It's my goal to have 40 articles in the wiki by tonight so that I can spend the weekend helping other editors in case they have any problems. Today I shall tackle "yarn over" and "how to knit a picot edge". The yarn over article will be quite long because there are a lot of photos, plus a fair bit of extra info when it comes to antique and vintage patterns. With Jamie's help I also hope to make videos for the yarn over article and also the one I edited a few days ago on how to join your stitches for knitting in the round.

If I get those two new articles finished this morning I will have reached my goal and I'll spend time making a couple of changes to the manuscript of my hat book so that I can give it to the editor to check while I take the rest of the photos. I'm a bit stressed about whether I should reknit one of the sample hats. I won't be sure if it's too long until I get hold of my man-sized glass head which I think is still at my Dad's house, over an hour's drive away. I should just get Jamie to try it on but he fights back ;-)

I'm hoping that many of the new people who subscribed to be editors for the wiki will have a go this weekend, even if they just try out the wiki code by making their user pages. I am a bit concerned that people are scared of using the wiki code and I might need to find a way to convince them that it really is quite simple. (It is!). Perhaps it's time to find out how the photoshop guys do their video tutorials and do something in the same vein. It's really important to me that the wiki takes off. Not just because it took me two months to set up and cost me $250 in server changes (not to mention Ipowerweb refusing to refund the remaining 5 months of hosting I had paid for "because it wasn't 6 months"), but because Brenda had a brilliant idea and if I can't make such a brilliant idea work because people are scared of the technology that means that I'm not doing my job right.

I think additional video tutorials of how to do stuff might be the way to go.

Now I just need to figure out how to do that...