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Connect coalition unveils Wikipedia program
WiKUpedia to allow students to write articles, express personal views, share information
BY BRENNA HAWLEY bhawley@kansan.com
Connect coalition members launched a Web site called WikUpedia last week.
The site was created from the same software as encyclopedia site Wikipedia. Connect's goal in creating the site was to create a resource about Student Senate for students, said Riley Dutton, Pittsburg junior and the site's Web master.
Since the site's launch on Jan. 27, the site has grown from around 80 pages to 547 articles yesterday afternoon. The site had 21,063 visitors and pages were edited 3,828 times. Like Wikipedia, visitors can edit articles and create new ones.
Creators were concerned about vandalism to the site, but Dutton said it hadn't been much of a problem yet.
"What's happened has been more experimentation," Dutton said. "Some people made a page about their friends."
Dutton said many different members of Connect are monitoring the site for vandalism. He said he was on
the site three to four hours a day.
Curtis Marsh, program director for KU Info, said his involvement in the site began when a creator approached him for help with the article about KU Info. He then
realized that the goals of WiKUpedia and KU Info were very similar.
Students are contributing unique information to the site that other students may not know. Mark Pacey, Manhattan graduate student, wrote the first version of the basketball
"It's a neat way for students to educate other students."
to link back and forth between each other so users can find more information.
CURTIS MARSH
Program director for KU Info
"It's a way to create synergy instead of building two complete sites," Marsh said.
Marsh said KU Info was always looking for different ways to use the Internet. He said he had thought about creating a Facebook application, but that WiKUpedia was a good way to reach students.
"It's a neat way for students to
camping article. The article is the fourth most-viewed article on the site according to the home page.
the home page.
Pacey coordinates the system used to organize camping groups.
The system has
"I'd been looking for a place to put the rules online," Pacey said. "It was easy web space."
Pacey also started the KU traditions article, but hasn't made edits since then. He said the site was a good place for students to write about the University from a student's perspective.
"Students can put things up
there that aren't necessarily the University's viewpoint. Pacey said.
Duke, Clemson and Case Western University all have their own Wiki sites. Mark Sublette, a former Clemson student, is the administrator of the Clemson Wiki. Sublette was also contacted by WiKUpedia creators and has been making form and content edits to the site.
Sublette said the Clemson Wiki grew out of another university project, which had restricted the project.
"Being independent from the Uniervies will give you more latitude," Sublette said.
Sublette offered advice to the WiKUpedia creators to help them grow the site.
"I told them to expect lots of help on popular topics, but expect to dig into the archives for back stories," Sublette said. "For stories on professors and when departments were started, expect to look them up."
Despite starting last week, WiKUpedia is already a registered organization at the University.
"I want to increase awareness of student government and happenings at the University in general," said Austin Kelly, presidential candidate for Connect. "We want to put it all in one place that's easy to get to."
MEETING ALERT
WIKupedia is meant to be a student-run project, there will be a meeting for anyone interested in being on the committee in charge of the site.
Date: Tuesday Place: Hawk's Nest in the Kansas Union 6:30-7:30 Informational meeting 7:30 First committee meeting
To see the site, visit www.connectku.com/wiki.
-Edited by Daniel Reyes
BASKETBALL
Students to orange-out game
lmorris@kansan.com
BY LUKE MORRIS
lmorris@kansan.com
When salt on the wound isn't enough, try citrus. That's what some students want to do with an orange-out in Allen Fieldhouse for tonight's men's basketball game against Missouri.
Logan Heer, Olathe sophomore, started a Web site promoting the idea on facebook.com. The event encourages Kansas fans to wear orange shirts to the game. He said that he created the idea as a way to mock rival Missouri, and its fans who felt their football team deserved a bid to the Orange Bowl instead of the Jayhawks. As of Sunday afternoon, more th
650 people had said they would attend the event.
"it's going to be fun," Heer said, "Who doesn't want to taunt Missouri?"
Kyle O'Keefe, White Bear Lake, Minn., sophomore, said that the orange out was a great opportunity to increase the intensity of the rivalry.
"I like the orange-out because of the competitive nature of the rivalry," O'Keechea said. "It'll increase the fans' intensity in the game, and rubbing it in Missouri's faces is always great."
Cori Simon, Overland Park freshman, said that the celebration of the layhawks' historic football season deserved to go on, and this would be a great way to get it done.
"It's a funny way to get people more
"It was great that we won the Orange Bowl and they didn't, but football's over now. Let's just let the game rub it in for us," said Werling.
Although the orange-out has many supporters, it also has some strong opposition. Brett Werling, Fort Scott senior, said that he didn't like the idea of rolling the football season over into basketball.
Werling also doubted that the orange-out would work because of the opposition to the idea and because many students didn't own orange Jayhawk shirts. He said there would be orange areas in the crowd, but not overall in the fieldhouse.
involved in the game and it celebrates our football success," Simon said. "It's a double bonus."
Mark Filipi, Lyons senior, also doesn't
"I'm really partial to blue," Filipi said. "I get annoyed with anyone — student, alumni, whatever — when they come in with a shirt that isn't blue. Our color isn't pink, green, orange or gray. It's blue."
Tonight's game, against Missouri begins at 8. Student gates open at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN, Sunflower Broadband channel 33.
like the orange-out idea. He summed up his opposition to it in three words: it's not blue.
— Edited by Jessica Sain-Baird
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POLITICS
BY DAVID ESPO ASSOCIATED PRESS
Parties vary with delegate selection
One party likes to share. The other, not so much.
WASHINGTON — When it comes to presidential primaries, Democrats and Republicans play by different rules.
Which goes a long way toward explaining why Arizona Sen. John McCain hopes to take control of the race for the Republican presidential nomination in Super Tuesday's primaries and caucuses.
And why the busiest primary day in history may merely intensify the contest between Democratic rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
"The delegate selection process is designed to keep the campaign going for as long as possible among Democrats," said Howard Wolfson, communications director for Clinton's campaign.
The Democratic rules provide for delegates to be awarded proportionately on the basis of the popular vote. It wasn't always that way, but a change designed to weaken the control of party bosses was ushered in after the riotous Vietnam War-era 1968 convention.
This year, Wolfson added, the calendar "was designed to pick a candidate as quickly as possible."
Instead, the result, he said, is "this unbelievable, grueling sprint from the 26th of December to the 5th of February that will not result in a nominee being chosen."
The sprint has been no less
grueling for Republicans. But the GOP's winner-take-all contests make a difference.
Then came Florida, in which McCain pocketed all 57 delegates in a breakthrough triumph. Endorsements from numerous party leaders soon followed, including Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Rick Perry of Texas.
McCain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and others slogged through several contests, trading victories and dividing delegates.
"It gives you a chance to end the race earlier," said Charlie Black, a strategist for McCain. "Theirs is going to drag out."
In all, Democrats have primaries in 15 states and caucuses in seven states and American Samoa on Tuesday, with 1,681 delegates at stake.
Republicans hold 15 primaries, five caucuses and one state convention, and pick 1,023 delegates.
Nine of the Republican contests are winner-take-all.
McCain is favored in primaries in five of them — his home state of Arizona, as well as Rudy Giuliani's New York, and New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware. That's a total of 251 delegates. Losers get none, no matter how close they come.
Romney is the favorite in the primary in Utah, where a large Mormon population gives him an edge for a winner-take-all prize.
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