Concept: I think the idea is a good one, but I think you should work on making it more of a necessity or a tool than a “fun thing.” Clubs and departments could display a lot of information in an informal way. Unlike the actual Stanford site where everything has to be “proper” this could be a way for students to find out what they need to know without all the bull. Also, since a lot of the material out there is written, having it done via internet presents a great benefit – linking! Although you don’t want to draw people away from your site, it would be easy to provide directions or additional information to the user, without them having to completely go to another book, or reference source. I think you should use this to your advantage.

Audience: It’s clear that your audience is very large, and it’s good that you recognize that you will have prospective students, current students, staff and even possibly alumnae using the site. I think it will be important to keep the right balance of student versus faculty contributions to the site, as it will probably dictate the tone of Stanfordpedia

Project plan: This seems all logical to me! Maybe you could give some sort of incentive to people who make a lot of large contributions at the beginning to start the ball rolling.

Site organization: I think that you might need some sort of hierarchical system since many times, people don’t know what to search—especially freshman and prospective students. You may want to have some sort of a “most visited” or “most active” or “featured” section to display certain poignant pages.

Ethics/Potential risks/problems: I don’t think you addresses vandalism on the site, both from students from other schools, and Stanford students with strong, controversial, opinions. How will you deal with this and where will you draw the line?