User talk:Ianjporter

Notification about disabling the Wikipedia collections tool
Thank you for using the collections feature in Wikipedia beta! Due to technical and moderation issues, we will be turning off this experimental feature. Your collections will be available for viewing and export until March 1st. If you would like to save your collection as links on a special Wikipedia page, please fill out the following form. If you are interested in giving your feedback about Wikipedia Collections please do so here.

Thanks,

Jon Katz

Product manager, Wikimedia Foundation

Jkatz (WMF) (talk) 23:55, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Things to avoid when designing assignments
Hi, I'm thrilled to see you making an effort to fold Wikipedia into your courses. On our end, the project has been in recent overhaul and we're still figuring it out. A point I have been trying to make and have folded into the course materials for instructors hasn't yet taken hold. As a result, our materials could do a better job covering things instructors sometimes do which have unintended adverse consequences. Yep, you guessed it, I'm writing you because you fell victim to this hole in our support material. The issue is described in detail at Wikipedia_talk:Education_program/Educators. I confess I named your course as an example, but I don't mean to be singling you out or anything. As you may know our culture requires examples of problems before people take gripes seriously.. that's all I meant by picking on you, sorry. If my comment seems vague or unclear be sure to also read the various things I linked in making my argument. If it is still murky, I'll be glad to talk more about it. Just post a reply here and it will pop up in my watchlist. Cheers, and happy WikiTeaching! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:21, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Courses Modules are being deprecated
Hello,

Your account is currently configured with an education program flag. This system (the Courses system) is being deprecated. As such, your account will soon be updated to remove these no longer supported flags. For details on the changes, and how to migrate to using the replacement system (the Programs and Events Dashboard) please see Education noticeboard/Archive 18.

Thank you! Sent by: xaosflux 20:28, 8 March 2018 (UTC)