Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag...
by _fs on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:16PM
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It's really not surprising that the professor reacted the way that he did. His intentions where basically to improve wikipedia articles in his field through a group effort by his students. Instead of praise and thanks from the wikipedia editors, he was ostracized and rejected. I'd wager this entire situation could have been averted if the editors initially reached out to the professor in a more positive way.
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Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag...
by swang on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:28PM
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They did, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WoodSnake#Copyright_v...
That was from last year.
This year there was no notice because apparently he decided to not publicly announce he was doing it again this year and it took them some time before they realized what happened. It seemed that he didn't like the fact that people were pointing.
I can't read through everything so I may have not been following everything correctly. This is what I've extracted about the situation by gleaning information off the various pages talking about this.
Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag...
by Permit on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:40PM
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>This professor started under the education programme in 2011. Following a study of edits made by the 2011 class here with commentary here[1], the professor was asked to stop and work with Wikipedia to fix the assignment. Instead he went underground and choose, in his words, to "fly under the radar".
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Colin/A_large_scale_studen...