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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 (2011-07-24)
Assignment End Date	October 14, 2011 (2011-10-14)
Ambassadors	Campus Ambassador(s) Ram Devanshi Debashruti India Online Ambassador(s) Fred Bauder

This is a description of this class.

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.

• 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:
  • Subcategories in Economics
  • Pages about development economics
  • Pages about economic development
  • An Article About the Economic History of India

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

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.