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:::Parallel to MER-C's observation, doing these things in pure wiki fashion basically ensures that different people and different groups will do things differently. Often that's fine, but it's not good enough for purposes of keeping track of many courses at once, especially as the number of people involved grows. Some classes will have their students sign up on-wiki and list the articles they work on, some won't. The extension creates a baseline that both removes a lot of organizational burden and creates the opportunity for better monitoring and analysis of class activity. The problem MER-C noted with incomplete or incorrect student lists with the IEP also crops up in other courses, and even then, it took a lot of busy work on the part of both volunteers and WMF staff to make sure student lists (and the list of active ambassadors) was complete and current enough to be useful. With the extension, students can create an account and then enroll in a course and be recognizable to the community *before* they learn enough basic wiki skills to do things like sign up on a pure wiki list of students.
:::I'm hopeful that future iterations of the extension will add tools to help students communicate with the experienced Wikipedians; figuring out who to talk to and how to reach them is something that we've seen a high proportion of students get tripped up on, leading to frustrations on the part of both students and experienced Wikipedians about the lack of communication.--[[User:Sage Ross (WMF)|Sage Ross (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sage Ross (WMF)|talk]]) 14:55, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
*Are we at risk of confusing the hell out of the other admins, who won't be using this extension at all? [[User:Deryck Chan|Der]][[User talk:Deryck Chan|yck C.]] 12:13, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
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