Thought this list might be interested in some of the research coming out of the Wiki Education Foundation today. What portion of academic content are student editors in the USA/Canada contributing to English Wikipedia through course assignments? Here’s what we learned:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/08/31/academic-content/
For those who want to dive deep, there's more information on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Student_production_of_academic_cont...
Our Data Science intern Kevin Schiroo has done some great work exploring our dashboard and generating new datasets (you can find more here https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/06/15/student-editors-contributed-nearly-6-of-wikipedias-science-content/). I'll note that this doesn't quite replicate or internationalize, as it's based on the English Wikipedia (and therefore English-language sourcing and academic terms). Nonetheless, it's definitely interesting work.
Thanks for sharing, Eryk! Great to see this kind of research being done by your program!
Best, Tighe
-- Tighe Flanagan Senior Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation tflanagan@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Eryk Salvaggio eryk@wikiedu.org wrote:
Thought this list might be interested in some of the research coming out of the Wiki Education Foundation today. What portion of academic content are student editors in the USA/Canada contributing to English Wikipedia through course assignments? Here’s what we learned:
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/08/31/academic-content/
For those who want to dive deep, there's more information on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Student_ production_of_academic_content
Our Data Science intern Kevin Schiroo has done some great work exploring our dashboard and generating new datasets (you can find more here https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/06/15/student-editors-contributed-nearly-6-of-wikipedias-science-content/). I'll note that this doesn't quite replicate or internationalize, as it's based on the English Wikipedia (and therefore English-language sourcing and academic terms). Nonetheless, it's definitely interesting work.
-- Eryk Salvaggio Communications Manager Wiki Education Foundation
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