Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray, Assistant Professor in Latin American Studies at the University of British Columbia, co-ordinated the Wikipedia educational project 'Murder, Madness, and Mayhem'. The 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, after just one semester, they had promoted three articles to Featured Article status, eight to Good Article status, and one to B-Class status. None of these articles was a good article at the outset; two did not even exist.

“ This is a remarkable project, and a herculean task realized in the short time span of less than 15 weeks. Jon and his students are [a] model for thinking, sharing and contributing with[in] the open space of the internet. An important act of faith and intellectual responsibility. It is ever so impressive. ” — Jim Groom[1]

See also:
The project page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem
and Jon Beasley Murray's reflections on the assignment: "Was Introducing Wikipedia to the Classroom an Act of Madness Leading Only to Mayhem if not Murder?": https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Jbmurray/Madness