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[Epic] Additional multiwiki support for users and courses
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In the last step, article, assignment, and revision were given an association to a particular wiki. User and course currently have an indirect association with wikis, through their linked assignments, but if they are involved with multiple wikis, we make a "home wiki" assumption, and wildly guess what that might be. Better would would be to design and implement a more intentional solution for users and courses.

It's possible that a single home wiki is a helpful assumption in some cases, but bad in highly multilingual contexts. In that case, we might want multiple or no "home wikis", or a UX that is decoupled from specific wikis.

Current, User.home_wiki is used for:

  • Greeting
  • Base site for User page, User_talk page, Special:Contributions and sandox links.

Course.home_wiki is used for:

  • Notifications
  • An arbitrary (mediawiki.org) wiki is used for OAuth
  • Legacy wiki mirroring

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awight created this task.Feb 20 2016, 9:34 PM
Restricted Application added subscribers: StudiesWorld, Base, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 20 2016, 9:34 PM
awight added subtasks: T123622: Spike: How are multilingual courses displayed in the UI?, T127126: Scope out requirements for making courses support multiple wikis and languages, T127122: Spike: How should Course and User associate with wiki?.Feb 20 2016, 9:37 PM
awight edited projects, added Program Dashboard Sprint 1; removed Programs-and-Events-Dashboard-Sprint 2.Feb 25 2016, 6:15 PM
awight moved this task from Backlog to Single Dashboard for all wikis/languages on the Education-Program-Dashboard board.Feb 27 2016, 6:21 AM
awight moved this task from Single Dashboard for all wikis/languages to Support for all wikis and multi-wiki programs on the Education-Program-Dashboard board.
awight edited projects, added Design Research Project Documentation 2015Q2; removed Program Dashboard Sprint 1.
awight edited projects, added Programs-and-Events-Dashboard-Sprint 2; removed Design Research Project Documentation 2015Q2.
awight added a project: Epic.Feb 27 2016, 6:50 AM
awight added a parent task: T128251: Release Programs dashboard 1.0 alpha.Feb 27 2016, 6:54 AM
awight added a comment.Feb 27 2016, 7:23 AM

Possibly helpful feature: Default to grouping articles by language then project in the course view.

harej-NIOSH subscribed.May 13 2016, 8:00 PM

At minimum, you should be able to manually select wikis where you know there is activity. For example, I know that at my trainings we edit both English Wikipedia and Spanish Wikipedia. Selecting the databases by hand is probably more performant than doing a scan of all of the databases, even if there is an off chance we miss edits on the Portuguese Wiktionary or whatever.

Ragesoss closed subtask T127126: Scope out requirements for making courses support multiple wikis and languages as Resolved.Jun 13 2016, 7:08 PM
Ragesoss closed subtask T127122: Spike: How should Course and User associate with wiki? as Resolved.Jun 13 2016, 7:12 PM
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Theklan subscribed.Jan 25 2019, 11:53 AM

I have a professor that wants to run a course with 14 different languages (Erasmus)... is there a way to handle this easily? Must students write down what their language code is?

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Aklapper triaged this task as Low priority.Dec 6 2022, 10:25 AM
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