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 <[email protected]>: > Dear collab-orators, > > since Stockholm I have been trying to help with the development of the > Program&Events > Dashboard <https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/> 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 point, likely to replace the outdated Education Extension.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 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard>. > 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/ > <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 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146332>, 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 [email protected] > 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 | http://www.wikimedia.cz > Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.CR> | Twitter > <https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_CR> | Newsletter <http://eepurl.com/b--eXr> > > > _______________________________________________ > education-collab mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education-collab > > -- *Med vänliga hälsningar, * *Sara Mörtsell* Sara Mörtsell | Education Manager, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida> [email protected] | +4673-383 26 70 *Stöd fri kunskap genom att bli medlem <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se/>! *
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