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Wiki Education Foundation's Wikipedia course dashboard system
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Edits by new users who join a course are often rate-limited #1423

Open JoalpeBrasil opened 7 years ago

JoalpeBrasil commented 7 years ago

During an edit-a-thon, users who enrolled via the P&E Dashboard were not automatically identified as part of the edit-a-thon and did not receive a message on their talk page with instructions. They made edits.

Example: Wscoroa Felipe9 Hertztcz ...

ragesoss commented 7 years ago

Hmm... Here's the course: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/UNICAMP/Linguagem_e_Literatura_I

Edits ocassionally fail, but there were a lot that failed here. In this case, it looks like the main reason was rate-limiting. We have some room for improvement on how batches of edits are handled, both to avoid hitting rate-limits in the first place, and to respond better when we do hit them.