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Education Policy in Brazil

Online Ambassador - Chzz the Great

My username is Chzz, and I'll be your online mentor for the remainder of the course.

We have just a few weeks left, during which I would like to help you a) improve the article, and b) to get more from your Wikipedia experience.

Within the next few days, I will review the article, and provide suggestions and feedback. I'll do that on the article talk page, and I'll also let you know right here. I'll be very happy to directly assist in improving it, too.

If there is anything specific that you think I can do, to help you in any way, please let me know. Please leave a note on my talk page.

I look forward to working with you. Best,  Chzz  ►  03:11, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

P.S. Please keep an eye on Talk:Education policy in Brazil - I will be asking for others to help us out, and to provide comments on that page. If you can fix issues raised - great, go for it. If you need help, ask; you could put {{helpme}} right here with a question, or as on help desk, or contact me on my talk. There's lots of us here all wanting to make better Wikipedia articles, hence plenty of help is available - it's makes good sense to utilise these resources, to help each other. Be bold and fix what you can, but if you're stuck, ask. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  03:39, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks!Elizabetsyatbu (talk) 19:20, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Hey Chzz - I posted your (obviously very capable) mentee a proper "Uploadvirus"-type welcome on the Talk:Education policy in Brazil page, and will be providing what suggestions and help I can during the remainder of out time. Your friend:Cliff L. Knickerbocker, MS (talk) 23:32, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Elizabetsyatbu, regarding refs (and named refs), this may help;

How references work

Simple references These require two parts; a) Chzz is 98 years old.<ref> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> He likes tea. <ref> [http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com Tea website] </ref> b) A section called "References" with the special code "{{reflist}}"; == References == {{reflist}} (an existing article is likely to already have one of these sections) To see the result of that, please look at user:chzz/demo/simpleref. Edit it, and check the code; perhaps make a test page of your own, such as user:Elizabetsyatbu/reftest and try it out. Named references Chzz was born in 1837, <ref name="MyBook"> "The book of Chzz", Aardvark Books, 2009. </ref> in Footown.<ref name="MyBook"/> Note that the second usage has a / (and no closing ref tag). This needs a reference section as above; please see user:chzz/demo/namedref to see the result. Citation templates You can put anything you like between <ref> and </ref>, but using citation templates makes for a neat, consistent look; Chzz has 37 Olympic medals. <ref> {{Citation | last = Smith | first = John | title = Olympic medal winners of the 20th century | publication-date = 2001 | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | page = 125 | isbn = 0-521-37169-4 }} </ref> Please see user:chzz/demo/citeref to see the result. For more help and tips on that subject, see user:chzz/help/refs.

 Chzz  ►  19:03, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Nice to see the progress

Hiya, I'm kinda 'stalking' your edits, but in a nice way - and I'm pleased to see things are going well.

Please do try to remember to add an edit summary with each edit.

There's actually an option in preferences under the 'editing' tab, to Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary - it's a good idea to enable that, really.

Remember you can always say 'hi' to me if you like, here. And of course, leave a message on my talk page with any queries.

Keep up the good work :-)  Chzz  ►  00:34, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

spacing and % , and images

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 Chzz  ►  02:41, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Good stuff; keep at it. perfection is not required, all articles are "work in progress" - it'll get better over time, with input from others (we hope). Don't worry too much about tone etc. - it really is quite easy to fix (and I can help with that). In fact, don't worry too much about anything - best attitude here is to 'have a go'. It's a wiki, so easily edited :-)

If I can add one more tip: it may be helpful to add a little context background on education in brazil in general (not policy specific) - so that the casual reader is informed (briefly) of their edu system - in terms of what age kids go to school, what age (average) people leave, % that go on to higher ed, or whatever. That may mean duplicating some parts of Education in Brazil - but that's fine; that is perfectly allowed - and hey, that article might have ready-made refs for a summary of 'education in Brazil', which helps.

¡Anímate!  (google tells me this is Brazilian/Spanish for 'go for it' :-)  Chzz  ►  03:09, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

two tables is better than one :p

Heh, sorry, I did this - trying to help - but you'd already put one underneath. So take your pick; no worries :-) I was just trying to show how to force image size and wrapping - which is probably appropriate for that table. 03:39, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Sweet :) I was just going to ask how to do that.Elizabetsyatbu (talk) 03:58, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Whilst not wishing to be 'pushy', those sort of issues are easier if we're chatting live - but, srsly, if you don't want to, that is cool too. linky.  Chzz  ►  03:59, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

It was charming to 'meet' you; I wish you all the very best, and I hope we will stay in touch.  Chzz  ►  05:39, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Interwiki links

I added some stuff in Talk:Education_policy_in_Brazil#Interlanguage_Links. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  09:01, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Thanks :) I have made a section on this page just for you, if you want to post there. Or you can just post at the end, and I might move your comments to keep track :)Elizabetsyatbu (talk) 20:38, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

How incredibly well-organized! However, I warn you - people will disregard the layout, and simply paste at the end. You can then, of course, re-factor it as you wish. But at some stage, you might find it better to move the old comments you want to keep into a user subpage (like User_talk:Elizabetsyatbu/useful stuff or something) which you could either link to, or "transclude and collapse" on this page. And what I mean by the latter is, if - for example - I put this here;

{{collapse top|My useful stuff}}
{{User:Chzz/Example page}}
{{collapse bottom}}

...then it will show the content of the page User:Chzz/Example page within a collapsed thingy, like this;

My useful stuff

Test section one Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Test section two Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Test section three Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Test subsection three.1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Test subsection three.2 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Test subsection three.3 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

I hope that makes sense :-) Feel free to remove this junk (as the above will appear to be fairly long) at any time, of course. Best,  Chzz  ►  01:22, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

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