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Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag... by ffk on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:29PM (#5482237)
That came from Mike Christie. Information was included in the user_talk page where he says 16 out of 19 students plagiarized. That works out to about 84% of known editors from that class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:WoodSnak...

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Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag... by Steko on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @06:08PM (#5482481)
Hundreds of students made edits. 16 are accused of plagarism. Which is laughable because this accusation is based on the citation provided by the student's own edit.

The only thing these students are guilty of is bad citation form.

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