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Polywiki
Polywiki would be a hosted mediawiki site that would use SUNY Poly single sign-on, automatically allow anyone with a sunypoly.edu account to create an account, and adhere to the basic University guidelines for communications in academic spaces. The space could be governed by a Wikipedia council, with representation from key governance groups including the Cabinet, Faculty Governance, Student Governance. The space would need to be professionally administered to incorporate tasks such as URL banning and term banning, as reported on the Brock University Document Server, though many community management tasks can be managed by volunteers.

Polywiki as a campus tool for multiple purposes
Mediawiki is described as a broad-based teaching and learning tool used across academic and administrative at the University of British Columbia An bulleted version of a conference proposal serves as an excellent start for a description of what Polypedia could be:

Teaching and Learning
MediaWiki as a Teaching and Learning Tool


 * authoring content directly in Wikipedia
 * authoring local Wiki in number of creative ways.

Open and collaborative ethos


 * allowed users to drive innovation (examples)
 * Math Department initiative that constructs and reassembles learning resources using a flexible and powerful content model that exploits namespaces, transclusions, and categories and delivers content to smartphone apps
 * Engineering department using it to dynamically populate its websites and virtual laboratory walks
 * "Student as Producer” concept, is technologically founded in UBC Wiki and further aggregated in many online spaces.

MediaWiki as a Content management system (CMS) Tool

 * Content management system allows such open and sharable content to be syndicated dynamically in multiple online learning spaces
 * traditional course management systems
 * via an embed code extension available on each wiki page.
 * “Wiki Embed” WordPress plugin
 * allows for more precise control over how MediaWiki content is represented within WordPress sites
 * Distributed content management approach has been adopted by a number of campus groups
 * the UBC Library
 * print resources: effectively integrated the Collections extension to allow the Wiki to support.
 * Advantages of this approach
 * Moved a number of campus processes out of rigidly controlled content management strategy
 * Freatly expanded the scope and scale of open activity and collaboration at the University.

CTLT use of MediaWiki balance

 * institutional requirements for defined structure
 * practices that allow for emergence.

“Wiki Gardener”

 * provides assistance to users
 * gently ensures that emerging community, organizational and Namespace standards are met

https://www.cs.washington.edu/lab/web/mediawiki/
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/MediaWiki_as_a_Transformative_University_Platform:_Creating_an_Institutional_Gateway_to_the_Commons