Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Development Economics Year 3 Group A

Symbiosis, Pune
	Symbiosis S.B. Road campus, Pune
Institution	Symbiosis School of Economics
Course	Development Economics
Instructor	Meenal Annachatre and Pallavi Tak Rai
Year	Year 3, Group A
Students Count	45
Project Course	Development Economics
Assignment Start Date	July 24, 2011
Assignment End Date	October 14, 2011
Ambassadors	Campus Ambassador(s) Ram; Devanshi; Debashruti; India Online Ambassador(s) Fred Bauder;

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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. Students should choose articles related to development economics.

Article Selection

The Directory of WikiProjects is a good place to begin your search. In addition, the WikiProject for Economics is located here.
For more specific classification explore these sources:

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

{{IEP assignment|course=Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses/Fall_2011/Development Economics_Year_3_Group_A|university=Symbiosis School of Economics|term=2011 Q3}}

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/Development Economics_Year_3_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 8-14

Present Wikipedia article during class

Complete Wikipedia article due Oct 14

Students

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 2011-11-04/2011-11-08. Please continue to maintain the table in the new location.