• Total new articles: 180
  • Total expanded articles: 259 (including 5 where additions were fully reverted)
  • Total drafts that never entered mainspace: 36
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