Much detail on this is expounded on (with at least some sources) in the discussions on Wikipedia about the recently terminated India Education Program. Postmor

Much 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.