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

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Symbiosis, Pune
Symbiosis S.B. Road campus, Pune
InstitutionSymbiosis School of Economics
CourseDevelopment Economics
InstructorMeenal Annachatre and Pallavi Tak Rai
YearYear 3, Group A
Students Count45
Project CourseDevelopment Economics
Assignment Start DateJuly 24, 2011 (2011-07-24)
Assignment End DateOctober 14, 2011 (2011-10-14)
AmbassadorsCampus Ambassador(s)

India Online Ambassador(s)

Class Description

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This is a description of this class.

Assignment Overview

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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. Students should choose articles related to development economics.

Article Selection

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Assignment Timeline

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Due July 24

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  • Create a username
  • Post your username to the students section of this page

Due July 24-31

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  • 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

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  • 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

{{IEP assignment|course=Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses/Fall_2011/Development Economics_Year_3_Group_A|university=Symbiosis School of Economics|term=2011 Q3}}


Due August 7-21

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  • 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.

{{IEP assignment|course=Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses/Fall_2011/Development Economics_Year_3_Group_A|university=Symbiosis School of Economics|term=2011 Q3}}

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Continue expanding and making changes to your article based on suggestions from Wikipedians, your campus ambassadors, and your professor

Due October 8-14

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  • Present Wikipedia article during class
  • Complete Wikipedia article due Oct 14

Students

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This is a list of the usernames of the students in this class and the articles each selected to edit.

NOTE: In order to maintain the student and article data in a single place, the list has been merged and moved into the master table on 2011-11-04/2011-11-08. Please continue to maintain the table in the new location.