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

Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag... by DanBC on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @06:14PM (#5482522)

Frustrating that no-one in the WP thread bothered to link to the right way to do it:

(http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Progr...)

> The idea behind the Wikipedia Education Program is simple: Professors around the world assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia for class assignments.

> Wikipedia is being used as a teaching tool in education around the world (see a list of programs). The Wikimedia Foundation currently runs four programs: Brazil, Canada, Egypt, and the United States.

> In each country, volunteer Wikipedia Ambassadors assist professors as they assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia on course-related topics. The Wikimedia Foundation started the program in the United States in 2010, Canada in 2011, and Brazil and Egypt in 2012. More than 3,500 students have participated in the Wikipedia Education Program around the world, adding the equivalent of 20,000 printed pages of quality content to more than 6,000 Wikipedia articles in multiple languages.

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Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag... by alexchamberlain on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @06:16PM (#5482536)

Thanks for posting this; as you said, there was no indication whatsoever in the thread that there was a correct way to do this.

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Re:Professor tells 1700 students to edit Wikipedia, 85% plag... by vickytnz on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @08:04PM (#5483129)

That is interesting. Or in particular, when you get to the pages that actually spell out how it works http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal/Tips_and... (that landing page is somewhat nebulous, it takes a little digging to find the actual content!)

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