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- For all information about online ambassadors in the education program see Misplaced Pages:Education program/Ambassadors
Online Ambassadors serve as mentors, advisors, and helpers to the professors and students who are using Misplaced Pages in the classroom. The "Online Ambassador Program" has been coordinated by WMF through the Misplaced Pages Education Program. Their role is to keep the newcomers from being "bitten" and help them learn both the how and the why of editing Misplaced Pages and participating in the community. Wikipedians from around the globe are invited to apply to become an Online Ambassador. If you are interested in supporting students in countries other than Canada and the United States, please visit the WMF Outreach program for more information.
The Online Ambassador program supports instructors and their classes, where the classwork includes a requirement for the students to edit articles on Misplaced Pages. Each of the classes will have a class page where the instructor describes what the Wiki-assignment is for each student. Each course will have 1-3 Online Ambassadors assisting students in the course, and students will be able to ask technical questions of any Online Ambassador through an IRC chat room. The program is growing rapidly, and there are dozens of classes involved this term. Some of the students will create or greatly expand several articles during the semester. Others may make a substantial edit or addition to just one article.
If you're interested in recruiting new Online Ambassadors for the coming term, please join the Online Ambassador Recruitment Team.
About the Online Ambassador role
Experienced Wikipedians who like working with newcomers or have an interest in reaching out to the academic community can apply to join the Misplaced Pages Ambassadors program as Online Ambassadors.
Misplaced Pages Online Ambassadors will:
- mentor students who are assigned to edit Misplaced Pages in their classes.
- work with Campus Ambassadors and professors to support and manage Misplaced Pages assignments.
- work with other Ambassadors and the Wikimedia Foundation to develop new ways to help newbies.
- answer questions on the wiki, and (if you like) by email, on IRC, and other media as well.
- for those who use IRC: train students via IRC on the technical and social basics of editing Misplaced Pages.
- help students learn the key processes of Misplaced Pages.
- explain Misplaced Pages policies, guidelines, and norms, and guide new users to the appropriate resources.
- help shape the future of the Misplaced Pages Ambassadors program.
The Misplaced Pages Online Ambassador role is a volunteer position. The estimated time commitment is 2 hours per week or more. Ambassadors should have experience with the basics of Misplaced Pages—particularly creating quality content and giving detailed feedback on others' work—a record of being friendly and helpful with newcomers, and a desire to make Misplaced Pages better.
Time commitment
Active Misplaced Pages Online Ambassadors will be expected to be available at least two hours per week during a given university term. Since the students follow an academic schedule, their involvement at Misplaced Pages is sporadic, so some weeks, your student mentees may be completely inactive on Misplaced Pages, and other weeks, they may have a burst of activity that needs review, especially the last couple of weeks in the school term. Ambassadors are not expected to be online at the same time as their students, but should be responding to queries and requests for feedback in a timely manner as well as regularly monitoring student's contributions. Also, if Ambassadors are online and use IRC, extra time can be spent helping students in other courses.
Becoming an Online Ambassador
Main page: Misplaced Pages:Online Ambassadors/ApplyThe criteria used, in a nutshell, are: whether the applicant is competent and friendly enough to make an effective ambassador. For more detail on what types of things may be relevant, see the guidelines for evaluation of applications.
If you're an experienced and friendly editor, apply now to become an Online Ambassador.
On June 30, 2018, the Education Extension will be shut down so that this user access will be useless in Misplaced Pages but it will reserve it's importance at real Misplaced Pages education program activities.
Active ambassadors
All active ambassadors are Misplaced Pages:Online Ambassadors/Mentors. There may be a few recent additions that have yet to be added; see Misplaced Pages talk:Online Ambassadors for recently admitted Online Ambassadors.
(Former or inactive ambassadors are listed here: Misplaced Pages:Online Ambassadors/Mentors/Inactive.)
Guidelines and lessons
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For those that are interested, the userbox shown to the right is available for use:
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- {{Online Ambassador}} a top icon template to indicate you are an Online Ambassador.