The challenges of building a community
The only way of building a community is to keep promoting it until evangelists arrive and take it over. The difficulty is finding the evangelists without people thinking you are spamming, or trying to...
View ArticleAnother Google Milestone
All the SpottingWorld sites gained a Google Page Rank yesterday. I am now doing a happy dance. Well, obviously I’m not doing a dance at all, I’m writing a blog entry, but you know what I mean. Google...
View ArticleHow lovely to be the target of spammers
We had five spam attacks in one day by spambots that edit existing pages and blast their spam links across the page. We should have realised this would happen at the start, but we didn’t. So we’ve...
View ArticleMediawiki and Categories
How, tell me, how, can anyone design a category system that is free format? Mediawiki allows catgeories to be set up totally freehand, which means that loops of categories within themselves can be set...
View ArticleOnwards and upwards
I haven’t commented on this because I didn’t want to influence it, but Train Spotting World is getting an increasing visitor and editor population each month. The increase is small, but sustained, and...
View ArticleWe came under attack
Weird anonymous vandals came and vandalised random articles, even a template or two, wth strings of silly characters. I could quite cheerfully vandalise them back. We’ll solve it with a bot soon....
View ArticleFan Fiction area
After a while you bow to pressure. So we have. We’ve created a whole area for Fan Fiction. Primarily we expect this to be Thomas The Tank Engine material, but who knows what other areas we’ll attract
View ArticleWe are getting there – We have a community!
It takes time for a community to start. We’ve a small and loyal community now, which is great. It’s a demanding community and it is learning self sufficiency – a great and desirable trait. We’re...
View ArticleWe are moving server
The is not a thing we do lightly, but we have outgrown our current home. We’re adding advertising resources to help fund the migration, the first of which is The Chocolate Cake Church, a wholly...
View ArticleShip Spotting World is going online
Yes, we’ve gained the server horsepower to add a new wiki for Ship Yacht and Boat fans everywhere. We are loading under licence from Wikipedia, a selection of relevant articles to get the place...
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