Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Education Program extension: Difference between revisions

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{{Nutshell | Wikimedia Foundation has built the [[mw:Extension:Education Program|Education Program extension]] to make it easier to keep track of classes where students are assigned to edit Wikipedia. Should this be enabled on English Wikipedia? If so, who should be able to use it?}}

{{archive top | Given the moderate level of support and small number of objections to turning on this extension, I'm going to file a bug to have it enabled. The clear most-preferred option for configuring it is the second one: the user rights for the extension (course coordinator, instructor, online volunteer, and campus volunteers) can be distributed by admins, and admins themselves have full access to the extension features. As soon as it's enabled, the current [[outreach:Regional_Ambassadors/Current|regional ambassadors]] who aren't already admins should be given the course administrator right so they can set up course pages and flag instructors. We'll probably want to come up with standards and a process for guiding how admins distribute the course coordinator right in the future.--[[User:Sage Ross (WMF)|Sage Ross (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Sage Ross (WMF)|talk]]) 14:31, 24 September 2012 (UTC)}}

==Purpose of this request for comment==

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:::: Maybe we should have a bot or abusefilter that reverts/prevents users from adding signatures to article space (can't think of a case where that is necessary) [[User:OhanaUnited|<b><font color="#0000FF">OhanaUnited</font></b>]][[User talk:OhanaUnited|<b><font color="green">^{Talk page}</font></b>]] 23:27, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

:::::I've never seen it happen except in this case, so I guess an argument could be made that a bot isn't needed. But for me, that's not really the issue. I could imagine that those particular students would have felt just as "bitten" by a bot as by living editors, maybe even more so. The erroneous editing can be fixed. What cannot be as easily fixed is a bad student experience. But the bad experience can be ''prevented'', which is what I want to do. --[[User:Tryptofish|Tryptofish]] ([[User talk:Tryptofish|talk]]) 20:34, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

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