On 22 July 2010 20:15, Sage Ross <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
