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Welcome to Tar Heel Wiki!
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Latest News!
Fellow Tar Heel Nation and friends:
- The sites original "Carolina" skin
is back in place!has been temporarily disabled because site notices and page notices break the layout of the page.- We need a lot of help making a custom MediaWiki skin for Tarheelwiki - Want to help? email us!
- We have cleared up some issues with the templates - casual fix as you go effort from here.
- The baseline content has been uploaded to the site. We need help:
- Grabbing the pictures from wikipedia and uploading them here.
- Wikipedia pictures have been released to the public domain in one way or another - use the images from the same Wikipedia article to avoid liability issues.
- See an article missing a picture?
- Go to the same article on Wikipedia.
- Download that picture to your desktop and return to this site
- Click "upload file" on the left sidebar and use the same name as on Wikipedia
- The picture will then show up in the article you were browsing!
- See an article missing a picture?
What is Tar Heel Wiki about?
This site is a wiki dedicated to The University Encyclopedia Project started by Thomas at WikiAnthropy.com! We aim to preserve and promote the past and present history of Tar Heel culture as it was when it was established, and how it continues to evolve today. This includes documenting anything in regard to UNC Chapel Hill and the Tar Heel community, its colleges and schools, buildings, monuments, notable alumni, athletes, coaches, athletic teams, professors, students, academic and veterinary research, traditions, songs, mascots, logos, and so on.
We encourage the community of alumni, alumni associations, faculty, staff, students, student associations, enthusiasts, fans, and associated blogs/websites/internet communities to create what we intend to be the ultimate voice and authority of everything Tar Heel!
At the moment Tar Heel Wiki is [still under development], but mostly in regard to extending current capabilities!
Please create an account and log in to start contributing to the wiki! You can even follow us on twitter! Any time a page is edited our system sends a tweet through our twitter account! Its what we like to think of a next-gen watch page!
How do I get started?
This is a good question!
First, anonymous users cannot create pages nor edit them so you need to create an account. We are working on some single sign on capabilities, like the ability to login with Google's OpenID. You are given the choice of how much privacy you want to exercise - including making a new account not associated with any of your personal social networks. We also do not require that you offer any information other than what you want to reveal on your [username:talk] (link is to my talk or "profile" page) page.
In a short time this section will be filled with a few links to the how-to's, policies, and standards of article creation. Most of these pages will come directly from Wikipedia's policies. For now simply be 1. responsible, 2. respectful, 3. truthful, and 4. neutral in what you write and the articles you create.
Policies and help pages will be posted soon!
Development Stage
Stage 1 - initiate and launch beta
- MediaWiki Installed - Done
- Logo - Done
- Common extensions installed - Done
- add pdf print extension
- troubleshoot checkuser extension - creates database errors
- Install OpenID extension (not working)
- Custom skin - Done
- Add content (import from Wikipedia) - Done
- Articles - Done
- templates - Done
- help - Done
- User accounts - Done
- prevent anonymous users from editing page - Done
- prevent anonymous users from editing talk: pages
- Social Media - Done
- Facebook group page - Done
- Facebook fan page - Done
- Twitter account - Done
- install extension to tweet any time a page is edited - Done
- Feature on http://www.originalprojects.com - Done
- The University Encyclopedia Project/Tar Heel Wiki is featured on http://www.OriginalProjects.com!
Stage 2 - clean up
- Start community building/support - Done
- Change default URL Scheme to ShortURL - currently not working.
- Install/configure Dynamic Page Lists
- search for unused templates and delete
- search for unused categories and delte
- Skin CSS formatting
- verify layout does not break on special pages or with site/page notices
- modify color scheme of images and html properties as needed
- upload images that arent showing in pages
- eliminate white space at top of page on roundedblue skin
Stage 3 - refine
- Troubleshoot OpenID login capability
- Create custom CSS layout for the main page similar to http://www.mediawiki.org
- Create Welcome To div on main page
- add respective links to articles within div
- Create How the wiki works div on main page
- add respective links to articles within div
- Create Help pages div on main page
- add respective links to articles within div
- Create Policy pages div on main page
- add respective links to articles within div
- Create future projects div on main page
- add respective links to articles within div
- Create main page body content div on main page
- add respective links to articles within div
- Create add/sponsors div on main page
- add respective links to articles within div
- Search/Develop professional/academic GLOBAL skin for site
- Research/Develop donation system
Stage 4 - Finalize/remove beta and Official Launch
- Implement donation system
- Install professional/academic skin
- Review policy/help page contents
- Push community building/support and send notice of official launch
- Official Launch
- Digg
- Slashdot
- UNC GAA
- Inside Carolina
- UNC CH
- Informational UNC email?
- Administration support?
In the Future
- Semantic Wiki extension
- Document Management System
- develop template for academics to post their research, published or otherwise, and release it into the Public Domain.
Contact Us!
If you would like to contact us please do so at staff@Tarheelwiki.com.
