Greetings, all!
At the beginning of 2018, the Wiki Education Foundation ran a 3-month pilot to engage academic experts (mostly professors at universities in the U.S.) to improve English Wikipedia articles related to their areas of expertise. We're pretty happy with how the pilot turned out -- we had some great improvements to articles, and, more importantly for a pilot, we learned a *lot* about how to run a program like this successfully.
The team that worked on it put together this extensive evaluation report on what we did, what we learned, and what the outcomes were from the pilot: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Wikipedia_Fellows_...
I also put together a short blog post about it: https://wikiedu.org/blog/2018/05/22/wiki-education-publishes-evaluation-of-f...
We already have calls for applications out for additional cohorts to begin in June, and we're eager to learn even more from future iterations of the Wikipedia Fellows program. I hope sharing our learnings like this can be helpful for other education programs in the Wikimedia movement who might also be interested in engaging subject matter experts to edit.
We're happy to answer questions on this list or on the talk page of the evaluation report on Meta.
LiAnna