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Did you know that the world of #zines has its own Wiki? Explore and contribute to ZineWiki!
https://zinewiki.com/ 👈👈👈
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Did you know that the world of #zines has its own Wiki? Explore and contribute to ZineWiki!
https://zinewiki.com/ 👈👈👈
This month is International Zine Month (organized by my friend @alexwrekk) and today is ZineWiki Day!
I co-founded ZineWiki with Kate Sandler all the way back in 2006. The idea was to have our own wikipedia-like resource for independent media... zines, podcasts, short films, and other DIY projects that didn’t meet the “notable” criteria for wikipedia.
Since then over 5,200 projects have been added to and archived by ZineWiki, reaching a ton of readers, researchers, librarians, and other independent creators. In fact, ZineWiki’s pages have been viewed over 51,000,000 times.
Here’s a screenshot I took back when we had just hit our 400th article (again, there are now over 5,200 articles)...
When I got busy with DFTBA Records and my YouTube “career”, I couldn’t keep up with the demands of running ZineWiki as well, so I turned the project over to Jerianne Thompson, the publisher and editor of Zine World.
The site is still going strong and today’s International Zine Month task is to contribute, edit, or read a page on ZineWiki.
So, you can visit ZineWiki here.
Or read more about the project on my personal site here.
The ZineWiki edit-a-thon! 27 November, 2020!
Get involved: https://zinewiki.com/
Check out the updated page for New Hearts New Bones on Zine Wiki (-:
Happy #IZM2016
Day 6: Add your zine to or update your Zine at ZineWiki.org
Read / enjoy / edit the ZineWiki entry on Wikipedia!
ZineWiki is an open-source encyclopedia devoted to zines and independent media. It covers the history, production, distribution and culture of the small press.
The origin of zinewiki
For Christmas one year I joke that I wanted a wiki page and alandistro obliged. After time the Alex Wrekk wiki page was deemed “unnotable” and removed.* Alan saw the value in DIY archiving and set up a zinewiki so that, unlike wikipedia, zinesters were encouraged to make their own pages and tell their own stores.
Today is your day to do that! Dust off you existing wiki page or add your page to the archive!
*Eventually the Alex Wrekk Wikipedia page was reinstated but is hopelessly out of date. It can be found here.
ZineWiki is an online resource devoted entirely to zines and small press. Explore, edit and contribute!
Happy International Zine Monday Day 6! Today's task is to update your Zinewiki! Don't have a zinewiki? Make one! ZineWiki, unlike wikipedia, encourages you to update your own listings to insure the best accuracy!