I don't know what our future training plans are, as I think the current training is pretty great for English Wikipedia. Definitely one of our best resources for students, so it's probably not a priority to improve that just yet. Sage may have better information about that, though. 

You'll have to be more specific about ideas that inspire students, and may I suggest we take this off-list so as not to overwhelm everybody's inbox? 
Jami

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Jami (and sorry for misspelling your name. I am far too used to writing to Jaime Anstee!)

Will Wiki Ed be developing training for VE?

LiAnna had some great ideas about how to inspire students. Are those incorporated into the standard training anywhere?

Thanks,

Pine

On Feb 23, 2015 12:26 PM, "Jami Mathewson" <jami@wikiedu.org> wrote:
They're still using the student training[1], as we do not have a specific training for VE. 


On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jaime, thanks for the info. What training materials are these courses using?

Pine

On Feb 23, 2015 9:50 AM, "Jami Mathewson" <jami@wikiedu.org> wrote:
We have some classes that are editing primarily with the VE this term. Those classes still assigned the regular training for students, as the concepts about the community, policies, sourcing, and copyvios are important no matter which editor you use. We also thought the intro to wiki markup in the training would still be useful—for talk pages and other pages where you cannot enable the VE. 
Jami

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 23 February 2015 at 12:56, Vojtěch Dostál <vojtech.dostal@wikimedia.cz> wrote:
I suppose WMUK's learning environment is not something other language editions can profit from, right?

I still strongly prefer the Wikipedia:Training toolkit.

It depends what you want. The VLE is 81 lessons, now plus one new "digital literacy" course, and so is more than a quick introduction. It has quizzes, and I added some videos just before Wikimania.

A simple solution to teaching the VE would be perhaps two screen capture videos, demonstrating how to use it for some simple operations.

Charles 

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