28 January 2011 This is the first issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program newsletter. Please read it! It has important information about the the current wave of classes, instructions and advice, and other news about the ambassador program. Classes get active, students requesting mentors First mentor responsibilities Other news Things you can do

Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 00:33, 29 January 2011 (UTC) [reply]

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 1, 28 January 2011 This is the second issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter, with details about what's going on right now and where help is needed. Userboxes and profiles - Add an ambassador userbox to your page, and make sure you've added your mentor profile! Be a coordinating ambassador - Pick and class and make sure no students fall through the cracks. New screencasts - Short videos on watchlists and a number of other topics may be useful to students. Updates from Campus Ambassadors - Ambassadors are starting to report on classroom experiences, both on-wiki and on the Google Group. Other news - There's a new on-wiki application for being an Online Ambassador, and Editing Friday #2 is today! Things you can do - This is just a sample; if you're eager for something to do, there's plenty more.

Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 18:24, 11 February 2011 (UTC) [reply]

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 3, 21 March 2011 This is the third issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter, with details about what's going on right now and where help is needed. Where the courses are - A brief summary of how each of the 31 Public Policy Initiative courses are faring so far in the Spring 2011 term, as of 9-11 March. Feel free to add more detail. Tracking students' articles - Make sure students' articles are tagged with {{WAP assignment}} on the talk pages, and have the newly improved Article Feedback Tool active. Education portal in progress - Wikimedia staff have started work on an outreach portal for information about teaching with and about Wikipedia. Please help develop it! Online Ambassadors logistics - If you don't have a Wikipedia Ambassador sweatshirt, now's your chance to get one! (Also, some other more mundane, but important, details.) Steering committee preparing proposals - Look for discussions about two major proposals about the future ambassador program soon: the "Regional Ambassador" role, and elections for a new committee. Editing Friday returns - This Friday, join fellow ambassadors and others real-time collaboration on Wainwright Building.

Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 22:24, 21 March 2011 (UTC) [reply]

I just want to make sure you see my post at the bottom of this section! Thanks for being here. =) Shootbamboo (talk) 22:56, 14 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The newsletter of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – Volume 4, 22 April 2011 This is the fourth issue of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program Newsletter, with details about what's going on right now and where help is needed. Voting begins for steering committee - The voting phase for the Wikipedia Ambassador Steering Committee election started this week, and will continue through 27 April. Seeking more Regional Ambassadors in the US - We are still looking for Regional Ambassadors for the United States! The deadline has been extended to Friday, April 29th. India pilot being organized now - Plans are currently underway for a pilot expansion of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program – in India! Hisham Mundol and other Wikimedia staff have begun recruiting Campus Ambassador candidates for Pune. Document DYK, peer review and other milestone at the trophy case - If students you are working with (or any others you notice) are doing work that makes to DYK, is nominated for Good Article status, or is just solid content worth marking, then please help us document the students' success at the trophy case. Ambassador program at Wikimania - We're planning a set of Wikipedia Ambassador Program presentations for Wikimania 2011, in Haifa this August. Changes to mailing list - A new low-volume mailing list, [Ambassador-announce-l], is being created. It will be reserved for key announcements and news, which we'd like all ambassadors to be subscribed to.

Delivered by EdwardsBot (talk) 16:35, 22 April 2011 (UTC) [reply]

I started the review of the polyfluorene article. I left a list of some general concerns that need to be addressed. Please drop me a note if you have any questions. Canada Hky (talk) 23:57, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Are you still working on this, or do you have any additional questions? Just drop me a note if needed. Thanks! Canada Hky (talk) 18:36, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ambassador,

We are at a pivotal point in the development of the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Your feedback will help shape the program and role of Ambassadors in the future. Please take this 10 minute survey to help inform and improve the Wikipedia Ambassadors.

WMF will de-identify results and make them available to you. According to KwikSurveys' privacy policy: "Data and email addresses will not be sold, rented, leased or disclosed to 3rd parties." This link takes you to the online survey: http://kwiksurveys.com?u=WPAmbassador_talk

Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments, Thank You!

Amy Roth (Research Analyst, Public Policy Initiative) (talk) 20:42, 24 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A deletion discussion has just been created at Category talk:Unclassified Chemical Structures, which may involve one or more orphaned chemical structures, that has you user name in the upload history. Please feel free to add your comments.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:59, 10 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot remember what images I have uploaded without classification. Is there an easy way to find this? Thank you. MichChemGSI (talk) 02:26, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And you won't find them, because they have gone. Looking at your deleted history...

• File:ATRP general.png - Moved to commons (where all the structures are now going)
• File:ATRP general.gif - a small, unused, 407x117px GIF version of the above and deleted.

 Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 12:40, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

oh! ok that is fine. I also wanted to delete that image when I first uploaded them, but was unable to find how to delete images. I believe that all of our images are now uploaded to commons with categories before they are uploaded into the entry. Thank you. MichChemGSI (talk) 12:43, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your name listed at WP:Campus Ambassadors/United States. If you’re still interested in joining the embassy, let me know, and I’ll send you an application. Bob the WikipediaN ^{(talk • contribs)} 04:11, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My name is Victor Grigas and I'm a Storyteller at the Wikimedia Foundation. We're exploring new ways to explain why Wikipedia is so special and we’ve started a Wikipedia Stories Project, where we’re chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community, especially editors and active contributors in the movement like you. I'll be traveling to Wikimania next month to collect stories for our 2011 Fundraiser. While there I'd love the chance to meet with you and hear your thoughts about Wikipedia. We’ll have a schedule of available times for you to sign up if you’re interested, but right now, we’d like to make the initial contact to gauge your interest. Please let me know by emailing me at vgrigas@wikimedia.org or responding on my talk page.

thank you,

Victor Grigas (talk) 18:53, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Even though it's been quiet on-wiki, the Wikipedia Ambassador Program has been busy over the last few months getting ready for the next term. We're heading toward over 80 classes in the US, across all disciplines. You'll see courses start popping up here, and this time we want to match one or more Online Ambassadors to each class based on interest or expertise in the subject matter. If you see a class that you're interested, please contact the professor and/or me; the sooner the Ambassadors and professors get in communication, the better things go. Look for more in the coming weeks about next term.

In the meantime, with a little help I've identified all the articles students did significant work on in the last term. Many of the articles have never been assessed, or have ratings that are out of date from before the students improved them. Please help assess them! Pick a class, or just a few articles, and give them a rating (and add a relevant WikiProject banner if there isn't one), and then update the list of articles.

Once we have updated assessments for all these articles, we can get a better idea of how quality varied from course to course, and which approaches to running Wikipedia assignments and managing courses are most effective.

--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 17:27, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Assessment here means assessment using the Wikipedia 1.0 system through WikiProject banners on the talk page: the Stub, Start, C, B, GA, A, FA ratings. For more details, see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. --Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 00:09, 28 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nice meeting you today at Wikimania. -Reuvenk_{T C} 11:07, 4 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Cheryl, we already met yesterday (right before the opening talk) and I really liked the talk you just gave about Students' Clubs. Now, I'm seriously considering creating such a club at the law faculty of the University of Cologne. Would you mind adding me on facebook to keep in touch? Greetings, -- toblu [?!] 14:36, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cheryl, thanks for your note. If you are looking for Open Access materials, please request them here. Cheers, -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 13:57, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, MichChemGSI. You have new messages at Antony-22's talk page.
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Hi! I just wanted to let you know that we have created an IRC channel for women and Wikipedia: called Wikimedia-gendergap - I hope you'll join us. (And if you need any IRC help, just let me know!) See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 21:36, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, MichChemGSI. Please check your email; you've got mail!
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Hi, MichChemGSI. I've sent you a message about testing out some new resources for student organizations. Hope you can lend a hand, and feel free to follow up with questions at studentclubswikimedia.org. Wolliff (talk) 23:47, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Wolliff!! Thanks for the prompt! We will definitely get to these resources in the next few weeks as the school year gets started! Thank you! MichChemGSI (talk) 22:17, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I read you a course in Wikipedia editing on User_talk:Earlgrey101. Where, and is there a directory for other places? 97.87.29.188 (talk) 23:30, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Me too. 99.190.85.220 (talk) 01:41, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just checking in with you and hoping everything is running smoothly with the class. If you hit a brick wall or need help, don't hesitate to contact me! Best regards, Cind.amuse (Cindy) 19:42, 21 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry it took me so long to respond! things are going well with the courses. did my first presentation for this semester a couple weeks ago and I think that it went really smoothly. Still need to set up one more course page. Thanks for checking in! I really appreciate it. Best, MichChemGSI (talk) 02:36, 3 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

I have put together a survey for female editors of Wikipedia (and related projects) in order to explore, in greater detail, women's experiences and roles within the Wikimedia movement. It'd be wonderful if you could participate!

It's an independent survey, done by me, as a fellow volunteer Wikimedian. It is not being done on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. I hope you'll participate!

Just click this link to participate in this survey, via Google!

Any questions or concerns, feel free to email me or stop by my user talk page. Also, feel free to share this any other female Wikimedians you may know. It is in English, but any language Wikimedia participants are encouraged to participate. I appreciate your contributions - to the survey and to Wikipedia! Thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 18:13, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

	E-Volunteer survey star contributor
	A message of thanks from The Children's Museum of Indianapolis' star dinosaur, Dracorex, for contributing your opinion in our E-Volunteer survey. Thanks for your time. You're the best! LoriLee (talk) 19:59, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to add the GLAM:TCMI userbox ({{User WP GLAM TCMI}}) to your page and if you're interested, here are some more ways you can help. Either way, your opinion's valued! Thanks! LoriLee (talk) 20:35, 27 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for the update work, like here. That greatly helps us. Just a heads up, on Wikipedia, the InChI-fields do not have the 'InChI=' in the data, that is taken care of by the template (avoid confusion, you will otherwise see 'InChI=InChI=' in the code, and there will be editors (unknowing of convention) who think that is wrong and remove the second). Thanks again, and keep up the good work!! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:38, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!

e6538a8215aa1dca2292e31d16e3b26a

Great training session!

Dmalicke (talk) 19:56, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there! I thought you might be interested in the WikiProject Images and Media's March 2012 Moving files to commons drive. We'll be trying to reduce the backlog size by over 10,000 files so we need your help! Hard-working participants in the drive will receive awards for their contributions! If you have a spare moment, please join and move a file or two, or tell other users. Thanks so much! Note: The drive officially starts in 12 years ago, but you can sign up now!

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Greetings - in an effort to help nudge a conversation about developing a broader Wikimedia presence in the Midwest, I've posted the beginnings of a Wikimedia Midwest page/proposal. I was wondering if you know anyone, yourself included, who might be interested in organizing or helping shepherd this proposal along? Any thoughts you may have would be most welcome on that page or it's talk page. Thank you! --Varnent (talk) 22:55, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi user:Varnent that's great!!! This is so excited and I would love to have this get going! unfortunately you have just caught me at the end of my tenure here in the Midwest! But I will definitely pass your message along to those in the Michigan Wikipedians! Hopefully they will be able to help get you in contact with some people. There are definitely lots of those here at Michgian who would be interested. best, MichChemGSI (talk) 15:46, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

So then "good luck with your upcoming defense" and "congratulations" (assuming it goes well:)? Are you headed somewhere else where you will be able to continue working with students on WP-Chem stuff? DMacks (talk) 15:55, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks DMacks!! I'll keep everyone updated! MichChemGSI (talk) 16:27, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We'll be sad to see you leave the Midwest - but definitely let me know if there are others who may be interested. Feel free to send them my way.  :) Good luck!! --Varnent (talk) 19:33, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your efforts in the January 2012 MTC Drive! Cloudbound (talk) 21:40, 29 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiWomen's Luncheon at Wikimania - You are invited!

Are you a woman attending Wikimania 2012? If so, join us on Saturday, July 14, for the annual WikiWomen's Luncheon (fka WikiChix Lunch) This event is for any women attending Wikimania. Pick up your lunch, compliments of Wikimania, and join us at 1:30pm in the Grand Ballroom for a lively facilitated discussion hosted by Sue Gardner. We look forward to seeing you there. Please sign up here. Sarah (talk) 10:42, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am writing to you as you have signed up to the Education Meetup at Wikimania 2012 and perhaps are interested in how Wikipedia links to education. Wikimedia UK is now running a education related event that may be of interest to you: the EduWiki Conference on 5-6 September in Leicester. This event will be looking at Wikipedia and related charitable projects in terms of educational practice, including good faith collaboration, open review, and global participation. It's a chance to talk about innovative work in your institution or online community, and shape the future of Wikimedia UK's work in this area!

The conference will be of interest to educators, scholarly societies members, contributors to Wikipedia and other open education projects, and students.

For details please visit the UK Chapter Wiki.

Please feel welcome to register or promote within your network.

Thank you, Daria Cybulska (talk) 16:20, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiWomen Unite!

Hi MichChemGSI! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative. As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by: Liking the WikiWomen's Collaborative on Facebook and share your tips, projects, and connect with other WikiWomen Join the conversation on our Twitter feed Reading and writing for our blog channel We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can get involved! Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 02:27, 5 October 2012 (UTC) (UTC)[reply]

The world needs more Wikipedian doctors of chemistry! Thanks for fighting the good fight! Blue Rasberry (talk) 01:51, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Awww! Thank you!! :D MichChemGSI (talk) 01:54, 8 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

^^^^ YEAH!!! -Pete (talk) 21:45, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for signing up on the Communicate OER team page! There's a great group forming -- so far, we have more than 25 people, with a broad range of backgrounds and interests; we have professors, librarians, instructional designers, and more. Members also span a variety of countries and language proficiencies. As we set out to improve articles about openness in education, it looks like we will have a great team to work with. If you haven't looked through the list, I encouraged you to read through it: WP:Communicate OER Team.

Whether or not you're at the Open Education conference this week, we encourage you to engage with us -- we're expecting a flurry of activity as we launch! If you're here, come visit us in room C010 any time; or come to one of our daily 45 minute intro sessions in the Remixathon track in room C215.

Another great way to stay engaged is through the project's "talk page" (aka "discussion page"): WT:COMMOER. Please always feel free to add ideas, questions, etc. at the bottom of that page -- even if you just want to say hi, and go into a little more detail about what you're hoping to work on -- we'd love to hear from you. (I just posted a note at the bottom, exploring the open education article, and seeking input into how we can go about improving it -- take a look!)

If you're just looking to get started, we have a page for that -- WP:Communicate OER Do -- intended to collect ideas of projects we can work on. There's currently a "getting started" recipe for how to post a review of a Wikipedia article; check back for further ideas in the coming days. (And if you're game, feel free to add your own!)

Looking forward to working together, -Pete (talk) 18:25, 16 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Am in the process of creating a wikibook for educational purposes. It is located here:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Parallel_Spectral_Numerical_Methods

Contributions on formatting and editing are welcome. The book uses many formulae and requires these to be numbered. Have started a discussion to install mathjax to support this here:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Reading_room/Proposals

votes in support of this can be made here:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42061

If there are other ways to get automatic numbering of formulae, figures and program listings, please let me know. Thanks Benson Muite (talk) 13:24, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi... Firstly, let me congratulate you on receiving your PhD - it's a major achievement and I am glad to see that you have made it through the process. Secondly, I need to notify you that I have mentioned you in a post at the education noticeboard (see the section Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive3#Some experiences on chemistry articles). In it, I refer to my nominations for DYK of insertion reaction and isolobal principle from 2010 (I hope you recall them), as part of a discussion on student editing of Wikipedia. I would be interested in any and all comments, experiences, or additional thoughts which you might like to add to the discussion, of course including any corrections or criticisms of my comments. I think the perspective of someone who has supervised students over several years on how the process evolves would be valuable. Kind Regards, EdChem (talk) 05:06, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiWomen - We need you!

Hi MichChemGSI! The WikiWomen's Collaborative is a group of women from around the world who edit Wikipedia, contribute to its sister projects, and support the mission of free knowledge. We recently updated our website, created new volunteer positions, and more! Get involved by: Visiting our website for resources, events, and more Meet other women and share your story in our profile space Participate at and "like" our Facebook group Join the conversation on our Twitter feed Reading and writing for our blog channel Volunteer to write for our blog, recruit blog writers, translate content, and co-run our Facebook and receive perks for volunteering Already participating? Take our survey and share your experience! Thanks for editing Wikipedia, and we look forward to you being a part of the Collaborative! -- EdwardsBot (talk) 01:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! You're getting this message because you are or have been a Wikipedia Ambassador. A new term is beginning for the United States and Canada Education Programs, and I wanted to give you an update on some important new information if you're interested in continuing your work this term as a Wikipedia Ambassador.

You may have heard a reference to a transition the education program is going through. This is the last term that the Wikimedia Foundation will directly run the U.S. and Canada programs; beginning in June, a proposed thematic organization is likely to take over organizing the program. You can read more about the proposal here.

Another major change in the program will take effect immediately. Beginning this term, a new MediaWiki education extension will replace all course pages and Ambassador lists. (See Wikipedia:Course pages and Help:Education Program extension for more details.) Included in the extension are online volunteer and campus volunteer user rights, which let you create and edit course pages and sign up as an ambassador for a particular course.

If you would like to continue serving as a Wikipedia Ambassador — even if you do not support a class this term — you must create an ambassador profile. If you're no longer interested in being a Wikipedia Ambassador, you don't need to do anything.

Please do these steps as soon as possible

First, you need the relevant user rights for Online and/or Campus Ambassadors. (If you are an admin, you can grant the rights yourself, for you as well as other ambassadors.) Just post your rights request here, and we'll get you set up as quickly as possible.

Once you've got the ambassador rights, please set up at a Campus and/or Online Ambassador profile. You can do so at:

• Special:CampusAmbassadorProfile
• Special:OnlineAmbassadorProfile

Going forward, the lists of Ambassadors at Special:CampusAmbassadors and Special:OnlineAmbassadors will be the official roster of who is an active Ambassador. If you would like to be an Ambassador but not ready to serve this term, you can un-check the option in your profile to publicly list it (which will remove your profile from the list).

After that, you can sign on to support courses. The list of courses will be at Special:Courses. (By default, this lists "Current" courses, but you can change the Status filter to "Planned" to see courses for this term that haven't reached their listed start date yet.)

As this is the first term we have used the extension, we know there will be some bugs, and we know the feature set is not as rich as it could be. (A big wave of improvements is already in the pipeline. And if you know MediaWiki and could help with code review, we'd love to have your help!) Please reach out to me (Sage Ross) with any complaints, bug reports, and feature suggestions. The basic features of the extension are documented at Wikipedia:Course pages, and you can see a tutorial for setting up and using them here.

Communication and keeping up to date

In the past, the Education Program has had a pretty fragmented set of communication channels. We're trying to fix that. These are the recommended places to discuss and stay up-to-date on the education program:

1. The education noticeboard has become the main on-wiki location for discussion of the Education Program. You can post there about broad education program issues as well as issues with individual courses.
2. The Ambassadors Announce email list is a very low-traffic announcements list of important information all Ambassadors need to be aware of. We encourage all Ambassadors (and other interested Wikipedians) to subscribe to the list; follow the instructions on the link to add your email address.
3. If you use IRC regularly, or need to try to reach someone immediately, the #wikipedia-en-ambassadors ^connect IRC channel is the place to find me and fellow Ambassadors.

Ambassador training and resources

We now have an online training for Ambassadors, which is intended to be both an orientation about the Wikipedia Ambassador role for newcomers and the manual for how to do the role. (There are parallel trainings for students and for educators as well.)

Please go through the training if you feel like you need a refresher on how a typical class is supposed to go and where the Ambassadors fit in, or if you want to review and help improve it. If there's something you'd like to see added, or other suggestions you have for it, feel free to edit the training and/or leave feedback. A primer on setting up and using course pages is included in the educators' training.

The Resources page of the training is the main place for Ambassador-related resources. If there's something you think is important as a resource that's not on there, please add it.

Finally, whether or not you work with any classes this term, I encourage you to post entries to the Trophy Case whenever you see excellent work from students or if you have great examples from past semesters. And, as always, let students (and other editors!) know when they do things well; a little WikiLove goes a long way!

--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 20:40, 14 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings MichChemGSI! The Michigan Wikipedians is currently conducting a roll call to ascertain which of its members are still active. If you are still an active Michigan Wikipedian, please go to our members list and move yourself from into the active members subsection at the top of the page. On November 1st, all of the members who have not moved themselves into the active members subsection will be renamed inactive members. Even after November 1st, however, any editor can move himself or herself from inactive to active status. Thank you for your participation in the Michigan Wikipedians. As always, you are more than welcome to participate with us, either in person or remotely via the Internet. Take care! Michael Barera (talk) 00:49, 1 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:01, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:05, 24 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!