10/13 Meeting with Prof Nelson, Cathy Riley and Cathy O'Bryan

Present: Prof Nelson, Cathy Riley, Cathy O'Bryan, Jia

Agenda:
URL? - wiscipedia.wisc.edu

Timeframe for production? - we have about 10 ppl in our council...hopefully moderation from this group; we would like to launch by spring semester (student org fair)
- discussed beta testing - probably emailing biology mailing list
- need sustainability

Authentication?
- net ID... hopefully
- should prob authenticate during soar and not before

Activity levels
- everyone can read; only ppl come for soar and beyond can write
- must have netid

MediaWiki
- okay program?
- discussed technical problems; our group is not tech/networking heavy

Admin
- students will be replaced b/c wiscipedia is student org
- we already have a group of students who are juniors so this shouldn't be too hard and hundreds of ppl interested on mailing list
- inappropriate content will be elim by moderators

Backup and restore?
- virtual hosting thru doit?

Site stats
- will monitor stats to make it better

OTHER INFO DISCUSSED
- having a good search engine - esp important for knowledge management
- maybe add helpdesk?
- talk to library sciences?
- link to other sites for dates and events that happen often
- also put some kind of disclaimer saying you are not responsible for information from this other site
- important to think about what we have taken ownership of
- Talk to Brian Rust about putting button on wisc.edu site and other relevant websites so that we can be linked from a variety of places! :)
- talked about future funding... Kempler Knapp may be good source in future
- also talked about content that parents might want to see on main page
- talked about collabs with writing center/ law school/ biz school (marketing)
- talked about permanently deleting inappropriate content even from history