User talk:Helaine (Wiki Ed)/2014

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Welcome!

Hello, Helaine (Wiki Ed), and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or click here to ask for help here on your talk page and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:59, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Streamlined process for granting instructor rights

Hello! Welcome to Wikipedia and welcome to the Wiki Ed Foundation. Message me if you want to talk Wikipedia sometime.

I noticed that you have been granting course instructor rights to new users without going through the established process for doing so. I acknowledge that the established process is highly problematic and stifling, and wish that there were a better way. I am glad to see Wiki Ed staff granting user rights, because I presume that also means that Wiki Ed also has resources to follow up and manage the people to whom it grants user rights. Still, if someone wants to do something out of process, the usual way to do this is to write a protocol somewhere for a new way of doing things and then propose that protocol as the new process. Have you considered doing this? In my opinion, your work would be less surprising if you did.

The reason why educator rights have not been handed out on mere request in the past is because it was thought that doing so would lead to messy, awful problems. If only you commit yourself to be responsible for any problems and you promise the backing of Wiki Ed, then I think everyone would be grateful for you to give out userrights in the casual way that you are doing.

I expect that other Wikipedians would share my perspective, and I hope that you do too. I am happy to see you around and I hope that your position brings relief and reform to the way we have been doing things. If you like also, please say hello on the education noticeboard and introduce yourself. I think you have not done this yet. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 18:13, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: Thank you for your warm welcome to Wikipedia. I am really excited to be a part of the Wiki Education Program! As far as granting course instructor rights, I was following the instructions of LiAnna (Wiki Ed). I have alerted her to your concerns, so feel free to reach out to her. Also, in case you missed it, LIAnna introduced me when I began about a month ago at Wiki Ed. Thanks again for reaching out, and I look forward to interacting with you in the future. Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:25, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

I think this should get a wider audience, so I'll reply on WP:ENB. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:56, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes standard discussion duration on Wikipedia is a week. I have weight in here [1]. A number of things need further clarification before I am happy. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:10, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

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