Bugs Noted

• No known bugs -- please note any bugs encountered.
• Problem with PMWiki and Submit Content. Occasionally PMWiki fails to parse some part of the URL provided on the submission form and returns an error message. All of the information provided on the submission page is flushed with no explanation of what to do to fix it. So one might try a 2nd or 3rd time before giving up.

The error message reads: PmWiki can't process your request ?invalid page name We are sorry for any inconvenience. Return to http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/pmwiki/pmwiki.php

Suggestions for small improvements.

• Reorganize Form for "Submit Content"
  1. Put check box for "News Item" on the initial page
  2. Reorder information boxes as: Name, E-mail, Article Title, URL, Most Relevant Topic, Description, Author, Date Written, Source of Article, Tags for Searching, Comments
  3. Specify type of material on submission form

• Show Dates
  Show the date of the article, not the date of submission, before each headline for News items.
  Show the date of each article pointed to. (Will follow from asking editors to put articles on their own pages.)
• Option to Sort Items by Date, Title, etc.

• Focus Search

• Page Editor: Reclassify a Page
  Maintainers of a page containing text + video removed the video from their site. The text is worth keeping but the page should be reclassified as "article" and removed from the video index.
• Correct Formatting Errors on Submission Page
  A common syntactic error that causes problems for PMWiki is to include <cr> within multi-line descriptions on the submit page. If <cr> could be replaced by <sp> easily before sending on to PMWiki, considerable editing time would be saved.
• Show Date of Last Edit
  As a way of assuring readers that the site is not rusting, show the date of last edit just above "Changes" in the menu bar on the left.

Ideas for improving this Wiki.

• Once we know the form in which archivists want to receive metadata, develop code so that:
  1. Users input the metadata using something like (:metadata x, y, z :), and;
  2. An administrator can create an XML metadata document of the form desired by archivists.
  The tags implementation would be a useful starting point.
• Collect course syllabi and course notes

• Collect classic papers and Extend classic book collection
  1. Search for online versions of papers recognized as classic by AI Jnl, AAAI award, Science Citation Index
  2. Solicit classic books from authors and scan them
• STUDENT PROJECT: AUTOMATIC PAGE CREATION FOR EDITORS

• STUDENT PROJECT: PAGE FOR SUBMITTING COMMENTS ON ANY VIDEO

• STUDENT PROJECT: COLLECT & MAINTAIN RATING SYSTEM

• STUDENT PROJECT: DETECT DUPLICATE SUBMISSIONS

• STUDENT PROJECT: EASY CLIPPING FOR SPECIFIED VIDEO CLIPS

• EDITORS:

• STUDENT PROJECT: TRACK CHANGES BY PERSONS MAKING THEM

• STUDENT PROJECT: INCORPORATE WikiScanner SOFTWARE TO IDENTIFY SOURCE OF CHANGES

• STUDENT PROJECT: CREATE INCENTIVES TO SUBMIT & EDIT

Ideas for extending the scope of this project.

• BIG PROJECT: VIDEOTAPE ORAL HISTORIES

• BIG PROJECT: ADD PHOTOS TO THE VIDEO ARCHIVE

• STUDENT PROJECT: THESAURUS

• STUDENT PROJECT: CREATE TEMPLATE FOR TEACHING AIDS (E.G., STUDY GUIDES & CLASSROOM LESSON PLANS)

Bugs Fixed & Suggestions Implemented

• Problems with tags implementation Fixed

• Submission Date

• Create a web crawler that will find news stories mentioning AI

• Relabel names of sections in TOC for every page

Simple Form Examples ... testing

Select doesn't work in the current PmWiki version, only in beta.

alphabetagamma

• There is other more complicated/comprehensive code for forms. For now, perhaps e-mail will suffice.
• There is also code for better management of user accounts. For now, we use e-mail.