Hello.
I just read this:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/January_2018/Education_E…
If WMF wants to shut something down, OK, but then it's WMF's responsibility
to replace it adequately. In the article, I see no mention whatsoever of :
1) *data retention *- how will WMF do this so that no data on courses and
enrolled students is lost? Please remember this is data manually collected
by hundreds of volunteer teachers.
2)* providing a feasible alternative* - although Dashboard is very helpful,
it doesn't really communicate with Wikipedia unless there is a bot
transferring the data from Dashboard to userpages and coursepages on a
respective wiki. Many people from our community actually prefer us using
the Education extension because it displays information about students
on-wiki. If Dashboard is to be the tool of choice for student courses, it
should be much easier to set up a bot to transfer this data.
The Czech team is fairly big and professionalized and we could probably
cope with (1) on our own and maybe (2), but it's 100 countries we're
talking about here and I'd expect a more coordinated solution.
What do others think?
Vojtěch Dostál
předseda rady / chair of the board
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