And now the end is near…
Phew - what a rollercoaster it has been. A Million Penguins has been running for three weeks now and we’ve had just under a quarter of a million page views and more than 9000 edits. Now I’m here to tell you wikinovelistas that we’ve got a little less than two weeks to go and to suggest that now is the time to begin tie-ing up loose ends, spellchecking, getting your links in order and generally winding up. We’ll be locking everything down for good on Wednesday the 7th March and after this point no further changes will be possible, so perhaps have a good read of everything now and let’s work out how we prove the doubters and naysayers wrong.
Jeremy@Penguin
PS we’re looking at ways of how we can preserve the wikinovel as an ebook but clearly need a format that keeps all links attached. If anyone has any bright ideas of how we can do this, or knows of any useful software tools, make sure you let us know.
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February 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 am
Wow, the end truly is nigh. Just a thought, how do you prevent a last minute radical change that disrupts the progressive and community based work being done here?
cheers,
paul
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I’ve wondered about that. guess we would put it right! We can hold different versions after all… Then it will be over to Jon to make some final dicisions I assume?
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Regarding preserving the novel as an ebook.
I don’t know if this is an applicable solution, but I’ll mention it non the less, see http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom If not, asking the author of the article about suggestions could also move you closer to a solution, see http://people.opera.com/howcome/
February 24th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
It would be interesting, if the e-version were much like the online experience we enjoy. For instance, if the page would automatically refresh every few minutes with a different version on the screen. I know the excite.com news page used to do this, with some sort of refresh code in the html, like refresh = 300 or something like that. Then the reader would have transparent layers of the novel evolve around them. This could be done by taking snapshots of various points of novel development over the past few weeks, hopefully with vandals and explicit references sanitized, build these into a database, have the program do a refresh and go to next x. These could be random, or progressive, or regressive. That way, they might have a novel of 500 words at first, then 1000, then 750, then 10,000 etc or whatever the final product ends up being. With each reading, or reader prompted refresh, there could be a different experience, if the timer is too complex. This way, even though the final product is locked, the experience could still be mutable.
Anyone know how to accomplish this?
~ pabruce
February 25th, 2007 at 5:15 am
what a much better idea than the novel million crappy concept!!!
February 25th, 2007 at 5:15 am
better than some greedy guy who is only out to make money
February 28th, 2007 at 3:15 am
the ‘doubters and naysayers’ as well as the ’snobs and the vandals’ have probably got their minds so tightly snapped shut that it would be best to ignore them. How many people ever got anywhere
by listening to the voices of people who criticise in an unconstructive and dismissive way and tear-down, rather than build up.
To paraphrase another saying…. “those who can, DO, those who can’t, criticise.”
cheers to everyone working on this project.
July 19th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Bookmarks…
How I add this article to Digg?…
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Lineage 2…
Hey nice post. I’ve been lurking here for a while now. I know its difficult to keep a blog updated, so all of your readers appreciate the hard work. Keep it up! …