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

;Title: Here comes (a significant fraction of) everybody

;[[Submissions#Proposal Themes|Theme]]: Education

;[[Submissions#Presentation Types|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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;Will you attend WikiConference USA if your submission is not accepted?: Yes

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# [[User:Emw|Emw]] ([[User talk:Emw|talk]]) 18:09, 28 August 2015 (EDT)
# [[User:WWB|WWB]] ([[User talk:WWB|talk]]) 14:26, 31 August 2015 (EDT)
# [[User:Eryk (Wiki Ed)|Eryk (Wiki Ed)]] ([[User talk:Eryk (Wiki Ed)|talk]]) 13:15, 1 September 2015 (EDT)
# [[User:BobCummings|BobCummings]] ([[User talk:BobCummings|talk]]) 19:56, 1 September 2015 (EDT)
# [[User:Samantha (Wiki Ed)|Samantha (Wiki Ed)]] ([[User talk:Samantha (Wiki Ed)|talk]]) 13:52, 3 September 2015 (EDT)
# [[User:Helaine (Wiki Ed)|Helaine (Wiki Ed)]] ([[User talk:Helaine (Wiki Ed)|talk]]) 16:57, 3 September 2015 (EDT)
# [[User:Tokyogirl79|Tokyogirl79]] ([[User talk:Tokyogirl79|talk]]) 05:43, 9 September 2015 (EDT)
#[[User:Fjmustak|Fjmustak]] ([[User talk:Fjmustak|talk]]) 07:18, 7 October 2015 (EDT)
#[[User:DStrassmann|DStrassmann]] ([[User talk:DStrassmann|talk]]) 08:58, 9 October 2015 (EDT)

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