Hi all,
I wanted to point your attention briefly to a blog post we made live today on the WMF blog, with some preliminary results from this year's Public Policy Initiative pilot: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/08/public-policy-initiative-wraps-up-pilot...
The blog contains a chart of the contributions to the article namespace of the English Wikipedia that our students made -- over the 2010-11 academic year, they added more than 8.8 million bytes of high-quality content. We're really excited with the results, and we're looking forward to expanding our reach even more in the forthcoming academic year. We're hoping to work with even more classes, universities, countries, and languages.
Our success is due in large part to our amazing corps of Wikipedia Ambassadors, who help students and professors in class and on-wiki. If you're interested in mentoring new Wikipedia editors to improve the content, we'd love to have more Ambassadors to meet the needs of our growing participant list, or if you know of (or are!) a professor who is interested in assigning students to contribute to Wikipedia, let us know, or take a look at the new Education Portal on the Outreach wiki: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/For_educators
Over the next few months, look for more formal research results on the exact improvement in article quality contributed by our students.
LiAnna