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

List of Prospective Articles

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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

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  • 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 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