Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Public Policy/Courses/Spring 2011/Business Data Communications (Kari Walters)

Course description
This is a Business Data Communications course for students majoring in ISDS or Computer Science. It focuses computer networks and is aligned with the CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam. This course is also registered as a CxC course at LSU, which means that it is a communications intensive course. The areas of communication that we focus on are visual and speaking. The Instructor for this class is Kari Walters User:Lsukari.

Assignment overview
Students are divided into groups of three for this course. They are required to do three in class presentations on technical networking topics. Each student will chose one of the topics being presented to write, or improve, an article in Wikipedia. Students must to meet the minimum requirements for a stub article for all new articles. They are required to use at least four sources for their topic. If a student chooses to improve a current article, they must add at least 40 new citations and four new sources to the current article(s) they are working on.

Assignment timeline
Project Milestones
 * January 18 - Course introduction and choose groups for project


 * January 25 - Introduction to the Wikipedia project


 * March 29 - Wikipedia Training


 * May 8 - Final article must be submitted to Wikipedia


 * May 10 - Feedback on Wikipedia article

List of students
This is a list of ISDS 4120 students' Wikipedia usernames


 * 1) User:0x55534C
 * 2) User:AlexGH1
 * 3) User:Asubed2
 * 4) User:bchiap
 * 5) User:Bencst13
 * 6) User:Bub123456
 * 7) User:Bweeks5LSU
 * 8) User:Byakooya
 * 9) User:ccole17
 * 10) User:Cgelpi3
 * 11) User:ChoustonHallum
 * 12) User:cweath7
 * 13) User:Droptableusername
 * 14) User:green8907
 * 15) User:Jdavi56
 * 16) User:Jtatlsu
 * 17) User:Ledraisel
 * 18) User:Mmart67
 * 19) User:Ndystorms
 * 20) User:peedeeramone
 * 21) User:Pingywen
 * 22) User:Rdlaw
 * 23) User:Squishy Crayons
 * 24) User:Tiger4Life
 * 25) User:trerjrdr
 * 26) User:zKaiser

Work areas
This is a list of ISDS 4120 students' Wikipedia usernames and links to their respective Wikipedia articles on which they will be working.

These articles were approved for Did You Know:
 * User:trerjrdr created new article Multicast_encryption - Approved to be a Did You Know

These articles were written in another language besides English:
 * User:Asubed2 translated DQDB in Hindi Language.
 * User:Droptableusername created new article in Hebrew OnLive

These articles contain new images uploaded by students:
 * User:0x55534C added a new image for Address_Resolution_Protocol
 * User:Ndystorms added a new image for Wireless_network
 * User:Rdlaw created new article Santa_Fe_Trail_problem

These are new articles that were created:
 * User:Squishy Crayons created new article Ipsectrace
 * User:Bub123456 (Bubba C.), created new article VoATM
 * User:ccole17 created new article Parallel_Backbone
 * User:Pingywen created new article Resilient_Overlay_Network_(RON)
 * User:Tiger4Life created new article Serial_Backbone
 * User:ChoustonHallum created new article H.248
 * User:AlexGH1 created new article Any-Source_Multicast
 * User:zKaiser created new article Routing_and_Remote_Access_Service
 * User:Ledraisel created new article High_performance_technology
 * User:Bencst13 created new article Distributed_Backbone
 * User:Jtatlsu created new article Attenuation-to-crosstalk_ratio
 * User:Mmart67 created new article Network_operating_system
 * User:Rdlaw created new article Santa_Fe_Trail_problem

These articles created new sections for current articles:
 * User:Byakooya created new section for Marvel_vs._Capcom_3:_Fate_of_Two_Worlds
 * User:0x55534C created new section Address_Resolution_Protocol
 * User:Ndystorms rewrote a section Wireless_network

These are articles that were improved:
 * User:bchiap added citations and resources for Presentation_Layer, OSI_Model and Multiplexer.
 * User:cweath7 added citations and resources for Continuity_tester, Crossover_cable, Voice_over_IP and Ethernet_hub
 * User:Asubed2 added citations and resources for Metropolitan_area_network
 * User:Bweeks5LSUadded citations and resources for Twisted_pair
 * User:green8907 added citations and resources for Physical_Layer and Post_Office_Protocol
 * User:cweath7 added citations and resources for Continuity_tester, Crossover_cable, Voice_over_IP and Ethernet_hub
 * User:Asubed2 added citations and resources for Metropolitan_area_network
 * User:Bweeks5LSUadded citations and resources for Twisted_pair
 * User:green8907 added citations and resources for Physical_Layer and Post_Office_Protocol
 * User:peedeeramone added citations and resources for FTP
 * User:Pingywen added citations and resources for Nbtstat.
 * User:Cgelpi3 added citations and resources for Data_Link_Layer


 * User:Jdavi56

Quick Resources for Students

 * Creating an account - Explains how and why to make a Wikipedia account
 * Starting an article - Explains how to create an article
 * How to edit a page - Explains the basics on article editing
 * Verifiability - Everything in Wikipedia that must be verifiable or else it will be removed.
 * References - Explains how to cite references
 * WP:Reliable Sources - Explains what is and how to use reliable sources in order to verify your claims
 * Tutorial/Editing - Takes all the things above and gives you tutorials on how to do them

Campus Ambassador
The campus ambassador for this course is Kari Walters.