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+Introduction:
+The graduate bulletin hosts the graduate studies catalog of courses, department information, and graduate study policy information within a web interface. Textual data for the site is stored within a mediawiki instance, course data is stored in a relational database. Policy information is updated by graduate studies employees through the mediawiki edit interfaces. Course data is updated by the publications editor through a web interface. Minor maintenance tasks are handled by a web developer with direct access to the database.
+
+Authors:
+Brett Bieber brett.bieber@gmail.com
+
+Contacts:
+Judy Anderson (Editor)
+Jane Schneider (Grad Studies liaison & project lead)
+Barbara Brennan (Grad Studies liaison)
+Brett Bieber (Web Developer)
+
+Web Address(es):
+http://bulletin.unl.edu/graduate/
+alias - http://catalog.unl.edu/graduate/
+
+Server Information:
+Web Server:
+    Host - ucommsrv.unl.edu:/var/www/html/bulletin.unl.edu/graduate [IS virtual server]
+    Server Admin - Jim Liebgott [IS]
+    Location - Basement WSEC
+
+Database:
+    Datasource Name - mysql://ucommsrv.unl.edu/catalog
+    Server Admin - Brett Bieber
+
+Source Code:
+    Git - http://github.unl.edu/iim/UNL_GraduateBulletin [IS]
+    Server Admin - Jim Goodwin [IS]
+    Location - Basement WSEC
+
+Software:
+    PHP
+    Apache Web Server
+    MySQL
+    MediaWiki
+
+Maintenance Tasks:
+
+Log In to MediaWiki:
+http://bulletin.unl.edu/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin
+
+Log In to Database:
+SSH  to ucommsrv, run mysql -u ...
+
+Create a static version:
+
+    Static version is generated nightly, and is available at http://bulletin.unl.edu/archive.html
+    Open http://bulletin.unl.edu/archive.html in Safari.
+    Use Print to PDF.
+
+
+Add an AREA of STUDY:
+
+    Add a record in the 'departments' table in MySQL.
+    If this is a 'crosslisted' department/area of study, add the id of the crosslisted department.
+    If this is a new area of study, click the link on the departments page and create a new mediawiki page with the default content of:
+
+    <div id="dept_desc">
+    == Description ==
+
+    </div>
+    <div id="dept_faculty" style="display:none;">
+    == Faculty ==
+
+    </div>
+
+
+Remove an AREA of STUDY:
+
+    Log in to mediawiki at the login url.
+    Browse to the page you wish to remove.
+    Select Views>Delete from the navigation.
+    Remove corresponding record from the 'departments' table.
+
+
+Rename an AREA of STUDY:
+
+    Log in to mediawiki at the login url.
+    Browse to the page you wish to rename.
+    Select Views>Move from the navigation.
+    Add a note about why the page is being moved.
+    Update the record in the 'departments' table.
+
+
+Add a Subject Code:
+
+    Add record in the 'subjects' table in MySQL.
+
+
+Link Subject Code to AREA of Study:
+
+    Add record to 'department_has_subject' table.
+
 Setup:
 
 copy config.sample.php to config.inc.php
@@ -5,3 +99,4 @@ set the correct user name and password to the database
 
 copy www/sample.htaccess to www/.htaccess
 correct paths as necessary
+