Wikipedia:India Education Program/Analysis/Quantitative Analysis: Difference between revisions

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The process followed to perform this analysis is as follows:

# Using the tables at [[Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Students]], we created a master list of all students that were part of the India Education Program.

# Next, we attached information about what course and university they were enrolled with. In some cases, we had to group courses together, because students were enrolled in multiple courses.

# Using the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php Wikipedia API], and the [http://www.wikitrust.net/ Wikitrust API] we looked up the following for every student and every edit they made to any namespace:

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** Per student: '''1057 words'''

* Net content added by students that survived cleanup: '''149978 words'''<ref>It's important to note that further cleanup may still be needed. If that is the case, this figure (and several other figures represented here) will change.</ref> As a basis of comparison, students of the [[outreach:Public Policy Initiative|Public Policy Initiative]] added 1.5 million words over 2 terms.

** Per student: '''226 words''' (roughly 40% of the average Wikipedia article<ref>The average Wikipedia article is 590 words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[[Wikipedia:Size_comparisons]])</ref>) Students of the [[outreach:Public Policy Initiative|Public Policy Initiative]] added 1,838 words (roughly 3 articles) over two semesters.<ref>It's important to highlight some key differences: the Public Policy Initiative was targeting a specific kind of coursework, and was active in the US, where English is the primary language for most students</ref>

** Only '''21%''' of total content has survived cleanup

** For '''40%''' of the students (ie '''266''' students) some content has survived cleanup

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=== Course-level analysis ===

[[File:IEP Analysis Mean article count per student, by course.png|thumb|IEP Analysis Mean article count per student, by course]]

[[File:IEP Analysis Mean article count per student, by course.png|thumb|IEP Analysis Mean article count per student, by course]]

[[File:IEP Analysis Percentage of content survival, by course.png|thumb|IEP Analysis Percentage of content survival, by course(Note that the content survival percentage is off for COEP Y1 MDCG (Machine Drawing and Computer Graphics due to student count estimations (caveat # 6))]]

At COEP:

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# A survey of students involved with the program both in India and US/Canada was recently concluded. Findings from the survey will also inform the analysis here.

# We will be working on a similar quantitative analysis for the US/Canada students who were part of the Wikipedia Education Program in Fall 2011. This will also help identify some differences.

[[Category:India Education Program]]