On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> And - to stay with the sandbox metaphor from another thread - if the > majority of contributors to a university-based program in India can > reach won't be able to contribute at an acceptable quality in WP > proper, then perhaps it's also time to think about more aggressive > sandboxing of contributions early in the game, at least when we're > dealing with a course where we either don't know what to expect, or we > _do_ based on experiences like the one to date. Possibly even using an > external sandbox. > > If I understand it rightly, Erik points out that one of the questions raised here is the validity of the University-centric approach to this program. Hisham will recall I had queried this approach at a meetup way back when. This was before I found that it had a history, being a successful initiative in another milieu. I am sure now, with this experience, we can find ways to make the program work more effectively here, one possibility (not the only one) being shedding the college campus-centric focus, and reaching out more widely to people, in order to welcome more people within the contributory fold. As Abhilash points out, this was a pilot, and it is up to us to evaluate its learnings and move forward from it, not trash it or its participants. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>
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