Rick, I remember you shared some beautiful ideas with us a few months ago; I'm so glad to hear this is taking off. I am not around for the next month, but hope that someone is available to join you.
Sam. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Boston Wikipedians, > > For the purpose of tweaking a wiki, I would be grateful for one hour of help > from one of your members. > > Having met SJ Klein and others at an open house at the Berkman Center a > couple of years back, and more recently at Clover in Harvard Square, I feel > as though one or more of you may be interested in contributing an easy hour > of your busy time to this particular project. > > I have basic skills and experience with MediaWiki, but I need some brief > how-to assistance with some intermediate tasks. I have already gleaned what > I can from documentation, help lines, and fiddling around. > > Using Mediawiki, I have begun setting up a wiki to support collaboration > among the founders of a proposed grade 6-12 school. The group comprises > oceanographers and marine biologists, maritime historians, geographers, > geologist/geophysicists, linguists, authors, and practitioners from other > disciplines who want to share the excitement of their marine and maritime > perspectives with students of the rising generation. > > The school, to be called the "New Bedford Cheironeum," after Cheiron, the > first teacher (and teacher of Jason and the Argonauts), will: > > locate in the historic port of New Bedford, > function as a tuition-free, publicly supported, independently governed, > "charter" school > serve a disadvantaged population of 756 students > emphasize "Ocean Education" through experiential learning > train students to operate a soon-to-be restored 120-yr-old, 100-ft long > historic schooner as an ocean-going research vessel (see > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xhIHFKVDzU) > apply for membership in the International Baccalaureate "Middle Years > Programme" and "Diploma Programme." > create a model for the creation of similar schools throughout the Atlantic > basin > > The wiki I set up is currently password-protected. The url is > www.NewBedfordCheironeum.org/wiki, and it is hosted by www.FatCow.com. > > I have a basic wiki. I need limited help with: > > upgrading the current versions of MediaWiki, PHP, and MySQL > setting up one or two examples of templates, categories, portals, etc. > adding some basic extensions (parser,etc.) > > I am familiar with what needs to be done, but not practiced at it. > > This wiki needs to be robust enough to support and encourage communication > among seriously committed founders, while stimulating the interest of > potential supporters. We have plenty of content; we need a more engaging > structure. We are trying to create a main page that resembles, in a more > modest way, the main page of Wikipedia. > > We are also open to whatever suggestions you care to make. > > Thank you for considering this request. Your help at this juncture would be > an invaluable contribution. > > Best regards, > > Rick Porteus > Lead Founder > New Bedford Cheironeum > [email protected] > Mobile: 508-292-0476 > > > > > > > > > > I am in the process of designing a secondary school, grades 6-12, to focus > on "Ocean-based Education" > > open as a charter school in > > -- > Rick Porteus > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-boston mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston > -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-boston mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-boston
