WikiCU:About

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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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  1. ↑ ESC, CCSC Join to create Athena Wiki
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