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== Site news ==
 
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* Monoskop wiki has been upgraded to the latest stable MediaWiki version, 1.23, and has several new extensions installed. The most exciting is MediaViewer for images which is still in beta (try it out by clicking on any image). A list of all installed extensions is [[Special:Version|here]]. (5 June 2014)
 
* Monoskop wiki re-launches in new design, inspired by [http://www.movingbrands.com/work/wikipedia-an-mb-internal-project Moving Brands' Wikipedia Identity proposal]. (11 March 2012)
 
* Support of the [http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Twitter Twitter widget] enabled. You can now embed a twitter feed on your profile. (11 March 2012)
 
* Monoskop moves to a new domain: http://monoskop.org. Old links are preserved. (5 March 2012)
 
* Monoskop wiki now supports embedding videos from Youtube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Google Video, UStream, and basically any publicly accessible website (using HTML5 video tag), as well as documents from Google Books, Scribd, and SlideShare, image searches and slideshows from Flickr, and stills from Google Maps and Google Street View. See [http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Widgets_Catalog#Widgets_available MediaWikiWidgets manual] to learn how. (16 November 2011)
 
* Realising there are almost 100 users or so registered, we did small improvements in user profiles. Using your profile (find [[Special:Userlist|here]]) you can now share what you have been working on, message others, etc. (28 July 2008)
 
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==Sister projects==
 
* [[Monoskop Log]], writings on art, culture, and media technology.
 
* [[Remake]], REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments
 
 
== Wiki ==
 
[[Monoskop:About|Monoskop]] is a wiki where anyone can edit any article and have those changes posted immediately. Learn [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page how to edit pages].
 
 
==Design==
 
The current Monoskop skin was inspired by [http://www.movingbrands.com/work/wikipedia-an-mb-internal-project Moving Brands' Wikipedia Identity proposal] and [[Michael Murtaugh]]'s customized MediaWiki Monobook skin, and uses [http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/fedra_sans Fedra Sans] font designed by [[Peter Biľak]], along with [http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/GFS+Neohellenic Greek Font Society's Neohellenic] font for the headlines.
 
 
== Hosting ==
 
Monoskop runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org MediaWiki] software, and is hosted by the [http://multiplace.org/wiki/server.html Sanchez] free art server, maintained by [[Multiplace]].
 
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Revision as of 07:21, 31 August 2014

Welcome to Monoskop, a wiki for art, culture and media technology.

This page shows a selection of the latest additions to the website. For more detailed overview see the Recent and Contents sections. The updates are also posted on Twitter and Facebook.

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