On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Sue Gardner
<sgardner@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 13 November 2011 08:46, Bishakha Datta <
bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
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> As conceived, the IEP and its parent the PPP (pardon the acronyms), were
> about contributing to wikipedia, about learning how to contribute, and about
> having fun while learning.
This is a bit of a derail from your e-mail, but I wanted to clarify
your use of the past tense (they *were* about contributing). I think
the thread title here may be creating some confusion about what has
actually happened. That, or else I may be confused myself :-)
Hey Sue,
I used 'were' not because I think IEP and yes, thanks, GEP :) are dead - but to point out how they 'were' conceived.
Anyway, it's great that you clarified this, given the thread's title.
The IEP as I understand it is not over:
contrary to the subjectline of this thread, it hasn't "died." A number
of schools have participated in the pilot phase of the IEP. My
understanding is that the project has been mostly successful, except
for one school, or set of schools, at which there were serious
problems with plagiarism that, despite repeated efforts, the team
couldn't get resolved.
I'm hoping we'll hear more about the successes of the project, and eventually come to a balanced understanding of what worked and what didn't.
At this stage, we're hearing much more about what didn't work, so it's hard to assess the pilot meaningfully.
Cheers
Bishakha