Classes get active, students requesting mentors

As you've probably noticed, many of the classes the Wikipedia Ambassador Program is supporting this term are getting active. Adding some or all the course pages to your watchlist is a great way to jump right into the ambassador role.

Compared to last term, this set of classes will be active on-wiki much sooner, and on average they will have more extensive Wikipedia assignments, with milestones spread throughout the term.

Right now we have 30 classes, 57 Campus Ambassadors, and 50 Online Ambassadors. Look for all those numbers to increase over the next few weeks. We especially need more Online Ambassadors who can serve as mentors for students, so please invite other editors you've worked with who know the ropes to apply!

First mentor responsibilities

Online Ambassadors: If you haven't added your profile to the list of available mentors, please do so!

When a student asks you to be his or her mentor, or if you are paired up with a student from a class in which students are assigned mentors, be sure to:

  1. Leave a friendly message on the student's talk page letting them know that you'll be their mentor. If you like to respond on your own talk page, be sure to leave a message on theirs pointing to the response; many newcomers won't know to check back on your talk page for a reply.
  2. Check out the student's course page, and add it to your watchlist. The course talk pages (the discussion pages of the course pages) are the main places for students to ask questions and get feedback. If they come to you with a question that other students in the same class may also benefit from, considered answering their question on the course talk page and pointing them there.
  3. Add ((WAP student)) to the student's userpage, filled out with the course page and course talk page, the WikiProject the class is connected with, and your username (example). This provides links to the main places the student can find help: the course talk page, #wikipedia-en-classroom connect on IRC, and you.

If you reach the point where you are mentoring all the students you want to, you can move your entry on the mentors table down to the lower "Additional Online Ambassadors" section, or simply mark "FULL" in the first column.

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