Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit/Academy (old)/Next

This page serves as a place to collect ideas for "What's Next" at the Academy. Feel free to add and comment - let's make this great!

Community Reach
A lot of folks on Wikipedia don't know about the Academy. We need to build up awareness, maybe by things like Wikipedia Ads, banners to new editors (I don't know exactly how this works, but it seems possible to display something to editors based on how old they are, etc.), etc.  Theopolisme TALK 17:17, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I think community reach would be really helpful, as that will both attract potential new instructors, and give people a place to point new anti-vandals to. I wonder if we could get something in The Signpost? ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 17:06, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm think pretty positive there was a signpost article at some point... but we should definitely reach out to them and see if they want to do something like the "Followup on the CVUA".  Theopolisme TALK 17:18, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-06-11/WikiProject_report Maybe a follow-up as it was pretty recent, but we definetly need ads. Dan653 (talk) 20:31, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * We should probably hold off on follow-up then, at least for a bit. As far as ads go, there are really two types - for instructors and for students - could we somehow integrate this into one? Or should we try to create two different ones?  Theopolisme TALK 21:16, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Probably two. Dan653 (talk) 01:12, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

New Students
I think new students should be the first priority. I agree that getting more instructors should be a goal, but I think we need a lot more students first. For example from the status page we have capacity for at least another 13 students (which I imagine will increase as our new instuctors get some experience).
 * In terms of ways to do this, I created a personal filter in Huggle which includes reverts so I've been seeing users who are reverting vandalism as well as causing it (hence why there are a number of newbies from my invites). Maybe we could also look at some advertising at WP:VAND (depending on the community's opinion of that) and related pages. But I actually think we are collecting a lot of the people interested in fighting vandalism (though there are still names at WP:PERM/R which I don't recognise) so I'm not sure how many more we will get - but it's always worth a try. Callanecc (talk •contribs) talkback (etc) template appreciated. 17:01, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Yep, New Students definitely belongs as priority #1.  Theopolisme TALK 17:04, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * More students are always great. New instructors... not so much as we have so much capacity already. Dan653 (talk) 20:29, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Instructor Support
I also think that giving instructors as much help as possible is important to ensure that all of our instructors give good training. The resources page looks like it will be helpful (I know I've taken some ideas from it already); expanding that and developing additional support for instructors would be good. Perhaps a system where newer instructors, if they wish, can receive closer support from the rest of us?ItsZippy (talk • contributions) 17:06, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * That could be quite interesting... Me Like.  Theopolisme TALK 17:17, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I like it in theory, but this thought could use some expansion. Dan653 (talk) 20:28, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, there could always be two instructors on a studnet, one main one, and one to watch over for new instructors.--Chip123456 18:29, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Like a student teacher sorta, I think. Dan653 (talk) 18:30, 28 July 2012 (UTC)


 * We call student teachers PGCE's--Chip123456 12:04, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Huh?  Theopolisme TALK 12:13, 29 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Replied via IRC.--Chip123456 15:11, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * That he did - just for clarification, that's why the call student teachers across the pond.  Theopolisme  TALK 17:46, 29 July 2012 (UTC)