Actually, this is News about News about Wikidot. meta-news if you like. We're starting a new news feed, at http://news.wikidot.com, which will report on interesting stuff happening in the world of Wikidot. The goal is to collect short reports, and once a month, send out a summary to all Wikidot users, as the regular newsletter.
With the news site I'd like to pull together stories from the Community blog and this blog, and also other things that are happening.
Right now I'm looking for editors: you need good English writing skills; the articles must be short, clear, and point to the full story elsewhere. We have three sections (Wikidot, Userspace, and Random) but may add more. Every story has an image, photo, or paintbrush sketch if necessary.
Once every month we'll send out a summary to all registered Wikidot users, with just the titles and a link to each story over the last month. If there are too many stories, we'll select the best ones. We'll aim to have 10-20 stories a month.
Anyone with a story can submit it to one of the editors, who will edit it and post it if they like it.
Sound good? Interested in helping? Let me know what you think.
I like the idea. I'll help how I can.
This is probably a good time to mention a related initiative. Last month I started the planning of a commercial online magazine called Wiki Magazine, which will be a downloadable and, in due course, a print magazine bringing news, articles, features about the wiki world. As far as I can see there is no magazine catering to this market. It will focus mainly on Wikidot initially but I do aim to expand it to cover other wiki products, news and services. A week or so back Peter gave the idea his support and I am preparing a business plan, but I'm not yet sure whether this new initiative from Pieter will make the magazine redundant. I hope not as it will aim to be independent and will also be advertised wider than purely than within wikidot, but we will see. The main url will be http://www.wikimagazine.co.uk but it is also at http://wikimagazine.wikidot.com where a test first cover has been put up. I will also be asking for articles (though ones for me are likely to attract payment) so I hope the two initiatives don't trip up over each other. I have to confess to being slightly miffed that within a few days of telling Pieter of my proposal that this new site should suddenly appear. I had not planned to announce the magazine just yet, perhaps I should have done so a week ago. But Pieter assures me there is room for both.
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
The idea of Wiki Magazine is a great one.
The news site will just be centralizing the various things happening in the Wikidot world, and for official news from Wikidot. The sole reason for making it was to be able to produce a newsletter, something we've been working on for ages. This blog feels too personal for serious news items.
I'm really looking forward to an independent magazine that discusses Wikidot and wikis in general.
Now allow me to write this exciting news on the news site. Rob, do you mind if I do that?
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Please do. Sorry if my earlier post gave the impression I thought the Wiki Magazine idea was being hijacked. I know that is not the case at all.
Rob Elliott - Strathpeffer, Scotland - Wikidot first line support & community admin team.
Wouldn't mind being an editor, either ;)
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I could help too but as James points out, my grammar is crap xD
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Kenneth Tsang (@jxeeno)
Kenneth, you can help if you like by suggesting stories.
I'll add a section to the site where you can do that.
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You made one little mistake! That is forgivable.
But if you happen to be careless and make a second grammar mistake in your lifetime… that is just plain careless!
i could help in some way…
Guru Rhombus, :-) See my comment to Ken. We need a team of researchers who can scout the wikidotverse for stuff that it interesting.
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