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:::This extension is a tangible step forward for keeping track of what courses are doing. The flexibility and complexity of full wikitext project pages is a double-edged sword; for newcomers, it's often overwhelming, and the first casualty is complete lists of students' usernames for each class. Having that student/class information built into the software in an inflexible way is basically the core purpose for this initial version, so that we, as experienced editors, can then monitor groups of students in a reliable way. Note that the "course description" section actually is wikitext, with a history (which, I believe, is why it doesn't simply use special pages). So it would be possible to have a fair bit of flexibility even with this initial version, if we transclude templates into the course description pages.
:::I'm not sure how this extension works with the API; I'll ask the developer, Jeroen De Dauw, about that.--[[User:Sage Ross (WMF)|Sage Ross (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sage Ross (WMF)|talk]]) 16:19, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
::::Or it could be built as a special page which can be transcluded into a normal wiki page.. <span style="font-variant:small-caps">[[User:John Vandenberg|John Vandenberg]] <sup>'''([[User talk:John Vandenberg|chat]])'''</sup></span> 16:52, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
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