Since version 2.5 (October 2008) the first author can choose between two editing modes:
- Anybody can edit this learning resource
- Other users can only edit a copy of this resource
I have noticed that too often teachers choose the second option and protect resources that would benefit from collaborative editing. I am starting to feel that this feature was a mistake and we should remove this option.
Before we remove this option we need some “evidence” that it was misused.
In the statistics page we could have table with the following statistics by month:
- number of web pages where “Anybody can edit this learning resource”
- number of web pages where “Other users can only edit a copy of this resource”
- number of web pages that are copies
We would also need a list of:
- web page where “Other users can only edit a copy of this resource”
- web pages that are copies
The list should include only links to the languages that we understand (ET, EN).
Should we have the same for other content types such as exercises? May there be important differences (people protecting their version of an excercise)?
My “hypothesis” is:
- the percentage of “Other users can only edit a copy of this resource” pages is constantly growing
- pages where “Other users can only edit a copy of this resource” would benefit from collabotrative editing
- typical copies have only minimal changes or no changes at all compared with the original version
We these are true, then we can start discussing when to remove that feature and what to do with the copies.
