"...a pilot program undertaken by the Wikimedia Foundation that, in conjunction with a number of universities, is making verifying and updating Wikipedia pages part of college coursework."
Post by Dave Snowden on why editing Wikipedia is a good thing whilst being frustrating. Links to lots of other posts he has made about specifics. This is a summary of sorts.
Where are students finding the materials they plagiarize in their papers? According to a new study, WIkipedia tops the list for both secondary and college students. But as a category, encyclopedia sites are among the least popular sources, coming in behind four other types of information outlets, including both academic sites and paper mills.
Article about some work by Turnitin on sources used by plagiarised submissions. It says 'plagiarised' but in the text says 'matched sources'. The Tii report is available on a link to check out details more fully.
The University of British Columbia's class SPAN312 ("Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation") contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. Our collective goals were to bring a selection of articles on Latin American literature to featured article status (or as near as possible). By project's end, we had contributed three featured articles and eight good articles. None of these articles was a good article at the outset; two did not even exist.