On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcrishna@radiophony.com wrote:
Assuming this question is not restricted for WMF outreachers only:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:01 PM, sankarshan foss.mailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Nitika ntandon@wikimedia.org wrote:
How many students edited articles outside of their in-class assignments?
This is an interesting and non-trivial question. Which prompts me to ask - why would you want to track this ?
It is quite possible that many students get conditioned to look at school assignments as 'work', and either try and avoid doing any work outside of the amount specifically committed, or avoid doing anything considered as work outside of the time allotted for 'work'.
The part that prompted me to ask the question was whether this data point is contrary/orthogonal to the "contribute to Wikipedia" effort undertaken via Campus Ambassadors in conjunction with CoEP etc. I recall reading articles where it was emphasized that editing of Wikipedia will be part of credits earned in class.