Submissions:2015/Here comes (a significant fraction of) everybody

Title

Here comes (a significant fraction of) everybody

Theme

Education

Type of submission

Presentation

Author

Adam Hyland

E-mail address

adam@wikiedu.org

Username

Affiliation

Wiki Education Foundation

Abstract

Students in the Education Program represent a small but significant and growing bloc of Wikipedia editors. As individual editors, few return to the site after their class is completed, just as many volunteers leave after a short period of engagement. Nonetheless, students as a collective represent a sizable chunk of active editors during the spring and fall term. I explore this trend using contribution data from students and active editors, and information on edited pages.

To see student impact more locally, I mapped student contributions to subject areas, estimated by proximity to a root category (e.g. "Biology"). This helps show where students cover subjects generally undercovered by the community. Comparing student contributions to the edit rate of the subject area gives a practical measure of student impact.

Length of presentation

20-25 minutes

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Yes

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1. Emw (talk) 18:09, 28 August 2015 (EDT)
2. WWB (talk) 14:26, 31 August 2015 (EDT)
3. Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:15, 1 September 2015 (EDT)
4. BobCummings (talk) 19:56, 1 September 2015 (EDT)
5. Samantha (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:52, 3 September 2015 (EDT)