Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Indian Banking and Financial Systems Year 2 Group A
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Class Description
This is a description of this class.
Assignment Overview
Over the course of the semester the students in this class will be completing a series of tasks that will allow them to familiarize themselves with the Wikipedia community and practices, understand the highly developed style of Wikipedia, complete research on a focused topic of the student's choice, and write (or substantially revise) a Wikipedia article.
Article Selection
- The Directory of WikiProjects is a good place to begin your search. In addition, the WikiProject for Finance is located here.
- For more specific classification explore these sources:
Assignment Timeline
Due July 24
- Create a username
- Post your username to the students section of this page
- Complete this form
- Complete the practice assignment located on the class discussion page
Due July 24-31
- Explore help resources
- Practice the following six editing skills in your sandbox: add text, add headers & subheaders, create a bulleted list, add a link to a Wikipedia article, add a link to an external page on the internet, format text (bold & italics), create a table
- “Like” the Wikipedia On Campus Facebook page (optional)
Due August 7
- Leave a comment on a classmate’s Talk page
- Identify at least three articles related to your topic of choice
- Make a minimum of 20 edits (comments, copyedits, references, etc.) to articles related to your proposed topic
- Select an article
- Post your article topic beside your username on the Wikipedia course page
Due August 7-21
- Conduct in depth research on your topic and gather sources
- On your article’s talk page (discussion page), list a bibliography of sources and proposed changes you’d like to make to the article or concepts you would like to include
- Add the following code to the top of your article’s talk page to mark it as the subject of your assignment. Note: You must retrieve the code from the "edit" space of this page.
- Inform your campus ambassador of your activities by writing on his or her talk page
- Begin editing/writing the article based on your proposed changes and other conversation with Wikipedians
Due August 21-September 30
- Ask your campus ambassador for feedback about your contributions to the article
- Nominate your article for “Did You Know” status
- Continue research on your topic
- Work on your article with the help of your professor and your campus ambassador
Due October 1-8
- Continue expanding and making changes to your article based on suggestions from Wikipedians, your campus ambassadors, and your professor
Due October 8-12
- Present Wikipedia article during class
- Complete Wikipedia article due Oct 12
Students
This is a list of the usernames of the students in this class and the articles each selected to edit. Please maintain the list.