Hi all,
I'd really like to see the issues Vojtěch is raising addressed. I felt the announcement about shutting down the Education extension was leaving out important details about data retention for example.
Best, Sara
On 2 February 2018 at 08:24, Vojtěch Dostál vojtech.dostal@wikimedia.cz wrote:
Hello.
I just read this: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/January_2018/Education_ Extension_scheduled_shutdown
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 :
- *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
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