Wikipedia Education Program/Improving Course Editing and Viewing

Roadmap for improving course editing and viewing

High impact

• Section editing for course page content
• Edits to course page content show up on user contributions
• Links in course page content show up in "What links here"
• Rework the layout of course page, so that it is more navigable (between a sectioned page text, and the students table and summary table) and prettier
• Make students' own entry in the students table more accessible, possibly by duplicating it at the top of the page
• Normal-ish diff for changes in page content

Medium impact

• Improve design of course page edit UI, make extra fields collapsible
• Add preview feature for editing course page content
• Add editing toolbar for editing course page content (on wikis that lack the WikiEditor extension)
• Add information on transcluded pages for editing course page content

Low impact

• Use the mw-ui-button styles for all buttons
• Add helpful messages to course page edit UI
  • Message that adding students and articles can be done from the "Read" tab, if you have sufficient rights
  • Message that you can't change additional course info if you don't have sufficient rights
• Additional course info shown (though uneditable) on UI for users that can only edit course page content
  • Everything except the enroll token should be viewable
• Auto-watchlist-adding for editing and creating course pages and course talk pages
  • Since we have course talk notifications for students and others, this is now a very minor feature.

Done

• Allow everyone with edit rights to edit course content T
• Make some course fields immutable T

D Draft patch on Gerrit

P Non-draft patch on Gerrit

M Merged

T Deployed on test2

W Deployed on wikis