Note that this article is only about edits made through the Wiki Edu program, which partners with universities and academics to have students edit Wikipedia on course-related topics. It's not about Wikipedia writ large!
Ah, so when you force students to edit Wikipedia for their courses, you get worse results than someone editing something voluntarily because they're passionate about it. That's... Hardly surprising.
So it's more about how generative AI is a problem in college right now because lazy students are using it to do the work than about Wikipedia itself, I think.
I've found Wiki Edu -edited pages with pages of creative writing exercises. When I have read their sources they were clumsily paraphrasing and misunderstanding the source.
LLMs definitely fit the use-case of Wiki Edu students, who are just looking to pass a grade, not to look into a topic because of their interest.
That's interesting as my first thought reading the comments was "this problem seems very similar to many students writing papers just finding citations that sound correct".
Sometimes it is really sad to read from (even PhD level) students on social media about their paper writing practices.
