User talk:Diksha41

Your questions about your course
Hi Diksha! Thanks for the note, and I hope your course is going well! (I can't recall-- are you teaching it, or are you just supporting it as an ambassador?) It's important for students to add their names to the course page list because that identifies them as part of the class and helps both the professor and the campus ambassadors keep tabs on what they are doing (through the "contribs" link that appears after their username when they sign up on the students list). For administrative purposes, it's important to have a list of usernames (they don't need to identify by their actual names on the course site, although the professor will definitely need to have a spreadsheet that identifies which student has which username for grading purposes). And adding their chosen topic to the list allows fellow classmates to check out what the others are working on-- and it's useful if you are planning on using peer review, just to help everyone keep track of who is reviewing what. Once students start work on the live articles, you will want to encourage them to add the "this article is being improved by a student in the Wikipedia program" badge (on your course page) to the page that they are working on. You might help them do that.

Then, as to your other questions, I think you definitely gave the right advice in telling the student that she could edit 3 articles instead of revamping a single one. Often a topic is better suited to being added as a subsection to a variety of articles, and if the student was otherwise going to have to start a new article, that process can take a while. Your last question about typos-- I'm not entirely sure whether you're talking about article drafts or simply notes written to other classmates on their talk pages. Anything on Wikipedia, though, can be edited for grammar by anyone, so you can deal with the typos/grammar as you like.

Hope that answers your questions, and feel free to write back if you have any others! Thanks! Sleuthwood (talk) 14:00, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

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Women and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Hi Diksha. I didn't realize that you would be a student as well as the campus ambassador for Economics in Gender. I left a reply for you at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Gender Studies regarding a Women and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa section for the Gender roles in agriculture article. I don't think there are very many people who watch the talk page for WikiProject Gender Studies, so responses there can take a while. WikiProject Feminism tends to be a little more active.

Are there due dates for the steps in the Wikipedia assignment? I guessed that you all were on the "seek feedback" step, but have only seen activity from yourself, econkc, marsge01, and orhand12. Gobōnobo + c 02:21, 16 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi again Diksha. I see that article topics have been posted to the course page. Do you know if everyone is intending to start new articles, or whether some intend on expanding articles that already exist? I am completely in the dark as to your process and am unaware of what specific articles students are intending to edit. I have been able to discern general topic areas and can see that progress is being made in user sandboxes, but I would be better equipped to assist your class if I were given some details. Gobōnobō  + c 08:06, 27 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your response. Your article looks great and I think that most of the topics look as if they will be fine. Sanchitgipe's topic risks potentially duplicating the material at Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. An article focussing on the impact of the Act on women could potentially survive as a stand-alone article though. Regardless, a summary of the impact would be a welcome addition to the primary article. Let me know if anyone needs help. Cheers, Gobōnobō  + c 05:25, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

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Gender and Economic Development in the Third World (Spring 2014) - Wiki article project
Diksha41 - It is my understanding that you are one of the volunteers for our class to help with answers to creating and improving Wiki articles. As part of our Wiki assignment we are supposed to ask you and/or other Wikipedians for advise. I am working on Reproductive rights in El Salvador. Other than the Wiki article creation links and basic available information; Do you have any suggestions on the best way to structure an article? What about content? Is there something within this topic I should focus on more than another? For example, if you were reading an article, called Reproductive rights in El Salvador, what would you like and/or expect to see? What advise can you offer to a first time contributor? Thank you for your time.

TINGLED1 (talk) 21:44, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Diksha41- Hi my article is on Domestic Violence in South Africa and I have a few questions to ask. In my article I was considering putting what Human Rights are granted to women at the end of the article, but my teacher suggested making the part of the main content. What are your thoughts on that? Its a new article so I don't have much to base it off of. And as many policies I could find, most of them are redundant. Do you think that could be a problem? Obviously I wouldn't repeat, it would just be a smaller section. Thank you for your help and any other thoughts you might have would be great to hear!

Tkd9422 (talk) 06:51, 8 March 2014 (UTC)Tkd9422

Making an appointment to get some advices
Hi Diksha41, I am a student of Professor Berik and also in this Wikipedia Education Program. The topic of my article is "Missing women of China". I met some problems on making the article does not look like an essay. I've tried a lot, but still failed according to the Wikipedia viewers. Therefore, I want to make an appointment with you on campus to get some suggestions. Is there any time available for you before Thursday this week? Thank you! Yangtana Li (talk) 19:13, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

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