Wikipedia did a project where students at Indian universities were assigned to expand and write Wikipedia articles in lieu of their normal coursework. Two unive

Wikipedia did a project where students at Indian universities were assigned to expand and write Wikipedia articles in lieu of their normal coursework. Two universities were selected - College of Engineering, Pune and Symbiosis School of Economics. It was a complete disaster - students plagiarized so much material that Wikipedia blocked one of the universities and then shut down the project prematurely. For the engineering school, just 13% of the content students submitted survived cleanup efforts. For the economics school it was a bit better, but just 29% survived. Students simply did not have the experience of someone looking at their work carefully and checking that they were following the rules. The students also didn't have the skills to understand how to work with sources and how to paraphrase. Some students were willing and able to change their behavior in order to contribute good content, but that was only 24% for the economics school and 2% for the engineering school. Many students just did not have the English language skills to complete the assignment. You can read an independent report here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Analysis/Independent_Report_from_Tory_Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Progr...