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==A note on finding old material on Bwog==
I know the that [[Bwog]] archives are a mess, but I figured out a way to better navigate them this week. Say that you only have an old, old link without a slug (e.g., one that includes "publicate" and ends with a number, e.g. "3113"), you can use the short-link system to find it. Just take the number after "publicate" and put it into the short link: "bwog.com/?p=[number]".

Also: if you're looking at an old post, but the link to the picture is broken, you can find it. Here is how. Say the link is "http://bwog.com/uploads/whoohoo.jpg". Gives you a 404. Now insert "images." before "bwog.com" and "wp-content/" before "uploads". That gives you "http://images.bwog.com/wp-content/uploads/whoohoo.jpg," which does work. Good for finding old party pics, pretty much anything from '06 through '09. [[User:Cds2148|cds2148]] 16:49, 4 July 2013 (EDT)

:Hugely helpful, thanks! [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 15:49, 21 August 2013 (EDT)

== Spectator Archives updated (Again) ==
It looks like the [http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/ Spectator Archives] have been updated to add issues from [[1938]]-[[1947]], and the [[1949]]-[[1950]] academic year. [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 18:01, 1 May 2013 (EDT)

Spec Archives have been further updated from 1938-1996 inclusive (with the exception of fall 1990). On-wards! [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 14:01, 12 June 2013 (EDT)

Extended to 1938-2000 (still missing fall 1990). Commence modern-era research! [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 22:56, 24 June 2013 (EDT)

==Archive.is==
FYI: if you see a page and are afraid it'll be edited/taken down, you can create a snapshot of a webpage that gets its own archive.is shortlink. [[User:Cds2148|cds2148]] 18:08, 11 June 2013 (EDT)
:Nice tip, thanks! [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 23:47, 11 June 2013 (EDT)

==Annie Karni==
I think there should be a page for [[Annie Karni]]. Thoughts? I don't have the contextual knowledge to write it, or at least not to start it. I only recall that she was at one of the [[ROTC]] townhalls that I covered, before which some then-upperclassman told me that she was ever-ready to pounce on Columbia. Which she ended up getting to do after that townhall. (Also, N.B. the page for the [[New York Sun]].) [[User:Cds2148|cds2148]] 21:29, 4 June 2013 (EDT)

:We actually used to have a page on her but it appears she requested it be deleted and our policy has been to respect subject requests. We can talk about modifying that policy, though. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 10:59, 5 June 2013 (EDT)

:: Yeah, I think that policy should be modified. It's just bringing together publicly accessible stuff. (And, not that this should enter into policy decisions, but come on, Karni. Ye reap what ye sow.) [[User:Cds2148|cds2148]] 17:51, 7 June 2013 (EDT)
::: Thoughts?[[User:Cds2148|cds2148]] 16:50, 4 July 2013 (EDT)

== Reorganizing Main Page ==
[[User:Admin]] has started a discussion on changing some elements of the [[Main Page]] over at [[Talk:Main Page]]. Please add your feedback. [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 13:37, 14 May 2013 (EDT)

==Pages without photos==

Is there a way to access this so we can add photos to pages that need them [[User:Ad2397|Ad2397]] 16:13, 13 May 2013 (EDT)
:Good idea. Pictures add very much. [[User:Cds2148|cds2148]] 16:21, 13 May 2013 (EDT)
:I'm not sure if such a list exists. It might be easier to systematically work through certain categories of things that should have pictures (like buildings, or current administrators). [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 18:07, 13 May 2013 (EDT)
::I'm not a coder, but basically you just need a script that searches all created pages and take out any page that has [File:*.jpeg‎*] or [File:*.gif*] and create a category page for it. Maybe a future project. [[User:Ad2397|Ad2397]] 18:17, 13 May 2013 (EDT)

== Blogs ==
Would anyone care to update the [[blogs|list of blogs]]? {{User:Reaganaut/sig}} 17:51, 4 May 2013 (EDT)

== Thoughts on cataloging student websites ==
So Columbia students have a history of starting websites for the columbia community. A handful have survived more than a few years ([[CULPA]] being the great grand-daddy, and at this point I'd even put [[WikiCU]] in that category. It's been just over 6 years and we're not dead yet); most have died. Of those that died, some had an impact on campus life ([[CUCommunity]], and [[Dogears.net]] come to mind, and [[CUSnacks]] featured prominently in a Varsity Show plot), while others seem to come and go without ever getting much traction ([[Hungrycu]] seems to have fallen into that crack. CampusPlaybook? PostATime? Buzzable? CUEats? CampusBoxOffice? [[Columbia Classes]]?) I guess what I'm getting at is whether each and every one of these projects deserves it own page (Notability!), which is the direction we've gone in so far, or maybe I/we should just come up with a single article chronicling Columbia students' ingenuity, with individual articles only for 'major' sites. Thoughts? [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 16:32, 3 May 2013 (EDT)
:We could do both? An overview page detailing what you just said, plus individual pages for websites people care to create pages for. [[User:Admin|Admin]] 05:39, 4 May 2013 (EDT)
::That is basically what has been done so far. The notable ones usually get their own pages; for the others, we had the [[blogs]] page, which could conceivably be expanded to encompass other types of websites. [[User:Pacman|Pacman]] 18:35, 13 May 2013 (EDT)
:::I got distracted by other stuff... It appears that there's a thing called the [[http://adicu.com/ Application Development Institute] now. gotta figure out how to tie all that in. [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 18:49, 13 May 2013 (EDT)

== Notability standard discussion ==
There's renewed discussion of whether there's a [[Notability]] standard for wikicu going on here: [[Talk:Notability#Renewed discussion 2013]]. [[User:Absentminded|Absentminded]] 13:34, 3 May 2013 (EDT)



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