This year’s Wikimania conference in Montréal was — for me — the most intense yet. I discovered many years ago — after showing up to a few New York City Wikipedia meetups — that Wikimedians are my tribe. We’re nerds; we’re weird; some of us just can’t resist arguing about copyright for hours. Our community … Continued
We’ve been fortunate this summer to have Google Summer of Code intern Sejal Khatri working on a broad spectrum of improvements to the Dashboard user experience. Earlier this year, Sejal completed an Outreachy internship, during which she created the entire user profiles feature. This time, she’s got a more ambitious agenda: to improve the user experience … Continued
One of the most common requests I’ve heard from the Wikimedia program leaders who use Programs & Events Dashboard is to enable automatic edits, which is one of the core features of the Wiki Education Dashboard. The automatic edits — on-wiki program pages, and userpage and article talk templates that link to them — let … Continued
One of the projects I’m excited about is an experiment with providing automatic suggestions to student editors about how to get started with improving their assigned Wikipedia articles. We want the dashboard to highlight specific improvements that student editors can make to their assigned articles, such as adding additional sources, including an image. I’ve been … Continued
We’ve just released a new Dashboard feature: Authorship Highlighting. This update to the Dashboard’s Article Viewer shows the current version of a live article, and now highlights which student added which parts of the text. To try it, just head to the Articles tab on your course page. In the list of Articles Edited, click … Continued
The Wiki Education Dashboard got 20 improvements over the last two months from five young coders participating in Google Code-In, a contest that gets pre-university students involved in open source software development. Their work ranged from new features, to accessibility and performance improvements, to bug fixes, to new automated code tests, to expanded documentation on … Continued
I’m excited about the kickoff next week of a 3-month project to improve the Wiki Education Dashboard’s user profile pages. I’ll be mentoring Sejal Khatri, a senior computer engineering student at Savitribai Phule Pune University, for an Outreachy internship, in collaboration with design researcher Jonathan Morgan of Wikimedia Foundation. Sejal has already created the initial … Continued
We’ve just launched a new course page feature: a diff viewer that lets you see the details of Wikipedia edits without leaving the Dashboard. On the Articles tab of each course, you can now click an article to access the “Show Cumulative Changes” tool. It shows you everything that has been added or removed from … Continued
You may have noticed a recent addition to the Articles tab of dashboard.wikiedu.org course pages: “structural completeness”. This feature is an experiment in visualizing the history of articles as they develop. The structural completeness data comes from the “Objective Revision Evaluation Service” (ORES), a Wikimedia Foundation research project that uses machine learning to analyze Wikipedia … Continued