Professor’s Wikipedia assignment draws criticism from site’s editors

The number of Wikipedia editors has plummeted since 2007.

Wikipedia editors have raised concerns about a University of Toronto psychology professor after he assigned 1,900 students to add content to the free online encyclopedia.

Volunteer editors for the Wikipedia – which has been criticized by educators as an unreliable source for research – took issue with the massive influx of students from Steve Joordens’ introductory psychology course who took to the popular site for a volunteer assignment to add content to Wikipedia pages related to the class’s various topics.

Wikipedia volunteer editors complained that the students were not properly editing the site’s pages using the necessary citations for each tidbit of information added to an entry.…Read More

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