Fremantle
· Wikispore · wikis · MediaWiki · Wikimedia ·
I've been helping a bit lately with getting the Wikispore site up and running again and upgraded. There's more to do, but it's at least online, and last night I added some fixes for the sitemap and statistics regeneration.
The thing I mainly wonder about is how it should all work. Because I really love the idea of making it easier to get a small topical wiki up and running, and by making that process basically just be the creation of a new namespace on an existing wiki it seems like it could help with more people writing more pages about things they care about. But how to communicate that to people?! I think that's the issue now.
There are of course lots of problems with a free-for-all hosting of whatever content — people like to put crap on the internet — but leaving that aside, there seems to also be a problem with making it easy for people who want to publish meaningful useful content. They end up on Wix or Squarespace or whatever (or, more commonly, just Facebook etc.). MediaWiki is much better than those.
So maybe Wikispore can be the "topical incubator" wiki. With things being spun off (as Stardit has been) on to their own wikis if they get to a certain level of use.