What Does Hampedia Need Next?

This page exists to document a list of items with optional descriptions that need to be fully and completely digitised on Hampedia. The list is open to anyone to add ideas, and should serve as a somewhat of a wishlist for some, and a to-do list for others who wish to help out. If you wish Hampedia would have a certain content or more information about a given topic, please add a short entry here! If you wish Hampedia would have a technological feature which does not currently exist, please expand the To be continued.... ~ Hampedia article. If you are looking to help out Hampedia, and by extension all of Hampshire, browse through this list and see what we need to add to Hampedia! It is always best to complete a single item on the list instead of doing bits and pieces of all of them.

What Should Be Digitised?

 * Pages are required for all current students, staff, and faculty along with information in the public directory consistently organised and updated between all of them.
 * A page for every Hampshire College alumni must be created -- possibly not true, since they aren't in the directory
 * A page for every completed Division III project must exist, as well as the project itself given appropriate licensing permissions from the creators
 * Community Supported Agriculture must be well documented, including available vegetables, farm share information, and multimedia content (hopefully with a video interview of Nancy).
 * A catalogue of every machine available for use at Lemelson. Also, an inventory of all raw materials available, from metal pieces, electronics stuff, handtools, etc.
 * Mixed Nuts must have not only current pricelist, but also bulk order catalogue on Hampedia. Ideally we could implement an online store hooked into LDAP accounts on Hampedia for orders to be charged to student accounts. This could revolutionise Mixed Nuts.
 * Dining Commons page should have rough inventory (what's in salad bar, deli, spice rack, ice cream situation, cereals, drinks, coffee, fruit) with pictures. Ultimately it would be wonderful to list where this food comes from originally, as well as nutrition facts.
 * Course pages must be up to date with the current semester, with a sane organisational scheme for past semesters.
 * Find documents in the library which are not published books, but rather Hampshire-specific documents that need to be OCRed. Figure out roughly how many pages this is.
 * Articles on the properties surrounding the campus, with information on the use and current owners
 * Zen rock garden location and multimedia content
 * History and multimedia content of statue in front of campus
 * History and multimedia content of walkway in the sky behind Prescott
 * Documentation of the physical servers in the server room and their hardware specifications
 * Documentation of the internal local area network, ideally with graphics to designate different subnetworks.
 * An article on the Internet connection of Hampshire College must be created, paying special attention to the switch from Paetech as our ISP to a Five College fiber loop down to Springfield.
 * A documentation of the composting situation at Hampshire, past, present, and future. Photos of our (old?) compost at the Farm should be taken, as well as an examination of its history. There should be a look at the current compost fiasco and also where our compost is going presently.
 * Greenhouse must have a page listing species of plants which exist
 * All chemicals in Cole Science Center must be catalogued on here, as well as glassware and other lab equipment
 * Chair Massage Program!
 * Farm animals, feeding schedules, and multimedia content of farm center. Also documentation of maple syrup and honey, as well as details of pig and cow slaughtering locations and procedures (multimedia!!).
 * Yurt page should have (or have subpages or scanned attachments) of all the information in the mega Yurt binder.
 * Document all equipment available in the film/photo building
 * OPRA resources!! Climbing walls, swimming pool, bouldering cave, sauna, trips, OPRA staff, etc.
 * The Music and Dance Building article could use some pictures both past and present. I'm sure other articles could too.

What Hampedia Needs

 * FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF HAMPEDIA: you have to know what questions to ask
 * send out postcards/something to accepted students- make sure it actually happens this time
 * All student group pages must be completed by relevant information.
 * Create complete documentation for everything that is related to Semantic Wiki.
 * All courses available on the Hub must have a page with info, categories, and images.
 * Announcements must have a way to input a "take down" date, so that past announcements are taken off the main page automatically. (The student trustee announcements come to mind, since voting ended nearly a week ago and the "vote for me!" announcements are still there.) This is why the 'events' category exists, although it's perhaps misnamed -- announcements where time matters should put in a time!
 * Calendar Calendar Calendar.... possibly something really awesome and fancy where you can drag and drop events from a public calendar onto a personal calendar, and see who else is going to the same events as you etc...?

Server Side Modification

 * Upgrade to MediaWiki 1.14
 * Upgrade Search function
 * Upgrade to newest Semantic Mediawiki (we're several releases out of date as I write this)
 * Finish with the calendar.
 * Have Open Layers working.
 * Correct problems with the "category cloud" extension: make the entry space longer and fix CSS element(s) so that the bottom of the page does not become longer than it should.
 * Get rid of or fix conflicting extensions; for example, the CategoryTagCloud and FCKEditor both conflict with Semantic Mediawiki, and the combination of the tag cloud and fckeditor conflicts with core mediawiki functionality (specifically, the ability to categorize templates while not categorizing the pages using the template.