Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Indian Banking and Financial Systems Year 2 Group A

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:
  • Subcategories in Finance
  • Pages Related to Finance in India

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.

{{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

Due October 8-12

• Present Wikipedia article during class

• Complete Wikipedia article due Oct 12

Students

See also: Wikipedia:India Education Program/Students § Indian Banking and Financial Systems Year 2 Group A (section)

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.