User:Illuminatusds/sandbox

-based educators

This is the user sandbox of Illuminatusds. A user sandbox is a subpage of the user's user page. It serves as a testing spot and page development space for the user and is not an encyclopedia article. Create or edit your own sandbox here. Other sandboxes: Main sandbox | Template sandbox Finished writing a draft article? Are you ready to request review of it by an experienced editor for possible inclusion in Wikipedia? Submit your draft for review!

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UK-based educators (particularly in Higher Education may wish to consider consulting these resources first, before beginning design of assessments in Wikimedia projects

• Read the guidlines at Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Assignments. For those not redily conversant with best practces within Wikimedia, this article provides much good advice.

• Consider using the Wikipedia Courses Extension to create course pages. Currently, access to the courses extension requires the user to manually submit requests at the Education Noticeboard

• Be aware of the issues surrounding usernames and network throttling. Consider getting users to pre-register before a course begins. Creating usernames during a course may lead to lags and issues with editing uploading (confirmed addresses need an edit history before having access to extending editing features (such as uploading)

• Be aware of username formats. Strings with more than consecutive 10 upper-case characters are not permitted.

• Also be aware of spam throttling: pre-registering users may help with this. A successiion of attempted username creations or edits (iclding anonymous ones) are likely to trigger anti-spam measures within gthe wikimedia project being used, and may immpact on ability to work.