Vision

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Please share your vision of how to utilize the wiki next year
We had a number of problems with the wiki last year. Nearly all of them were the result of starting mid year with the interim reports. We changed format of couple times in midstream. We were learning the tools as we used them.

How would we teach mentors, judges, teachers and students to use it? When at the kickoff?
The wiki isn't that hard, I think it's more of a matter of not wanting to learn to use yet another set of tools. In fact it's simple enough that we MIGHT be able to fit everything a student, teach, or judge needs to know into one of the large KO presentations everyone attends. Walk them through the process of selecting a template for their school, proposal, comments, interim, comments, etc. Then through the process of filling out a template.

We can have a wiki version of the same presentation with links to click for more detailed explanations for anyone who wants them.

We MIGHT want to have a class in the curriculum, if we do it should cover more than just the wiki.

It should cover the technical writing process that generates content the wiki. it should cover reference management software. I like Zotero, Kathy and Sue might prefer something else.

http://challenge.as0t0.com/index.php?title=Special:Categories The number of pages in each category is interesting.


 * Do you suggest using the wiki over the website for proposal, interim and final reports submission?
 * What is the difference between MediaWiki to SemanticMediaWiki?
 * Is Aaron ok with us continuing to use his server next year?

Do you suggest using the wiki over the website for proposal, interim and final reports submission?

I think we should use the wiki for proposal, interim and at least a cover sheet for the final report. We should allow students to upload separate documents. What is the difference between MediaWiki to SemanticMediaWiki?

I'm not happy with the page that index the Prize Winners:

I'd like to be able to show the Area of Science, and Project Title adjacent to the link to the team.

On other pages that list teams:

I'd like to be able to list Prizes won along with Area of Science and Project title adjacent to the link. I'd like to be able to write queries based on: Year (Once we get more than one year in the wiki) Demographics Area of Science, Prize And display a readable report.

I'm HOPING SemanticMediaWiki will make this easy and be an easy transition from where we are now.

Once we have this working it would be good to retroactively create entries for prior years prize winners.

Is Aaron ok with us continuing to use his server next year?

Oops. Forgot to cc Aaron on the last message, he can read the copy below.

I believe so. We need to ask again. We MIGHT want to consider other options. If we stay on Aaron's sever: we should create a dns entry that points there maybe wiki.supercomputingchallenge.org regardless we should make consult@supercomputingchallenge.org work. we need to think about what to do with stuff on David's wiki. And finally, where do the socks go after you place them in the dryer?