Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy

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• 7 September 2010 - Public Policy Initiative is covered in Inside Higher Ed.
• 3 September 2010 – A late addition to the course roster: Chaim Kaufmann's "Seminar in Intervention" at Lehigh University. (And another may be on the way!)
• 25 August 2010 – Volunteer signup list started for people willing to help with article assessment.
• 19 August 2010 – Wikimedia registers for classes (Wikimedia Foundation Blog).
• 15 August 2010 - Video (8 minutes) from Wikipedia Campus Ambassador Training.
• 10–12 August 2010 - Campus Ambassadors attending a training session in Washington, D.C.
• 2 August 2010 - The first wave of Online Ambassadors start signing up as mentors.
• 6 July 2010 – Participate in our first WikiProject U.S. Public Policy Challenge! (article evaluation, July 6-12)
• 29 June 2010 – New page: Article Quality Rating Metric
• 29 June 2010 – New subpage lists project milestones.
• 22 June 2010 – WikiProject U.S. Public Policy launches.
• 11 May 2010 – Wikipedia heads to school (Wikimedia Foundation Blog).

Welcome to WikiProject U.S. Public Policy!

This WikiProject is for collaborating on Wikipedia's coverage of United States public policy. It's also part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Public Policy Initiative, a project aimed at finding better ways to recruit experts and students to help improve Wikipedia content.

Want to help out? To join this WikiProject, please sign your username under the participants section and put {{User WikiProject United States Public Policy}} on your user page. If you want to get to work right away, one of our first tasks will be identifying articles of interest to this project, and tagging their talk pages with a basic assessment template; or use the talk page to introduce yourself and your area of interest.

[edit] Happening right now

1. A first draft screencast is up explain the quality assessment system. Suggestions and script edits are welcome!
2. Sign up to be part of the quality assessment team who will help us establish progress on improving articles.
3. The full roster of classes participating in Fall 2010 has been announced. Check out the Courses tab for the full list, or see the Wikimedia Foundation blog post for more information.
4. The Wikipedia Online Ambassadors program is accepting applications.

[edit] Timeline

This is a work in progress, but it should give you some idea of what is coming up.

• 19 July 2010 - Online Ambassadors recruitment begins
• 21 July 2010 - Categorization drive! Improve and extend the category tree for public policy articles.
• 1 August 2010 - Baseline date for article tagging, assessment and categorization
• August 2010 - training meeting for Campus Ambassadors
• late August 2010 - Fall classes begin

[edit] Participants

Userbox This user is a member of the U.S. Public Policy WikiProject.

Have a question? Want to meet others involved? Check out our Participant List. If you think you're up for it, add yourself to the list. You can also add a userbox to your talk page: {{User WikiProject United States Public Policy}}.

Still stuck? Leave a message for Sage Ross.

How about saying "Hi!" to our newest members?

[edit] Wikipedia Ambassadors

Please join us! We're looking for Wikipedia Online Ambassadors and Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors from the editor community to collaborate on the project with us. You can also see our list of professors who have signed up to be part of the Initiative in the fall at the Participant List.

The Public Policy Team is working on developing a volunteer system for Wikipedians who want to help new users and students. The fine details are still being worked out, but if it sounds like something you're interested in, sign up and help the team figure out what the Wikipedia Online Ambassadors program will be like. The Public Policy Team is also working on a Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors program for volunteers who want to introduce students and professors to the basics of Wikipedia and help out with courses in person.

[edit] What to do

• Help improve the WikiProject page, and invite others to join!
  • Improve the layout of this page.
  • Find better images for the project banner, etc.
  • Expand this list of things to do.
  • Spread the word!
• Tag and rate articles! Add the following code to the talk page of any article related to U.S. public policy. Rate the quality and importance of articles based on the rating guidelines.

{{WikiProject United States Public Policy| importance= | comprehensiveness= | sourcing= | neutrality= | readability= | formatting = | illustrations = }}

• Give your feedback on Using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, a brochure in development as part of the Bookshelf Project. We'll be distributing this to professors who are participating in the Public Policy Initiative.
• Add your name to the Participant List and get more information about being a Wikipedia Online Ambassador or a Wikipedia Campus Ambassador.
• Suggest an article to be the Collaboration of the Week!
• Join the IRC channel #wikipedia-en-publicpolicy and help coordinate the Public Policy Initiative and other outreach activities.

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