Hi Ambassadors,

We've heard from a few of you that it's hard to see the effect your work is having, especially when individual students are unresponsive. So I wanted to show you the attached chart. The chart tracks the contributions, by month, of all students in the Public Policy Initiative classes -- the students you are helping in class or mentoring online. The chart measures bytes our students have contributed to the article namespace alone (so it doesn't count talk page content).

In short: last month, our students contributed 2.9 million bytes of content to the English Wikipedia article namespace. That's the equivalent of about 1,944 printed pages of work.

This incredible amount of high-quality contributions is due in large part to your volunteer efforts -- the presentations you make in class, the messages you exchange on-wiki with your mentees, the help you provide in IRC. Our program is having a quite noteworthy impact on the rate at which content on the English Wikipedia grows, and you are front and center in that effort.

On behalf of the entire Public Policy team: THANK YOU! It would be impossible to achieve this without you.

LiAnna