User talk:ProfNicosia

Welcome

Hi, I was the taller and older of the skinny old timers Adam Moss brought along. The photo guy. I didn't get the usernames of your colleagues, but we should watch each other's pages so we can be jealous or helpful or something. Jim.henderson (talk) 01:51, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome, Jim. I'm really excited to begin my (and my students') work with Wikipedia! Is there a way to send private messages or to share contact information like emails? ProfNicosia (talk) 10:27, 18 March 2015 (UTC)Laura

I sent an E-mail to the address I thought correct. If not, you can use the procedure in Wikipedia:Emailing users. Go to my user page at User:Jim.henderson and, in the "Tools" section at left, click "Email this user". Maybe I'll see you or your colleagues at Wikipedia Day on Sunday. Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2015 Jim.henderson (talk) 01:19, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Jim. I've booked the computer lab in University Hall ADP Center again for Wednesday, April 8. If you're free, we could use your help again. If you're unavailable, I understand. Thanks for helping. ProfNicosia (talk) 21:11, 31 March 2015 (UTC) Laura

Sorry for the delay. Glad to help but my schedule is uncertain. I generally get news Sunday night that pretty much tells me how I'll spend my Wednesday and Thursday. Then I'll answer here and by Email. Jim.henderson (talk) 01:53, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

All righty, I'll see you Wednesday. Adam has suggested we'll have additional help. Jim.henderson (talk) 00:49, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi, Jim. Thanks for helping Wednesday! It was a very good working session! ProfNicosia (talk) 21:46, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

And the concluding one went well this Monday. Jim.henderson (talk) 22:17, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Emergency calls

Students at Dickenson Hall edit articles about Young Adult novels.

Hi, Jim. It was good but afterward, you can't imagine how many "emergency" emails I got from students whose pages were either edited or erased or reverted. Even though Adam wrote to several people, he simply can't keep up with the sheer number of edits/erasures. It's a shame. I think this is the one thing that might negatively affect student responses to the pilot project. We'll have to find a way to put a banner or some sign on pages under construction or something like "Please do not edit until X. This is page is a class project." What do you think? Do you have any ideas? Regardless, I am grateful for your help and input. I'm glad to have you on board next semester. Best, Laura ProfNicosia (talk) 22:25, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I was thinking about this as a probability and now I see. I'm also seeing a number of things belatedly, including Category:Under-construction templates. Specifically

{{Under construction |placedby= User:jim.henderson |comment=Article being built for course on Young Adult Literature of instructor [[User:ProfNicosia]] at [[Montclair State University]] }}

will produce

Probably Adam @User:Mitchazenia can suggest improvements or maybe a different template to put on the pages being worked on. Oh, it says "talk page" because it's on your Talk page, but it won't say that when it's on an article.

I was laboriously figuring who had what article, when by plain accident (!) I clicked on my "Courses" link, whence of course intentional clicks led to the roster and other information. However, it seems to me there's an additional way an old-timer seeing apparent trouble can be warned of what's up. That would be a block of standard material, probably atop every student's user Talk page. Text would say this is a student, and provide links to you, me, others in the know, the school and course name, and so forth. Umm, or maybe the school identification (Red Hawks frenzy box!) belongs on the user page instead of Talk. Anyway I have much to learn if I'm to do the job properly. And I thought I had given up tech learning when I retired from high tech industry.

Thanks for your reply, Jim. And, I appreciate your ideas! Let's see what we might be able to come up with. Megan Nacy and I are really interested in meeting with people who might help facilitate this kind of project. Perhaps we can all learn ways to do this better and better. Back to grading. Talk soon. ProfNicosia (talk)Laura