Removed members from wiki - sorry folks!

Yesterday Linda got an idea: she wanted to clean our wiki members a bit and checked the ones who had not been logged in for three years. Then she removed almost 70 members. When I found this out I was really really upset. Pbworks is not showing the correct information always and there were valuable members (and my friends) removed who had been editing the wiki during these years. Even if the people are not logged in for our service they might visit our site regularly (you can read without logging in) and follow the wiki updates from their own emails.

So far our policy has been that only the spammers (you now them, they are marketing rented cars and diets and so on, kitchenware for our 1:1 homes not for our mini projects) have been blocked away. We do not have any activity rules for our members and we will not make them now. We wont start kicking away miniaturists, only spammers!

So what I just did? Invited the removed members back to our wiki. I also invited them to our new Yahoo group which has recently started to help our users with the wiki problems as well as giving us feedback and new ideas about how to improve our services. The rest of you are also welcome to join our group!

I now Linda meant only good with her cleaning and she is sorry too about what happened. Peace & harmony folks, we do want to keep you in our wiki!

Adding photos to Mini treasures wiki with help of Pinterest

I created also another how-to-instructions: embedding photos to Mini treasures wiki with help of Pinterest.

Embedding photos with help of pinterest from Hidden treasure - Piilotettu aarre

You can embed photos e.g. from Flickr or Picasa but Pinterest allows you to embed almost any photo (you can add photos to Pinterest as well). Do not embed photos from other people to our wiki unless you have asked their permission.

How to get started with Mini treasures wiki editing

Just created instructions of how to get started with Mini treasures wiki. You need an account and then you go.

Embedding photos with help of pinterest from Hidden treasure - Piilotettu aarre

Any comments of the instructions?

Miniature advent calendar for this year open for registration

We have a nice tradition with advent calendars in Mini treasures wiki, we have done it already three times and every year we are getting more and more followers. Linda asked to create the page for this year as there are already people asking her when they can reserve their date.

If you want also to contribute to our advent calendar go and reserve a day for yourself. This year we are filling the dates well before the due date in order to avoid the hassle (it has been quite exciting for me to wait if the pages are filled in time, sometimes they werent and then I needed to invent something fast). So we are filling the pages in advance but the secret is safe - the pages are opened to public on a due date only.

What can you add to your page then? Something related to Christmas of course. You can share your project, you can make a video, printables, instructions. Use your imagination and start counting days for 1st of December when we open the first window of the Advent calendar! :)

If you have anything you want to ask about the calendar, leave a comment below and I answer you as soon as I can. :)

Greetings from Dorothy from South Africa

Do you remember when you first visited Mini treasures wiki? I got a message from Dorothy who fell on love with our wiki and as I was very pleased about her reaction I asked if I can publish it jere. She said YES  - and asked if she could help spreading the word. Please go ahead and tell all your mini friends about our site :).

Dorothy wrote:

I stumbled across your website yesterday - totally by accident - and it's absolutely brilliant! I've been able to delete at least 150 other sites that I had bookmarked because everything I need - links, blogs, how to, etc, is all here in one place. It's so fast and easy to navigate, and everything is so well organised! It must have taken you months and months to set it all up and I truly appreciate your hard work. Definitely the number 1 one stop, all in one, go to miniatures resources site and I love, love, love it! I live in South Africa where we don't have any miniatures shops (not one in the whole country!) so we have either have to make our own stuff or import. Your site now makes it so simple to source ideas or actual products. Thank you so much!

MTW Award 2012 winners now on Pinterest

Source: minitreasures.blogspot.com via Johanna on Pinterest

This morning I did some pinning, the MTW Awards 2012 sites are now found from Pinterest too. Happy surfing and happy pinning too! :)

MTW Award 2012

Howdy hoe!

It is again time to share the MTW Awards. Every year we are giving them to people who are bringing the most traffic to Mini treasures wiki. They make our site what it is by spreading the word and thus they are really valuable for the site. So once a year we are giving the credits for 25 popular mini sites. If you want to see your site in this list next year, start acting now: add links to our wiki every now and then and a button to your side bar.

I left the forums, search engines and social media services out of this list - most awards are given to a blogger.

1. inchscaled.com/
2. poohbeers.eigenstart.nl
3. nukketalo.org/
4. casita-mini-1.jouwpagina.nl/
5. schifka.vuodatus.net/
6. littleroomers.blogspot.com
7. hannajaleijona.blogspot.com/
8. mysmallobsession.com/
9. a-miniature-life.blogspot.com/
10. ilovelittlethings.blogspot.com/
11. debbiestinytreasures.blogspot.com/
12. adventkalender.punt.nl/
13. vesperminiatures.blogspot.com/
14. nuestrasminis.blogspot.com/
15. pubdolls.blogspot.com/
16. fashiondollreview.blogspot.com/
17. stalbertmini.blogspot.com/
18. geekgirlsfinland.blogspot.com
19. snowfern-clover.blogspot.com/
20. nasunnukkekoti.blogspot.com/
21. true2scale.blogspot.com/
22. lastanzadigiuggiola.blogspot.com/
23. narinanapertaa.blogspot.com/
24. klarameijer.blogspot.com/
25. njdminiatures.com/

Thank you for your support and congrats for reaching MTW Award 2012. Here is the award banner for your blog.

I would love to hear from you winners:
What is your favorite page in our wiki?
Any ideas about how could improve the site in future`?