Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plagiarism rate

Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag... by vickytnz on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @04:38PM (#5481923)

Yeah, the official title on Wikipedia (or at present is) "Class of 1700 students fill Wikipedia with plagiarism. Response from prof is accusation of illegal behaviour by editors" link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_not...

If you read through the information, the story appears to be : prof assigned wiki edits to class, wiki find the class do more harm than good and ask prof to stop, prof does it again the next year anyway.

Basically this is a 'friends don't let friends assign their students wikipedia editing'!

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Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag... by hkmurakami on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:05PM (#5482082)

Thanks, this summary was extremely helpful since I didn't want to read the gigantic wall of text in OP and the title, no matter how I tried to parse it, didn't give me enough information!

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