Planet Wikimedia

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DISCLAIMER: The Wikimedia Foundation assumes no responsibility or liability for any posts aggregated on Planet Wikimedia. Blog aggregation is a computer-controlled process.

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Planet Wikimedia is a weblog aggregator operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, to bring together on-topic posts about wikis from Wikimedia community members. If you run a blog, and you want to be included, you need to explicitly opt-in (see below).

What does it do?

Within regular intervals, Planet Wikimedia fetches RSS feeds from selected Wikimedians who blog and aggregates the content of on-topic posts at <http://planet.wikimedia.org/>.

Who and what can be included?

  • Any blogger who is also an active participant in any Wikimedia project, or in the development of MediaWiki, is qualified to be included in the aggregator.
  • Any post about wikis, Wikimedia projects, or MediaWiki is considered to be on-topic, unless there is consensus among readers to the contrary.

Please complain on the discussion page if you feel that a particular blogger's posts are causing the signal-to-noise ratio to decrease.

How do I get in?

In order to be included, your RSS feed must either be filtered to on-topic posts (e.g. by tagging all relevant posts with "wiki" and providing a feed to this tag), or your blog must be almost exclusively focused on this topic. The very occasional off-topic post is permitted, but given that Planet Wikimedia is intended to scale to hundreds of blogs, please exercise appropriate self-restraint.

Common blogging engines like Wordpress and Blogger support label-specific feeds. In both cases, these are not obvious. For Wordpress, the feed URL is something like <http://yourwebsite.com/blog/?cat=9&feed=rss2> or <http://yourblog.com/blog/category/wiki/feed>. For Blogger, see this help entry. If you specify the URL of your blog, and make sure to add the category/tag/label "wiki" to your posts, we will help you to try to figure out whether a category-specific feed exists for your blog.

In the spirit of Wikimedia's commitment to free content, we encourage you to consider putting your blog content under a free license.

Requests for inclusion

To be included in the planet, simply list your blog below, together with a feed URL (preferably to a filtered feed), and your signature. Any developer with access to the Subversion server can add your feed.

  1. Gary Kirk - on Wikipedia & on Wikimedia Gary KIRK parler! 11:33, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Feed of Wikitech tag at [1]. Domas Mituzas

Recently added

Most recent on top.

  1. [2] feed [3] why not :) Brian Wikinews / Talk 05:04, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Original research the Wikipedia category feed is http://original-research.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/wikipedia -- Llywrch 06:45, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. scienceroll.com; feed of Wikipedia tag. Thank you, NCurse 07:28, 11 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. http://blog.valuewiki.com   wiki category feed is http://blog.valuewiki.com/tag/wiki/feed Thank you! Jonathan Stokes

Other languages

The Planet at planet.wikimedia.org is for English language posts and blogs. To request a planet in your language, please see Planet Wikimedia/New language.

Alternatives

English

There is a general Wiki Blog Planet which does not filter posts, and an "Open Planet" which can be edited here. Both are run independently by Nick Jenkins.

Polish

http://adamdziura.9g.pl/wikipedia/planetawiki/