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(a)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(a)wikimedia.cz>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outdated Education Extension.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(a)lists.wikimedia.org
people. There has been no official information about the Dashboard for
months on that mailing list!
best,
Vojtěch Dostál
předseda rady / chair of the board
Wikimedia Česká republika |
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