I think it all comes down to disclosure and responsibility. And I would prefer to see the professors make the edits (or suggest the edits) rather than delegating/proxying to their students because:
1) Avoids accusation of meatpuppetry
2) No "passing the buck around" or "he said she said" scenario
3) Prevents problems down the road when the edit(s) are scrutinized years later and the student has already left the institution
Andrew
"Fill the world with children who care and things start looking up."
> From: gristock@me.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:44:41 +0100
> To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Overcoming a roadblock to engagement
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> If a researcher has new results in a particular field, a published, surprising research finding that confounds expectations, I think it might be understandable why they might feel most passionate and most knowledgeable about those new findings and might want to share them inside a Wikipedia article.
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> That is all I said. I did not say they could not contribute.
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> I do think that it would be very strange to insist that a researcher can't insert a fact and a (self-citing) reference into an article because that would be a COI. But if that is how it is, then I would like to know. And I also feel that if one of the goals of the Wikimedia Foundation is to encourage more academics to edit Wilkipedia, then having a clear policy on this is rather important, and these questions that I am asking here is me trying to find out what the policy and technical data-crunching possibilities are with respect to self-citing and student/colleague citing.
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> http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/mar/29/wikipedia-survey-academic-contributions
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> With best wishes
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> Jen
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> Sent from my mobile
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> > On 10 Jul 2014, at 19:14, Wjhonson <wjhonson@aol.com> wrote:
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> > Which is rather a downer for the professor, because this means they are forbidden to write about the things they are most passionate and knowledgeable about.)
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