Wiki Magazine

WikiMagazine is just that. It reprints articles from Wiki's in progress in a magazine, that simple. Any additions are then added back to the appropriate repositories.

The magazine is CC BY-SA licensed.

The project should use a wiki, and have a repository for scripts which access mediawiki api, and convert wikisyntax to docbook, and/or latex for conversion to PDF and/or other target output formats.

Contents 1 TODO 2 People 3 Landscape Survey 4 Ideas 5 External Links

TODO

• Need a domain name, or use http://scalejournal.org/
• install mediawiki
• plug-in content
• make scripts
• plan out roadmap
• make it 1st! and then monthly
• publicize launch
• publicize release/cfp

People

• Nicky Bourque
• Jon Phillips

Landscape Survey

• http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_opens_new_%22magazine_rack%22_websites DOA!
• What else exists similar? do a google search!

Ideas

• Best
  • make it the major wikipedia articles read and edited for the month, that need help...shoot from the hip, figure out the plan later
    • Rejon
      • Caochangdi
      • Computer Virus
      • Seasteading
      • Soundsystem
    • Nicky
      • Contemporary Asian Art
      • Street Art
• Recent Changes
  • http://www.google.com/search?q=recentchanges%20magazine
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RecentChangesCamp
  • take top 50 articles from a certain time and print them
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?namespace=0&tagfilter=&title=Special%3ARecentChanges
    • Can't use because complete domination of the term by wikipedia in search engines:
      • http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=recentchanges&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g-m3
• Thematic Articles
  • Pick 10 and print them!
  • how is this different from just the featured news?
    • Is different due to ground up contributions by persons interested in the chosen topic.
    • Also contributes in a focused way to the expansion of public knowledge.
  • Make it about contributing where areas are weak in contribution, and/or to larger freeculture
  • Make it international?
  • Yes, it is a good idea. It would give more credence to the egalitarian nature of wikipedia.
• Do we systematize article selection? Is more a community oriented approach?
• Also do we take snapshots of the article as it appears when the final contribution was made?

External Links

• http://wikipedia.org
• http://wikitravel.org
• http://wikihow.org can't use because CC BY-NC-SA
• http://scalejournal.org