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
-- Harry Burt User:Jarry1250
[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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