Introducing the new UBC Wiki

Link: ubcwiki.ca

As we head into the new school year, we are finally excited to announce the launch of the new UBC Wiki! This wiki was started years ago by the /r/UBC moderation team, and it just never got to a point where it was ready to be shared with the community. We are now ready to get it going again, and we hope that it will become a useful resource for everyone.

Over the next few days, we will be swapping out outdated links and content to this new wiki website. We hope that this new wiki will be easier to navigate and more accessible to all students. Having the wiki off site also means that we can make changes more quickly and easily, and that it isn’t affected by the limitations of one platform.

Over the next while, we will be adding more content to the wiki, and updating content that was written for the old wiki. We will also periodically post a thread for one particular topic to crowdsource information from the community. This should help us keep the wiki up to date and detailed.

The UBC Wiki is intended to be a community project, and we welcome contributions from all UBC community members. If you would like to contribute, you can see the instructions on this page, or see below:

Submit your suggestions or corrections using this Google form
Send us a modmail on Reddit or message Otter on Lemmy
Discuss in the UBC Reddit and Lemmy communities
Share the wiki with your friends and classmates

If you are familiar with GitHub, you can also create an issue, or implement the changes yourself and submit a pull request into the STAGING branch. New ideas submitted by other means will be added as issues.

Technical details about the wiki can be found on the ⚙️UBCWiki Project page.

We hope that you find this wiki useful, and we look forward to seeing it grow and improve over time. Welcome to the new school year, and good luck with your studies!

UBC Wiki

A community project with:

admissions & registration guides

handy tools and relevant websites

‘where to find ___’ guides

census results, ‘best of’ posts, and more!

Summarized Guidelines:

Be polite: Treat each other with respect. No slurs (ex. racial, gender, homophobic, mental health, etc.)

Engage in good faith: If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.

Use Megathreads: If your question can go in a megathread or stickied post, you must post it there.

Keep content relevant: Posts must be related to UBC or its community. All memes must be OC and/or explicitly related to UBC.

Follow community rules: This includes illegal activities, linking to unauthorized copyrighted materials, doxxing, and violations of UBC academic conduct policy (read more).

Advertisements: UBC affiliated non-profit organizations may advertise within reasonable limits. Everyone else must contact us before posting. No private advertisement of any sale or purchase. (read more).

Surveys: Surveys should be posted only if they are related to UBC or are of unique interest to the UBC community. Only some survey types are allowed (read more).

No discussion of foreign politics unless it has clear and direct implications for the UBC community (read more).

Lost & Found Posts are only allowed for some items (read more). Found posts SHOULD NOT include images or descriptors (color, location) of the item. Pictures with personal information are also prohibited.

In addition, we strongly frown upon reposts and LQ posts, and such posts may be removed.

If you see a post or comment which is not in accordance with these guidelines please use the report feature and DO NOT ENGAGE with it.

FAQs/Megathreads:

OtterOPMAEnglish

2•9 months ago

Our other post: https://www.reddit.com/r/UBC/comments/15xleh0

Rob Bos English

2•7 months ago

Huh, this is an interesting idea. SFU official departmental documentation is often out of date, and some kind of community-sourced knowledge repository is a really appealing idea. Reddit, Discord, etc are great, but they’re annoying to search and not well organized.