I participated on such discussion about whether to give course coordinator flag to the teachers.

The general idea is that they will need someone monitoring their work. Eswiki, as many others I guess, has a long history of students and teachers using the wiki without reading the policies. That said, I understand why they want to take the process as slow as possible. Please, don't take it personal.

I recommend you get a biblio(sysop) involved so he can back you up and help you control the whole projecta and edits. I see the main problem here is that many users will come to edit on es.wiki with little or no experience, and the course coordinator will have the same experience of those who are participating for the first time. Feel free to correct me if I am missing anything.




 

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter <osamadre@hotmail.com> wrote:
Ive been told that they are placing the same requirements on the course coordinator flag as they do on all others.. a certain amount of online history with es.wiki. I have made the arguments that you suggest Samir and User:Jmvkrecords has said he will discuss it with other admins (bibliotecarios), but he has stated that the community has the final say.

Question: why is this tool separated under the various language projects?  First, this limits the monitoring/documenting to a single language (if students do projects in en.wiki and es.wiki, there needs to be two extensions) and who needs the tool is very different from the others. Why dont we have one course extension that can scrape the data from whatever project students are working on?



Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:41:10 +0200
From: selsharbaty@wikimedia.org
To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] denied access to course extension


Hi Leigh,

To help with your question may I ask you first if there is a local policy for the use of the education extension user rights on the Spanish Wikipedia?

If there is a policy that supports the admin's reply, then unfortunately there will be nothing to do with that.

If the answer is no, then you can reapply on the same page or separately on other adimns talk pages relying on many factors:

1. The ed extension user rights help only with ed program pages and don't give any special rights on the article name space.

2. The use of the ed extension is to help the coordinators and volunteers of the program even if they don't have any edits on Wikipedia.

3. On Wikipedia in other languages, admins don't, usually, apply such requirements on ed user rights. (Please note that the policies of each wiki community may vary from another and they are the only  authority on their policies and its application)

I hope this helps with your issue.

Cheers,

Samir Elsharbaty
Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program
Wikimedia Foundation
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On 15 Dec 2014 19:46, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Leigh Thelmadatter, 13/12/2014 03:34:

Basically the answer is no. They have to have editing experience and
show that they at least have the ability to speak Spanish and show they
can be good course coordinators.


Did you try asking some more admins (on their talk page) to chime in? Often such request pages are only watched by a small "specialised" group.

Nemo

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