| Rank
|
Course title
|
University
|
Number of students
|
Average number of characters added to articles per student
|
Total bytes added to the article namespace
|
Used sandboxes for drafts?
|
Active time out of sandboxes
|
grad / undergrad
|
group size
|
number of new articles
|
number of improved articles
|
number of drafts that didn't make it to mainspace
|
achievements (and misc. notes)
|
| 1
|
Environmental Policy
|
San Francisco State
|
9
|
36908
|
332171
|
yes
|
0 weeks
|
grad
|
1
|
9
|
0
|
0
|
|
| 2
|
Politics of Piracy
|
Berkeley
|
21
|
30239
|
635027
|
few
|
4 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1
|
3 (1 is pending a merger into parent article)
|
17
|
0
|
1 DYK
|
| 3
|
Telecommunication Policy Analysis
|
Michigan State
|
11
|
28027
|
308294
|
yes
|
1 week
|
grad
|
1
|
8 (One student started two articles.)
|
4
|
1
|
2 DYKs
|
| 4
|
Public Policy
|
Syracuse
|
3
|
24478
|
73435
|
some
|
8 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1
|
5
|
5 (including 1 started as new but merged into parent article with most content lost)
|
0
|
3 new or expanded articles per student.
|
| 5
|
Public Roles in Private Markets
|
Boston
|
25
|
19391
|
484784
|
yes
|
6 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1-4
|
9
|
2
|
0
|
Strongest work came from student in group of 1
|
| 6
|
Policy Analysis
|
Western Carolina
|
15
|
19006
|
285087
|
yes
|
8 weeks
|
grad
|
1
|
11
|
3
|
0
|
3 DYKs
|
| 7
|
Transnational NGOs in World Affairs
|
Syracuse
|
25
|
16486
|
412151
|
few
|
0-4 weeks
|
grad
|
1
|
2 (plus a new article was broken out of one a student added to, and some student worked was included in the subarticle)
|
36
|
0
|
1 to 3 articles per student
|
| 8
|
Energy Economics and Politics, Environmental Economics and Policy
|
Indiana
|
35
|
15246
|
533602
|
most
|
0-5 weeks
|
grad
|
2-3
|
7
|
6
|
0
|
|
| 9
|
Public Policy Design and Evaluation
|
Virginia Tech
|
9
|
13444
|
120999
|
few
|
5 weeks
|
grad
|
1
|
3
|
8
|
0
|
Many students work on several articles, including minor changes to some besides those tallied, with a bit of collaboration, but mostly not.
|
| 10
|
Refugees in the Arab World
|
Georgetown
|
8
|
13291
|
119617
|
few
|
varied
|
grad
|
1 (some students worked on multiple articles)
|
4
|
7
|
1
|
|
| 11
|
Energy Economics and Policy
|
James Madison
|
39
|
13062
|
509406
|
yes
|
0-1 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1-3 (plus one group of 6)
|
12
|
5
|
0
|
2 DYKs
|
| 12
|
Copyright, Commerce, and Culture
|
New York
|
20
|
11452
|
229045
|
few
|
0-1 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1
|
1
|
19
|
0
|
1 DYK
|
| 13
|
Cyberlaw
|
Berkeley
|
28
|
10741
|
289998
|
most
|
1-4 week
|
grad
|
1
|
28
|
0
|
0
|
8 DYKs
|
| 14
|
Environmental Law
|
San Francisco
|
21
|
10238
|
174048
|
most
|
2-4 weeks
|
grad
|
2
|
7 (1 of which is pending a merger into parent article)
|
4
|
0
|
1 DYK
|
| 15
|
Arab Media
|
Georgetown
|
16
|
9721
|
136095
|
some
|
2-8 weeks
|
grad
|
1-3
|
6
|
13
|
0
|
|
| 16
|
Advanced Seminar in Political Communication
|
Louisiana State
|
11
|
9558
|
105137
|
yes
|
3 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1
|
14 (1 should be merged into an existing article)
|
0
|
0
|
1 GA (pushed to the finish by Guerillero after the class ended)
|
| 17
|
Advertising and Marketing Law
|
Santa Clara
|
4
|
9500
|
38000
|
yes (for the 1 new article)
|
0 weeks
|
grad
|
1
|
1
|
3
|
0
|
|
| 18
|
Media and Telecommunication Policy
|
Michigan State
|
85
|
9190
|
781116
|
yes
|
2 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1-4 (mostly 3)
|
17
|
14 (Plus students editing many other articles besides their main projects.)
|
1
|
3 DYKs
|
| 19
|
Approaches to Development
|
Indiana
|
23
|
7721
|
177580
|
some
|
2 weeks
|
grad
|
1
|
4
|
2
|
1
|
Over half of the students made no substantive contributions.
|
| 20
|
Professional and Technical Editing
|
James Madison
|
44
|
7062
|
310717
|
few (students expanded existing articles)
|
9 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1
|
0
|
46
|
0
|
|
| 21
|
Public Relations Seminar
|
Simmons College
|
12
|
6816
|
81792
|
yes (mostly drafts for expanding existing articles)
|
1 week
|
undergrad
|
1
|
2
|
9
|
0
|
Several articles were also worked on by students from "Professional and Technical Editing". One student's project, not tallied here, amounted to a partial copyedit with not significant additions.
|
| 22
|
Women and Human Rights
|
Georgetown
|
11
|
6363
|
69998
|
yes
|
0-1 week
|
undergrad
|
1
|
4
|
7 (including one that was rewritten from scratch)
|
0
|
1 DYK (thanks in large part to heavy involvement from Sadads)
|
| 23
|
International Trade and Strategy
|
Indiana
|
12
|
6171
|
74057
|
few
|
0-3 weeks
|
grad
|
1-2 (one group of two)
|
0
|
4
|
1
|
Many students made no mainspace contribs, many who did didn't return after initial edits, although with a few exceptions. The one student who edited over several weeks was contributing for another class as well.
|
| 24
|
Federal Indian Law and Policy
|
Montana State
|
26
|
3631
|
94400
|
most
|
0-9 weeks (Many students' sandbox drafts never made it to mainspace; those who did typically were only active in mainspace for 1 or a few days; a few students, mainly grad students, were active over much of the term.)
|
mixed grad + undergrad
|
1 (Note: Two students wrote independent articles on the same topic)
|
7
|
5
|
10
|
1 DYK
|
| 25
|
Economics of Public Policy
|
Kentucky
|
23
|
3516
|
80862
|
no
|
0 weeks
|
grad
|
1 (students also collaborated on making small improvements to a few articles early in the term.)
|
0
|
27 (including 3 where the additions were completely reverted)
|
0
|
Students expanded existing articles, adding one to several paragraphs per article.
|
| 26
|
Public Policy Making
|
Troy
|
15
|
2783
|
41750
|
yes
|
0 weeks
|
undergrad
|
3
|
2
|
1 (started as new article, but merged into existing one)
|
2
|
1 DYK
|
| 27
|
Business Data Communication
|
Louisiana State University
|
26
|
2683
|
69752
|
some
|
0 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1-2
|
11
|
11 (including 1 started as new article but merged into existing, 2 more expansions, 7 where only refs were added, and 1 where additions were reverted)
|
0
|
1 DYK
|
| 28
|
Political Research
|
Winona State
|
19
|
1237
|
23505
|
yes
|
0 weeks
|
undergrad
|
1
|
2
|
0
|
16
|
Sandboxes contained literature reviews; the two created articles are very essay-like.
|
| 29
|
Seminar in Public Affairs
|
Texas Southern
|
24
|
758
|
18190
|
yes
|
0 weeks
|
undergrad
|
? (Course page indicated students work on one or more out of a handful of topics, but most accounts made no edits beyond testing and signing the course page.)
|
1
|
1 (but changes were reverted
|
3
|
|
