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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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  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)
  6. Helaine (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:57, 3 September 2015 (EDT)
  7. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:43, 9 September 2015 (EDT)
  8. Fjmustak (talk) 07:18, 7 October 2015 (EDT)
  9. DStrassmann (talk) 08:58, 9 October 2015 (EDT)


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