Hi Spyder212! I'm from the team at Osmosis who are creating CC-BY-SA medical videos and posting them on Wikipedia articles. We'd like to translate the subtitles to our videos into French and Spanish. It looks like you're partly in charge of both of those WikiMedicine Translations teams. Could you email me at kyle@slinn.ca? Thanks! OsmoseIt (talk) 17:08, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I removed the link even though it is that specific zone's official website as it is not necessarily required in the article. --Spyder212 (talk) 19:04, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Spyder212! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

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Hi Spyder212! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

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E. Feld ^talk 23:57, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Spyder212. I'm Adam, a content expert for the Wiki Education Foundation. I got a note from a professor in one of the courses you've subscribed to. They are using the course page (and our dashboard) to track their students' edits and since you're enrolled in the class, your edits are showing up as well. I don't know what the policy or guideline is on enrolling in these courses, but would you mind removing yourself as a student so that they can use the dashboard to check their work without wondering if a username belongs to a student of theirs or not (professor mostly write down student usernames but don't commit them to memory)? Thank you. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:21, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Spyder212- I removed you as a student from my course since (1) you are not actually a student in the course and (2) your activity has overwhelmed the stream of activity from students who are in the course. Feel free to use the resources or anything else you may find useful on the course page. Biolprof (talk) 17:38, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I'd like to follow up on Adam (Wiki Ed)'s message above. I think it's great you'd like to get involved with classes and/or the education program! However, for reasons along the lines of what Adam explains above, we've had a few professors express concern and/or confusion, so I went ahead and removed you from those classes. The only time someone should be enrolled in such a class who isn't a student is if they have an arrangement with the instructor first. But it's true that's not clearly stated anywhere, so please don't think I'm saying you've done anything wrong. If you'd like to talk more about ways to get involved, you can just reply to this message. If you have a particular interest in one of the classes, you're welcome to contact the instructor listed on its course page. Thanks very much. --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 12:46, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any way I can act as a course volunteer for some of those classes? I have lots of experience on Wikipedia as I have been editing for nearly a decade, and some of the topics, especially those touching upon biomedical sciences, are of particular interest for me. --Spyder212 (talk) 22:00, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Course volunteers are typically arranged with the instructor. In general those volunteers are typically either staff at the Wiki Education Foundation, campus or online ambassadors, or other Wikipedians who have an arrangement with the instructor. I saw your follow-up on the Education Noticeboard indicating you're no longer interested in becoming an ambassador, but you're welcome to contact the instructors individually to offer your help if you want to. I think many would welcome it, especially those people at schools outside the US and Canada as they may have fewer options for support. If you're particularly looking to help out with biomedical topics, I'd also strongly recommend getting involved with WikiProject Medicine if you haven't already. It's one of the most active WikiProjects on the site and many people there get involved with student work. You could leave a message on the WikiProject talk page asking about ways you could help. Can I ask, did you edit under a different name before or do you tend to edit anonymously? --Ryan (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:27, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the tips! I will attempt contacting a few instructors to make arrangements. And yes, I will be moving temporarily to Whitehorse, so I won't be able to participate as much as I want to with Wikimedia. As for Wikipedia and WikiProject Medicine, I have been editing anonymously for more or less a decade, more regularly for half a decade or so, and I just recently decided to create an account. --Spyder212 (talk) 17:04, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I just wanted to welcome you, and invite you to introduce yourself to emergency medicine doctor and Wikipedian extraordinaire User:Doc James and public health enthusiast User:Bluerasberry. I'm sure that they'd be delighted to hear of another medical expert contributing to Wikipedia. I'd also like to invite you to participate in Wikipedia:Wikiproject Medicine.

Let me know if you need help with anything. --Pine^✉ 20:08, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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