Meeting Notes - July 23

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Meeting 7/23 - Ryan, Ben, and Kim

Material Covered

• Looking at current EDKB
• high level categories needed
  • Teaching resources
    • Syllabi, Rubrics, Primary Sources, Assignments,
  • TA Handbook
  • Research Resources
  • Courses
    • English 10, etc.
    • LCI, ACS, EMS
  • Term
    • Quarter, Year
  • Technology Resources
  • Student Resources
  • People
    • Faculty, Graduates, Staff, Students
• MLA standards for capitalization for all articles and categories
• File Uploads enabled
  • With RPP, the group decided to upload images with the agreement that they would take them down if they ever had any complaints; to the best of Ben's knowledge, they've not had any problems
  • we will enable just image files for the moment: .jpg .gif .png
  • will add additional media file formats when we see how people intend to use the wiki
  • e-res can make streaming audio available for classes; if we can get the files it may be possible to include streaming audio files
  • We will see if we can get the code for the Wikipedia image file upload wizard, found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload
    • adds licensing information and restricts whether the picture can be downloaded from the site
• Spam Controls:
  • no anonymous editing
  • email authentication
  • CAPTCHA plugin
• Possible User Group Access:
  • "users"
    • all users, including students
    • no anonymous editing, anonymous reading allowed of some pages
  • "bureaucrat"
    • faculty, staff, etc.
    • can read certain pages
    • can protect pages from editing
  • "sysop"
    • guardians of the system -
    • currently project team plus Alan (Rita?), may add Transcriptions, ACGCC, and EMC Ras?
    • will not have FTP access to the site therefore cannot directly access LocalSettings, etc.
• Options for managing protected pages:
  • option 1 - restrict access based upon categories; requires one extension to the code
    • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryPermissions *Kim's preference
      • allows users to add the category "protected" to any article in the wiki to restrict viewing access to one or more usergroups.
    • http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DisallowAccessOnCategory
      • also a valid option but the setup is more complex
    • pros: low learning curve; anyone can protect pages
    • cons: extension may cause problems with eventual upgrades; Kim foresees this as a low risk
  • option 2: create two wikis with a shared user database, use wiki interlinks to connect the pages
    • pros: should be transparent to user; no relying on extensions
    • cons: additional learning curve with inter-wiki linking; managing two separate installations - upgrades, etc. will be more cumbersome
  • We decided to go with option 1
    • at the moment, there are no locked pages on the EDKB
    • most locked resources take advantage of the scribe folder on the server
    • we will not add the protected page category extension until we find a need for it
• we set up a edkbwiki email account on gmail. People can send new materials for inclusion there.
  • Username: edkbwiki@gmail.com
  • pword: [redacted]

TO-DOs

• asking TA Trainers if they are updating materials - Ben
• Logo - Ben
• Update Campus Teaching Resources - Ryan
• Setup Categories - Kim
• adding categories and adding to sidebar
• Tweak Code to allow image files - Kim
• Add Sidebar - Kim
• Add article creation box to main page- Kim
• Setting up usernames / passwords - postponed
• Collecting new information - Ryan
• Draft Intro to Main Page - Ryan
• meet next week Tue or Wed at 11am - Ben will email Marthine

For next week:

• we'll do wiki training when Marthine can join us
• divide tasks for migrating existing content