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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?

Planet Wikimedia fetches RSS feeds every hour from selected Wikimedians who blog and aggregates the content of on-topic posts at <http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/> (and other language subdomains).

Who and what can be included?

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

Planet Wikimedia is a blog aggregation feed that updates hourly.

Scope

The Planet Wikimedia is a weblog aggregator operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, to bring together on-topic posts about Wikimedia projects, other wiki sites, the free culture movement, the "wisdom of crowds", etc. -- all from Wikimedia community members. Bloggers may "opt-in" to the blog aggregator, upon review and continued approval from the Wikimedia Meta community.

Purpose

RSS blog feeds present a convenient, efficient way for Internet denizens to keep informed about a thematic category, in a "one-stop-shopping" sort of way. The Planet Wikimedia seeks to keep users apprised of what Wikimedia-related bloggers are communicating currently. Just as a "news clipping" service might keep an enterprise informed about what the outside media world is saying about them, this service will keep those interested in Wikimedia informed about what the outside blogger world is saying about Wikimedia and related endeavors.

Items desired

  • Technical items - New ideas related to the MediaWiki software, opinions and suggestions relating to current technical implementations on local projects, the software itself, and Wikimedia.
  • Constructive criticism - Thoughtful analysis of things that are "wrong" about Wikimedia, and suggestions for improvement.
  • Praise - Feel-good or human interest stories about "success" around Wikimedia.

Things to avoid

  • Violating the copyrights of others, for example, reproducing something on your blog without permission.
  • Frequent offtopic posts.

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://example.com/blog/?cat=9&feed=rss2> or <http://example.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.

Blogs can be listed under your real name, your user name (which will be prefixed with "User:" in the list of authors), or both, e.g. Alan Smithee (Dogmaster3000). Please indicate your preference; if you indicate none, only the real name (if available) will be used. For group blogs the blog title will be used.

In the spirit of Wikimedia's commitment to free content, we encourage you to consider putting your blog content under a free license. In the spirit of Wikimedia's commitment to an unnecessary inflation of userboxes, you can also add a Planet Userbox to your userpage. ;-)


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.

Add your feed URL here:

  1. Hi I'd like to have my feed on scandinavian planet changed from http://mickenordin.se/blog/index.php/feed/ to http://mickenordin.se/blog/index.php/category/wikimedia/feed/ as this is my wikimedia feed. MiCkE 17:02, 22 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  2. I'd like my blog on GMQ changed from [[1]] to [[2]] as I don't want to update two diffrent blogs anymore, and move my wikirelated stuff to my main blog. Laaknor 23:02, 17 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  3. The Wikipedia Signpost now has a feed for announcing the contents of each new issue.--Ragesoss 15:14, 24 March 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  4. [3].Yousaf465
  5. Wikilog - a blog (mostly!) dedicated to Wikipedia. All content licensed under Creative Commons! Here is the RSS feed for Wikimedia-related comments. Thank you very much! UPDATE: Now has less offensive name! --Heebiejeebieclub 20:05, 1 January 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  6. The Appropedia blog (filtered feed - mainly stuff on general wiki issues, wiki tech and free content). At the moment many of the posts are copied from my own blog, but I've finished the copying, so there won't be any duplication. Thanks! --Chriswaterguy 17:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC) [reply ]
    • Generally PWM is Wikimedia focused. I've included your personal blog because you are a Wikimedian, but Appropedia as a whole does not, as far as I can tell, qualify under the current inclusion guidelines. I want to raise the question broadly with PWM users: Do we want blogs like the Appropedia blog to be included? My primary concern is that then every wiki related blog (e.g. AboutUs, Wikia, Wikispaces, etc.) would qualify, and that would potentially change the scope beyond recognition.--Eloquence 03:35, 18 September 2008 (UTC) [reply ]
  7. Please adjust blog.shankbone.org to filter "Wikipedia" tag per the talk page of this page. Thanks, NonvocalScream 20:00, 23 December 2008 (UTC) [reply ]
  8. Please include this, user name "Ziko".--Ziko 12:01, 8 March 2009 (UTC) [reply ]

Recently added

  1. Hi, I have had a blog for about 2 years now but I never actually used it, but one of the resolutions I made this year was to restart my blog and I already have a good post. I hope it gets included :) ...--Comet styles 03:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  2. Please add http://luke.faraone.cc/tag/wikipedia/feed/ to the planet as "Luke Faraone (firefoxman)". Firefoxman 22:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  3. Please add http://www.wikisym.org/category/wikimedia/ . Thanks! Dirk Riehle 00:09, 3 March 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  4. We have started a blog for everything that has to do with Wikivoices. Thanks, GerardM 20:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    What's the URL? :-) Cbrown1023 talk 21:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    http://wikivoices.blogspot.com .. sorry .. rather relevant isn't it ? GerardM 08:47, 9 March 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  5. Please add Ting's blog and filter for Wikimedia, Wikipedia in tags. Thanks.--Wing 20:12, 6 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done in rev. 49480 :) --Azafred 21:02, 14 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  6. My blog is (and will be) interested in Arabic Wikipedia and Wikimedia stuff only. Please add its feed into the Arabic plant.--OsamaK 17:09, 17 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done --Meno25 22:22, 17 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  7. itwadi.com is one of the best Arabic websites that talk about the Free Software, they recently created -after a request- a tag called 'Planet Wikimedia' to be added to the Arabic Planet Wikimedia. Please add the feed.--OsamaK 10:28, 19 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done --Meno25 21:38, 19 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  8. This is a new blog i opened to blog about wikipedia and other wikimedia matters (that would be the sole subject of the blog). The blog is in arabic and is part of a collaborative effort to revive the arabic planet. please add my feed to the planet. --Histolo2 10:36, 20 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done --Meno25 11:19, 20 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  9. this is a category on my blog dedicated to wikimedia planet, Please add it to the Arabic Planet Wikimedia. The link is my feed Thanks. Bahaa2008 16:09, 24 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  10. My feed URL has changed. Please change the Sean Whitton entry to this new feed and this new blog url. Thanks. —Sean Whitton / 12:18, 9 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  11. My blog is about development and sysadmin, but I have a feed for mediawiki specific stuff
  12. Please change the Guillaume Paumier entry for en.planet to this filtered feed and this blog url. Thank you. guillom 20:55, 9 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done. iAlex 14:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  13. Please add an entry for Guillaume Paumier on fr.planet using this filtered feed and this blog url. Thank you. guillom 20:55, 9 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done. iAlex 14:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  14. Could you add http://pymouss.blogspot.com, a blog about Wikipedia and other miscellanies written in French ? Pymouss Tchatcher - 18:59, 10 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done in r50453. iAlex 10:39, 12 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  15. Could we please include Yaron Koren's blog? His blog is about Semantic MediaWiki and how it is developing. Thanks, GerardM 13:45, 7 May 2009 (UTC) PS [http://yaronkoren.com/blog/?feed=rss2 this is the feed.[reply ]
    Done in r50547. Aude 16:16, 13 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  16. Could you please add http://www.wittylama.com/blog/ to the planet feed. Thanks, Witty lama 13:45, 3 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done in r50547. Aude 16:16, 13 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  17. Hello, This is my weBlog, I create a category for wikimedia articles, Please add My Feeds to the arabic planet. --Orango speak! 13:46, 21 May 2009 (UTC) [reply ]

Requests for Removal

  1. Hi guys - my blog is going to become less reliably Wikipedia-focused, and the feed issue isn't working, most likely because GoDaddy is the worst blog/web platform out there and for all that is decent and holy, use WordPress if you start one yourself. Thanks for the opportunity to provide some content for awhile - could you take Shankblog off the feed? Happy New Year! --David Shankbone 16:29, 3 January 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    http://blog.shankbone.org per request. NonvocalScream 05:33, 4 January 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Just a reminder that the removal has not been completed. NonvocalScream 02:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done in rev:46575. ^demon 03:35, 30 January 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
  2. Not quite sure how to do this, but the User:Svaksha wiki feed is entirely off-topic. Many of the posts are about Indian politics, none of them are about Wikimedia. Kenb215 22:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC) [reply ]
    Done in rev:49785 ^demon 21:24, 23 April 2009 (UTC) [reply ]

Recently removed

Archive

See /Archive for older additions.

Not added

Other languages

The Planet at en.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

Open Wiki Blog Planet, run by en:User:Nickj, offers a less filtered feed. It can be edited here.

Polish

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

Chinese / Russian incubator planets

There are several incubator planets, which will be redirected to the Planet Wikimedia sites as and when they come online, so please add feeds following the directions on this page:

Spanish

AltStyle によって変換されたページ (->オリジナル) /