Spamming

I noticed there were 2 persons adding stuff to Mini treasures wiki that had nothing to do with minis. If you notice the same help us to keep out wiki nice and clean by
-removing the content
-informing me about it (by emailing or commenting in wiki, blog, Flickr, Facebook or Twitter).

Thank you!

Top 10 sites bringing traffic to the wiki

I am a statistician so I love studying the numbers, stats and graphs - and I want to share my studies with you :). This time I looked the top 10 web pages that are bringing traffic to the wiki.

1. direct traffic, i.e. people who have bookmarked the site
2. jasminasnoussi.punt.nl - this is something amazing, Jasmina beat Google! Hurray! She is writing an online web magazine with cool links she has seen recently - see it translated to English
3. Google
4. nukkekoti.pbworks.com - this is the big sister of Mini treasures wiki, the first wiki I established (in Finnish) - you can study it in English too
5. poohbeers.eigenstart.nl - another Dutch site full of cool mini links, see it translated to English
6. miniaturama.webavenue.be - a Belgium based miniature discussion forum in French, see it translated in English
7. minitreasures.blogspot.com - this blog :). Thank you readers! :)
8. adventkalender.punt.nl - a Dutch miniature advent calendar with links to other calendars, see it translated to English
9. mustix.vuodatus.net - one of my favorite miniature blogs in Finnish, see the translation in English
10. facebook.com - I guess the Facebook traffic is coming mainly from the new wiki fan page but there might be people linking to the wiki from their own profiles as well.

So what do you think, was this interesting information and did you find any cool new sites? It is quite funny that all the top ten sources were in other languages than English (except Google and Facebook of course). I think I will share the same stats with you again as this was so interesting :).

Where do the wiki readers come from?

Studying this map shows you where in world there are Mini treasures wiki readers. A lot of green already :). Never been in so many countries myself but now I have created something that goes where I can´t go. :)

Translating web pages with help of Google

There was a question in wiki about how to translate a page into English. Thanks Pauline for asking :). I added the answer to wiki faq but I´ll share it here as well.

1. Go to translate.google.com

2. Give the url of the page you want to translate and the languages (e.g. from Finnish to English).

3. Hit translate

The translation is made by a machine, but users can improve the translations. Also if you are using the translated versions of the wiki you might find odd translations - in that case go ahead and correct them. :)

And now that you know how to do it go and study Maria´s Indian headgear.

Merry Christmas

me and the tree
Originally uploaded by Johantti ~ Mini treasures

and happy new year and decade to you my treasured mini friends!

Playing with the wiki has been like an adventure. I have the background from Finnish wiki but changing the language and to bigger audience has really challenged my creativity. I knew how to reach the Finnish miniaturists but reaching the miniaturists all over the world is a completely different thing. If you any ideas how to spread the word, I am listening. :)

My simple strategy is to create wiki content I love and I have been so happy to see that others are doing the same: adding amazing stuff to the wiki. Thank you for that and keep it going: let's make the wiki a place all miniaturists love.

Hoping you will get some mini treasures from Santa :).

4000 visitors in our wiki, interviewing Hanna&leijona

Few weeks ago the milestone of 4000 visitors in our wiki´s home page was passed and the visitor number 4000 was Hannajaleijona (Hanna&lion). So let´s ask her a few questions...

Hi Hanna - how does it feel to be the visitor number 4000 in our wiki? It's cool! It's good that there are more and more people visiting and using wiki. This is our common database and a great way to get lost in all the eye-candy you find following the links at wiki.

Tell a little about yourself: who you are, where do you come from and what do you do? I'm Hanna, soon 38, a mom, a dance-teacher and a mini-maker from Finland. (Psst: here´s a link to her Etsy shop)

Do you have any other hobbies than miniatures?
I try to get myself to do something else sometimes, but it's difficult! I watch tv when I'm lazy and I do stuff with my daughter a lot, but I don't think I have any other hobby.

When and how did you start doing miniatures?
I've done miniatures in one way or another all my life, but in an almost obsessive way for about four years. It started with my daughter's first doll's house.

What is your latest/next mini project?
I have all these ideas and projects going on and getting mixed up in my head and in our home... I've made two small houses, it's sort of a beginning of a neighbourhood, but I'm collecting stuff for a theatre too.

How did you find Mini treasures wiki and what is your favorite page in the wiki? At the moment my favourite is the advent calendar, of course! It's so much fun to see a new page every morning. I used a lot of the Finnish version so it was a natural shift to international wiki.

What would you like to see in the wiki in the future?
Hmmmm.... dunno really. A lot of new links to all kinds of dollhouse blogs and homepages. I'd love to see different projects like zoos or circuses or amusement parks. It would be lovely to see really cool sci-fi or fantasy-settings or a hommage to Simpsons. Also it would be cool to have links to all kinds of historical dollhouses around the world. But then again... there might already be things like these at wiki!

Thank you for the interview Hanna, it was a pleasure (like always) to talk with you :). You are right, there were some of the pages already but I would also like to see them growing so keep adding cool links to the wiki :).

How to follow the Mini treasures wiki?

I just updated the FAQ of the wiki and realized there are quite many ways to follow the wiki.

1. you can order emails from the wiki
2. you can order RSS feeds from the wiki
3. you can follow this blog
4. you can join Facebook fan page to get notified of some wiki news
5. you can follow Twitter to get these notifications:
* notifications of new blog entries of Mini treasures blog
* notifications of Facebook updates
* some notifications of wiki updates (not all)
6. you can bookmark the wiki and visit it when ever you have time

Now it is up to you to choose the one that suits best for you. :)

It would be nice to hear how you do it?