Dear edu community,
After the Education Program extension was recently enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia, the next step for us is to learn how to use it:) And while there's plenty of useful information about it on English Wikipedia as well as on Glamwiki, I wasn't lucky enought to find out one thing: are the course pages (in the Education program: namespace) supposed to be reused when fresh group of students comes in on the following year? I.e., do the teachers usually just edit the old course page, remove all the students and start again with the same page or copy the course plan into a new page?
Thanks, Yury Bulka
Hi Yury,
From what I've seen on the English and Arabic Wikipedias, a course page is
created for a specific class for a specific time period (semester/term). For example, you might have a History 101 class in the Fall 2014 semester, and a History 101 class for the Spring 2015 semester. Each of these would have a separate course page, even if it was the same curriculum and the same instructor -- mainly because the list of students and articles will be different for each term.
The course page helps organize classes, but can also serve as a historical record of the course and help with cohort analysis with tools like Wikimetrics. So again, it's best to keep the student list there and start a new course page for each term or editing period.
You may also notice that the term is automatically included in the course URL structure on wiki in parentheses (). For example:
https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_the_Wikis/H...)
Hope that helps! Tighe
-- Tighe Flanagan Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6880 tflanagan@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:22 PM, yurkobb@gmail.com wrote:
Dear edu community,
After the Education Program extension was recently enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia, the next step for us is to learn how to use it:) And while there's plenty of useful information about it on English Wikipedia as well as on Glamwiki, I wasn't lucky enought to find out one thing: are the course pages (in the Education program: namespace) supposed to be reused when fresh group of students comes in on the following year? I.e., do the teachers usually just edit the old course page, remove all the students and start again with the same page or copy the course plan into a new page?
Thanks, Yury Bulka
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Hi Tighe,
That makes things much more clear to me. Thank you!
Tighe Flanagan tflanagan@wikimedia.org writes:
Hi Yury,
From what I've seen on the English and Arabic Wikipedias, a course page is created for a specific class for a specific time period (semester/term). For example, you might have a History 101 class in the Fall 2014 semester, and a History 101 class for the Spring 2015 semester. Each of these would have a separate course page, even if it was the same curriculum and the same instructor -- mainly because the list of students and articles will be different for each term.
The course page helps organize classes, but can also serve as a historical record of the course and help with cohort analysis with tools like Wikimetrics. So again, it's best to keep the student list there and start a new course page for each term or editing period.
You may also notice that the term is automatically included in the course URL structure on wiki in parentheses (). For example:
https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_the_Wikis/H... of_Wikipedia_(now)
Hope that helps! Tighe
-- Tighe Flanagan Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6880 tflanagan@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:22 PM, yurkobb@gmail.com wrote:
Dear edu community, After the Education Program extension was recently enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia, the next step for us is to learn how to use it:) And while there's plenty of useful information about it on English Wikipedia as well as on Glamwiki, I wasn't lucky enought to find out one thing: are the course pages (in the Education program: namespace) supposed to be reused when fresh group of students comes in on the following year? I.e., do the teachers usually just edit the old course page, remove all the students and start again with the same page or copy the course plan into a new page? Thanks, Yury Bulka _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Hi Yury,
Congratulations on enabling the Education Program Extension on Ukrainian Wikipedia! It should make your life on wiki much simpler.
You mentioned checking out ENWP and GLAMwiki. If you have not done so already, you might also wish to take a look at the documentation on the Education portal on Outreach wiki:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Extension#Education_Program_Ex...
I'm really very excited about this news and wish you all the best!
Anna :)
--
Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 akoval@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Tighe Flanagan tflanagan@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Yury,
From what I've seen on the English and Arabic Wikipedias, a course page is created for a specific class for a specific time period (semester/term). For example, you might have a History 101 class in the Fall 2014 semester, and a History 101 class for the Spring 2015 semester. Each of these would have a separate course page, even if it was the same curriculum and the same instructor -- mainly because the list of students and articles will be different for each term.
The course page helps organize classes, but can also serve as a historical record of the course and help with cohort analysis with tools like Wikimetrics. So again, it's best to keep the student list there and start a new course page for each term or editing period.
You may also notice that the term is automatically included in the course URL structure on wiki in parentheses (). For example:
https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_the_Wikis/H...)
Hope that helps! Tighe
-- Tighe Flanagan Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6880 tflanagan@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:22 PM, yurkobb@gmail.com wrote:
Dear edu community,
After the Education Program extension was recently enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia, the next step for us is to learn how to use it:) And while there's plenty of useful information about it on English Wikipedia as well as on Glamwiki, I wasn't lucky enought to find out one thing: are the course pages (in the Education program: namespace) supposed to be reused when fresh group of students comes in on the following year? I.e., do the teachers usually just edit the old course page, remove all the students and start again with the same page or copy the course plan into a new page?
Thanks, Yury Bulka
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Hi Anna! You caught me - by error I said GLAMwiki instead of outreach wiki:) But thanks for the link, that page is very useful. Also, the brochures on EduWiki are awesome, and even though we don't yet have them in Ukrainian, they still can be very useful in a lot of cases.
Anna Koval akoval@wikimedia.org writes:
Hi Yury,
Congratulations on enabling the Education Program Extension on Ukrainian Wikipedia! It should make your life on wiki much simpler.
You mentioned checking out ENWP and GLAMwiki. If you have not done so already, you might also wish to take a look at the documentation on the Education portal on Outreach wiki:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Extension#Education_Program_ Extension
I'm really very excited about this news and wish you all the best!
Anna :)
--
Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 akoval@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org
On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Tighe Flanagan tflanagan@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Yury, From what I've seen on the English and Arabic Wikipedias, a course page is created for a specific class for a specific time period (semester/term). For example, you might have a History 101 class in the Fall 2014 semester, and a History 101 class for the Spring 2015 semester. Each of these would have a separate course page, even if it was the same curriculum and the same instructor -- mainly because the list of students and articles will be different for each term. The course page helps organize classes, but can also serve as a historical record of the course and help with cohort analysis with tools like Wikimetrics. So again, it's best to keep the student list there and start a new course page for each term or editing period. You may also notice that the term is automatically included in the course URL structure on wiki in parentheses (). For example: https://test2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Program:University_of_the_ Wikis/History_of_Wikipedia_(now) Hope that helps! Tighe -- Tighe Flanagan Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6880 tflanagan@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:22 PM, <yurkobb@gmail.com> wrote: Dear edu community, After the Education Program extension was recently enabled on Ukrainian Wikipedia, the next step for us is to learn how to use it:) And while there's plenty of useful information about it on English Wikipedia as well as on Glamwiki, I wasn't lucky enought to find out one thing: are the course pages (in the Education program: namespace) supposed to be reused when fresh group of students comes in on the following year? I.e., do the teachers usually just edit the old course page, remove all the students and start again with the same page or copy the course plan into a new page? Thanks, Yury Bulka _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education _______________________________________________ Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
Education mailing list Education@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education