[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
FYI, Since there is a lot of Interest in Education Program here. -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Schnautz rschna...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 01:30 Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program To: mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and paste) the link below to get started: http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_testers ! Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however you wish; the more testing you do, the better! Thanks, Rob Schnautz Online Communications Contractor Global Development Wikimedia Foundation 11450 Northridge Dr Evansville IN 47720 c. 812.746.8347 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
Thanks for the link, srik.lak! But from reading that post, certain alarming questions arise. What exactly is Wikipedia Education Programs? How does it work? Does it provide a private workspace to EP participants in Wikipedia completely invisible to other editors? Why are sock-puppets encouraged? What elevated permissions are being provided to EP members? Will the community be able to transparently oversee content introductions by Education Programs? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: FYI, Since there is a lot of Interest in Education Program here. -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Schnautz rschna...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 01:30 Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program To: mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and paste) the link below to get started: http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_testers ! Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however you wish; the more testing you do, the better! Thanks, Rob Schnautz Online Communications Contractor Global Development Wikimedia Foundation 11450 Northridge Dr Evansville IN 47720 c. 812.746.8347 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
* for the word post read link. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for the link, srik.lak! But from reading that post, certain alarming questions arise. What exactly is Wikipedia Education Programs? How does it work? Does it provide a private workspace to EP participants in Wikipedia completely invisible to other editors? Why are sock-puppets encouraged? What elevated permissions are being provided to EP members? Will the community be able to transparently oversee content introductions by Education Programs? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: FYI, Since there is a lot of Interest in Education Program here. -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Schnautz rschna...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 01:30 Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program To: mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org The MediaWiki developers have been working hard to integrate certain elements of the Wikipedia Education Program into MediaWiki. If anyone is interested in helping beta-test the new extension, click (or copy and paste) the link below to get started: http://education.wmflabs.org/index.php/MW_1.18:Community_portal/Welcome,_beta_testers ! Please note that this site does not will not represent official Wikipedia Education Program data. Feel free to alter the data on the wiki however you wish; the more testing you do, the better! Thanks, Rob Schnautz Online Communications Contractor Global Development Wikimedia Foundation 11450 Northridge Dr Evansville IN 47720 c. 812.746.8347 ___ MediaWiki-l mailing list mediawik...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] Invitation to help beta-test the MediaWiki 1.19 extension for the Wikipedia Education Program
Thanks Srikanth, that explains a lot. Stragely this link is not available on thw wmflabs page where I would have thought it would be relevant. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 23:43, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: What exactly is Wikipedia Education Programs? Its an extension designed to manage *EPs. Read more here[1] How does it work? Does it provide a private workspace to EP participants in Wikipedia completely invisible to other editors? If am not wrong it provides set of dashboards / special pages for people(instructors,OA,CA,staff) to oversee edits by students enrolled in the program in a much easier way. I dont think there will be any data that will be closed / completely invisible to others. I am not sure if profiles would be closed / kept open. Why are sock-puppets encouraged? That link was a test wiki for people who are interested in EP to test the software that's developed. Since you cant conduct a Ashwin-EP for the sake of testing, you are encouraged to sock on that wiki creating different accounts(of varied roles) and to test if you could utilize the special pages and make use of the features and it isn't buggy. What elevated permissions are being provided to EP members? Specific permissions only for EP. Otherwise they are too have same rights as any other new wiki user. A more detailed note on roles is available on the page linked. Will the community be able to transparently oversee content introductions by Education Programs? Yes, the extension will only make it even more easier for those interested to oversee at a greater level of detail. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
