Hi Tighe,

That makes things much more clear to me. Thank you!

Tighe Flanagan <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Yury,
>
> From what I've seen on the English and Arabic Wikipedias, a course
> page is created for a specific class for a specific time period
> (semester/term). For example, you might have a History 101 class in
> the Fall 2014 semester, and a History 101 class for the Spring 2015
> semester. Each of these would have a separate course page, even if it
> was the same curriculum and the same instructor -- mainly because the
> list of students and articles will be different for each term.
>
> The course page helps organize classes, but can also serve as a
> historical record of the course and help with cohort analysis with
> tools like Wikimetrics. So again, it's best to keep the student list
> there and start a new course page for each term or editing period.
>
> You may also notice that the term is automatically included in the
> course URL structure on wiki in parentheses (). For example:
>
> https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_the_Wikis/History_
> of_Wikipedia_(now)
>
> Hope that helps!
> Tighe
>
> --
> Tighe Flanagan
> Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
> Wikimedia Foundation
> +1.415.839.6885 x6880
> [email protected]
> education.wikimedia.org
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     Dear edu community,
>     
>     After the Education Program extension was recently enabled on
>     Ukrainian
>     Wikipedia, the next step for us is to learn how to use it:) And
>     while
>     there's plenty of useful information about it on English Wikipedia
>     as
>     well as on Glamwiki, I wasn't lucky enought to find out one thing:
>     are
>     the course pages (in the Education program: namespace) supposed to
>     be
>     reused when fresh group of students comes in on the following
>     year?
>     I.e., do the teachers usually just edit the old course page,
>     remove all
>     the students and start again with the same page or copy the course
>     plan
>     into a new page?
>     
>     Thanks,
>     Yury Bulka
>     
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