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I believe you, but these are pretty fantastic claims. Source(s)?
by peter_l_downs 15y ago
I believe you, but these are pretty fantastic claims. Source(s)?
- threepointone 15y agoFWIW: I'm Indian, studied at a prestigious Engineering school, and can confirm _everything_ DarkShikari said.
- DarkShikari 15y agoMuch detail on this is expounded on (with at least some sources) in the discussions on Wikipedia about the recently terminated India Education Program. Postmortem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-11-07/Special_report http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/20... Talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_... The IEP was much like similar programs in other countries -- the idea being to get writing Wikipedia articles as a class activity for students. In the past, similar programs have had various successes and failures, but the IEP is notorious for its sheer size and consequences. It was a total and utter failure in which around a thousand students ended up flooding Wikipedia with plagiarized content, forcing mass-reversions and auditing of the entire program, and eventually shutting it down. Much of the problem was bad management and insufficient planning/mentoring, but there's lots of useful detail in the discussions about issues in the Indian education system, why so many students assume it's okay to copy-and-paste, and so forth. There's some good perspectives from Indian editors, particularly the "ambassadors" who were serving as liaisons for the program.
- csomar 15y agoI'm Tunisian, and it's actually the exact same problem. (with the difference that we don't have these 'coding' jobs. We don't have jobs at all)