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:
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.
{{IEP assignment|course=Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses/Fall_2011/Indian Banking and Financial Systems_Year_2_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
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
This is a list of the usernames of the students in this class and the articles each selected to edit. Please maintain the list.
NOTE: In order to maintain the student and article data in a single place, the table has been merged and moved into the
master table on 2011-11-14. Please continue to maintain the table in the new location.