Hi Andrew,
Thanks, I think that I now have a better understanding of this project. It
looks to me like it could smooth the workflows of affiliates that are
running multiple campaigns simultaneously, as well as the WMF Evaluation
folks when they audit affiliates' reports.
Pinging Jaime to ask for any comments from the WMF Eval side.
Pine
On Jul 14, 2015 9:35 AM, "Andrew Green" <agreen(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all!
Regarding community support: we're very much hoping some volunteer devs
would be interested in helping out!! :) I think other kinds of community
support would be fantastic (testing, working more on requirements, helping
to organize discussions, etc.).
There isn't an RfC as far as I know, but creating one, or organizing any
other space for discussion of where to go with these and related features,
would also be excellent!!
Campaigns, or Editor Campaigns [1], was a project to create a replacement
for the EducationProgram extension that also addressed the needs of other
collaborative editing projects, of various kinds. Sadly, it's not been
possible to do much work on it recently!! However, it did lay out some
plans and got close to a minimum viable product. I guess it goes without
saying that community input and discussion is fundamental on this point,
too.
Regarding Gather: I found a few discussion pages of it... [2][3][4]. From
what I've seen of Gather, it seems really useful...
Thanks!!! Cheers,
Andrew
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_campaigns
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gather
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Gather
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Gather/FAQ
On 13/07/15 04:10 PM, Pine W wrote:
Hi Elitre,
A few questions:
What are WMF devs needing in the way of "community support"? Is there an
RfC, or are you asking for volunteer dev time?
What are Campaigns?
The last I heard is that there was community opposition to Gather, and
that
it works on mobile only. Has community sentiment changed, and does Gather
work on desktop as well?
Thanks,
Pine
On Jul 13, 2015 9:55 AM, "Erica Litrenta" <elitrenta(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
TL;DR, Whether you are an amateur or an expert coder, or if you are a
current or interested user of the
WikiEduDashboard or of the Education
Extension,* please join us at a hackathon session at Wikimania on
Wednesday, 15 July in Workplace 2 - Don Genaro at 1pm. [0]*
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the Wikimedia Foundation
developed Extension:EducationProgram. It did what we needed it to do at
the
time, which was to provide a tool that helps organize classes that want
to
edit Wikipedia articles for course credit. Since its release, the
extension
has been deployed to 18 Wikimedia projects: it's on 4 sister projects in
16
languages.
Recently, the Wiki Education Foundation [1], led by project manager Sage
Ross - User:Sage (Wiki Ed), User:Ragesoss - developed a Ruby on Rails app
called the WikiEduDashboard [2], which they will use beginning this fall
instead of the EducationProgram extension, for the university courses
that
they support on English Wikipedia.
We believe it is possible to use their freely-licensed code to create a
clone of this dashboard that can be used for non-Wiki Ed education
program
courses and other group editing activities on English Wikipedia and,
ultimately, on other Wikimedia projects and in other languages.
We are asking for community support for this project since this is
outside
the scope of WMF's engineering team for this year. We see the need for a
global dashboard tool and would love to have your help building it!
We're planning some exciting improvements to the Wiki Education
Dashboard,
see Phabricator [3] for the full list.
* Full i18n, including right-to-left support.
* Generalize the UI to work for any wiki project and not only
university courses.
* Integration with the Gather extension, to render lists of articles
being written and reviewed.
* Integration with Campaigns, to track group membership and
statistics.
* Improvements to the API to simplify some actions taken from the
Dashboard.
* Potentially using Wikidata as the backend for storing information
about courses and editing projects.
We look forward to working together to build this powerful tool which
will
support more education and outreach programs in the movement!
Elitre (WMF),
on behalf of the WMF's Education team, + Andrew Green, Adam Wight, Sage
Ross.
[0]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103623
[1]
http://wikiedu.org/
[2]
https://github.com/WikiEducationFoundation/WikiEduDashboard
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/education-program-dashboard/
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