Wikipedia talk:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Economics of the Social Sector Year 2 Group A

Introductory Assignment

• Create a user account, if you don't yet have one. Help regarding account creation is available on the following link,

   * 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 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,
  • Rohit Patnaik
  • Raghavendra Rao
  • Gurmeet Singh

• 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,

   * Sandbox screencast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_starting_a_sandbox_article_on_Wikipedia.ogv

• 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.

   * 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 

• Leave a message on your campus ambassador's talk page to get a feel for on-wiki communication.

   * Wikipedia help page on talk pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_talk_pages

• Review key Wikipedia policies/pages:

   * 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

User & Talk pages

Could who ever is responsible for this program please ensure that all students are aware that when they are creating their talk pages and user pages, they should match their chosen username exactly, if it is different then it will mean the pages are not attached to the account and will be deleted. I have come across this several times recently, for example User:Prerna chowhan created twice by User:Prerna Chowhan, just one capital letter is enough to make a difference. Thank you--Jac16888 ^Talk 00:08, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I'll try my best to address the problem.

Debastein1 (talk) 12:57, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Signature Problem

Hey, if anyone of you check out the course page of this class, then you see many notices posted by Shirin mam, at the end she tried to put her signature, but its in red. So something is wrong with it. Please do get in touch with her and ask to solve it. Rangilo Gujarati (talk) 16:23, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

That because Shirin Ma'am doesn't have a talk page. -Debastein1 (talk) 12:59, 17 September 2011 (UTC)