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== Statistics ==
 
{{SITENAME}} is powered by MediaWiki software, which records several statistics. The wiki has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} useful articles, or {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} if you count all the shorter articles, redirect pages, talk pages, and so on. The wiki also has {{NUMBEROFFILES}} images and other uploaded files. So far, {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} users have registered, and {{NUMBEROFADMINS}} have additional administrative powers including the ability to fly. Further statistics are available at [[Special:Statistics]].
 
 
 
According to the latest site backup:
 
* the MySQL database takes up 36 megabytes
 
* other files take up 102 megabytes
 
 
 
More detailed site usage statistics are recorded using [[w:Google Analytics|Google Analytics]]. The '''[http://www.wikicu.com/images/4/4c/GoogleAnalyticsReport_20070324-20070508.pdf latest Google Analytics report]''' has lots of detailed and interesting information.
 
 
 
== Extensions/modifications ==
 
 
 
* Calendar
 
* GoogleMaps
 
* Cite
 
* Short URLs
 
* Timezone is America/New_York
 
* Interwiki links: use [[w:Page]] to link to a Wikipedia page
 
* Snap Shots
 
 
 
== Legal issues ==
 
 
 
Federal law protects WikiCU from libel lawsuits. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996, specifically states that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker." Thus, unlike print and broadcast companies, online service providers cannot be sued for disseminating defamatory attacks on citizens posted by others.
 
 
 
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Revision as of 19:01, 7 July 2007

WikiCU is an insider's guide to Columbia. More info about the WikiCU project is coming soon.

History

Screenshot of the note in which WikiCU was first conceived.

Perhaps it's too early to record any history of WikiCU, but whatever. WikiCU is a wiki with articles related to Columbia University and its neighborhood. The site was first conceived on April 12th, 2006, in a note on Yahoo Notepad, as pictured on the right. It was originally intended to be at "cuwiki.com". However, the domain was no longer available by February 2007, so "wikicu.com" was registered instead on February 28th, 2007. Other options included "cuwiki.net" and "cuwiki.org", but these were judged inferior to a ".com" domain name. Since then, "cuwiki.org" has been registered and is the location of a wiki about Cornell University.

The first edits by the wider Columbia community started to be made on Tuesday 6th March in the late afternoon / early evening.

Project Athena

For some unknown length of time, the student councils intended to create a Columbia wiki.[1] This never really happened, so when WikiCU emerged, the content from about 50 articles written for Project Athena was moved to corresponding articles in WikiCU.

Most recent edits

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