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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).

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[edit] 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).

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Things to avoid

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

[edit] 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. ;-)


[edit] 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. Please add the wikipedia tag feed from the french free culture's blog Framablog http://www.framablog.org/index.php/feed/tag/Wikipedia/atom, under the name "Framablog" on the french planet. --FramaKa 08:38, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
  1. Please add http://lagazettedeschampslyses.blogspot.com/, under the name "Rhadamante" on the french planet Rhadamante 12:20, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
    There appear to be no posts on this blog. --brion 03:15, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Recently added

  1. Please add http://blog.wikimedia.cz - the Wikimedia Czech Republic official blog, under the name "Wikimedia Česká republika" on the Czech planet. Thanks. Okino 03:47, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done
    — Danny B. 11:56, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
  2. Please add my WMF related blog with filtered feed at http://www.nonvocalscream.com/?cat=3&feed=rss2 Thank you, NonvocalScream 01:43, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --brion 03:15, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
  3. Could you please add http://litlok.over-blog.com/, under the name "Litlok" on the french planet? Thank you! Litlok 10:08, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 15:04, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
  4. Just found out about this - great idea! Could you addmy filtered feed under "R. Stuart Geiger"? Staeiou 18:25, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 15:04, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
  5. Wikimedia UK now has a blog: blog.wikimedia.org.uk - please can this be added? Thanks. Mike Peel 22:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 15:01, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
  6. Please replace my old blog, ragesossscholar.blogspot.com, with http://ragesoss.com/blog/?cat=11&feed=rss2 --Ragesoss 03:56, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 15:01, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
  7. Please consider to add the PediaPress blog (feed) which announces news regarding the "Wiki To Print" tool. he!ko 15:37, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 14:59, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
  8. Please add http://bawolff.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/wiki to en planet (Please list author as my username only). Thanks Bawolff 03:35, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 14:58, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
  9. Please add [1] on the portuguese Planet. Thank you, Nuno Tavares 19:26, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 14:58, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
  10. Please add http://teqnia01.blogspot.com/search/label/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7 in the Arabic Planet Thanks.--Mohammed Ahmed 19:29, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done in r56169. --Meno25 23:21, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
  11. Please add my feed to the Scandinavian planet: Wikipedai-feed Jerazol 05:28, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 20:18, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
  12. Please add my blog to en: filtered feed (category) thx! -- phoebe 01:23, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 20:18, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
  13. Hello, please include my blog in the english planet. Here is the wikipedia category and its category feed. Thank you, -- sj | help translate |+ 02:12, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg DoneAdded --RobH 14:58, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
  14. Please could you add this (rss) for en.planet , this (rss) for de.planet. My blog is on fr.planet Thank you Pmartin 12:00, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg DoneAdded --RobH 14:58, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
    I think there is a problem because no blog add from the last update. Pmartin 08:58, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
    Looks like I had the blog url, not the feed url. I have updated them and it should reflect that soon. (Blog updates itself like that every hour or so.) --RobH 20:10, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
  15. Please include blog=http://ad.huikeshoven.org/ feed=http://ad.huikeshoven.org/feeds/posts/default/-/wiki Dedalus 15:39, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg DoneAdded --RobH 14:55, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
  16. Please include this, user name "Ziko".--Ziko 12:01, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done, but with the feed of [2] instead of just the entire blog. --RobH 18:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
    Thank you, and sorry that I did not look earlier. / It seems not to work correctly, a recent entry is not shown. Could someone have a look? Kind regards --Ziko 20:06, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
  17. 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! --Heebiejeebieclub 20:05, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 18:34, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
    X mark.svg Not done Address should be http://blog.heebie.co.uk/taxonomy/term/7/0/feed. Thanks.
    Yes check.svg Done updated --RobH 15:00, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
  18. 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)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 18:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
  19. I'd like my blog on GMQ changed from [[3]] to [[4]] 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)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 18:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
  20. The Wikipedia Signpost now has a feed for announcing the contents of each new issue.--Ragesoss 15:14, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 18:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
  21. http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?tag=wikimedia&feed=rss2 - I often blog about Wikimedia topics and have set up a feed for future posts just on this topic. My content is available under a Creative Commons licence. Blog can be added as "Ian Gilfillan (greenman)". Greenman 02:42, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done --RobH 18:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
  22. Please add http://luke.faraone.cc/tag/wikipedia/feed/ to the planet as "Luke Faraone (firefoxman)". Firefoxman 22:28, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
  23. Please add http://www.wikisym.org/category/wikimedia/ . Thanks! Dirk Riehle 00:09, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
  24. We have started a blog for everything that has to do with Wikivoices. Thanks, GerardM 20:34, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
    What's the URL? :-) Cbrown1023 talk 21:58, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
    http://wikivoices.blogspot.com .. sorry .. rather relevant isn't it ? GerardM 08:47, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Requests for Removal

[edit] Recently removed

  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)
    http://blog.shankbone.org per request. NonvocalScream 05:33, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
    Just a reminder that the removal has not been completed. NonvocalScream 02:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
    Yes check.svg Done in rev:46575. ^demon 03:35, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
    Please adjust blog.shankbone.org to filter "Wikipedia" tag per the talk page of this page. Thanks, NonvocalScream 20:00, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
  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)
    Yes check.svg Done in rev:49785 ^demon 21:24, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
  3. Can Dendodge be removed please. It is nearly always off-topic. And personally I find it horribly painful to read even when it is not. Hesperian 23:40, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
    Another day, another off-topic post.... Hesperian 23:34, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
    I do now post more off-topic posts than on-topic ones. However, all my Wikipedia-related posts are tagged with the "Wikipedia" label. If there's any way to aggregate only posts with that label, that is fine by me. If not, I am happy for my blog to be removed. Dendodge 17:04, 13 October 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Archive

See /Archive for older additions.

[edit] Not added

  1. Please can you add my blog to the English planet: http://virginonmedia.wordpress.com/ ((User:Steve Virgin))
    This does not appear to be a dedicated Wiki blog, thus you need to resubmit the request with some kind of filtered feed with on topic posts. --RobH 20:11, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
  2. Please change:
    X mark.svg Not done This information is already on the planet and correct. --RobH 15:07, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
    Actually this was done by me in r52674. --Meno25 21:42, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
  3. Please include my blog The blog of Khalid Yousif in Arabic Planet Wikimedia, here is the RSS feed http://khalidyousif.wordpress.com/tag/wiki/feed/ thank you :) DesertPanther 13:09, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
    X mark.svg Not done This is already in the system with these details. --RobH 15:01, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
    This was done by me in r53394. --Meno25 23:17, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
  4. Please include my blog, user name "svaksha".--Svaksha 04:51, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
    I have not included this because it does not seem to have a wiki related feed and its off topic. Please provide a wiki related feed and resubmit. --RobH 14:53, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
    FWIW, this feed was previously included and then removed for not being on-topic, even under the "wiki" tag we were supposedly filtering by. Just as a note. ^demon 19:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
  5. 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)
    • 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)
    Not added due to the consideration listed above. --RobH 18:40, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
    Fair enough. What if it's filtered to only Wikimedia topics? (feed.) At the moment there's just a few that reference Wikipedia, but there are posts planned related to Wikiversity, for example. --Chriswaterguy 07:02, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
  6. 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 :) ...--Cometstyles 03:59, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
    This just does not seem wiki related. --RobH 18:33, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
  7. [5].Yousaf465
    This just does not seem wiki related. --RobH 18:33, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Alternatives

[edit] English

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

[edit] Polish

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

[edit] 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:

[edit] Spanish

Retrieved from "http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia"