The first few days…
Nov 9th, 2007 by AliG
So it’s been a couple of days now since The Gathering archives website went live, and the stats are looking very good. What’s interesting to me (and very satisfying from a web author’s point of view) is that, if you visit more than one page on the site (which more than two-thirds of all of you are doing), you’re more likely to browse through 50 pages than two or three pages. Wow! That’s great!
I emailed the hundreds of people on the old Gathering mailing last last night (welcome, guys!) to let them know about the site – and I have already started receiving photos and offers of scans of this and that, which is awesome, and exactly what I hoped would happen once the site went live.
I’ll be doing regular updates on this blog of what’s new on the website, which I hope will give you a reason to come back regularly and see what else we’ve added, and what other cool stuff has been sent to us by Gatherers and crew.
The other thing I did today was to register with Wikipedia and add a bit more detail to the New Zealand music festivals page, which was looking rather thin (and inaccurate) on Gathering-related stuff. There’s still more info to add, but I’ll need to put my writing hat on – and get hold of some of the tech crew to get the tech info. Or someone else could update it instead!
I think I’m going to compose a full page on The Gathering for Wikipedia actually – all the other big festivals have their own page, so it’s only right that we should have one too! The one on Nambasa is particularly good, I think.
If anyone else feels like doing it instead – go for your life!
In the meantime, hope you’re enjoying the site (it looks like you are!) and please feel free to leave comments here (good or bad!) to let me know what you think of The Gathering archives website, and how you think we could improve it.