My biz partner, MEP, is making some serious technological traction on WikiOutdoors. When we first got the wiki going, our focus was on designing for "welcome and warmth," keeping it simple and clean, and frankly just getting the darn thing up!
Once up and running in beta, we shared WikiOutdoors with a small group of people who we knew were either outdoor enthusiasts, wiki fans or a combination of the two. We, of course, were excited to get contributions to the wiki, but our primary goal was user feedback. And, boy, did we get some, mostly related to making WikiOutdoors a lot easier to use.
MEP got straight to work on several key pieces of feedback, and some of the changes are already live. We've added hot links to wikis and meetups that we think will be valuable to our community. We've also cleaned up the licensing agreement, which would to have multiple options. Now, thanks to feedback from one of the founders of WikiHow, we've updated the licensing to Creative Commons Non-Commercial ShareAlike.
More changes are on their way, and I'm really excited about them. In particular, we're focusing heavily on making it easy to contribute your first article. MEP has put in a lot of hours of coding, and I'm really impressed with the first versions that I saw. Can't wait!
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