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Possible Future Class

I just notified my teacher that this program exists. They were very interested in it. -Flower

English IV class fyi. 24.155.147.109 (talk) 20:11, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

FYI the WikiEd program is only for college and university classes and not high school classes. Good luck, though. wizzito | say hello! 20:57, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

(just saw because IP Addr) oh, sad. I didn't see that anywhere when researching it. 24.155.147.109 (talk) 17:59, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

St. Thomas University

Since roughly October 2022, there have been a lot of newly registered users editing the article on St. Thomas University (Canada) to add promotional content about the university. Per Talk:St. Thomas University (Canada)#Policies and Reports, at least one of these groups claimed to be editing for a class. This behavior has started up again on two accounts, one of which was blocked for a username violation. Currently trying to find out if this account or account(s) is doing so for a class as well. wizzito | say hello! 20:47, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Based on the username of one of last year's accounts (ENGL1233kyra), the course in question might be ENGL 1233, course title "Digital Literacy" at St. Thomas University. That course is indeed running this semester, but no professor is openly listed. https://www.stu.ca/english/current-courses/ wizzito | say hello! 20:52, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks! We'll try to reach out and see if we can find out anything. --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 22:35, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

International University of Management in Namibia - inappropriate class projects

If anyone is working with this organization, please see: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Class_project_users_and_inappropriate_userspace_pages. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 14:34, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm unaware of anyone, but I pinged the m:Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia folks on that ANI thread in hopes they can reach out and get them some better guidance! --LiAnna (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:28, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

VPM thread on Inherent bias in WikiEd assignments

Not sure why it was started at Village Pump, but editors here may be interested in the discussion WP:VPM#Inherent bias in some assignments of WikiEd. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 16:59, 7 October 2025 (UTC)