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| recentchanges URL = http://www.crewscut.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges
| recentchanges URL = http://www.crewscut.com/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges
| wikinode URL      = No
| wikinode URL      = No
| status            = Vibrant
| status            = InActive
| language          = Danish
| language          = Danish
| editmode          = OpenEdit
| editmode          = OpenEdit
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== 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 Creative Commons license. Crewscut.com is based on [[MediaWiki]], the same software engine that runs [[Wikipedia]] and [[WikiIndex]].
Based on [[MediaWiki]], Crewscut.com was a Danish wiki for cultural producers, dedicated to presenting cultural and media projects, networks and knowhow. As of April 2010, Crewscut.com is discontinued as a wiki for cultural projects, but the wiki's database and user base is continued under a new profile in [[NotatWiki]]. The Crewscut.com domain


The wiki is currently mostly Danish-oriented, but welcomes international users and material.
==License==
Content on Crewscut.com was shared under a Creative Commons license.


== 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 media students 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 fell 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 user base and article count significantly.
* To expand its content and structure into an international edition, to make the wiki accessible to a global user base.
* 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 easier to contribute to the site.
 


[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology]]
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[[Category:Computers]]
[[Category:Computers]]
[[Category:Games]]
[[Category:Games]]
[[Category:Draft weblog article]]
[[Category:MediaWiki}}

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