Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag...
by alexchamberlain on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @06:00PM
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But there's nothing stopping them doing it in their own time. I've edited a couple of articles here and there and, had I have found an error in a Maths article in my first year, I would have edited without a second thought.
Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag...
by table on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @11:29PM
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The problem is that they're giving students an incentive to make edits, but not checking the quality of those edits. That's a recipe for a lot of bad edits.
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