Vogue Encyclo Is Looking for Contributors
Want to pitch a story idea toÂ*VogueÂ*Italia? Â*Earlier this month, the venerable magazine startedÂ*Vogue Encyclo, a kind of online fashionÂ*encyclopediaÂ*that invites users to contribute articles on fashion, designers, cinema and other topics, much like a wiki. Â*Vogue Italia editors will vet and assign ideas, with articles published onÂ*Vogue Encyclo with the user's byline.“We fact-check everything just to make sure things are written in the right way," said Alice Furnari, the editorial coordinator of Vogue.it, who worked closely with Franca Sozzani, the editor in chief of Italian Vogue, <a href="http://www.hotsalekey.com/Whole-Sales-Importers-Exporters.php?id=1503"><strong>Furniture on sales</strong></a> to develop the site. "Not only substantially, but style-wise. So we tend to leave the writers' own style, but we edit them in line with our style."Crowd-sourcing is not a new phenomenon among fashion sites. Â*FashionStake.com,Â*SocialAttire.comÂ*andÂ*Modclo th.comÂ*invite users to pick which garment designs get produced.Â*And Wikifashion, which was startedÂ*in 2009 by Madeline Veenstra and Coen Hyde, allows users toÂ*submit and edit articles on numerous fashion topics, including individual designers, magazine editors, models and photographers. Â*"Our content is not edited by an editorial board,” Ms. Veenstra said. “We work the same way as Wikipedia does by allowing our community to take care of the editing process.”But Vogue Encyclo is the rare fashion magazine to pull back its <a href="http://dvd-copy-dvd-clone-dvd-burn-dvd-backup.tomp4.com/index.html"><strong>copy DVD-5 type DVD movies to one DVD-5 disc.</strong></a> editorial curtain, for a more democratic approach to generating articles and photos. It also has the imprimatur of Vogue Italia and a built-in audience of aboutÂ*1.5 million unique monthly visitors. "We surely want to give these people credibility,” Ms. Furnari said.Â*”I think it’s important,” she added, “for people who love fashion, who maybe want to become fashion journalists."(Vogue Encyclo is not to be confused withÂ*Voguepedia, a site created by the staff of American Vogue this spring, that indexes the magazine’s 120-year archive into curated topic pages.)This is not Vogue Italia’s first foray into user-generated content. The main site has a Photo Vogue section that allows users to submit their own fashion editorial. More than 13,000 usersÂ*Â*from divergent backgroundsÂ*have uploaded images, including <a href="http://dvd-copy-dvd-clone-dvd-burn-dvd-backup.tomp4.com"><strong>Burn DVD Movies</strong></a> lawyers with a passion for photography, young hobbyists and professionals testing newÂ*techniques.Over the summer, Ms. Sozzani put a call out for "theme" submissions. More than 300 stories ideas were submitted this summer. "There's a lot to work with, so we started with 100 and post 2 a day, Monday through Friday," Ms. Furnari said. They've received about another 100 ideas since.
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