The Wikipedia Library/Coordinators/Signup

This page is for collecting applications for volunteers to help coordinate various elements of the Wikipedia Library. If you think you are a potential coordinator: please create a new section for yourself below these questions to provide your answers.

Application questions

Wikipedia Library Coordinators handle other editors' personal information at times; because of this all Coordinators sign a standard confidentiality agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation that includes your real name. Are you comfortable with this? If so, please continue on and tell us more about your background and interest in helping out!

1. What is your user name and your main Wikimedia project(s)? What languages are you comfortable communicating in?
2. How long have you been active with Wikimedia, and what areas are you active in? What contributions are you most proud of?
3. Why do you want to volunteer with The Wikipedia Library? What role would you prefer?
4. What other Wikimedia volunteer obligations do you have? If we selected you to support a TWL partnership, how much time per week would you be willing to spend? Per month? Depending on your role, an average week may require 1–4 hours of work.
5. What experience do you have with libraries, academic databases, research support, and/or supporting verification on Wikipedia? How could these experiences strengthen our ability to handle partnerships?
6. What experience do you have in customer service or a related area? Can you comfortably communicate online (on-wiki and by email) with our diverse userbase in a friendly way? Can you remain calm and deal with problems as they arise?

ProtoplasmaKid

• ProtoplasmaKid
• I have 8 years in Spanish Wikipedia, 7254 editions but my main task there is write new articles. Also contributor to Commons and first acredited reporter of Spanish Wikinews. Now I'm wikimedian-on-residence at Museo Soumaya in Mexico City.
• Spanish, and I prefer work this project in Spanish Wikipedia
• I responded to Ocaasi's request trough User:Raystorm contact. I think we will have more depth in Wikipedia articles if we have more resources.
• I can spend weekly 2 hours, maybe more if its needed.
• I have experience in academic way of using repositories, and search or verificability of resources for research purposes. Professionaly I worked as a journalist since 10 years ago.
• I don't have that kind of experience in Wikimedia projects, but I want to learn more abilities

NahidSultan

What is your user name and your main Wikimedia project(s)? What languages are you comfortable communicating in?

• It's User:NahidSultan and Bengali is my native project but I'd prefer commons my main project as well. I'd prefer communicate both in bn and en.

How long have you been active with Wikimedia, and what areas are you active in? What contributions are you most proud of?

• Contributing since April, 2012 starting with enwp and gradually became active in others wmf projects. I'm active both in online and offline, voluntarily serving as a community outreach director for WMBD. I've created more than 450 articles in bnwp and that's the contribution I'm proud of.

Why do you want to volunteer with The Wikipedia Library?

• Since I'm experienced with article creation, I know how hard to find references for some articles, People always search for reference online but when they don't find the correct one, they left a good article behind and the article got deleted accordingly. I want the contributors to access what they need to cite their article even if they don't exists on online.

What other Wikimedia volunteer obligations do you have? If we selected you to support a TWL partnership, how much time per week would you be willing to spend? Per month? Depending on your role, an average week may require 1–4 hours of work.

• I believe I've already answered the first part above that I'm working with a chapter and besides my sysop thing, I'm a member of Wikimedia OTRS team. As i'm still a student maybe time won't be a problem at all :) I could easily spend 4 to 5 hours per week.

What experience do you have with libraries, academic databases, research support, and/or supporting verification on Wikipedia? How could these experiences strengthen our ability to handle partnerships?

• As a student, I've access in my university library and I'm able to access Bishwo Shahitto Kendro as well. I think it'll be great for local Wikipedian if they can easily access to Bishwo Shahitto Kendro library. It's also possible to manage partnership with them.

What experience do you have in customer service or a related area? Can you comfortably communicate online (on-wiki and by email) with our diverse userbase in a friendly way? Can you remain calm and deal with problems as they arise?

• As an OTRS member, I usually deal with the customers who have no Wikimedia affiliation at all, as far as I know I'm doing just fine. And as a bnwp admin I often deal with new users. So I can say, yes, I can deal with users in a friendly way by remain calm.

~ Nahid ^Talk 20:19, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Ochilov

What is your user name and your main Wikimedia project(s)? What languages are you comfortable communicating in?

• My user name is Ochilov and my main Wikimedia projects are Russian Wikipedia and Meta-Wiki. I comfortable communicate in English, Russian, Esperanto and Uzbek languages.

How long have you been active with Wikimedia, and what areas are you active in? What contributions are you most proud of?

• I am half of year in Wikipedia and I'm writing articles in Russian Wikipedia, but my main and hardest duty is transwiki translations (more than 3000)

Why do you want to volunteer with The Wikipedia Library?

• I want to be volunteer because I want to help people with acessing knowledge.

What other Wikimedia volunteer obligations do you have? If we selected you to support a TWL partnership, how much time per week would you be willing to spend? Per month? Depending on your role, an average week may require 1–4 hours of work.

• I'm going to participate as a Partner coordinator and can spend 2 hours a day.

What experience do you have with libraries, academic databases, research support, and/or supporting verification on Wikipedia? How could these experiences strengthen our ability to handle partnerships?

• No experience

What experience do you have in customer service or a related area? Can you comfortably communicate online (on-wiki and by email) with our diverse userbase in a friendly way? Can you remain calm and deal with problems as they arise?

• I am Project:Incubator member in RuWiki, which is helping newbees to write articles and adaptinto our community, so I can comfortably communicate online with diverse userbase in a friendly way and remain calm and deal with problems as they arise. --Ochilov (talk) 09:31, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Yahadzija

What is your user name and your main Wikimedia project(s)? What languages are you comfortable communicating in?

• My user name is Yahadzija. My main Wikimedia projects are Bosnia and Herzegovina and Genetics on bs.Wikipedia and en.Wikipedia. I communicate in English (good), German (good) and Bosnian (excelent) languages.

How long have you been active with Wikimedia, and what areas are you active in? What contributions are you most proud of?

• I am 3 years in bs., sh., sr., hr. en., and fr. Wikipedia. One of my main activity on transwiki are translations between these Wikipedia Editions.

Why do you want to volunteer with The Wikipedia Library?

• I want to do better wikipedia contents in the areas for which I am competent.

What other Wikimedia volunteer obligations do you have? If we selected you to support a TWL partnership, how much time per week would you be willing to spend? Per month? Depending on your role, an average week may require 1–4 hours of work.

• I'm going to participate as a Partner coordinator and can spend 2 hours a day.

What experience do you have with libraries, academic databases, research support, and/or supporting verification on Wikipedia? How could these experiences strengthen our ability to handle partnerships?

• I have academic exspiriences in Life Science (Genetics, in particular), and solid knowlegne in History of my Homeland.

What experience do you have in customer service or a related area? Can you comfortably communicate online (on-wiki and by email) with our diverse userbase in a friendly way? Can you remain calm and deal with problems as they arise?

• I can comfortably communicate online with diverse userbase in a friendly way and remain calm and deal with problems as they arise. But, I do not stepping down from the proven facts that are available in credible sources.

Yahadzija (talk) 08:40, 18 June 2015 (UTC)