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Portland Wiki project: City? Wiki. Wiki? City.

There’s a new project underway called Portland Wiki. It’s goal? To document everything there is to know about Portland, Oregon. And you’re invited to help. I mean, it’s a wiki. Duh.

Rick Turoczy on November 6, 2009

[HTML2]For all the wiki activity in Portland—I mean, c’mon, the inventor of the wiki lives here—Portland has been virtually bereft of a wiki of its own.

Until now. There’s a new project underway called Portland Wiki. It’s goal? To document everything there is to know about Portland, Oregon. And you’re invited to help. I mean, it’s a wiki. Duh.

Last WikiWednesday, About Us hosted a barn raising for Portland Wiki to help get the site framed and roofed and whatever.

In the wiki world, a gathering dedicated to work on a particular site is called a Barn Raising, and this month we’re devoting WikiWednesday to a barn raising for a Portland city wiki.… A city wiki is a place for everyone to find and share information that matters to their community, and now Portland will have one too.

Not familiar with wiki concepts? That’s okay. This would be a great place to start learning. Especially considering that, at this point, the Portland Wiki is fairly tabula rasa.

Now that the structure is there, creating content and linking up pages is a definite priority. So sign up, dive in, and start building some content.

For more information, visit Portland Wiki.

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Published by Rick Turoczy

More than mildly obsessed with the Portland startup community. Founder and editor at Silicon Florist. Cofounder and general manager at PIE. Follow me on Twitter: @turoczy

  2. Russell November 25, 2009 at 1:31 am

    I’m glad Portland has a wiki now! I used to live in Davis CA and they have an awesome wiki which might be useful as a guide http://daviswiki.org/

  3. Dave Myers November 14, 2009 at 9:24 am

    Unfortunately recent server updates at DreamHost (where the wiki is currently hosted) are apparently not going well. Attempts to restore db tables have hot succeeded yet. Several trouble tickets awaiting resolution. Sorry. Hopefully all will be well again soon.

  4. Rick Turoczy November 13, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    @Erik Hmm. Appears the site is having issues. 🙁

  5. Erik Benson November 13, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    Rick – your link to the PortlandWiki doesn’t work…is the site down for maintenance?

  6. Dave Myers November 9, 2009 at 7:04 am

    With luck, meta governance by the people. For goodness sakes, please edit.

  7. Michael November 8, 2009 at 10:32 am

    could this turn perhaps evolve into a quasi-form of meta governance? http://metagovernment.org/wiki/Main_Page ? dunno.

  8. Michael November 6, 2009 at 11:01 pm

    nice. it is already look good. but where are the short url?

  9. Amber Case November 6, 2009 at 12:02 pm

    Yay! Glad this is off the ground! Mark Dilley was telling me about a week ago, and I was excited that there was going to be… “YEAH! A Portland Wiki!”.

  10. Steven Walling November 6, 2009 at 11:52 am

    For anyone interested in the Portland city wiki, please feel free to dive right in and edit. The site’s in its very early stages, so there’s lots of low-hanging fruit to choose from.

    Thanks for the post Rick. 🙂

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