Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/York University/Introduction to Translation into English II (WI13)/Timeline

Helpful Materials

 * Read: Welcome to Wikipedia (available in print or online from the Wikimedia Foundation)
 * Read Five pillars, a explanation of Wikipedia's basic rules and principles
 * Handouts and videos: Video on creating an account, Talk pages tutorial video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure, Account and user page creation handout, Wikimarkup cheatsheet
 * Handout: Advice for choosing articles
 * Handouts and videos on using sources: Referencing handout, Referencing: Wikicode handout, Plagiarism handout, Citing sources tutorial video, RefToolbar citation tool tutorial video
 * Handout: Moving into main space, Submitting articles to Did You Know
 * Handouts and videos: Uploading images handout, Uploading files to Wikimedia Commons video, Evaluating Wikipedia article quality brochure (handed out originally in week 2), Article assessments video, Evolution of an article video

Some deadlines
By February 7:
 * Create a Wikipedia account, create a user page, and sign up on the list of students on the course page.
 * To practice editing and communicating on Wikipedia, introduce yourself to one of the class's Online Ambassadors (via talk page), and leave a message for a classmate on their user talk page.

By February 13:
 * Research and list 3–5 articles on your Wikipedia user page that you will consider working on as your main project. Ask your class's Online Ambassadors for comments.

By February 19: Be ready to start translating your approved article

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