National Post

Can Wikipedia improve students’ work?
When it comes to class assignments, it’s one of the biggest no-nos: Whatever you do, don’t source Wikipedia.

But what happens when students contribute to the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia themselves, and for course credit, no less?

Turns out the same students who submit essays with little regard for facts and research are sticklers for accuracy in their self-crafted Wikipedia posts, finds a new study from Douglas College in New Westminster, B.C., suggesting that Web resources can give students a newfound respect for proper information gathering.