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What will happen with blogging in Mediawiki

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I was thinking that since about 1 week there is a tendency to write more in my new Friendica (a web application for managing social communications),
so I wondered yesterday:

Will my Mediawiki blog be useless?

Why is that?

  • friendika allows posting of more than 140 chars + formating
  • it allows to crosspost to other networks (e.g. to identi.ca)
    (which I also can do over an RSS feed for Mediawiki or extension: Send2StatusNet)


While I was thinking about this, I've also noted down what blocks me currently to use friendika more efficiently, see (exploring Friendika: behaviour after 1 week)
I am using now friendika together with StatusNet, see Micro blogging posts

Anyways, we'll see.
What I still prefer in the wiki is its versioning + other features friendika does not offer (yet).
Another issue is the import of existing blog posts.

Though over the last years a tendency of mine was to diverse more (>5 blogs) I tend to collect now more at one place (makes searching + classifying later on easier)


edit 2011-10-05: post + denticator

from 2011 October - 2012 December
service Average number of characters per dent sum dents comment
2011-10-05 2012-03-11 2012-12-26 2011-10-05 2012-03-11 2012-12-26
this Mediawiki 5,144[1]
(edits)
7,717 9,092
Friendica 1207[2] 1869
identi.ca[3] 119 116 79[4] 643 804 5898
StatusNet[5] 188 210 210 112 240 830
StatusNet 75 3228 sweet talking with my bot
StatusNet 94 4440 the famous bot



2012 Oct 3:

  • It's more like swinging from one extreme to another :-)
  • a little bit of this and when I am bored I give more attention to the other


2012 Nov 19:


see also


  1. only data from October 13 available
  2. 2011-09-29
  3. which also gets the dents from the StatusNet site below, so I expect an increase of dent length over time
  4. interesting it decreased: perhaps due to lower amount of posts from friendica (1869) than in comparison with identica posts (5888)
  5. which currently gets input from Friendika, so this could show me, if I tend to write more there or here
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