WikiCollegiate:About
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WikiCollegiate is the place where the college community creates, shares and stores its knowledge.
Students, faculty, alumni, staff, and researchers connected to any web-enabled computer or mobile device use WikiCollegiate to:
- Reduce the worry of losing data kept only on laptops or memory sticks by using one’s private WikiCollegiate space to upload and store private documents and files – space large enough to store and backup 100+ term papers and files!
- Create personal wiki pages that can only be viewed and edited by the user or anyone of the user’s choosing.
- Take notes during class and even create group class notes from multiple contributors in near real time.
- Capture and preserve club and organizational memory and build guides to store and pass on knowledge created by members of a community over time.
- Organize events and projects in one central space accessible to multiple users and reduce reliance on email back and forth.
- Create to-do lists, manage deadlines and write papers in their personal WikiCollegiate space.
- Connect and collaborate on academic, research and extracurricular interests and projects with the college community worldwide.
- Contribute and upload data generated through research and experimentation and access research and data created by others.
- Write guides with friends or colleagues.
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Why We Do It
- Imagine a world where members of the college community regularly connect and collaborate with each other on academic, research and extracurricular interests while building the largest repository of user-generated cross-university knowledge and data ever assembled.
- Imagine a world where members of the college community create knowledge in collaboration rather than in silos.
- Imagine a world where all the research and experimental data ever produced were not only stored on dorm room-, lab- and institutional-hard drives, but were also made available in one central place for everyone in the college community to access.
We imagine this world now.
WikiCollegiate seeks to open up the world of college community knowledge creation and collaboration and make creating and sharing knowledge easier.
We provide a place for members of the college community to help each other create meaning from all the knowledge and information that exists. We provide a place where the college community can create, share and pool its knowledge.
WikiCollegiate Principles
The collegiate community makes many positive contributions to the world. We believe the college community can accomplish even more with deeper and richer cross-university and cross-continental collaboration. We built WikiCollegiate to give the college community a place to create, share and build knowledge.
WikiCollegiate follows three core principles:
1. Share with abandon.
WikiCollegiate succeeds when its community of users share freely and openly. We want you to post ideas, hypotheses, club notes, data sets, files, documents to share with club members, research papers, outlines, and contribute to and benefit from the contributions of others. If we all give more than we receive, the community benefits and so will you.
2. Create and build in public serve to serve the highest public good.
What we create and build together in the public space of WikiCollegiate will be stronger than what we can create and build in private. Openness and transparency are key WikiCollegiate community attributes. We believe knowledge will advance faster in public space than it will in private.
3. Your private wiki space is yours.
Like a gym locker, what you create and/or store in the private space of your wiki belongs to you and those to whom you give access. Creating in public serves the highest public good, however we understand there will be times when you’ll want to store personal files and documents and create private pages to work on projects with friends or colleagues. We respect your privacy, and encourage you to also make public contributions, share your extracurricular interests and work with the larger WikiCollegiate community.
Privacy Policy
For more information on WikiCollegiate's privacy policy visit.
Who We Are
WikiCollegiate was founded in New Haven, Connecticut. It was created by Reggie Solomon who developed the wiki after using one to work with classmates to organize their college reunion. Development of WikiCollegiate began in September 2007 and launched in March 2008. WikiCollegiate is owned by Treg, LLC.
Acknowledgements
Special thanks go to Dan Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams for their book Wikinomics which details how mass collaboration and crowdsourcing are changing the world in positive ways.
Design thanks goes to Chahya Santoso who led the development of WikiCollegiate’s spot-on user interface. Backend application thanks go to Athar Hameed for leading an international developer team in constructing WikiCollegiate’s unique features.
WikiCollegiate extends a final shoutout to Reggie Solomon’s biological family, his New Haven family, half brothers who enjoy tearing up the dance floor, and his TGWNN family for all their support – you know who you are baby.