Wikevent:About
From Wikevent
Wikevent (http://wikevent.org) is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide events calendar. It is built in collaboration by Wikeventeers from around the globe.
The project was begun in October of 2006 by the founder, Mark. It was inspired by Wikitravel, the free travel guide, and specifically by a conversation there about the need for timely event information that really doesn't belong in a travel guide.
Wikevent is built with the spirit of sharing knowledge that makes travel so enjoyable. Whenever travellers meet each other on the road, they swap info about the places they came from and ask questions about places they're going. We want to make it easy to share that knowledge and let others share it; our copyleft license means that the facts you know can spread far and wide.
To create Wikevent we use a tool (or a process, or a technology) called Wiki which lets any Internet reader create, update, edit, and illustrate any article on the Web site. We all share our pieces of knowledge, edit them, distill them, and assemble them into a pleasing and cohesive whole. The more people that use the Edit link, the better Wikevent becomes.
We're creating a list of milestones we'd like to achieve. If you're new to Wikevent, feel free to plunge forward and help us!
The (temporary) logo
For the moment we're using the KDE CrystalClear vCalendar logo by Everaldo Coelho. Clearly this will have to change (at least the reference to April 2004 will.)
See also
- Goals and non-goals — What the Wikevent community is trying to do (and not trying to do)
- Wikevent:Namespace index — An index of all the pages in the Wikevent: namespace
- Wikevent:Logbook — Recent events and milestones
- Technical details — For the geeks in the audience, a description of the hardware and software behind Wikevent
- Terms of use — using the Wikevent service.
