Wikipedia:Education Program extension
 | This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. On June 30, 2018, the use of Extension:Education Program was shut down; courses managed through the Education Program extension are now limited to inactive courses.[1][2] Current courses are managed through the Programs & Events Dashboard at outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org, or the Wiki Education dashboard at dashboard.wikiedu.org. The content of this page pertaining to the Education Program namespace and associated special pages and user groups, is now largely historical due to deprecation. |
The Education Program extension is a MediaWiki software add-on to the English Wikipedia. It was developed for Wikipedia:Course pages but it will be reconfigured
Existing bugs
Existing bugs in the program are known, and they can be found by searching at Bugzilla or the archives of WP:ENB. The bugs include the problems of creating two pages in the same namespace and having selection lists autopopulate with nonsensical items. It's a large and unweildy piece of software.
What's the purpose?
What should be the point of the extension? One valuable feature is that it enables the tracking of a group of editors. This tracking feature could be extended to WikiProjects, edit-a-thons, or any selection of editors you may wish to follow.
See also
- Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Education Program extension
- Wikipedia:Village Pump:Additional details
- mw:Extension:Education Program
- outreach:Education/Extension
- outreach:Education/News/January 2018/Education Extension scheduled shutdown
- Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard/Archive_18#NOTICE:_EducationProgram_extension_is_being_deprecated