Thanks Vojtěch!

On a related note, I started a proposal in the new Community Wishlist
Survey for making the dashboard good enough for education programs to
be a viable replacement for the EducationProgram extension:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Categories/Programs_and_events

The current state of things is that the Community Tech team is working
on the use case of edit-a-thon campaigns right now. Amanda and the
Community Tech team have discussed the education program as a key use
case for the future, but there aren't currently definite plans to
prioritize that.

The work so far has been done on behalf of the Learning & Engagement
team that is Amanda is part of. But the main focus of the Community
Tech team is to work on community-identified projects from the
wishlist survey. Feel free to edit the proposal I started. If
dashboard improvements end up highly supported in the survey, it's
much more likely to receive developer attention from WMF next year.

-Sage

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Shani <shani.even@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the update, Vojtěch!
> I'm also in the process of translating it all to Hebrew and will begin to
> work with it shorly as a pilot in two of my academic courses.
>
> Cheers,
> Shani.
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Sara Mörtsell <sara.mortsell@wikimedia.se>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Vojtěch,
>>
>> I really appreciate your update on the dashboard. I only started
>> laborating with some of the student cohorts I have from the Education
>> Program in Sweden, and I really need to learn more. And think of a good
>> Swedish name for it before launching.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sara
>>
>> 2016-11-08 17:54 GMT+01:00 Vojtěch Dostál <vojtech.dostal@wikimedia.cz>:
>>>
>>> Dear collab-orators,
>>>
>>> since Stockholm I have been trying to help with the development of the
>>> Program&Events Dashboard which is, at some point, likely to replace the
>>> outdated Education Extension. Yesterday Amanda Bittaker (CC'ed) gave me a
>>> guided tour of the current state of dashboard and I had an opportunity to
>>> ask questions. I will also be taking part in biweekly calls with the
>>> developer team to make sure that the Dashboard development is going the
>>> right direction.
>>>
>>> Some of you are probably already using it but most of the large country
>>> programs are not using it yet on a large scale. I think there is a lack of
>>> reliable and trustworthy information about the P&E Dashboard so let me give
>>> you an update what it does:
>>>
>>> Is is an open system letting anyone with a Wikipedia account log in and
>>> create his/her own course pages. There is nothing like userrights except for
>>> developer access
>>>
>>> advantage: no barriers,
>>> disadvantage: possible vandalism or trolling.
>>>
>>> When you create a course page, you can send a link to this course page so
>>> that participants can log in. Students need to fill in a "password" - this
>>> can be publicly announced on the course page or entirely private
>>>
>>> advantage: enables to "close" course for a desired group people only
>>> disadvantage: participants have to overcome one more step when they want
>>> to enrol in the course
>>>
>>> you can create a course by cloning one of your past course pages (not
>>> someone else's) or by starting a completely new page. In the course page
>>> set-up, you can choose your "home project" and "home language".
>>>
>>> there is probably no way to add "templates" to course pages. For example,
>>> each our course page on Czech Wikipedia has a template which links to
>>> guidelines, helpdesk etc.
>>>
>>> you can edit the course page if you are the creator or the creator has
>>> assigned you as the "facilitator" of the course.
>>>
>>> advantage: preventing changes done by people who have no relationship or
>>> knowledge about the project
>>> disadvantage: teachers creating course pages have to assign local
>>> coordinators as facilitators otherwise the facilitators cannot help them
>>> design the pages or curate them. This will lead to a load of e-mails saying
>>> "Can you please assign me as a facilitator to the course, sir?"
>>>
>>> creating campaigns (groups of courses) is not available yet. It is not
>>> sure when it will be ready but hopefully before March. This is crucial to
>>> large country programs - we need to have a list of "our" projects.
>>>
>>> advantage: you can include some information or links or training material
>>> to the individual course pages
>>> disadvantage: anyone will be able to create campaigns - this will lead to
>>> a mess
>>>
>>> Overall the Community Tech team has done a good job in recent months!
>>> Thanks for your work on this and especially for all you are planning to do.
>>> But we need more work before the large programs like ours are likely to use
>>> it on a large scale.
>>>
>>> For more information please see this page. You can give feedback on the
>>> discussion page there. This will be very useful for the developers who are
>>> eager to get some input, especially about the campaigns, according to
>>> Amanda.
>>>
>>> Also I think we need to think about the name of the dashboard more... I
>>> cannot imagine telling our students to open browser and type
>>> http://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/ - we should make a shortened version
>>> too with a catchy name than can be easily communicated without knowledge of
>>> English. My Phabricator ticket for this is here, without any comments for
>>> two months now.
>>>
>>> I understand there will be some announcements coming from the Community
>>> Tech team in near future.
>>>
>>> I think this would be also useful to the education@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> people. There has been no official information about the Dashboard for
>>> months on that mailing list!
>>>
>>> best,
>>>
>>> Vojtěch Dostál
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Med vänliga hälsningar,
>> Sara Mörtsell
>>
>>
>> Sara Mörtsell | Education Manager, Wikimedia Sverige
>> sara.mortsell@wikimedia.se | +4673-383 26 70
>>
>> Stöd fri kunskap genom att bli medlem!
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