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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Wiki Top Pages - July

The slow summer season drags on for Marquette news. Here's your periodic Marquette Wiki time killer.

Top Pages:

Other Pages .. one page everyone should have bookmarked is the "Scholarship Table" which gives you a snapshot of each year, and who is playing for Marquette, from today, to 2012.

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Friday, June 06, 2008

Wiki Top 10+

Another installment of the Wiki Top 10+:

One major development on the wiki over the past month is the explosion of recruiting information. 4-5 volunteers have been inspired, and have been editing the wiki with frequent updates about Buzz's prospects.

With that in mind, the Top 10 pages are riddled with new stuff from the off-season fishing expeditions:

Here are a few other pages of interest:

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

More on Maymon

Just a few more updates from around the web regarding yesterday's commitment from Jeronne Maymon.

  • Sportsbubbler has the video of the press conference from yesterday.
  • Rosiak was on a roll yesterday with three blog entries. The first one was linked yesterday, the second is a Q&A with Jeronne's dad, and the third covers some first impressions of Maymon based on a game against Milwaukee Vincent.
  • 620 WTMJ has a radio interview with Jeronne
  • The Wisconsin State Journal has an article on the commitment from yesterday too. Here's a fantastic quote from his mom:

    Now that Maymon has his basketball future mapped out, his mother — and others —will make sure his academics don't keep him from getting there.

    "He could fall and hurt himself and be out of the running as a basketball player," Latanya Maymon said. "Then what are you going to be? A big, dumb jock? I refuse to have a big, dumb jock; I want him to have more substance than (that)."

  • Finally, don't forget to check out Jeronne's wiki page for a comprehensive overview. There is a ton of information on his game, style of play, additional links, and even a few video clips.

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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Top 10 Wiki : March

March? Isn't it mid-April? Yeah. This piece was gong to run April 1, but let's just say April 1 will live in infamy for other reasons.

In the past 3-4 months, the wiki has really exploded with content, as we've hooked a handful of dedicated volunteers. We've gone from ~500 pages to a whopping ~1100 pages of delicious Marquette info.

Here's the Top ~10 for March:

Other pages of interest:

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Wiki Top 10: Feb 2008

Oh, dear god, stop with the wiki top 10. No, I will not.

Good pages to check out:

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Thursday, January 31, 2008

January Wiki top 10

Time for another edition of the Marquette Sports Wiki Top 10. Each month, the wiki has grown in popularity, this month, coming very close to 100,000 pages of MU goodness served up to fans.

And, of course, here are some quality pages, not getting lots of hits, but worth your time:

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Monday, December 31, 2007

Wiki Top 10: December

Time for another Wiki Top 10, December:

Here's some other quality pages you might have missed:
I also want to give props to a few people who've been volunteering and helping create and edit wiki pages. As you know, a wiki is created by YOU, and these guys are doing your job. Spartan3186, oldwarrior81, 77ncaachamps, SocalWarrior, MarqGold17.

Thanks, guys.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

November Wiki Top 10

Happy Birthday, MU Wiki!

A birthday silently passed on November 6th. Just one year ago, the Marquette Sports Wiki was born. Thanks to a handful of volunteers, the wiki is up to 600 pages of sports information from Marquette's history to its future. We're serving up over 2,000 pages of MU info daily, and growing fast.

So, I'd like to acknowledge the volunteers who've helped create and maintain this wiki. We need more people just like them to continue our growth. 77ncaachamps, rocky_warrior, SoCalwarrior, spartan3186, MU Chi_IL, YoungMUFan4, oldwarrior81, talltitan34, ons20, MarqGold17, mwbauer7, notkirkcameron, PuertoRicanNightmare, nywarrior, ziggysfryboy, sir lawrence, MoSarsour, marqptm, spiral97, nd3boy. (And others. Sorry, we weren't keeping track for the first few months!)

November Marquette Wiki top ten:

Other interesting pages:

Want a free MU Schedule Magnet mailed to you? Click here.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Wiki Top 10 - October 2007


Here's another installment of Wiki Top 10 - October.

  • Men's Basketball Start
  • 2007-08 Season Page
  • 2008-09 Recruits
  • Marquette Jersey Project
  • Freeway
  • Alphabetical Player List
  • Marquette Bars
  • Real Chili
  • Marquette Football
  • Buzz Williams

    Pages that could be in the top 10, by themselves, or with some love:

  • Ulice Payne
  • Marquette Coaches thru the ages
  • Brian Barone
  • 1996 Season
  • Kerry Trotter
  • David Diggs
  • 2007-08 Women's Volleyball
  • MU Players who played in the Pros
  • MU @ UL 1/15/2007 (All 2006 games have their own page. Very nice.)
  • MU @ Pitt 2007 (Another example)
  • Men's Soccer

    Futile plug: Please help edit the wiki and share your knowledge. Sure, ~250 people pour over the wiki each day for its knowledge of Marquette athletics. Do any of you help out? No! Where's the Marquette charity? Where's the love?

    I'm throwing down. This should be a layup for one of you out there.

    Steve Cottingham is blank slate. He's our current AD for the love of pete, and has no wiki page.

    Steve Cottingham could bite you on the leg, and you wouldn't know who he is without an official wiki page. If you've been bitten by Steve, or if you ARE Steve, click on this link and click "edit this page" and add something.

    If no one edits his page, I swear, I give up .. until next month.

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    Friday, September 21, 2007

    MU Wiki: September Top 10

    Time for another installment of the Wiki Top 10. And to point out the spiffy new Wiki Logo on the right side of this page:

    By popularity:

    1. 2007-08 Season page
    2. Basketball Start Page
    3. Marquette Jersey Project
    4. Marquette Internet Forum History (Strange no one has edited this.)
    5. Men's Basketball Alphabetical Player Directory
    6. All-Time Series Records (A new page, burning up the charts!)
    7. Men's Hockey (Yes, really.)
    8. Women's Soccer 2007 Season Page (wow)
    9. MU Football History (high quality)
    10. Freeway (Still beating out Tom Crean on the top 10.)
    Undiscovered pages that should be in the top 10:
    1. Al McGuire Center
    2. Abel Joseph
    3. Damon Key
    4. Men's 1978-79 Season
    5. Buzz Williams
    6. Tim Buckley
    7. Ron Glaser (this page needs some love.)
    8. Marquette Gyros
    9. Art's Performing Center
    10. Allie McGuire
    11. Aaron Hutchins
    And please .. every time I post this monthly update, we get about a thousand people flipping through the wiki. Stay a while. Roam around. And give us a hand, click "edit" and add your knowledge. I know you want to.

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    Sunday, August 26, 2007

    August Wiki Top 10

    Time for another installment of Marquette Sports Wiki Top 10.

    First, the most popular pages:

    1. 2007-08 Season Page - Includes schedule so far
    2. Alphabetical Basketball Player List (Year by Year List)
    3. Tom Crean
    4. Men's Football
    5. Marquette Bars
    6. Freeway
    7. Scott Merritt
    8. Anthony Pieper
    9. MU Internet Forum History
    10. Marquette Ticket Project (Ticket stubs from the ages.)
    Now .. some of those links got popular because they were posted somewhere. -- Clearly, Freeway has a fan club!

    Below are my top undiscovered pages.
    1. Ring Out Ahoya
    2. Marquette Jerseys Through the Ages
    3. Mo Lucas
    4. MU Commencement Speaker List
    5. Cordell Henry
    6. Marquette Nicknames
    7. Bleuteaux
    8. MU Basketball Coaches
    9. Eddie Hickey
    10. Al's Run
    11. Basketball Attendance
    12. Terry Sanders

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    Friday, July 13, 2007

    Wiki Top 10

    Every time I write about the Marquette Sports Wiki it gets a large spike in traffic. So I know you're interested.

    I was looking at the website stats, and how it's grown from 10-15 users/day to 150-200+ users/day in the 7 short months it's been alive. That's a lot of folks consuming Marquette information on a daily basis!

    Top 10 Most Viewed:

    1. 2007-08 Season Page - Includes Known Schedule
    2. 2007-08 Recruits
    3. 2008-09 Recruits
    4. 2006-07 Season Page
    5. Mike McCarter - "Freeway"
    6. Real Chili Info & Recipe
    7. MU Drinking Games
    8. Marquette Graduation Commencement Speakers / Speeches
    9. Alphabetical Player List
    10. Tom Crean

    But, some of those top 10 are there because they were promoted in a posting somewhere.

    So here's a list of 10 pages that have some great info, and shouldn't be missed:

    1. MU Coaches through the ages
    2. Doc Rivers
    3. Bobble Heads
    4. 1973-4 Season - NCAA Runners-Up
    5. Marquette Game Jerseys
    6. 1993-4 Season - Great Midwest Champs
    7. Brian Wardle
    8. Bo Ellis
    9. Jimmy Mac
    10. Ticket Stubs of the Ages

    Make sure .. if you go to the wiki today, don't just look at one page .. surf around! There's hundreds of pages of info on the seasons and your favorite players.

    And of course, if you know something, please share it. Click "Edit" on any page, and type away!

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    Saturday, June 23, 2007

    Retro MU Wallpaper

    I've recently been scanning in the covers of the Marquette Media Guides for the MU Wiki and placing them in their respective years' summary pages. (Examples: 1980 1987 1995)

    Some of these make outstanding retro wallpapers for your PC screen. Click here for the full list.




    I'm slowly building my collection of old media guides, mostly through eBay. If anyone has media guides that need a new home, I'd be happy to help you out! (hilltopper@inbox.com)

    And, of course, it's always a good time to plug the wiki. Over the past two months, it's experienced explosive growth, nearly doubling the number of pages of information.

    Just a sampling of the great information that can be found on the wiki. And, of course, we need volunteers to contribute. If you know something about Marquette history, just click "edit this page" and type it in! -- If you need help, I'm happy to take your info and upload it properly. Just email it to me. (hilltopper@inbox.com)

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    Monday, April 30, 2007

    Wiki: Adopt a player!

    A couple weeks ago, I launched a Wiki contest to improve the Marquette Wiki. It's been very successful, and we've added 113 new pages of content as well as added content to over 130 other pages.

    The winner? spartan3186! Thanks for all your hard work!

  • You want to know something about Brandon Bell?
  • Brian Barone?
  • John Polonowski?
  • Jimmy Mac?

    But you might notice there's something missing from those pages. Well, feel free to click "edit" and add your information! You are the instant editor and writer of anything you know about.

    The end of the contest does not mean the work on the Wiki is finished. We're trying to make the MU Wiki a vast encyclopedia of searchable Marquette Athletics information.

    Many players need YOUR help.

  • Wasn't Damon Key your favorite player? He needs your help.
  • Didn't you used to play with Terry Rand? Edit his page.
  • Coach Rabadeaux needs your help. -- (Maybe you ARE Coach Rabadeaux. Edit your page!)
  • Robb Logterman needs your help.
  • How does George Thompson not have the best wiki page out there? Help him out!
  • And Hank Raymonds? Someone adopt Hank Raymonds!

    • I realize there's a vast knowledge base out there. If you don't have time to figure out how to edit the Wiki (it's pretty easy though!) I will help. Write up something on someone, any topic, and email it to me (Hilltopper@inbox.com) .. I will take your information and plop it where it belongs in the wiki.

    Maybe you have a great story about Mike Deane or Bob Dukiet.

    Maybe you worked in the office in 1984, and want to help share what you know.

    Contribute to this database for the ages.

    Pick a player or a season and adopt them; share your knowledge!

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    Friday, April 20, 2007

    Wiki Contest continues.........

    Don't forget to Wiki!

    Edit:

    We've had a great start, with some nice new pages:


    And many more MU Schedules. More to come.

    Please, join in: Even if you're not gunning for a prize, just donate a few minutes of your time to help the project and fill out a section or two!

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    Tuesday, April 17, 2007

    Marquette Wiki Contest

    WIKI CONTEST

    As you may know, MUScoop.com hosts a Marquette Wiki that focuses on all things Marquette Athletics.   
     
    I have been amazed at the growth of the wiki, as it opened 8 short months ago, and already contains several hundred pages, mostly centered around MU basketball.
     

    *You want to know who MU is recruiting for 2007-08?  Boom.  Here it is. 
    *How about the known information for next year's schedule? 
    *The all-time assist leaders?
    *How about Doc Rivers' biography?
    *You want to know the Cross Country team roster from 2006?
    *How about the soccer team?
    *The Women's Basketball team?
    *Or maybe you just need the recipe to make your own batch of Real Chili. 

    Ok, ok, there's a lot of great information there.  While 2006-07's information is thoroughly entered, we need your help.  The ultimate vision is that this Wiki is the best source for MU reference for all years and all sports.
     
    Don't know what a wiki is?  Basically, it starts as a blank slate and volunteers like you write and edit information into the wiki.  Much of this is through cutting and pasting things that are already on the web.  For example, all the box-scores for 2006 were graciously entered in their proper places by a dedicated volunteer, cutting and pasting the data into the proper place.
     
    But a wiki is only as good as its volunteers!
     
    So, I'm running a contest to pique your interest.  Hopefully, a series of contests.
     
    Rules:
    1. Whoever adds the most content, wins. 
    2. Minimum to win a grand prize:  20 chunks or pages.  (These are good prizes.)  To count, a "chunk" has got to be 3-4 sizable paragraphs or one multi-row table.
    3. Any tie will be broken by my judgment of Wiki entry quality. 
    4. The contest ends around May 1st.  There may or may not be more contests, until the prizes are given out.
    5. I'm making this up as I go.  I reserve the right to dink around with these rules!
     
    The winner will CHOOSE ONE of these FABULOUS prizes from the GRAND PRIZE LIST:
     

    1. Dwyane Wade Figurine.  Yup.  I'm donating one for the cause.
    2. 30th Anniversary T-Shirt (M)
    3. Tom Crean Coaching Book - Autographed
    4. MUScoop.com Shirt (Limited Edition)
    5. Heartfelt atta-boy (with optional pat on back)
    Want to write Rick Majerus' bio?  Help us out.

    Know something about the soccer team?  Help us out. 

    Maybe you could help us with box scores from 2005? 
     
    Basketball season is over!

    TV shows are going into re-runs.  You have nothing to do.   Help us with the wiki!

    Link to MUScoop.com thread, contest rules, and running wiki entries.

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