2010/1/9 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2010/1/9 Chris McKenna <cmcke...@sucs.org>: >> >>> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Charles Matthews wrote: >>> >>>> The point (for the guide that Brian and I are apparently writing) is >>>> that "empowerment" is a good buzzword, but there is a small, treacherous >>>> area to explore from a teachers' point of view: accounts for minors >>>> should not give personal details, so a "role account" for say, >>>> Tynecastle High School, looks more appropriate. But there are >>>> administrative reefs also, namely the deprecation of role accounts and >>>> shared passwords in general. Something can be done in practical terms by >>>> stating that the project has a fixed term, will be retired, and will >>>> have its password changed by a school staff member. >>>> >>> Would not it be perhaps better for the individual students to have >>> accounts, but under teh control of the school. Perhaps based on their >>> school pupil number (e.g. Tynecastle-091 Tynecastle-122) which means that >>> attribution for good and bad edits could be given to the individual rather >>> than the school. >>> >> >> Yes, that's the usual recommendation. I'm not sure what you mean by >> the school having control of them, though. >> >> > In the scenario of the school in Edinburgh, a group is told to execute a > certain project on WP. The attraction of a single account is clear from > the point of view of monitoring: a single edit history tells you > everything. If you have a group editing one page - and I have met just > this on WP, American college students assigned a task of upgrading a > nominated page - a bunch of people all trying to edit from different > accounts can lead to edit conflicts, if no worse. > > Any account where the email address supplied went to a computer in the > school's administration would be "controlled" by the school, from the > point of view of resetting the password. > > This discussion seems like fine tuning to me, actually; but, yes, I can > see it might be worth going into the issues a little in a guide. (I do > want to be concise, though ... all experience suggests verbose is easier > to write and less likely to be read.) > > Charles >
Well so far everything you have described would risk getting you blocked from wikipedia. Probably the most important thing to do is to contact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects first. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
