Don't know about others but I would definitely be interested in this. Michael
> On 22 Oct 2013, at 20:29, Harry Burt <[email protected]> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
