Hi all, I'd really like to see the issues Vojtěch is raising addressed. I felt the announcement about shutting down the Education extension was leaving out important details about data retention for example.
Best, Sara On 2 February 2018 at 08:24, Vojtěch Dostál <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I just read this: > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/January_2018/Education_ > Extension_scheduled_shutdown > > If WMF wants to shut something down, OK, but then it's WMF's responsibility > to replace it adequately. In the article, I see no mention whatsoever of : > > 1) *data retention *- how will WMF do this so that no data on courses and > enrolled students is lost? Please remember this is data manually collected > by hundreds of volunteer teachers. > > 2)* providing a feasible alternative* - although Dashboard is very helpful, > it doesn't really communicate with Wikipedia unless there is a bot > transferring the data from Dashboard to userpages and coursepages on a > respective wiki. Many people from our community actually prefer us using > the Education extension because it displays information about students > on-wiki. If Dashboard is to be the tool of choice for student courses, it > should be much easier to set up a bot to transfer this data. > > The Czech team is fairly big and professionalized and we could probably > cope with (1) on our own and maybe (2), but it's 100 countries we're > talking about here and I'd expect a more coordinated solution. > > What do others think? > > 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 mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > -- *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/>! * _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
