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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. 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 Ad2397 16:13, 13 May 2013 (EDT)

Good idea. Pictures add very much. 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). 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. Ad2397 18:17, 13 May 2013 (EDT)

Blogs

Would anyone care to update the list of blogs?  − Reaganaut  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? 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. 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. Pacman 18:35, 13 May 2013 (EDT)

I got distracted by other stuff... It appears that there's a thing called the [Application Development Institute now. gotta figure out how to tie all that in. 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. Absentminded 13:34, 3 May 2013 (EDT)

Spectator Archives updated

It looks like the Spectator Archives have been updated to add issues from 1938-1947, and the 1949-1950 academic year. Absentminded 18:01, 1 May 2013 (EDT)