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

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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