2010/1/10 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
geni wrote:
Well so far everything you have described would risk getting you blocked from wikipedia.
Probably the most important thing to do is to contact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects first.
I don't want to pull rank on this (much), but I have been through ArbCom discussions of "role accounts". There was some merit in what I was suggesting, namely single account with email to someone responsible. If you want, I can run some wording for the User page past ArbCom members, and see if any suggested "protocols" are sensible. I would have thought admins would have better things to do than close down such an account for technical infractions - bad behaviour would be another matter.
Arbcom don't make policy.
Role accounts just look wrong to people who watch such things and a series of same name plus number accounts have been known to make admins paranoid.
This is not an area I feel our general run of admins are very good at dealing with. For one example of things going wrong see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Inciden...
The supposed forum is [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Classroom coordination]], which doesn't appear that active. I think you should take notice that projects involving minors (which covers most students in secondary schools) are not necessarily in the same position as those generally listed at [[Wikipedia:School and university projects]], which seem almost entirely to be at college level.
Charles
Wikipedia:School and university projects is active and at least means there is a fair chance projects can be given a once over and supported by people who understand wikipedia and such projects to at least some degree.