Wikipedia talk:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Development Economics Year 3 Group A

List of Prospective Articles

Each student should add an entry to the table below. Please edit row very carefully, and don't make syntax errors. You can just read below and copy the code for a row and edit it.

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| your_roll_number || [[ your_chosen_topic ]]||just type "~~~~" without quotes|| Yes or No || Instructor's signature just type "~~~~" without quotes ||  comments

Roll No.	Topic	Student's Signature ~~~~	Go Ahead	Instructor's Signature ~~~~	Comments/Remarks
1234	Economics

Introductory Assignment

Create a user account, if you don't yet have one. Help regarding account creation is available on the following link,

   * Account creation screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WP_tutorial_en_New_user_account.ogg 
   (After you create your user account, please make sure you're logged into it when you complete the tasks below.)

Create your user page, if you don't yet have one. Add a short paragraph about yourself. Add a link to the online chatroom where you can get live help: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikipedia-en-ambassadors. Also, add links to the userpages of your Campus Ambassadors. Your campus ambassadors are,

Create a sandbox and add some sample text in it to get a feel for the wiki code. Help regarding how to create a Sandbox is available on the following link,

   * Sandbox screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_starting_a_sandbox_article_on_Wikipedia.ogv

Make a few edits to Wikipedia articles, it can be adding a reference, fixing a typo, cleaning up a convoluted sentence, adding a sentence, etc.

   * Wiki markup basics screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boldness_and_links_tutorial.ogv 
   * References screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citing_sources_tutorial,_part_1.ogv 
   * References handout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikipediaReferencing.pdf 
   * Wiki markup basics sheet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf

Leave a message on your campus ambassador's talk page to get a feel for on-wiki communication.

   * Wikipedia help page on talk pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_talk_pages

Review key Wikipedia policies/pages:

   * Neutral Point of View video: 
     http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verifiability_and_Neutral_point_of_view_%28Common_Craft%29-600px-en.ogv 
   * Celilo Falls evolution of an article: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_an_article_%28Celilo_Falls%29 
   * The "five pillars," which represent Wikipedia's core principles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars 
   * Read and be able to explain the general guidelines about notability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

Online Ambassador

Hello, I am an experienced Wikipedia editor who has volunteered as an online ambassador to assist students editing Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Development Economics Year 3 Group A articles. Please call on me freely with respect to editing and style questions. I can also address any issues you may encounter with other users confidentially. I live in the United States, MDT, so please be mindful of the time difference, about 12 hours. I am often available on irc in the early morning or late evening. I am available through Wikipedia email and will respond to notes on my talk page. Our experience with mentoring is that users who edit actively and communicate freely with other users often have the best experience, so, if possible, jump right in and actively edit your class assignment and anything else that interests you and feel free to ask me, or any other Wikipedia user, for help. User:Fred Bauder Talk 21:10, 27 September 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Debastein1 (talk • contribs) [reply]