User:Louise Valmoria

Louise Valmoria is a student of Bachelor of Sciences and Arts at the University of Melbourne. She is also now studying an LLB with the University of London with a focus on EU and international law, and human rights.

Experience is of a 'jack of all trades' sort. Her most substantial blocks of 'real world' employment (6 months to several years, often working more than one job at the same time) are in recruitment, infrastructure, electrical transmission, industrial real estate, and logistics and transport. Roles range from your friendly receptionist, to project coordination, to database programming.

She has performed some field work and analysis, research as well as administration activities to support the work of the IEEE SC3 committee (investigating the effects of Extremely Low Frequency electromagnetic waves on the human body), under the supervision of one of the SC3 co-chairs. Currently she works with the International Public Health section of a non-profit organisation, in the Monitoring and Evaluation team that is developing health education plans for children and young adults in developing countries.

Louise is also the Citizendium's Mailing List Manager. This role requires the creation and maintenance of workgroup mailing lists, which support the writing and organisational efforts of our authors and editors.

Working with Citizendium

I thoroughly enjoy research, and one of the best ways I learn is to write about it (CZ:Article Mechanics). Encouraged to write by the CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon, right now I am trying to focus on supporting the CZ:Core Articles initiative as well as sharing what I have learned over the years.

My hobbies and interests include literature, poetry, art history, architecture, travelling to far-flung places and coming up with rather off-the-wall life projects (such as translating old manuscripts--note that this requires a deep understanding of the languages I am trying to read so I already know this will take my whole life--or observing the behaviours of ducks. The duck study is a long story, but an excellent example).

I also play the violin. Although I began lessons later in life it turns out I'm actually not that bad at it, and this has deepened my interest in music, its mechanics and its history in a way that learning the piano as a child somehow didn't.

All this aside, I am not an 'expert' in any one field. Just a supportive contributor and a wide reader, in effect one of the 'general public'. I feel that right now I can best work with Citizendium through a support role and kicking off articles where I can--may as well put my massive library to good use.

Louise Valmoria Status    last updated 23 Mar 2008    [edit plan here] Get your own infobox! • Group Status ~ Plans ~ Short term plans 1. CZ:Cleanup 2. Prague 3. European Community Law 4. Finish up what I am working on in my sandbox 5. Chemical element pages need writing Longer-term plans 1. take a monthly stat check of mailing list usage 2. Keep track of CZ:Proposals/Internationalisation sandbox 3. assist with workgroup coordination / communications 4. work out a visual representation of EU institutions 5. look at assisting the Archive:Media Assets Workgroup if I can ~ Roles and notes ~ Roles in the system 1. Mailing List Manager 2. Wiki-Converter Coordinator 3. Author Notes to self put up the mailing list statistics somewhere on a CZ page--even though usage is really low at the moment, should give everyone a guideline of whether or not to move forward with mailing lists for workgroups or just leave them for specialised task groups. Public notes :   Law Workgroup    Status    last updated    [edit plan here] ~ Plans ~ My short-term plans 1. Review core articles for Law (until a Law editor steps up and can fill in the gaps) 2. continue European Community Law 3. review elements of contract law to add to core articles My longer-term plans 1. Work on writing core articles for Law Workgroup 2. Help develop core articles initiative for Law, to upgrade it to a further stage 3. Possibly assist / initiate an EC/EU law collaborative with other law and politics writers? ~ Roles and Notes ~ My roles Click edit above to start this list My notes Click edit above to start these notes Public notes:   Psychology Workgroup    Status    last updated    [edit plan here] ~ Plans ~ My short-term plans Click edit above to start this list My longer-term plans Click edit above to start this list ~ Roles and Notes ~ My roles Click edit above to start this list My notes Click edit above to start these notes Public notes:   Visual Arts Workgroup    Status    last updated    [edit plan here] ~ Plans ~ My short-term plans Click edit above to start this list My longer-term plans Click edit above to start this list ~ Roles and Notes ~ My roles Click edit above to start this list My notes Click edit above to start these notes Public notes: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein Mailing Lists As Mailing List Manager my current role involves setting up and administering an increasingly large amount of mailing lists, which means I need to keep an eye on Citizendium Workgroups as well as other initiatives which may require extra support. CZ:Workgroups Mailing Lists - Workgroups section for reference when updating the mailing lists record Workgroup Mailing Lists (Mailman page for my reference) I have a couple of statistics regarding Mailing List usage and growth--nothing on the par of the CZ:Statistics page, however--but it provides an interesting baseline on the growth and development of Citizendium in its first year of organisation. Wikiconversion Wikitext may seem daunting to the new user, but for budding contributors there is a way to help. The Wikiconversion team is a group of volunteers who are able and willing to convert documents from .txt or .doc files into the required format for Citizendium. This is a service that we are offering to those who would like to contribute, but are unsure of how to deal with wikicode. Currently, this initiative is in the process of being set up. If you are familiar with wikicode and willing to help, interested volunteers can sign up here. The initiative is led by Anthony.Sebastian. General Administration CZ:Unchecklisted Articles--assist where I can with clearing the backlog! Internationalisation I learn languages like they're going out of fashion (and, if you look at statistics of endangered and extinct languages, they probably are). My main languages other than English are French, Czech, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian; and I have some facility in other languages (Scandavian based and regional dialects). CZ:International The Forum The Internationalisation List Infomation About CZ and Copyright CZ:Media Assets Workgroup Pages for my Reference How to add optional subpages: Additional Subpages Instructions