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Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. MHAN2016 (talk) 08:30, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Setting up a course

Hi, MHAN2016. I'm Adam Hyland, I work for the Wiki Education Foundation (here's a bit on our website about what we do). If you'd like to learn how to set up a course (and see the resources and support we can provide) you can contact Samantha (samanthawikiedu.org) or me (adamwikiedu.org). Thanks. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:24, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi there! Yes, please email me and we can discuss your upcoming course, what kind of assignment you'd like to run, and how to set up a course page. To get started, visit dashboard.wikiedu.org and log in with your Wikipedia username. Email me with what questions you have! Thanks, Samantha (samantha@wikiedu.org) Samantha (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:43, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Adam, Samantha, thanks for the messages. I should perhaps have specified that I'm not in Canada or the United States, but in Belgium. I've made attempts to log into the dashboard, but just get an internal server error each time. I'll try again soon with a different browser (in case that makes a difference). MHAN2016 (talk) 00:13, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

I'll have about 34 translation students, and thought it would be a good idea to have them each translate a couple of short articles from the French Wikipedia that are not yet on the English Wikipedia (biographies, or villages, or monuments, that kind of thing). They all use Wikipedia as a research tool, but none of them know how it actually works, so apart from them having an immediately "published" translation, it gives them an opportunity to look under the bonnet, as it were. MHAN2016 (talk) 00:20, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Oh, if you're in Belgium that's outside our purview. However, all of our instructional materials are published on Commons under a free license--I hope you'll find some of them helpful. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:34, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Adam. Is Belgium inside anybody's purview, do you know? Who could tell me how to set up a course? MHAN2016 (talk) 10:24, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Try the outreach dashboard. That's our dashboard code running on WMF servers for educational projects (and events like editathons or workshops) around the world. FKoudijs (WMF) is the director of the WMF's education program. I think they may be able to help you out a bit more. Adam (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:14, 10 February 2016 (UTC)