A similar course is underway in the Tel-Aviv University, and it was covered in major newspapers:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.552844

An important part of the course is actually teaching the students about the little details of working with the Wikipedia community and understanding the technical part of Wikipedia. It's working out pretty well.


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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬


2013/11/16 Tejaswini Niranjana <teju@cscs.res.in>
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/business/media/editing-wikipedia-pages-for-med-school-credit.html?emc=edit_tnt_20131007&tntemail0=y&_r=0

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Tejaswini Niranjana, PhD
Lead Researcher - Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA)
Senior Fellow - Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS)
Visiting Professor - Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Advisor, Access to Knowledge Programme, Centre for Internet and Society
Visiting Faculty - Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute
of Science (CCS-IISc)

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http://heira.in
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