If dashboard improvements end up highly supported in the survey, it's much more likely to receive developer attention from WMF next year.Excellent reminder, and thanks for starting the proposal Sage! My team's biggest push was getting the Dashboard usable for any Wikimedia project in any language, and now we are working on campaigns, but there is still a ton that could be done for education and other programs. The WMF currently does not have any plans to dedicate Engineering time to further features. Refining and supporting this proposal could make the difference.Cheers,AmandaOn Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Sage Ross <sage@wikiedu.org> wrote:Thanks Vojtěch!
On a related note, I started a proposal in the new Community Wishlist
Survey for making the dashboard good enough for education programs to
be a viable replacement for the EducationProgram extension:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Surv ey/Categories/Programs_and_ events
The current state of things is that the Community Tech team is working
on the use case of edit-a-thon campaigns right now. Amanda and the
Community Tech team have discussed the education program as a key use
case for the future, but there aren't currently definite plans to
prioritize that.
The work so far has been done on behalf of the Learning & Engagement
team that is Amanda is part of. But the main focus of the Community
Tech team is to work on community-identified projects from the
wishlist survey. Feel free to edit the proposal I started. If
dashboard improvements end up highly supported in the survey, it's
much more likely to receive developer attention from WMF next year.
-Sage
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Shani <shani.even@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the update, Vojtěch!
> I'm also in the process of translating it all to Hebrew and will begin to
> work with it shorly as a pilot in two of my academic courses.
>
> Cheers,
> Shani.
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Sara Mörtsell <sara.mortsell@wikimedia.se>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Vojtěch,
>>
>> I really appreciate your update on the dashboard. I only started
>> laborating with some of the student cohorts I have from the Education
>> Program in Sweden, and I really need to learn more. And think of a good
>> Swedish name for it before launching.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sara
>>
>> 2016-11-08 17:54 GMT+01:00 Vojtěch Dostál <vojtech.dostal@wikimedia.cz>:
>>>
>>> Dear collab-orators,
>>>
>>> since Stockholm I have been trying to help with the development of the
>>> Program&Events Dashboard which is, at some point, likely to replace the
>>> outdated Education Extension. Yesterday Amanda Bittaker (CC'ed) gave me a
>>> guided tour of the current state of dashboard and I had an opportunity to
>>> ask questions. I will also be taking part in biweekly calls with the
>>> developer team to make sure that the Dashboard development is going the
>>> right direction.
>>>
>>> Some of you are probably already using it but most of the large country
>>> programs are not using it yet on a large scale. I think there is a lack of
>>> reliable and trustworthy information about the P&E Dashboard so let me give
>>> you an update what it does:
>>>
>>> Is is an open system letting anyone with a Wikipedia account log in and
>>> create his/her own course pages. There is nothing like userrights except for
>>> developer access
>>>
>>> advantage: no barriers,
>>> disadvantage: possible vandalism or trolling.
>>>
>>> When you create a course page, you can send a link to this course page so
>>> that participants can log in. Students need to fill in a "password" - this
>>> can be publicly announced on the course page or entirely private
>>>
>>> advantage: enables to "close" course for a desired group people only
>>> disadvantage: participants have to overcome one more step when they want
>>> to enrol in the course
>>>
>>> you can create a course by cloning one of your past course pages (not
>>> someone else's) or by starting a completely new page. In the course page
>>> set-up, you can choose your "home project" and "home language".
>>>
>>> there is probably no way to add "templates" to course pages. For example,
>>> each our course page on Czech Wikipedia has a template which links to
>>> guidelines, helpdesk etc.
>>>
>>> you can edit the course page if you are the creator or the creator has
>>> assigned you as the "facilitator" of the course.
>>>
>>> advantage: preventing changes done by people who have no relationship or
>>> knowledge about the project
>>> disadvantage: teachers creating course pages have to assign local
>>> coordinators as facilitators otherwise the facilitators cannot help them
>>> design the pages or curate them. This will lead to a load of e-mails saying
>>> "Can you please assign me as a facilitator to the course, sir?"
>>>
>>> creating campaigns (groups of courses) is not available yet. It is not
>>> sure when it will be ready but hopefully before March. This is crucial to
>>> large country programs - we need to have a list of "our" projects.
>>>
>>> advantage: you can include some information or links or training material
>>> to the individual course pages
>>> disadvantage: anyone will be able to create campaigns - this will lead to
>>> a mess
>>>
>>> Overall the Community Tech team has done a good job in recent months!
>>> Thanks for your work on this and especially for all you are planning to do.
>>> But we need more work before the large programs like ours are likely to use
>>> it on a large scale.
>>>
>>> For more information please see this page. You can give feedback on the
>>> discussion page there. This will be very useful for the developers who are
>>> eager to get some input, especially about the campaigns, according to
>>> Amanda.
>>>
>>> Also I think we need to think about the name of the dashboard more... I
>>> cannot imagine telling our students to open browser and type
>>> http://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/ - we should make a shortened version
>>> too with a catchy name than can be easily communicated without knowledge of
>>> English. My Phabricator ticket for this is here, without any comments for
>>> two months now.
>>>
>>> I understand there will be some announcements coming from the Community
>>> Tech team in near future.
>>>
>>> I think this would be also useful to the education@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> people. There has been no official information about the Dashboard for
>>> months on that mailing list!
>>>
>>> best,
>>>
>>> Vojtěch Dostál
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Med vänliga hälsningar,
>> Sara Mörtsell
>>
>>
>> Sara Mörtsell | Education Manager, Wikimedia Sverige
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>>
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