Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Macroeconomics

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 have two options to identify topics:


 * Students may work individually to develop articles pertaining to Macroeconomics. Students may build articles within a broader topic that needs improvement. The professor will identify these broad areas and students should each choose a sub-topic article to work on.

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:
 * Subcategories in Economics
 * Outline of Topics in Economics
 * An Article About the Economic History of India

Due August 15

 * 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 August 16 - 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 September 10

 * 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

Due September 10-21

 * 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.


 * 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 September 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 - November 14

 * Make sure the following code has been added to the top of the discussion page of any of the articles you edit(ed):


 * Make sure that you have added the following code to your user page:

This will create a small info box and identify you as participant in this program.


 * Continue expanding and making changes to your article based on suggestions from Wikipedians, your campus ambassadors, and your professor

Due November 14

 * Present Wikipedia article during class
 * Complete Wikipedia article due NOV 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 2011-11-08. Please continue to maintain the table in the new location.'''