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