[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

Ashwin Baindur ashwin.baindur at gmail.com
Mon Jan 2 15:51:02 UTC 2012


As a very small part-time faculty in Pune University for M Sc Defence
Studies students, I can tell you that virtually any and every assgnment has
nothing worthwhile to find in the course textbooks but lots in Wikipedia.

My two bits.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipanda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hopefully not starting a flame war here but...
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
> <parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > The figures might be misleading but they support my earlier theory
> > that wrt English, Indian students still prefer textbooks over Wiki ...
>
> If I had a rupee for every time I saw a 'paper' or 'presentation' from
> a student who had 'forgotten' to remove the [citation needed] and
> numbered inline references when they copy pasted from Wikipedia, WMF
> wouldn't be running a fund raiser :)
>
> --
> Yuvi Panda T
> http://yuvi.in/blog
>
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