Dec 2 - Digital Repositories Meeting

Daniel's report:

On December 2nd, I met with representatives from some of the digital repositories at UW-Madison. These projects face many of the same problems and challenges as Wiscipedia - how can we optimally attract users, provide them with the information they want, and encourage them to contribute themselves. We are planning an event this spring to teach others how these tools can be useful and how to use them. I look forward to the continuing dialog with these other projects as we start to pin down the specifics of the event, and learning how others deal with the challenges that Wiscipedia will face once we launch.

Some great news - we have our URLs!

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date		Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:44 PM
subject		DomainAlert: WISCIPEDIA.COM Successfully Captured

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date		Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:44 PM
subject		DomainAlert: WISCIPEDIA.ORG Successfully Captured
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Hackathon Nov 24th 6-9pm, Steenbock 340

Present: Brian, Sajia, Jia, Daniel, Charlie, Tyler

Main Points:

- We have spent some money backordering wiscipedia.org and wiscipedia.com from GoDaddy since both URLs are marked for deletion. Hopefully this will work out.
- We have also discussed what we are doing over winter break. All of us are committed to work on the wiki a lot so that we can launch it in the spring. (hopefully!)
- We have discussed how we will organize wiscipedia for the upcoming semester, esp with introduction of new staff.
- We added a lot of new content to the wiki! :)

Coming up....
- This week, Daniel will be meeting with Digital Repositories and Libraries staff to talk about how campus resources are being used to help students. He'll post an update about this meeting on the blog.