Introducing: Magazine Creator

KyleH October 14, 2009

Magazine Creator

Make your own magazine!

Today we are launching a product unlike all others – Magazine Creator, a tool that lets you effortlessly transform your favorite wiki pages into high-gloss, professional looking, printed magazines. With just a couple of clicks, you can publish your own subscription-based magazine - covering characters, lore or your favorite quotes. The choice is yours.

So, how do you get started?

Use the magazine creator widget on the left to access the MagCloud toolbar. Just browse the wiki and add any articles you'd like in your magazine by clicking the “add” button.
Rearrange your articles in the perfect order - Klingon weapons, favorite NASCAR drivers, best COD weapons or whatever you like!
Design a cover, either by using our easy cover generator or uploading an image of your own.
Then, publish your magazine directly to MagCloud. From there you can order as many copies as you like for you and your friends!

Magazine Creator is live for most English-language wikis that use the Monaco skin. As always, if you have any thoughts / questions, please leave a comment below!

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I will make a SSBR magazine. Oh, wait. NO I WON'T!

October 22, 2009 by Blablobb
i would make a splendid X flippy magazine

October 22, 2009 by I love splendid
It sounds stupid. Is that just me?

October 22, 2009 by Blablobb
Does it cost anything?

October 22, 2009 by Blablobb
Just...no.

October 22, 2009 by Rgoodermote
how much would this cost?

October 22, 2009 by Blablobb
Now I'm not a lawyer (I just play one on TV), but this seems a little fishy to me. It seems that in order for a magazine to be sent to a user when they publish it, there is a cost involved. Is that legal? Yes, the written content of wiki's is licensed under Creative Commons, but what about the images? Take Wookieepedia for example. It uses a number of fair use images that are owned by Lucasfilm. Wouldn't whoever produces the magazine technically be making money of the use of these images, which is expressly forbidden?
Maybe I'm just missing something.

October 22, 2009 by Brandon Rhea
hey, this is pretty cool!

October 22, 2009 by Sunny the Hedgehog
No thanks!

October 22, 2009 by Gloverboy21
Wait, I have to order the magazines? I thought I just had to print them out. I don't have the money to do a magazine, oh well...

October 22, 2009 by Starteen*
Looks useful. My Wiki is still new and the articles are tiny but this magazine thing might be handy in the future.

October 22, 2009 by Starteen*
It's an automatic message placed on everyone's talk page. It's to increase awareness.

October 22, 2009 by Michaeldsuarez
gwarr?! why did you put thet on my talk page?!

October 22, 2009 by Hunter1034
YAY!

October 22, 2009 by SuperSaiyanKirby
Hey BulldozerD11 - thanks for posting up. That link is actually only valid for your login / session - did you publish the magazine to MagCloud? If so, you'll get a unique link, and if you could post that up, it would be great.
Hi anon - that's the message you get when you're on a non-content page (i.e. a category page, a special page and so on.) Right now, we don't support adding any of those types of pages into a magazine. Check out the help page at http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Magazine_Creator - I hope this helps you out! :)
Hi Blogadmin - we don't have any plans to put this on non-EN wikis. The reason is that MagCloud only ships to english speaking countries right now. Of course, if we see demand, we can always change that.

October 22, 2009 by Shahid
Will Magazine Creator work in non-English wikis soon?

October 22, 2009 by Blogadmin
This is not working! When I click on the widget I get this message: This type of page can't be added. Try heading to a content page!
Can you post correct and simple instructions?

October 22, 2009 by A Wikia contributor
Hi Shahid
Not sure were the magazine 'is' but heres a link to the page on my browser, as i left it as an open tab for now.
Dont know if this will work for you but try this link ? http://tractors.wikia.com/wiki/Special:WikiaCollection/Preview
sorry did not reply yesterday (Note for wikia staff - this blog thing does not appear to show updates in my watchlist unlike the Forum idea for discussion threads so how do you know there is a reply ! ! )

October 21, 2009 by BulldozerD11
BulldozerD11 - can you post the magazine you created?

October 21, 2009 by Shahid
Had a look at the preview posted above and that shows the poor page layout with breaks in tables that i got when i tried setting one up. The other problem i had is a lot of my pages have collapsible nav boxes which show as blocks across the page that have little use on a printed version, so would want suppressing. When it got to the bit on the run through about registering and charges I abandoned the idea as loked like it would cost me to publish it.
Note 3 wiki pages went on to create 32 pages and some images were split which looked really bad. One solution would be to adjust the wiki pages incorporated temporally but that would be a tedious exercise.
Idea looks to have potential for a sort of news letter but $6 looks a lot when most UK mags are around £3.50 for 100 plus pages - BulldozerD11 00:22, October 21, 2009 (UTC)

October 21, 2009 by BulldozerD11