Comments on: US Education Program participants add three times as much quality content as regular new users http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/19/wikipedia-education-program-stats-fall-2011/ News from the Wikimedia Foundation and about the Wikimedia movement Thu, 23 May 2013 05:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: Ayush Khanna http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/19/wikipedia-education-program-stats-fall-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-106935 Ayush Khanna Wed, 02 May 2012 22:12:13 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11184#comment-106935 Thanks for the comments.

@Harry:
The goal of the program is to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles. That said, we are working towards increasing retention of students after the academic semester ends.

@James:
Re 1: A quantitative approach is definitely not the complete picture, but we feel it is a very good approximation. Qualitative research will be more accurate, but also requires a considerably greater amount of effort. That said, we are working with a few community members on defining qualitative metrics for evaluating the program. Please join the discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_noticeboard#Suggested_approach_to_metrics_for_student-edited_articles if you are interested.
Re 2: See my response to Harry.

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]]> By: James Heilman http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/19/wikipedia-education-program-stats-fall-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-103850 James Heilman Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:26:07 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11184#comment-103850 A couple of comments:
1)Just because more bytes of students text stay on Wikipedia than bytes of a random new user does not necessarily mean that they contribute more quality content. It might mean that they are editing less closely watched pages and thus concerning edits are less frequently picked and reverted up by the community.
*Do not mean to be the devils advocate but the only way to determine if the text is of good quality is to manually go over every change that is made by students and every change that is made by a group of random new users. Per a good study design this should be done by at least two independent people with a third providing input if the two do not agree on the assessment.
2)Per “An important consideration for any outreach project is editor retention. Data showed that students who are introduced to editing Wikipedia through the U.S. Education Program are just as likely to continue editing as any other newcomer.” We all agree that editor retention of new users is very poor. That this project only matches it is a little disappointing.

]]> By: Harry Burt http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/19/wikipedia-education-program-stats-fall-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-103775 Harry Burt Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:53:10 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=11184#comment-103775 “Data showed that students who are introduced to editing Wikipedia through the U.S. Education Program are just as likely to continue editing as any other newcomer.” Slightly disappointing, I would say :(

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