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_Mayhemand 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