Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Macroeconomics

Symbiosis, Pune
Symbiosis S.B. Road campus, Pune
InstitutionSymbiosis School of Economics
CourseMSc (Economics)
InstructorIshita Ghosh
YearTBD
Students Count49
Project CourseMacroeconomics
Assignment Start DateJuly 24, 2011 (2011-07-24)
Assignment End DateNovember 14, 2011 (2011-11-14)
AmbassadorsCampus Ambassadors

India Online Ambassador(s)

US Online Ambassador(s)

Class Description edit

This is a description of this class.

Assignment Overview edit

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 have two options to identify topics:

  • Students may work individually to develop articles pertaining to Macroeconomics. Students may build articles within a broader topic that needs improvement. The professor will identify these broad areas and students should each choose a sub-topic article to work on.

Article Selection edit

Assignment Timeline edit

Due August 15 edit

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

Due August 16 - 31 edit

  • 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 September 10 edit

  • 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 September 10-21 edit

  • 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/Macroeconomics|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 September 21-September 30 edit

  • 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 - November 14 edit

  • Make sure the following code has been added to the top of the discussion page of any of the articles you edit(ed):

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

  • Make sure that you have added the following code to your user page:

{{User WikiProject India Education Program}}

This will create a small info box and identify you as participant in this program.

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

Due November 14 edit

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

Students edit

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 2011-11-08. Please continue to maintain the table in the new location.