Thanks for the link, srik.lak! But from reading that post, certain alarming questions arise. What exactly is Wikipedia Education Programs? How does it work? Does it provide a private workspace to EP participants in Wikipedia completely invisible to other editors? Why are sock-puppets encouraged? What elevated permissions are being provided to EP members? Will the community be able to transparently oversee content introductions by Education Programs? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur ------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 23:43, Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: Its an extension designed to manage *EPs. Read more here[1] If am not wrong it provides set of dashboards / special pages for people(instructors,OA,CA,staff) to oversee edits by students enrolled in the program in a much easier way. I dont think there will be any data that will be closed / completely invisible to others. I am not sure if profiles would be closed / kept open. That link was a test wiki for people who are interested in EP to test the software that's developed. Since you cant conduct a Ashwin-EP for the sake of testing, you are encouraged to sock on that wiki creating different accounts(of varied roles) and to test if you could utilize the special pages and make use of the features and it isn't buggy. Specific permissions only for EP. Otherwise they are too have same rights as any other new wiki user. A more detailed note on roles is available on the page linked. Yes, the extension will only make it even more easier for those interested to oversee at a greater level of detail. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program -- Regards Srikanth.L _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l