Hey all, I have now created:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard
Brief description from the header:
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Purpose of this page:
This page is for discussion of students editing Wikipedia as part of their
assigned coursework, with a focus on participants in the Wikipedia
Education Program.
It is for incidents that require rapid feedback and attention. These
include:
* Students deploying articles that have quality problems and need cleanup.
* Students whose ambassadors have gone missing and need guidance or support.
* Cases of incivility or conflict between ambassadors and faculty/students.
* Cases of incivility or conflict between faculty/students and other
Wikipedians.
* Courses where the faculty have become nonresponsive.
* Courses where the structure of the course is inappropriate or students
are unaware of important policies.
* A participating student's article has been deleted or nominated for
deletion.
* A participating student, faculty member, or ambassador has been blocked.
* Any other issue with a user who appears to be a student editing as an
assignment.
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It needs your posts to become useful and survive! If you've encountered an
education-related incident recently, please post about it, even if it's not
urgent. Thank you!
I'm going to post about this on some other lists too.
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Derrick Coetzee
User:Dcoetzee
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Guerillero Wikipedia <
guerillero.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I agree that this would be a great step forward and
could make the recall
process simpler.
--Guerillero
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Frank Schulenburg <
fschulenburg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I agree, such a noticeboard would be really valuable - a couple caveats:
1. Let's not end up with a proliferation of noticeboards, all poorly
watched. One central board for all WEP concerns is fine for now, and if it
gets too noisy it can be split on-demand.
2. Let's make sure that *all* Wikipedians are welcome to discuss concerns
with WEP students, or in fact any students editing as part of a class, at
the noticeboard. One way to encourage this is to put it in its own place in
project space, rather than buried under the WEP page.
Since the concerns my ideal board covers are slightly broader than the
WEP, I'm suggesting that we create it at a location like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard
I could create this and outline its purpose at the top. Any thoughts?
-Derrick
Sounds good to me. How can we make sure that people who raise issues on
that page will get actual help? It would be too bad if this was just a page
for complaints (instead of also including a meaningful way of encouraging
positive action).
Frank
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Derrick Coetzee
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dcoetzee/