Thanks for sharing, Eryk! Great to see this kind of research being done by your program!
Best, Tighe -- Tighe Flanagan Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] education.wikimedia.org On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Eryk Salvaggio <[email protected]> wrote: > Thought this list might be interested in some of the research coming out > of the Wiki Education Foundation today. What portion of academic content > are student editors in the USA/Canada contributing to English Wikipedia > through course assignments? Here’s what we learned: > > https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/08/31/academic-content/ > > For those who want to dive deep, there's more information on meta: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Student_ > production_of_academic_content > > Our Data Science intern Kevin Schiroo has done some great work exploring > our dashboard and generating new datasets (you can find more here > <https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/06/15/student-editors-contributed-nearly-6-of-wikipedias-science-content/>). > I'll > note that this doesn't quite replicate or internationalize, as it's based > on the English Wikipedia (and therefore English-language sourcing and > academic terms). Nonetheless, it's definitely interesting work. > > -- > Eryk Salvaggio > Communications Manager > Wiki Education Foundation > > [email protected] > User:Eryk (Wiki Ed) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eryk_(Wiki_Ed)> > @WikiEducation <https://twitter.com/WikiEducation> > wikiedu.org > > *Our organization supports the Wikipedia Education Program in the United > States and Canada.* > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > >
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