Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/Coordinators/Signup

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This page is for collecting applications for volunteers to help coordinate various elements of the Wikipedia Library. Most of our volunteer coordinators are primarily responsible for distributing accounts from partners to editors within the volunteer community; however, we are also looking for volunteers to help run other parts of the library, such as communications and other logistics. If you think you are a potential coordinator: please create a new section for yourself below these questions to provide your answers. Previous applications are in the archive.

Application questions[edit]

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?
  2. How long have you been on Wikipedia, and what areas are you active in? What contributions are you most proud of?
  3. What languages are you comfortable communicating in? Are you active on any non-English Wikipedias or other Wikimedia projects?
  4. Why do you want to volunteer with The Wikipedia Library?
  5. What other Wikipedia 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? (Typical weeks, we expect about 1-4 hrs per partnership, with the initial processing of accounts sometimes involving more time, though can be done in partnership with other volunteers).
  6. 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?
  7. 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?