2008/11/26 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
It depends on the quality of the assignment they give. I liked this one because it was "You have to make an actual good addition, no foolin'." We've had other student editing projects that have resulted in fantastically good new material. YMMV, but I certainly wouldn't regard it as an intrinsically bad idea.
The problem with that is that adding that King Charles II had a royal yacht called Fubbs (entirely true) to the King Charles II article May well be viewed as a good addition by a third party but less to by wikipedia.