User: .edu.edits
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Aim:
- To edit and improve wikipedia articles related to educational institutions all over the world and provide a better experience and an accurate picture of institutions to students and their parents.
- Provide the relevant information and knowledge related to editing on the user page to help aspiring editors.
Student bodies can be contacted regarding the improvement/creation, citation or review of the page. The editing tasks are taken up individually and not on behalf of any individual from institutions.
Operating Procedure
[edit]- Conduct research for extracting useful data and inputs from reliable sources and cite the edits.
- Edit already published articles on Universities, Colleges, Institutions and add relevant information to them.
- Create Wikipedia pages for newly formed institutions.
- Add relevant photos on Wikimedia Commons and later use them for the betterment of articles.
- Remove disambiguating links.
- Remove notices which degrade article quality and reach (such as: "more citations needed", "article relies too much on references to primary sources", "contains content that is written like an advertisement").
- Structure pages for improving article quality and readability by referring to WP:UNIGUIDE
What do you need to know?
[edit]Reliable sources
[edit]Sources that contain true information/facts about the university (such as: whether it provides on-campus accommodation, quality of living etc.) These sources may include:
- College website
- Online forums/websites where college profile is registered and the facts are provided by alumni which are afterward verified (idle example: getmyuni).
- College review posts by communities on social media or news websites.
- Secondary sources such as interviews of professors and alumni, official reports by government or boards that affiliate the university
You can also create primary sources by connecting with alumni on Linkedin or Quora etc.
Wikimedia and photos
[edit]Wikimedia commons is an online repository for uploading photos. It is a project of Wikimedia Foundation which supports the editor for uploading images to wikipedia article. While uploading a photo to the article, you can directly perform the task just by writing the title by which the image is uploaded to commons. You should upload your original work and license it under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International.
Projects and to-do list
[edit]- Remove citation notice from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Technical University Munich, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.
- Make list of affiliated colleges with Panjab University
- Solve multiple issues with University of Hyderabad, IIEST pages.
- Restructured and cleaned Panjab University.
- Improved the content and removed citation notice from Delhi School of Management by adding relevant citations and removing dead links.
- Removed primary sources notice from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies page, added logo, improved readability and cleaned up.
- Created List of International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad people.
- Created Template:International Institutes of Information Technology.
- Created and improved International Institutes of Information Technology page, wikidata info and commons category.
- Improved, added images and restructured International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.
- Removed citation notice, cleaned up and added info/images in BITS Pilani.