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{{Wiki | | {{Wiki | | ||
logo = [[Image:CrewWikiLogo.png]] | |||
| | | URL = http://www.crewscut.com/index.php?title=Opslagstavle | ||
| | | recentchanges URL = http://www.crewscut.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges | ||
| | | wikinode URL = No | ||
| | | status = Vibrant | ||
| | | language = Danish | ||
| | | editmode = OpenEdit | ||
| | | engine = MediaWiki | ||
| | | license = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike | ||
| maintopic = Culture | |||
}} | }} | ||
==Description== | == 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 | ''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. | The wiki is currently mostly Danish-oriented, but welcomes international users and material. | ||
==Background== | == 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 : | ''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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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. | 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== | == Perspectives == | ||
The ambitions for ''Crewscut.com'' falls into several categories : | The ambitions for ''Crewscut.com'' falls into several categories : | ||
* To expand it's 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 it's 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 it's content and structure into an international edition, to make the wiki accessible to a global user base. | * To expand it's 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. | ||
[[Category:Technology]] | [[Category:Technology]] | ||