Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Education Program extension

The following discussion is an archived record of a request for comment. Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

Taking each of these in turn:

• Section 1: intro - nothing to determine
• Section 2: Turning the extension on - This has consensus, though not an overwhelming strong one. While there are more "votes" in support, the subsequent discussion noted questions and concerns from editors who did not "vote", but which should be taken into account as (as we all know) consensus is not a vote. The comments in the subsequent section 3 were taken into account as well. So there is consensus to "turn on", but with restrictions/reservations.
• Section 3: Configuring the extension
  • 3.1: Configure for exclusive Wikipedia Education Program use - No consensus - There is general consensus to restrict in "some" way, but not necessarily in the way presented in 3.1
  • 3.2: Configure for any use by anyone, subject to approval by an admin or other trusted user - Consensus.
  • 3.3: Configure for use by any autoconfirmed user - No consensus
  • 3.4: Configure the administrative roles to be managed by bureaucrats - Opposed. (And it may or may not be worth noting that the only bureaucrat who commented, opposed this.)
  • 3.5: Configure some other way - no comments
  • 3.6: Discussion - There are suggestions for what requirements/crieria the user-rights noted in 3.2 should have prior to granting, but that can be discussed/determined in subsequent discussions, and this rfc closure should not be considered to restrict how that should be done.

To sum up: There is consensus to "turn on", and strong consensus to implement the user-rights system as noted in 3.2. And subsequent discussion is recommended concerning what should be required for the granting of the user-rights in question. - jc37 19:29, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This page in a nutshell: Wikimedia Foundation has built the Education Program extension to make it easier to keep track of classes where students are assigned to edit Wikipedia. Should this be enabled on English Wikipedia? If so, who should be able to use it?