Wikipedia talk:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Computer Organization and Advanced Microprocessing

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	Computer Science
110907024	system memory	!~!~@m~!~! (talk) 14:57, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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

Copyright violation

Please can you ensure that students fully understand that material must not violate copyright - see WP:COPYVIO. The work done to Intel 80286, for example, has all been reverted. The text and images have been deleted because they were clearly copy/paste directly from other Internet sources or text books. We love having students use Wikipedia, but it is a pain having to clear up after them. --Biker Biker (talk) 13:26, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I second this. Unfortunately, I have found almost all edits of members of this course inspected by me so far to be copies from text books and various online sources, often as 1:1 copies, and sometimes with minor changes in wording. Plagiarism and copyright violations are not tolerable as they are illegal and put the whole Wikipedia project at risk. Also, they invalidate the work of many other editors, and can hardly be seen as good ethical standards for the further education and future professional life of the students. I really wonder about the instructions and advice given to the students of these courses. Any such problematic contents must be removed again as soon as possible because it only becomes more difficult to remove when other editors work on top of the contaminated articles. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 00:34, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]