Wikipedia talk:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/TacoTeam

Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Welcome to this wonderful encyclopedia, TacoTeam! I've been an editor for a while, and I just thought I'd say hi. This is a really great project, and I hope you'll stay! To get you started off on the right foot, I have a few small suggestions of places to check out:

• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia, our most basic guidelines on how to edit and interact with other editors
• The Manual of Style, some quick pointers on the basic quality standards Wikipedia Articles have
• How to edit an article, a great starting read
• Wikilove, the easiest (and most fun) way to make friends on the 'pedia
• The Sandbox, a place to try editing without actually editing an article
• Finally, my favorite, the Ignore All Rules policy (but ignore them within reason, of course)
• Oh yes, and remember to sign your posts on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~)!

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If you need any help at all with anything, don't be afraid to ask me. You can either type "{{helpme}}" right onto your talkpage and then ask your question, or you can ask me on my talkpage.

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Good luck here at the 'pedia! Yours truly, Arky ^¡Hablar! 19:40, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Reminder to Mentors and Students

Please remember to do all communication concerning work related to the course on this discussion page. It is the only page I can monitor and give students credit for doing their work. Thank you!!! Thelmadatter 13:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion for discussion

The three contributions that students need to do next partial (~October) is to significantly edit an article, create a stub and translate an article from English Wikipedia for Spanish Wikipedia. Mentors, if you would be so kind as to look over the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexico, Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexico and Category:Mexico stubs pages to help students discuss and select projects to do in October. For more information, see the Wikipedia:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/Syllabus page. Thank you! Thelmadatter 14:01, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: HELLO from TACO team

Karencita88 posted to my talk page.
You asked for some tips using Wikipedia. Have a look at the top of your talk page here in the welcome message. There is a short list of policies and guidelines that beginners should check out. If you have any specific questions, please ask here on this talk page and somebody will reply.
You asked about universities. I attended the University of Tasmania for Applied Computing in 1995–96 and I'm currently attending Seton Hill University for Accounting. See Group of Eight (Australian universities) and Ivy League for lists of prestigious universities in each country. --Geniac 15:32, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

WORK WE ARE DOING ON THE INTRODUCTION AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SECTION OF THE Toluca PAGE

Toluca (formally: Toluca de Lerdo) is the capital of the State of Mexico in central Mexico. It is located at 19°28’N, 99°31’E, 19°04’S, 99°47′W and is a rapidly growing urban area, now the fifth largest in Mexico. It is located 63 kilometers (39 mi) west-southwest of Mexico City and only 30 minutes by car from its fast-growing suburb (Santa Fe). Toluca is a very successful industrial center, commercial, and touristic city in Mexico.

GEOGRAPHICAL INFO

At the census of 2005 the city of Toluca had a population of 467,712 people, and the municipality of Toluca 747,512 people. The city is the eighth largest in the state of México in population, whereas the municipality is the fourth largest. Twelve municipalities make up a metropolitan population of 1,610,786 [2] as of 2005, making it the fifth most populous metropolitan area in Mexico and the largest entirely within the State of México (the Mexico City metropolitan area has a much larger population within the state as part of Greater Mexico City. The municipality of Toluca, which has an extension of 420.14 km² (162.22 sq mi), includes numerous communities other than Toluca de Lerdo, the largest of which are San Pablo Autopan and San José Guadalupe Otzacatipan.

Toluca is surrounded by:

North: The counties of Almoloya de Juárez, Temoaya, Otzolotepec and Xonacatlán.

East:The counties of Xonacatlán, Lerma, San Mateo Atenco and Metepec.

South: The counties of Metepec, Calimaya, Tenango del Valle, Villa Guerrero and Zinacantepec.

West: The counties of Zinacantepec and Almoloya de Juárez.

The climate is warm humid with rain in summer with an increase of humidity. Also it has a cool humid weather. The climate is the coolest of any large Mexican city due to its high altitude of 2,680 meters (8,790 ft) above sea level. Despite its southerly latitude, on winter nights temperatures can drop well below 0°C (32°F) and even in summer it can cool down to 5°C (41°F) or less , while maximum temperatures rarely exceed 27°C (80°F) on the hottest days. The climate is prone to extended dry periods particularly in winter, precipitation during winter usually falls as snow in the highlands such as El Nevado de Toluca and its surroundings. It also receives rainfall during the summer months, sometimes in the form of hail. Cool, wet conditions are common during the rainy season.

The Nevado de Toluca or Xinantécatl is 30 kilometers (19 mi) southwest of the city. It is a place of increasing sport activity. Activities include mountain biking, climbing, or running at high altitudes. There have been proposals to turn this mountain into a ski hill because of its accessibility and the low temperatures that exist on the mountain throughout the year, but recent reports on global warming have raised fears that the snow cap on the mountain will disappear completely within a few decades. It is the only volcano in Mexico that has two lagoons and can be reached by automobile. Karencita88 18:06, 5 October 2007 (UTC)Karencita88

Geniac, I understand why you did what you did, but for my sake and theirs, Id rather not introduce another feature of Wikipedia at this point. Remember I have to monitor all the groups. Please make suggestions and changes here.Thelmadatter 18:55, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Thelmadatter, thanks for raising your concern.

TacoTeam, I'm not sure how broad or specific advice you're looking for, but here are a few things I noticed:

• Formatting: The first thing I noticed was that you probably copypasted from the text of the article rather than the wikicode. Doing this loses all the wiki formatting such as wikilinks, bolding and so on. I recommend going to the Toluca article in a new window, click 'edit this page', and see how all the formatting is done for the parts you are working on. Then, you can format your text above with the wikicode you see in the article.
• Headings: See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings)#Markup. GEOGRAPHICAL INFO should be ==Geographical information== and there should be no INTRODUCTION heading.
• List: See Help:List for help on formatting the "Toluca is surrounded by:" list.
• Content-wise, I noticed the main change was adding the surrounding county list. That type of information can be helpful. I grew up in Stanmore, New South Wales. At the bottom of the infobox, see the "Suburbs around Stanmore:" section.

If you need any help or are not sure what I mean, just ask. Hope this helps. --Geniac 19:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Preview

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In the future, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. -Geniac 15:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)