Interesting proposal- some of these "planets" have been very influential tools. We can take the same approach to evaluating it that publishers use for a proposed academic journal. If this planet had already existed for a few months, what posts would now be visible on it?

If there are a lot, it's a viable idea, and if there are hardly any, then it's not worth doing yet. Anyone want to suggest a list?

On 22 October 2013 22:14, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:

Crikey, so would I. It'd be brilliant. I'll leave Stevie to weigh in on it, though, as he may spot pitfalls that I haven't!

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On 22 October 2013 21:15, Michael Maggs <michael@maggs.name> wrote:

Don't know about others but I would definitely be interested in this.

Michael

> On 22 Oct 2013, at 20:29, Harry Burt <harryaburt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> One thing that Wikimedia UK's technology committee (which I am on) has
> discussed a couple of times is the idea of a blog "planet" [1]
> (aggregator) for use by UK Wikimedians.
>
> Regular Wikimedians will know that there's already an English-language
> planet at http://en.planet.wikimedia.org , automatically collating
> blog posts from around the web that are both about Wikimedia (or
> similar projects, eg. FOSS in general).
>
> The idea with a "UK" planet would be the collation of blog posts from
> (British?) Wikimedians' blogs, with a strong focus on activities
> in/around/involving the UK. The hypothesised criteria for inclusion
> would limit posts to those in English, Scots, both forms of Gaelic,
> Welsh, and the many other languages of the UK. I envisage that, at its
> best, it could be a great place to follow as diverse set of events as
> wikimeetups, chapter activity, GLAM initiatives--not to mention
> everything else that is (and has been) going on.
>
> These are things that are already being blogged about, but many of
> these blog posts (I venture) are on individuals' own (under-read)
> blogs. By collating blog posts, they are easier to find and hence each
> blog post reaches a much wider audience.
>
> Blog planets are not difficult to setup, and would not particularly
> resource intensive; it's just a question of whether people would
> appreciate such a thing.
>
> Any thoughts?
> Harry
>
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>
> [1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_%28software%29 . In
> practice one would use a newer fork, as the WMF-hosted planet does.
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