Welcome DavidBoudreau!

Hello and welcome to the Writing Wikipedia Articles course (#WIKISOO)! We look forward to meeting you in the first class on 25 February (Americas)/26 Feb (Asia/Australia). By now you should have received an introductory email with some details about the course. If you can't find it, there's an archived copy of the email at this link.

To attend the live session, please check our course home page for instructions and the link. We recommend logging into Blackboard Collaborate (the live class software we use) before the day of class, to be sure it's working. (More tips on the home page.)

If taking the course in self-paced mode, please come say hello on the course talk page so we know who you are! Thanks for signing up, and we'll see you Tuesday! - Pete (talk) 06:09, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Just a quick reminder that the second WIKISOO class starts in about 3 hours. Even if you missed Week 1, please join us at this link for the live webinar - ideally about 15 minutes early to test your mic/speakers. If you haven’t finished up your Week 1 homework, there’s still time; post any questions on the class talk page! You can also watch a video of last week’s class on YouTube (earlier audio problems have been corrected). Feel free to contact me on my talk page with questions anytime! - WIKISOO co-instructor Sara FB (talk) 22:01, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

(I don't want to stretch my grasp of French too far) Hi David! With a last name like yours, I home you're having a great Mardi Gras!EternaLearner (talk) 02:19, 5 March 2014 (UTC) I should have remembered the rule of 'x.' Nonetheless I hope you won't let a little thing like that keep you from celebrating. As chilly as I've read it is in NOLA today, I'm glad not to be there right now. EternaLearner (talk) 02:23, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DavidBoudreau, we look forward to seeing you in class in a few hours. We look forward to seeing you in class in a few hours. Here's the link to our Week 3 class page and to the live webinar.

PLEASE NOTE: If you're not in the USA, please double-check the class time. We have gone on Daylight Savings Time (also known as Summer Time) in the USA, so for some of you the class time will be an hour earlier. (If your country goes on Summer Time in the coming weeks, you will want to check again!)

This week we are going to start off with some basic review of all we've covered. So if you've been feeling behind or confused by all the details, we'll make sure we've got your questions answered before forging ahead! See you soon, -Pete (talk) 16:25, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David, have you thought about working on the Johnsburg, New York article? Just a suggestion -- but it might be a good choice, it's pretty short, and there are plenty of good examples of articles about towns to use as a model. (Maybe look through Wikipedia:Good articles/Geography and places#North America for inspiration? -Pete (talk) 19:49, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey DavidBoudreau - hope all is going well with you as we segue into Week 4 of WIKISOO! Just a reminder, in case you need it, that depending on your time zone, class time may have shifted - check out this link to make sure you know when to join us. Looking forward to chatting more with you this week about the Final Project - if you already know which article you're working on, you'll find instructions there for sharing this information easily with your classmates. Post any questions to the class Talk page, please! See you in class tomorrow! Sara FB (talk) 01:40, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How's it going, DavidBoudreau? Just touching base as we start the fifth (!) week of the WIKISOO course. We're excited to see students working on such a diverse range of articles! If you haven't already, log in, scroll down to the bottom of the main course page to list your chosen final project article next to your own name; brag a little about your work (or just ask questions!) on the course talk page; and join the live lecture tomorrow as we move towards completion of the course! This is when things get exciting. :) Looking forward to seeing you in class! - Sara FB (talk) 23:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi DavidBoudreau! Just checking in as we head into the final week of the Writing Wikipedia Articles class. You can look through last week's ether pad notes, check out your homework assignments from Week 5, and watch last week's lecture on YouTube - all right here. Check out my note from last week (above) if you're still diving into your Final Project... or head over to the course talk page to see if anyone else is having the same issues you are! Looking forward to seeing you in the last live webinar of the session tomorrow. Big WikiLove. -Sara FB (talk) 23:18, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi David, I left you some feedback on your badge submission at P2PU. Please have a look! - Sara FB (talk) 15:32, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Sara FB ! I was too brief wasn't I? I tried the first few times but it didn't go through, so each subsequent attempt got shorter and shorter. Sorry about that. Actually, when I supplied more details for the p2pu page just now, it said I had too much text, heh. Anyway here's the director's cut of my post, below. If you would like any more gory details, or that I should reformat all this to be more concise, don't hesitate to let me know.

Thank you for the feedback- and sorry for the lack of details. (I had submitted more lengthy versions describing my efforts in more detail the first few times, but those never made it through.) To be more specific:

-I enrolled in "Writing Wikipedia Articles"

-I created a Wikipedia user account (after years of reading so much of Wikipedia, it's about time!)

-I made edits to several articles of diverse areas, and a few other Talk pages. (incl. towns and city articles in Japan, an olympic sports article, my final project article on a book about North Korea: Nothing to Envy , etc.)

-I joined all class sessions throughout the entire semester "Round 4" of the class, as well as looking back to previous archived guest class videos- including Adrianne Wadewitz (R.I.P. I remember two very helpful words "Google Scholar" which was helpful to me). Guest lectures were fantastic btw- very good to change the pace and learn about different aspects from each of them, and learn from their experiences.

-I asked a few questions from time to time in the online class Talk page forum, Etherpad tool, and class chat window.

Incidentally, I noticed our class observer, Piotr (User:Piotrus) was also a member of the same WikiProject that the article I worked on fell under. He was kind enough to add some comments to the article I worked on, suggesting C class. (It started out as a stub or Start class.)

as mentioned, here is the diff showing my edits before last WikiSOO class, below. I have it on my Watchlist and would certainly like to improve it and work on it further, although to be honest I'm not sure I will devote as much time as I did during the class (there's nothing like a deadline, how else would we get things done?):

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nothing_to_Envy&diff=602337914&oldid=587834143

As for "Lessons learned" I definitely came to appreciate the rigor involved in simply aquiring and digging up good sources to cite as a part of the Wikipedia editing/writing process.

I hope this makes things more clear and more uniform with the rest of the students. If I can clarify anything more please let me know! (regardless of the badge.) I appreciate your help and guidance for us during the course. DavidBoudreau (talk) 09:47, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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