Wikipedia talk:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Computational Methods in Engineering

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

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:
- User:Wasimmogal2007
- User:Pallaviagarwal90

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

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