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Ambassador training / deprecated content

Under Training for student assignments, if one follows the link to the Ambassador training, the welcome page includes the following notice:

This Wikipedia page has been superseded by training content on dashboard.wikiedu.org and outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org, and it is retained primarily for historical interest.

Neither of these suggested links appear to be on this page. (I realize they might be a second degree of separation.) Could someone more familiar with this help space look at these links and decide whether to add them to this page? Also, I suggest that a new section be added for content that is now considered "of historical interest." Thoughts? Zatsugaku (talk) 15:55, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

1900+ sentences for ... getting started?

Used an online utility to scan readability of what should be an introduction:

Indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading

Gunning Fog index: 20.45

Approximate representation of the U.S. grade level needed to comprehend the text:

29.80 Coleman Liau index

22.91 Flesch Kincaid Grade level

26.81 ARI (Automated Readability Index)

17.19 SMOG:

-31.27 Flesch Reading Ease:

Number of characters (without spaces): 324,404.00

Number of words: 40,646.00

Number of sentences: 1,909.00

Lexical Density: 92.64

... and so on.

Suggestion: Might a better approach include a search box for "How do I ...?" related inquiries? Jasonbrown1965 (talk) 10:14, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]