From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Churches Category Renamed Places of Worship

February 27, 2009

The Churches category in RichmondWiki has been expanded and renamed “Places of Worship” to accommodate a wider variety of religions and beliefs.

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MediaWiki 1.14 Released

February 22, 2009

MediaWiki 1.14 was officially released today and initial reaction seems positive. Here are the Release Notes. As usual, the Wikimedia Foundation has been running the release candidates on their own properties before the official release to sort out any bugs. I will upgrade RichmondWiki when time permits and provide more detail about the changes and [...]

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Testing Facebook Ads

February 17, 2009

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, but I finally got around to creating a Facebook ad campaign. The Objective: Promote RichmondWiki.org and encourage Richmonders to visit and contribute. The Strategy: Target ads to Richmonders that have identified an interest in Wikipedia. Campaign Details The ads are targeted to Facebook users that meet [...]

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Testing Homepage Designs

February 16, 2009

Please take a moment to review these two potential homepage designs and provide your feedback in the comments below. Version 1: Live Example (click for larger version) Version 2: Live Example (click for larger version) Version 3: Live Example (click for larger version) Which RichmondWiki Home Page Design Do you Like Better? ( polls) Thanks!

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Finally, an XML Sitemap Generator for MediaWiki

February 11, 2009

My hero for the day is Jehy, the Russian programmer who created the Manual Sitemap Extension for MediaWiki. It is an updated version of the now defunct Google Sitemap Extension. I used it to create the RichmondWiki.org sitemap.xml file to improve search engines’ ability to discover and index articles. Just one more thing to cross [...]

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