On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Vickram Crishna <vvcris...@radiophony.com> wrote: > Assuming this question is not restricted for WMF outreachers only: > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:01 PM, sankarshan <foss.mailingli...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Nitika <ntan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >> > How many students edited articles outside of their in-class assignments? >> >> This is an interesting and non-trivial question. Which prompts me to >> ask - why would you want to track this ? >> > It is quite possible that many students get conditioned to look at school > assignments as 'work', and either try and avoid doing any work outside of > the amount specifically committed, or avoid doing anything considered as > work outside of the time allotted for 'work'.
The part that prompted me to ask the question was whether this data point is contrary/orthogonal to the "contribute to Wikipedia" effort undertaken via Campus Ambassadors in conjunction with CoEP etc. I recall reading articles where it was emphasized that editing of Wikipedia will be part of credits earned in class. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog> _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
