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82-489: First created around and by Misplaced Pages's community of volunteer editors (Wikipedians), it has since expanded to other projects like Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata and volunteer software engineers and developers contributing to the software used to power Wikimedia, MediaWiki . As of 2023, Wikimedia's content projects include: Other supporting projects in the Wikimedia movement include: The Wikimedia community includes

164-541: A cease and desist letter to the Wiki-PR agency. Misplaced Pages's co-founder Larry Sanger (who later founded rival project Citizendium ) characterized the Misplaced Pages community in 2007 as ineffective and abusive, stating that "The community does not enforce its own rules effectively or consistently. Consequently, administrators and ordinary participants alike are able essentially to act abusively with impunity, which begets

246-542: A 2008 Wikimedia Foundation survey. Sue Gardner , a former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, hoped to see female contributions increase to 25% by 2015. Linda Basch, president of the National Council for Research on Women, noted the contrast in these Misplaced Pages editor statistics with the percentage of women currently completing bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and PhD programs in

328-539: A biomedical complex directly north of Huntington Bank Stadium. The Armory , northeast of the Mall area, is built like a Norman castle . It features a sally-port entrance facing Church Street and a tower that was originally intended to be the professor of military science 's residence. Since it originally held the athletics department, the Armory also features a gymnasium . Today it is home to military science classes and

410-439: A catalyst for collaborative development, and that a "creative construction" approach encourages participation. A paper written by Andrea Forte and Amy Bruckman in 2005, called "Why Do People Write for Misplaced Pages? Incentives to Contribute to Open-Content Publishing", discussed the possible motivations of Misplaced Pages contributors. It applied Latour and Woolgar's concept of the cycle of credit to Misplaced Pages contributors, suggesting that

492-609: A charter for the University of Minnesota as a territorial university in 1851, seven years before Minnesota became a state. The university is currently classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". It is a member of the Association of American Universities . The National Science Foundation ranked University of Minnesota 22nd among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2022 with $ 1.202 billion. The University of Minnesota

574-491: A college in 1869. Today, the university's Minneapolis campus is divided by the Mississippi River into an East and West Bank. The Minneapolis campus has several residence halls: 17th Avenue Hall, Centennial Hall, Frontier Hall, Territorial Hall, Pioneer Hall, Sanford Hall, Wilkins Hall, Middlebrook Hall, Yudof Hall, and Comstock Hall. The East Bank, the main portion of the campus, covers 307 acres (124 ha) and

656-681: A day. The university also maintains a vigilant stance on cybersecurity, conducting annual external assessments and updating strategies for risk mitigation. Emergency preparedness is also a key focus, with updated Emergency Operations Plans and disaster recovery protocols ensuring readiness for a variety of potential threats. Minnesota Gophers football player Dominic Jones was convicted of sexual assault in 2008. In July 2009, an appeals court upheld Jones' conviction, but reduced his four-year prison sentence to one year. More than 1,000 sexual assaults on campus were reported between 2010 and 2015. No prosecutions for rape occurred, according to Katie Eichele of

738-434: A free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally." There are over 800 language editions of different Wikimedia projects, each with groups of editors working on areas of shared interest. Some have Wikiprojects with their own project pages, membership lists, and open task trackers. Some also register as community user groups to participate in movement governance, use community logos outside of

820-536: A greener and quieter campus. It has a grassy mall of its own and can be a bit of a retreat from the more urban Minneapolis campus. Prominent on this campus is Bailey Hall, the St. Paul campus' only residence hall. Campus Connector buses run every five minutes on weekdays when school is in session, and every 20 minutes on weekends, allowing students easy access to both campuses. The Continuing Education and Conference Center, which serves over 20,000 conference attendees per year,

902-587: A high school or undergraduate college education. In August 2014, Misplaced Pages co-founder Jimmy Wales said in a BBC interview that the Wikimedia Foundation was "... really doubling down our efforts ..." to reach 25% of female editors (originally targeted by 2015), since the Foundation had "totally failed" so far. Wales said "a lot of things need to happen ... a lot of outreach, a lot of software changes". Andrew Lih , writing in The New York Times ,

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984-464: A leader in medical innovation. In 1954, C. Walton Lillehei and F. John Lewis performed the world's first successful open-heart surgery using cross-circulation. 1955 saw Richard DeWall and Lillehei develop the bubble oxygenator, setting the stage for modern heart-lung machines. This was followed by Lillehei's performance of the first artificial heart valve implant in a human in 1958, and in the same year, Earl Bakken, co-founder of Medtronic, Inc., developed

1066-702: A multitude of social activities between the residence halls. The Athletic area is directly north of the Superblock and includes four recreation/athletic facilities: the University Recreation Center, Cooke Hall, the University Fieldhouse, and the University Aquatic Center . These facilities are all connected by tunnels and skyways, allowing students to use one locker room facility. North of this complex

1148-469: A never-ending cycle of abuse." Oliver Kamm of The Times expressed skepticism toward Misplaced Pages's reliance on consensus in forming its content: "Misplaced Pages seeks not truth but consensus, and like an interminable political meeting the end result will be dominated by the loudest and most persistent voices." A Misplaced Pages Monument by sculptor Mihran Hakobyan was erected in Słubice , Poland, in 2014 to honor

1230-491: A number of communities devoted to single wikis: A multilingual cross-project community developed on the Meta-Wiki ( meta.wikimedia.org ) where translation and governance discussions happen. The Misplaced Pages community, known as Wikipedians , is the community of contributors of the online encyclopedia Misplaced Pages. It consists of editors, some operating Misplaced Pages bots , and administrators . The Arbitration Committee (or ArbCom)

1312-413: A representative survey of 1,000 adults in the U.S. by YouGov found that 7% had ever edited Misplaced Pages, 20% had considered doing so but had not, 55% had neither considered editing Misplaced Pages nor done it, and 17% had never visited Misplaced Pages. In a 2003 study of Misplaced Pages as a community, economics Ph.D. student Andrea Ciffolilli argued that the low transaction costs of participating in wiki software create

1394-468: A ride. Three light-rail stations serve the university along the Green Line : Stadium Village , East Bank , and West Bank . The university partnered with Metro to offer students, staff, and faculty members a Campus Zone Pass that enables free travel on the three stations that pass through campus, as well as a discounted unlimited pass for students. More recently, the university has instituted

1476-427: A van service, offers rides near and on campus. Both are free and open to all students, staff, and faculty. In addition, the campus has nearly 200 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and 200 yellow phones for emergency-only calls. The University Police Station has 20 Code Blue phones around campus that immediately connect people to their office. There are also over 2,000 security cameras being monitored 24 hours

1558-566: A variety of functions during the rest of the year. Although the Falcon Heights area code is 651, the university telephone system trunk lines use Minneapolis exchanges and its 612 area code. Walking and riding bicycles are the most common modes of transportation among students. At times, the University Police has occasionally cited individuals for jaywalking or riding bicycles on restricted sidewalks in areas surrounding

1640-599: A webcomic called WikiWorld which ran in The Signpost from 2006 to 2008. A podcast called Misplaced Pages Weekly was active from 2006 to 2009, while a series of conference calls titled "Not the Misplaced Pages Weekly" ran from 2008 to 2009. Offline activities are organized by the Wikimedia Foundation or the community of Misplaced Pages: Wikimania is an annual international conference for users of

1722-463: Is Wiki Indaba which is the regional conference for African Wikimedians. The conference includes Wikimedia projects such as Misplaced Pages , other wikis , open-source software , free knowledge , free content and how these projects affect the African continent . The Seigenthaler and Essjay incidents caused criticism of Misplaced Pages's reliability and usefulness as a reference. Complaints related to

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1804-929: Is WikiConference India which is a national conference organised in India . The first conference was held in November 2011, in Mumbai , the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra . It was organised by the Mumbai Misplaced Pages community in partnership with Wikimedia India Chapter . The conference focus is on matters concerning India on Misplaced Pages projects and other sister projects in English and other Indian folk languages . WikiConference India 2023 took place in Hyderabad from 28 to 30 April 2023. Additionally, there

1886-618: Is "St. Paul", but "Falcon Heights" is also recognized for use in the street addresses of all campus buildings. The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences , including the University of Minnesota Food Industry Center and many other disciplines from social sciences to vocational education , are on this campus. It also includes the College of Continuing and Professional Studies, College of Veterinary Medicine, and College of Biological Sciences. The extensive lawns, flowers, trees, and surrounding University research farm plots create

1968-614: Is a court of last resort for disputes on Misplaced Pages. Wikipedians in residence are Wikipedians and Wikimedians who collaborate with a cultural institution to help integrate its work into the projects. Thematic organizations are charities, similar to chapters, founded to support Wikimedia projects in a subject focal area. As of 2021 there are two such organizations. National and regional community groups have incorporated chapters, charitable organizations that support Wikimedia projects and their participants in specified countries and geographical regions. As of 2021 there are 39 chapters. Over time

2050-479: Is a yearly WikiConference North America organized by and for Misplaced Pages editors, enthusiasts, and volunteers. The first two events were held at New York Law School and Washington, D.C.'s National Archives Building in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Staff from the Wiki Education Foundation , which co-sponsored the 2015 event, and the Wikimedia Foundation also attend each year. There

2132-514: Is also on the St. Paul campus. The St. Paul campus is home to the College of Design's Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel (DHA). Located in McNeal Hall, DHA includes the departmental disciplines of apparel design, graphic design, housing studies, interior design, and retail merchandising. McNeal Hall is also the home to the University's Goldstein Museum of Design . The St. Paul campus

2214-633: Is bordered by the Minneapolis neighborhoods of Dinkytown (on the north), Cedar-Riverside (on the west), Stadium Village (on the southeast), and Prospect Park (on the east). On regular weekdays during the school year, the Campus Connectors operate with schedule-less service as often as every five minutes during the busiest parts of the school day (between 7 am and 5:30 pm), slowing to once every 15 or 20 minutes during earlier or later hours. The estimated commute time between St. Paul and

2296-717: Is considered a Public Ivy university. The Minnesota Golden Gophers compete in 21 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference and have won 29 national championships. As of March 2024, Minnesota's current and former students have won a total of 90 Olympic medals . The University of Minnesota was founded in Minneapolis in 1851 as a college preparatory school , seven years prior to Minnesota's statehood. It struggled in its early years and relied on donations to stay open from donors, including South Carolina Governor William Aiken Jr. In 1867,

2378-722: Is divided into several areas: the Knoll area, the Mall area, the Health area, the Athletic area, and the Gateway area. The Knoll area, the oldest extant part of the university, is in the northwestern corner of the campus. Many buildings in this area are well over 100 years old, such as some of the 13 in the Old Campus Historic District . Today, most disciplines in this area relate to the humanities . Burton Hall

2460-511: Is home to the College of Education and Human Development . Folwell Hall and Jones Hall are primarily used by the language departments. A residence hall, Sanford Hall, and a student-apartment complex, Roy Wilkins Hall, are in this area. This area is just south of the Dinkytown neighborhood and business area. Northrop Mall is arguably the center of the Minneapolis campus. The plan for the Mall

2542-650: Is home to the University of Minnesota Law School , the Humphrey School of Public Affairs , the Carlson School of Management , various social science buildings, and the performing arts center. The West Bank Arts Quarter includes the Rarig Center , Barbara Barker Center for Dance, Ferguson Hall (School of Music), Ted Mann Concert Hall and Regis Center for Art. Due to the numerous arts departments on

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2624-659: Is known to University students and staff for the Meat and Dairy Salesroom, which sells animal food products (such as ice cream, cheese, and meat) produced in the university's state-certified pilot plant by students, faculty and staff. The St. Paul campus borders the Minnesota State Fairgrounds , which hosts the largest state fair in the United States by daily attendance. The fair lasts 12 days, from late August through Labor Day. The grounds also serve

2706-430: Is primarily funded by donations with the average donation being $ 15. WMF was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales so that there would be an independent charitable entity responsible for the domains and trademarks, and so that Misplaced Pages and its sister projects could be funded through non-profit means in the future. Its purpose was "... to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under

2788-470: Is that it's fun and addictive". Wikipedians sometimes award one another " barnstars " for good work. These personalized tokens of appreciation reveal a range of valued work extending beyond "simple editing" to include social support, administrative actions, and types of articulation work. The barnstar phenomenon has been analyzed by researchers seeking to determine what implications it might have for other communities engaged in some collaborations. Since 2012,

2870-599: Is the Huntington Bank Stadium , Williams Arena , Mariucci Arena , Ridder Arena , and the Baseline Tennis Center. The Gateway area, the easternmost section of campus, is primarily composed of office buildings instead of classrooms and lecture halls. The most prominent building is McNamara Alumni Center . The university is also heavily invested in a biomedical research initiative and has built five biomedical research buildings that form

2952-569: Is the addition to the Architecture building, designed by Steven Holl and completed in 2002. It won an American Institute of Architects award for its innovative design. The Architecture building was then renamed Rapson Hall after the local modernist architect and School of Architecture Dean Ralph Rapson . The university also has a "Greek row" of historic fraternities and sororities located north of campus on University Avenue SE. The West Bank covers 53 acres (21 ha). The West Bank

3034-464: Is the enjoyment that editors may get from contributing to Misplaced Pages and being part of the Misplaced Pages community. Also mentioned is the potential addictive quality of editing Misplaced Pages. Gina Trapani of Lifehacker said "it turns out editing an article isn't scary at all. It's easy, surprisingly satisfying and can become obsessively addictive." Jimmy Wales has also commented on the addictive quality of Misplaced Pages, saying "The main thing about Misplaced Pages ...

3116-440: Is the oldest and largest in the University of Minnesota system and has the ninth-largest (as of the 2022–2023 academic year) main campus student body in the United States, with 54,890 students at the start of the 2023–24 academic year. It is the flagship institution of the University of Minnesota System and is organized into 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic units. The Minnesota Territorial Legislature drafted

3198-584: Is to the southeast of the Mall area and focuses on undergraduate buildings for biological science students, as well as the homes of the College of Pharmacy , the School of Nursing , the School of Dentistry , the Medical School , the School of Public Health , and M Health Fairview Hospitals and Clinics. This complex of buildings forms what is known as the University of Minnesota Medical Center . Part of

3280-439: The College of Biological Sciences is housed in this area. Across the street from the University of Minnesota Medical Center Fairview is an area known as the "Superblock", a four-city-block space comprising four residence halls (Pioneer, Frontier, Centennial and Territorial Halls). The Superblock is one of the most popular locations for on-campus housing because it has the largest concentration of students living on campus and has

3362-622: The Lotus Coffman administration. The Mall area is home to the College of Liberal Arts , which is Minnesota's largest public or private college, and the College of Science and Engineering . Behind CMU is another residence hall, Comstock Hall, and another student-apartment complex, Yudof Hall. The Northrop Mall Historic District was formally listed in the National Register of Historic Places in January 2018. The Health area

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3444-626: The Wikimedia movement , a global network of volunteer contributors to Misplaced Pages and other related projects hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation . In April 2008, writer and lecturer Clay Shirky and computer scientist Martin Wattenberg estimated the total time spent creating Misplaced Pages at roughly 100 million hours. As of August 2023, there are approximately 109 million registered user accounts across all language editions, of which around 280,000 are "active" (i.e., made at least one edit in

3526-460: The bystander effect . The U of M also has a SAFE-U emergency notification text messaging system that sends out a notification to all faculty, staff, and students in case of emergency. The commitment to a safe inclusive campus is also articulated through the comprehensive University of Minnesota Safety Plan, aligned with MPact 2025's Commitment 5, Action Item 5.4, emphasizing the need to assess and improve campus safety continually. The establishment of

3608-477: The honeycrisp apple. Note: The flagship University of Minnesota campus is the Twin Cities campus, which comprises grounds in St. Paul and Minneapolis, the latter divided into areas on both the east and west banks of the Mississippi River. Administratively, these are all one campus, but for purposes of simplicity, this article will apply "campus" to its component parts where necessary to avoid confusion with

3690-513: The wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation (such as Misplaced Pages and other sister projects ). Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia Foundation projects, other wikis, open-source software , free knowledge and free content, and the different social and technical aspects which relate to these topics. Since 2011, the winner of the Wikimedian of the Year award (known as

3772-697: The "Wikipedian of the Year" until 2017) has been announced at Wikimania. The first Wikimania was held in Frankfurt , in 2005. Wikimania is organized by a committee supported usually by the local national chapter, with support from local institutions (such as a library or university) and usually from the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikimania has been held in cities such as Buenos Aires , Cambridge , Haifa , Hong Kong , Taipei , London , Mexico City , Esino Lario , Italy , Montreal , Cape Town , and Stockholm . The 2020 conference scheduled to take place in Bangkok

3854-483: The Aurora Center, until the conviction of Daniel Drill-Mellum in 2016, for the rapes of two fellow students. Drill-Mellum received a six-year prison sentence. It has been alleged that few sexual assaults on campus are reported to University police. Six resulted in arrest from 2010 to 2015; one was determined to be unfounded. In a study by campus police, in the years between 2005 and 2015, sexual assaults at

3936-471: The East Bank is 15 minutes. In 2008, the system carried 3.55 million riders. Although the shuttle service is free, it is comparatively inexpensive to operate; with an operating cost of $ 4.55 million in 2008, the operating subsidy was only $ 1.28 per passenger. Even Metro Transit 's busy Metro Blue Line light rail required a subsidy of $ 1.44 that year, and that was with many riders paying $ 1.75 or more for

4018-507: The English-language version of the site and received 288 valid online survey responses. Their results indicated and confirmed that subjective task value, commitment, and procedural justice affected satisfaction of Wikipedians; and satisfaction influenced an author's continued intention to edit Misplaced Pages content. Editors of Misplaced Pages have given personal testimonials of why they contribute to Misplaced Pages. A theme of these testimonials

4100-597: The Strategic Safety Advisory Committee and public safety forums fosters community engagement and dialogue on safety concerns and improvements. Additionally, the university has made strides in off-campus safety through nightly patrols in Dinkytown and the introduction of blue light kiosks and mobile light trailers to enhance visibility and security. Other resources help students get home safely. Calling 624-WALK secures an escort for walks to adjacent campuses and neighborhoods, and Gopher Chauffeur,

4182-524: The United States (all at rates of 50% or greater). In response, various universities have hosted edit-a-thons to encourage more women to participate in the Misplaced Pages community. In fall 2013, 15 colleges and universities—including Yale, Brown, and Penn State—offered college credit for students to "write feminist thinking" about technology into Misplaced Pages. A 2008 self-selected survey of the diversity of contributors by highest educational degree indicated that 62% of responding Misplaced Pages editors had attained either

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4264-548: The Universal Transit Pass, which allows most students unlimited access to the Metro Transit light rail and bus networks as well as a number of other transit systems in the area. The Step Up campaign is a program that helps students prevent excessive drinking, as well as sexual assault and other crimes, by teaching them how to intervene and prevent in a positive way. This is done, in part, by explaining

4346-451: The University." Pillsbury Hall is named in his honor. Academic milestones began with Warren Clark Eustis and Henry Martyn Williamson graduating in 1873 as the university's first graduates. Helen Marr Ely was the first female graduate in 1875. The university progressed by awarding its first master's degree in 1880 and conferring its first Ph.D. in 1888. As the 20th century began, the university expanded its academic offerings. In 1908,

4428-582: The WMF budget is distributed in this way to chapters and thematic organizations. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco . It owns the domain names and maintains most of the movement's websites. According to WMF's 2015 financial statements, in 2015 WMF had a budget of US$ 72 million, spending US$ 52 million on its operation, and increasing its reserves to US$ 82 million. WMF

4510-593: The Weisman Art Museum is a typical example of his work with curving metallic structures. The abstract structure is considered highly significant because it was built prior to the widespread use of computer-aided design in architecture. It also ushered in a new era of architecture at the university, which continued with the completion of the McNamara Alumni Center in 2000 and Bruininks Hall (formerly STSS) in 2010. Another notable structure

4592-511: The West Bank, it is home to several annual interdisciplinary arts festivals. Wilson Library, the largest library in the university system, is also on the West Bank, as is Middlebrook Hall, the largest residence hall on campus. The St. Paul campus is in the city of Falcon Heights , about 3 mi (4.8 km) from the Minneapolis campus. The default place name for the ZIP code serving the campus

4674-428: The Misplaced Pages community. The 2015 Erasmus Prize was awarded to the Misplaced Pages community for promoting the dissemination of knowledge through a comprehensive and universally accessible encyclopedia. To achieve that, the initiators of Misplaced Pages have designed a new and effective democratic platform. The prize specifically recognizes Misplaced Pages as a community—a shared project that involves tens of thousands of volunteers around

4756-528: The Misplaced Pages page curation interface has included a tab offering editors a "Wikilove" option for giving barnstars and other such awards to other editors "as a reward for carefully curated work". Wikilove has been described as "an immaterial P2P reward mechanism" that substitutes for a formal reputation-valuing system on the site. Misplaced Pages has spawned a number of community news publications. An online newsletter, The Signpost , has been published since 10 January 2005. Professional cartoonist Greg Williams created

4838-401: The agreements between chapters and WMF became more formalized. Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) is the oldest chapter, holding its first meeting in 2004. As of 2016, it had a budget of €20 million. Some chapters such as WMDE get some of their funds directly from grants and supporting memberships. Some others get their funds primarily from annual plan grants from WMF. As of 2019, roughly 10% of

4920-425: The community include the effects of users' anonymity, attitudes toward newcomers, abuses of privileges by administrators , biases in the social structure of the community (in particular gender bias and lack of female contributors) and the role of the project's co-founder Jimmy Wales in the community. One particular controversy with regards to paid contributors to Misplaced Pages prompted the Wikimedia Foundation to send

5002-416: The first portable pacemaker, introduced into practice by Lillehei. The latter part of the 20th century saw the university's continued innovation in medical transplantation, including the world's first successful kidney/pancreas transplant in 1967, a bone marrow transplant in 1968, and a living donor pancreas transplant in 1998. Another notable contribution to agriculture came in 1991, with the development of

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5084-490: The heart of the university. Johnston's son, Clarence Johnston Jr, was also an architect and designed the original Bell Museum building and Coffman Memorial Union in the 1930s. The Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower , which is the tallest building on the Twin Cities campus, is a noted example of brutalist architecture . In more recent years, Frank Gehry designed the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum . Completed in 1993,

5166-445: The highest motivator. This paper suggests that although people might initially start editing Misplaced Pages out of enjoyment, the most likely motivation for continuing to participate is self-concept -based motivations such as "I like to share knowledge which gives me a sense of personal achievement." A study in 2014 by Cheng-Yu Lai and Heng-Li Yang explored the reasons why people continue editing Misplaced Pages content. The study used authors of

5248-467: The last thirty days). A study published in 2010 found that the contributor base to Misplaced Pages "was barely 13% women; the average age of a contributor was in the mid-20s". A 2011 study by researchers from the University of Minnesota found that females comprised 16.1% of the 38,497 editors who started editing Misplaced Pages during 2009. In a January 2011 New York Times article, Noam Cohen observed that 13% of Misplaced Pages's contributors are female according to

5330-505: The least frequently indicated motives were "career", "social", and "protective". The six motivations he used were: To these six motivations he also added: The Wikimedia Foundation has carried out some surveys of Misplaced Pages contributors and users. In 2008, the Wikimedia Foundation, alongside the Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-Merit , launched a survey of readers and editors of Misplaced Pages. The results of

5412-706: The majority of these programs and certificates at its Twin Cities campus. The university has all three branches of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). The Twin Cities campus, as well as the campuses at Crookston , Duluth , Morris , and Rochester , are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). For incoming undergraduates enrolled in fall 2023, Minnesota received more than 39,000 applications. The Class of 2027 consisted of approximately 6,700 students. For

5494-562: The names of cities. As the largest of five campuses across the University of Minnesota system, the Twin Cities campus has more than 50,000 students; this makes it the ninth-largest campus student body in the United States overall. It also has more than 300 research, education, and outreach centers and institutes. The original Minneapolis campus overlooked the Saint Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River , but it

5576-424: The other two players should be suspended for a year. The university is organized into 19 colleges, schools, and other major academic units: Six university-wide interdisciplinary centers and institutes work across collegiate lines: The university (system-wide) offers 154 undergraduate degree programs, 24 undergraduate certificates, 307 graduate degree programs, and 79 graduate certificates. The university offers

5658-459: The reason that people write for Misplaced Pages is to gain recognition within the community. Oded Nov, in his 2007 paper "What Motivates Wikipedians", related the motivations of volunteers in general to the motivations of people who contribute to Misplaced Pages. Nov carried out a survey using the six motivations of volunteers, identified in an earlier paper. The survey found that the most commonly indicated motives were "fun", "ideology", and "values", whereas

5740-425: The survey were published two years later on 24 March 2010. The Wikimedia Foundation began a process in 2011 of semi-annual surveys in order to understand Misplaced Pages editors more and better cater to their needs. "Motivations of Misplaced Pages Content Contributors", a paper by Heng-Li Yang and Cheng-Yu Lai, hypothesised that, because contributing to Misplaced Pages is voluntary, an individual's enjoyment of participating would be

5822-606: The time of construction. Buffington also designed the exterior of Burton Hall , considered one of the strongest specimens of Greek Revival architecture in Minnesota. Many of the buildings on the East Bank were designed by the prolific Minnesota architect Clarence H. Johnston , including the Jacobean Folwell Hall and the Beaux-Arts edifices of Northrop Auditorium and Walter Library , which he considered

5904-456: The university inaugurated the Program of Mortuary Science, becoming the first state university in the United States to do so. The School of Nursing was established in 1909, the first continuous nursing school on a university campus in the United States. The nursing school later opened its doors to male students in 1949. 20th-century breakthroughs at the University of Minnesota positioned it as

5986-483: The university received land grant status through the Morrill Act of 1862 . With lands taken from Dakota people , the university was able to revive itself after closing in 1858. The Dakota people have not been credited for the expropriation of their lands. An 1876 donation from flour miller John S. Pillsbury is generally credited with saving the school. Since then, Pillsbury has become known as "The Father of

6068-501: The university remained the same or increased despite six sexual assault resources and many anti-crime programs on campus. In August 2020, the University of Minnesota agreed to pay $ 500,000 to a woman who in the fall of 2016, accused several Gophers football players of sexually assaulting her. In February 2017, a University of Minnesota panel cleared four of the 10 Gopher football players the woman accused and agreed with investigators' recommendation that four other players be expelled and

6150-496: The university's Reserve Officers' Training Corps . Several buildings in the Old Campus Historic District were designed by early Minnesota architect LeRoy Buffington . One of the most notable is Pillsbury Hall , designed by Buffington and Harvey Ellis in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Pillsbury Hall's polychromatic facade incorporates several sandstone varieties that were available in Minnesota during

6232-472: The university. The Washington Avenue Bridge crossing the Mississippi River provides access between the East and West Banks in Minneapolis, on foot and via designated bike lanes and a free shuttle service. Several pedestrian tunnels ease the passage from building to building during harsh weather; they are marked with signs reading " The Gopher Way ". The Minneapolis campus is near Interstates 94 and 35W and

6314-510: The wikis, and receive grants for events and projects. As of 2023, there are over 140 user groups. Misplaced Pages community The Misplaced Pages community , collectively and individually known as Wikipedians , is an online community of volunteers who create and maintain Misplaced Pages , an online encyclopedia . Since August 2012, the word "Wikipedian" has been an Oxford Dictionary entry. Wikipedians may or may not consider themselves part of

6396-510: The world." University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota ) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota , United States. The Twin Cities campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and Falcon Heights , a suburb of St. Paul, approximately 3 mi (4.8 km) apart. The Twin Cities campus

6478-525: Was based on a design by Cass Gilbert , although his scheme was too extravagant to be fully implemented. Several of the campus's primary buildings surround the Mall area. Northrop Auditorium provides a northern anchor, with Coffman Memorial Union (CMU) to the south. Four of the larger buildings to the sides of the Mall are the primary mathematics , physics , and chemistry buildings (Vincent Hall, Tate Laboratory and Smith Hall, respectively) and Walter Library . Smith Hall and Walter Library were built during

6560-615: Was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , along with those of 2021 and 2022, which were held online as a series of virtual, interactive presentations. The in-person conference returned in 2023 when it was held in Singapore, at which UNESCO joined as a partner organization. The annual Great American Wiknic was a social gathering that took place in some cities of the United States during the summer. The Wiknic concept allowed Wikipedians to bring picnic food and to personally interact. There

6642-480: Was later moved about a mile (1.6 km) downstream to its current location. The original site is now marked by a small park known as Chute Square at the intersection of University and Central Avenues. The school shut down following a financial crisis during the American Civil War, but reopened in 1867 with considerable financial help from John S. Pillsbury . It was upgraded from a preparatory school to

6724-468: Was quoted by Bloomberg News in December 2016 as supporting Wales's comments concerning shortfalls in Misplaced Pages's outreach to female editors. Lih states his concern with the question indicating that: "How can you get people to participate in an [editing] environment that feels unsafe, where identifying yourself as a woman, as a feminist, could open you up to ugly, intimidating behavior". In October 2023,

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