Wikipedia:Education noticeboard

This page is for discussion related to student assignments and the Wikipedia Education Program. Please feel free to post, whether you're from a class, a potential class, or if you're a Wikipedia editor.

Topics for this board might include:

• Content issues created by real or potential student assignments
• Improving student assignment output quality per the RfC
• Questions about the trainings or any question from instructors or students
• Discussion of the Wiki Education Foundation or the Wikipedia Education Program.
• Students who have done great work and need {{The Excellent New Editor's Barnstar}}

Of course, we should remain civil towards all participants and assume good faith.

There are other pages more appropriate for dealing with certain specific issues:

• An issue requiring immediate administrator attention → Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• Vandalism by non-participating students from schools → administrator intervention against vandalism.
• Cut and paste moves/history merge → the cut and paste move repair holding pen.
• Students revealing sensitive personal information → requests for oversight. Please DO NOT make such requests here; reports here are visible to everyone.
• Course announcements from dashboard.wikiedu.org / outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org → /Wiki Ed course submissions
• Issues related to dashboard.wikedu.org / outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org → meta:Talk:Programs & Events Dashboard
• For a list of topics that students should avoid editing → Wikipedia:General sanctions#Active sanctions

• "Start a new discussion thread". Use an informative title: ==Informative title==. If a thread is related to an ongoing discussion, consider placing it under a level-3 heading within that existing discussion.
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Managing threads

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