Don't know about others but I would
definitely be interested in this.
Michael
On 22 Oct 2013, at 20:29, Harry Burt
<harryaburt(a)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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