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Wikipedia:Education Program extension

{{Historical|comment=On June 30, 2018, the use of Extension:Education Program was shut down; courses managed through the Education Program extension are now limited to inactive courses.[https://outreach.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/January_2018/Education_Extension_scheduled_shutdown Education_Extension_scheduled_shutdown, Wikimedia outreach]Wikipedia:Education noticeboard/Archive 18#NOTICE:_EducationProgram extension is being deprecated Current courses are managed through the Programs & Events Dashboard at [https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org], or the Wiki Education dashboard at [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org dashboard.wikiedu.org]. The content of this page pertaining to the Education Program namespace and associated special pages and user groups, is now largely historical due to deprecation.|brief=yes}}

The Education Program extension is a MediaWiki software add-on to the English Wikipedia. It was developed for Wikipedia:Course pages but it will be reconfigured

Existing bugs

Existing bugs in the program are known, and they can be found by searching at Bugzilla or the archives of WP:ENB. The bugs include the problems of creating two pages in the same namespace and having selection lists autopopulate with nonsensical items. It's a large and unweildy piece of software.

What's the purpose?

What should be the point of the extension? One valuable feature is that it enables the tracking of a group of editors. This tracking feature could be extended to WikiProjects, edit-a-thons, or any selection of editors you may wish to follow.

See also