Agreed.
Shani.
On 2 Feb 2018 09:43, "Sara Mörtsell" <sara.mortsell(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
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(a)wikimedia.cz>
wrote:
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 :
1) *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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