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== Background == | == Background == | ||
''Crewscut.com'' was started in | ''Crewscut.com'' was started in December 2004 by two students of media in Odense, Denmark, [[Morten Blaabjerg]] and [[Søren Falgaard]]. The site was inspired by mainly three things: | ||
# The need to organize and present creative projects online (mainly film/tv projects) - to create an online home for the widely divergent ideas and projects of the organizers, which didn't seem to fit in any traditional, hierarchical form | # The need to organize and present creative projects online (mainly film/tv projects) - to create an online home for the widely divergent ideas and projects of the organizers, which didn't seem to fit in any traditional, hierarchical form | ||
# The amazing concept of [[Wikipedia]], and the discovery that [[MediaWiki]] could be used as an open source platform to build such a site | # The amazing concept of [[Wikipedia]], and the discovery that [[MediaWiki]] could be used as an open source platform to build such a site | ||
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== Perspectives == | == Perspectives == | ||
The ambitions for ''Crewscut.com'' falls into several categories : | The ambitions for ''Crewscut.com'' falls into several categories : | ||
* To expand | * To expand its user base and article count significantly. Currently the wiki has 49 registered users, but needs more active users to become a more potent and attractive online platform. | ||
* To expand | * To expand its content and structure into an international edition, to make the wiki accessible to a global user base. | ||
* To expand and rebuild the architecture of the site to include [[:Wikipedia:Bittorrent|Bittorrent]] technology to enable filesharing of large files (complete films), and to improve the user-interface presentation to make it even easier to contribute to the site. | * To expand and rebuild the architecture of the site to include [[:Wikipedia:Bittorrent|Bittorrent]] technology to enable filesharing of large files (complete films), and to improve the user-interface presentation to make it even easier to contribute to the site. | ||
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| Status: | Vibrant |
| Language: | Danish |
| Edit mode: | OpenEdit |
| Wiki engine: | MediaWiki |
| Wiki license: | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike"Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike" is not in the list (Custom license, Attribution to contributing authors, Copyright to contributing authors, Site retains copyright, WTFPL, Licence Art Libre, Open Content License, Apache License, BSD Documentation License, FreeBSD Documentation License, ...) of allowed values for the "Wiki license" property. |
| Main topic: | Culture |
Description
Crewscut.com is a wiki and webportal for cultural players, dedicated to presenting cultural and media projects, networks and knowhow. Content is shared under a Creative Commons license. Crewscut.com is based on MediaWiki, the same software engine that runs Wikipedia and WikiIndex.
The wiki is currently mostly Danish-oriented, but welcomes international users and material.
Background
Crewscut.com was started in December 2004 by two students of media in Odense, Denmark, Morten Blaabjerg and Søren Falgaard. The site was inspired by mainly three things:
- The need to organize and present creative projects online (mainly film/tv projects) - to create an online home for the widely divergent ideas and projects of the organizers, which didn't seem to fit in any traditional, hierarchical form
- The amazing concept of Wikipedia, and the discovery that MediaWiki could be used as an open source platform to build such a site
- A mixture of Lawrence Lessig's ideas of 'remixing culture' and the media philosophy of Jean Baudrillard, Paul Virilio and others.
The wiki began to grow, with the realization that Mediawiki was powerful enough to contain information on not only the organizers' own projects, but could envelop information on the converging media landscape as a whole, and invite other users and projects to participate.
Perspectives
The ambitions for Crewscut.com falls into several categories :
- To expand its user base and article count significantly. Currently the wiki has 49 registered users, but needs more active users to become a more potent and attractive online platform.
- To expand its content and structure into an international edition, to make the wiki accessible to a global user base.
- To expand and rebuild the architecture of the site to include Bittorrent technology to enable filesharing of large files (complete films), and to improve the user-interface presentation to make it even easier to contribute to the site.