On Nov 12, 2011, at 6:55 PM, Swaroop Rao wrote:
>
> We used to have this mainspace-sandbox debate in the US Public Policy program
> last semester, and we decided that the aim of the program was students
> getting hands on community experience, and editing first in sandbox will not
> give that kind of experience to students. However, considering the massive
> problems we have had to face with India Education Program this year, I think
> sandbox editing before going to mainspace would work out well here.
Maybe if we had limited the numbers to much lower than we had in Pune, and with
a larger number of Campus Ambassadors from the very beginning, and with the
full compliment of Online Ambassadors from the very beginning, and with select
faculty, (and with a whole host of other learnings), the sandbox route could
also have been made to work in Pune. ...but I'm going ahead of myself because
we are still analysing the results.
> But a sandbox in a Chapter hosted wiki doesn't seem right to me, because it
> is almost totally disconnected from the ground realities at English
> Wikipedia. Also, editing on an enwiki sandbox will enable better feedback
> from various sources (perhaps from more experienced editors on enwiki), as
> opposed to a local sandbox, where feedback is only from the selected pool of
> Online Ambassadors.
>
My (personal) opinion is I agree with you on this.
hisham
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