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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. | ||