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

List of Prospective Articles
Each student should add an entry to the table below. Please edit row very carefully, and don't make syntax errors. You can just read below and copy the code for a row and edit it.

Introductory Assignment
* Account creation screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WP_tutorial_en_New_user_account.ogg (After you create your user account, please make sure you're logged into it when you complete the tasks below.)
 * Create a user account, if you don't yet have one. Help regarding account creation is available on the following link,


 * Create your user page, if you don't yet have one. Add a short paragraph about yourself. Add a link to the online chatroom where you can get live help: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikipedia-en-ambassadors. Also, add links to the userpages of your Campus Ambassadors. Your campus ambassadors are:
 * User:Sagar.makode
 * User:Ramshankaryadav
 * User:Prateek0724

* Sandbox screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_starting_a_sandbox_article_on_Wikipedia.ogv
 * Create a sandbox and add some sample text in it to get a feel for the wiki code. Help regarding how to create a Sandbox is available on the following link,

* Wiki markup basics screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boldness_and_links_tutorial.ogv * References screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citing_sources_tutorial,_part_1.ogv * References handout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikipediaReferencing.pdf * Wiki markup basics sheet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome2WP_English_Flap_081810.pdf
 * Make a few edits to Wikipedia articles, it can be adding a reference, fixing a typo, cleaning up a convoluted sentence, adding a sentence, etc.

* Wikipedia help page on talk pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_talk_pages
 * Leave a message on your campus ambassador's talk page to get a feel for on-wiki communication.

* Neutral Point of View video: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verifiability_and_Neutral_point_of_view_%28Common_Craft%29-600px-en.ogv * Celilo Falls evolution of an article: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_an_article_%28Celilo_Falls%29 * The "five pillars," which represent Wikipedia's core principles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars * Read and be able to explain the general guidelines about notability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
 * Review key Wikipedia policies/pages:

Copyright issues
Hi there. I have just deleted the page NARROW FRAMING which appears to be part of this project. It was deleted as a blatant copyright violation as it was a cut and paste of this section from the book "Investment Planning". I can see that you have warned your students against copyright violation and plagiarism on the project page but you might want to reiterate that guidance as some at least clearly do not understand the implications. Kind regards, nancy  10:19, 1 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Further, I have just had to delete four more cut and paste copyright violations which were also duplicates of one another. They were: NARROW FRAMING, Narrow Framing, Sentbox and User:Hahaharsh. This time the text was lifted from a conference paper . The editor in question has of course been warned, again. Kind regards,  nancy  09:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)