April is our Birthday month!

3 years ago I realized there were no English wiki about miniatures so I started one myself. 3 years earlier I had started one in Finnish so I started to translate it but soon Mini treasures wiki grew bigger than the original.

Since then we have celebrated our birthday :).

This year there will be:
- a contest. The people who edit the members page during April will enroll to a lottery (more details about this later)
- 25 MTW Awards winners. It will be given to 25 sites bringing us most traffic (you will find new cool sites among them)
- a possibility to make birthday wishes: tell us a wiki page you would like to get improved.

Do you have other ideas how we could celebrate the event? Since it is Easter month too, we will share also Easter goodies with you :).

1st Mini Treasures Hunt is over

Sometimes you win and sometimes you loose. This happened in our recent contest, Mini treasures hunt. The winners were Marottesud and Tina. The loser was me. 

I planned a new consept with Linda. It was a supposed to be a learning experience - a fun contest. I wanted to run it during the spring and with 10 participants. I promoted it in different channels but got only 2 members to enroll. I waited several weeks snd then decided that ok, lets do it with 2 partipants then. 

so now the hunt is over. We managed to improve a page about Troll dolls: http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/troll_dolls . So actually there is a third winner: everyone who are is interested about Trolls got a better wiki page to stydy :).

But now I am curious: what could we have done differently to get more participants? Were you tempted to enroll? Why didnt you?

I want to learn from you as there will be more contests in future, one already in April.

ps. this blog post was written with my mobile phone (that is why there's  no photos or tags).

Mini treasures at Pinterest

Many of you have already heard about Pinterest. It is a new social media service where bookmarks to cool sites are marked with photos (or videos) which makes it a huge pinboard. Mini treasures has a board there too and it is BIG. :)

In fact we have already two boards. The first one is for miniatures and the second one is for prints. I wonder if we need more boards. What do you think?

We have a good group contributing to our board already but if you want to join us, just tell me and I will add you there too :).

Happy pinning!

And some goodies from our board to make the-non-pinners interested :).

Source: jakdawsattic.blogspot.com via Linda on Pinterest

Source: ortensia-azzurra.tumblr.com via Deanne on Pinterest

Source: honeyandfitz.blogspot.com via Debbie on Pinterest

Source: tpettit.best.vwh.net via Debbie on Pinterest

Source: miniworld-sp.blogspot.in via Linda on Pinterest

Source: vesssper.deviantart.com via Debbie on Pinterest

Maintaining our wiki

Mini treasures wiki is free for users to read and edit. Even the miniature sellers can add a link to their shops for free.

But it is not the whole truth - Mini treasures wiki is not free for all: I need to pay for the maintenance every year. And every year it is a bit more expensive.

I just paid the bill again. If you want to participate the costs consider jumping to Amazon via links in Mini treasures wiki or use our new Mini Treasures Store. The most popular item so far is this set bought by 11 people:
  .

Thank you for all who have used this supporting opportunity already :).

If Amazon is not for you but you still want to participate, you can always donate a prize to one of our contests or spread the word about our wiki.

Hope you enjoy our wiki as much as I do :).

How to get started with Mini treasures wiki

The first lesson for the Mini Treasures Hunters is here. You can read the wiki without logging in but once you want to leave a comment, edit a page, give a star to a page or get emails from the wiki changes you need the account. Here is how to do it:

Starting with MTW

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Mini Treasures Hunt is open for enrollment

A while ago I promised you a fun wiki course which is a contest at the same time.

We are organizing it because there are people who would like to contribute more in our wiki but don't know how exactly to do it.

During this 2 week course you will together with your new partner learn the wiki editing tricks in a fun and exciting way. And 2 of you will get this wonderful and one-of-a-kind set including a seat and the accessories donated by our wiki member Anne from Greece.

Come and have fun with us!
Read more about the rules from here.

MTW highlights 2011

Want to know how the last year went for Mini treasures? Here you are. The year was exciting and one of the reasons for that was that Google fell in love with Mini treasures wiki (as some of you have too).

I hope this year will be even bigger and I hope you all are helping us to grow. :)

MTW stats 2011

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PS. In few weeks we are starting a wiki editing course. It is not a typical one but a contest at the same time. We are taking only the 10 participants in. So if you have wished you knew how to edit our wiki now is your chance. I promise it will be the most fun and exciting course you ever take, do not miss it!