Wikipedia:Online Ambassadors/Apply/Shyamal

The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful Online Ambassador application.

No significant objections, and brief replies and optional questions were explicitly made an option, so that this feels less like jumping through hoops for experienced editors with strong track records. We don't want this to become an RfA-like grilling.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 18:50, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Shyamal

Shyamal (talk · contribs)

1. Why do you want to be a Wikipedia Ambassador?

   It seems like a good coordinated effort at involving academia.

2. In three sentences or less, summarize your involvement with Wikimedia projects.

   I have been involved mostly in topics in field biology and ecology.

3. Please indicate a few articles to which you have made significant content contributions. (e.g. DYK, GA, FA, major revisions/expansions/copyedits).

   Ant (FA), Greater Adjutant (GA)

4. How have you been involved with welcoming and helping new users on Wikipedia?

   YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)

5. What do you see as the most important ways we could welcome newcomers or help new users become active contributors?

   YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)

6. Have you had major conflicts with other editors? Blocks or bans? Involvement in arbitration? Feel free to offer context, if necessary.

   Nothing major.

7. How often do you edit Wikipedia and check in on ongoing discussions? Will you be available regularly for at least two hours per week, in your role as a mentor?

   Daily. Yes, probably.

8. What else should we know about you that is relevant to being a Wikipedia Ambassador?

   YOUR ANSWER (OPTIONAL)

Discussion

• Support. Long-time, clueful, prolific editor.--Sage Ross - Online Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation (talk) 15:41, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
• Support, though I wish all the questions were answered. Optional question is optional, though! /ƒETCHCOMMS/ 04:07, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
• I'll support on the basis of past contributions, though I wish more effort had been put into the application... Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 20:59, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
• Neutral. The terseness of the communication doesn't suggest to me an editor who is sufficiently communicative for this sort of position. Still -- perhaps there is an off-wiki reason for that, and they would be better at other times, so for now I'm parking in the Neutral zone.--Epeefleche (talk) 19:54, 3 March 2011 (UTC)