This was an idea that originally appeared in ReportingForOutsiders.
In 2007, MattisManzel, LionKimbro, and ChristopheDucamp of CommunityWiki, MeatballWiki, and CraoWiki started “The 4 Communities Digest.” LionKimbro wrote 1-2 paragraphs a month about what people in CommunityWiki were talking about, and Lion wrote 1-2 paragraphs a month about what people in MeatballWiki were talking about. ChristopheDucamp wrote 1-2 paragraphs about what people were talking about in CraoWiki. MattisManzel wrote up 1-2 paragraphs about what was going on in S-23. ChristopheDucamp then translated the text to French. Initially, they just kept the digest on a page in CommunityWiki, and then migrated it to an OddWiki, as things matured.
Initially, it was just something of an “odd curiosity.” “Oh, look at this thing that Mattis, Lion, and Christophe are doing. Hunh.” They had to draw attention to the digest, and, because they were friends, some people consented to read.
Then a few more groups were added. LionKimbro started doing a 1-2 paragraph digest for the SaturdayHouse, and distributing the “4 Communities Digest” at the SaturdayHouse, as well, along with explaining the idea. A few people were like, “Hm, … Whatever,” a few were sympathetic, and a few started reading it. “You mean, you can introduce me to all these people? That’s pretty interesting. Yeah, I want to keep reading this.”
There were some more groups, as well. A writer from another community added a voice, and MattisManzel added another group he was part of. ChristopheDucamp added 2, in time. The intent to change the name beyond “4 Communities Digest” was there, but nobody really had the time to do anything about it.
The digest started to become familiar. It was the digest of ordinary geeks, and it was fun and inspiring to see what other people, to which there is personal access and introduction, were doing. When someone in Crao Wiki read that there was a RepRap being constructed in SaturdayHouse (this is true, and the RepRap is real,) he became very excited, and a three-way conversation was arranged, online with ChristopheDucamp working as translator. The fellow in France then started to make a RepRap of his own, coordinating with JustinMartenstein (of the SaturdayHouse,) for replication in France. This is just one example, there were others as well.
The digest started to develop. More and more groups were interested in participating in the digest. It was felt that there was some sort of “natural limit,” a discovery of a checkpoint beyond the 150 person count (Dunbar #?). It was discovered that, beyond 1200 people, things started to get a bit unweildly. So LionKimbro and BayleShanks started working with other groups, groups they had never heard of, to teach them the technique of cross-coordinating, so that they could make their own hive clusters, with the promise (and beginnings) of making a “hive of hives,” one day.
jepp! Let’s do that. Didn’t get it first, have been too deep in making the wiki-net grow. We’re approaching from different ends I guess. A good meeting it has just been on VoIP with MarkDilley, SamRose, you lion and me mattis btw. What I was talking about is DraftOfNextFacePage? refering to FacePages? syndicated to pages WikiNetFaces? like eArt-wiki-hive / wiki-Woodstock: wiki-net faces. The draft is not syndicated (automatically), the face is. When it’s time and the people like the draft someone in the community copies it over to a real “face” day-page and from that moment on it’s locally readable on pages WikiNetFacesnof? interested neighboring wikis. That’s a step to follow later, true, first starting with a little help locally is the next. Hopefully it finally just won’t turn into CommunityDigest? on all wikis. I mean, compare that to “face”. 
s23-wiki:
They made a tremendous collection of data about Mediawikis recently. They asked for Oddmuse wikis to be integrated. s23-wiki: wiki-stats.
Here are writeups for communities I participate in or know of.
communitywiki: CommunityWiki has been talking about business process networks, the nature of corporations (WhatCompaniesMustDo,) and the question of paying contributors. Key pages: CommunityWikiBusinessDiscussion, DoOcracy, PayRequiredInitially. SamRose is looking to revive CommunityRepository.
meatballwiki: MeatballWiki has witnessed a struggle over the question of making money through wiki activity.
saturdayhouse: SaturdayHouse is excited about JustinMartenstein’s expressed goal of building a RepRap, and recently had a burst of new people coming due to MindCamp 4.
Lion…
Mattis…

The MeatballWiki situation was being intentionally “covered up,” by me, because I didn’t want to draw unnecessary attention. Still not sure the best way to handle such a situation when “reporting.” Some times, de-listing draws more attention than a simple cover-up..! 
Regardless, it’s something to think about.
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