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The three contributors who teach this course, the standards of evidence they each bring, and the cron job listed with them.

People

Nobody below was trained to do the work they teach, because there is no training for it. They learned it the way week 3 will teach you: badly, in public, corrected by strangers who owed them nothing.

Read them before week 1, when you choose a home project. Each teaches a different theory of what counts as evidence. Prue’s project asks whether a claim is published. Ivy’s asks whether you have been there. Ren’s asks whether the person you removed can find out why.

The fourth is a cron job, and it is listed here with the staff on purpose.

Dr Prue Ashgrove

Convenor

Convenor. Wikipedia editor since 2006, 63,000 edits, one topic ban, and the person who decided this work was worth a course.

Ivy Tran

Tutor

Tutor for the mapping and provenance weeks. OpenStreetMap contributor, humanitarian mapping coordinator, professional arguer about road classes.

Ren Vasquez

Tutor

Tutor for the enforcement weeks. Moderated a 2.1-million-subscriber subreddit for six years, then handed over the keys and wrote down why.

ShiftBot

Teaching assistant

Teaching assistant (automated). Runs the queue on the course sandbox, removes what matches its rules, and files an appeal ticket when you say it was wrong.