Local wikis
Even though I’m more interested in the “-pedia” part than the “wiki” part, I’m not altogether uninterested in the latter. As I begin laying the groundwork for the prototype we’ll be constructing next semester, I’m working with a doctoral student, Kyle Heim, to interview the top editors of some of the most robust local wiki projects around — DavisWiki (Davis, CA), RocWiki (Rochester, NY), OmahaWiki (Omaha, NE), and WikiProject Columbia (Columbia, MO - actually part of Wikipedia itself).
We hope to get a sense from these editors about everything from the goals and scope of their sites, to whom they see as their audiences, to their relationships with official news outlets in their cities, to how they’ve organized the project.
Any other examples of sites in this vein you think we should explore? (I have another post coming, on efforts by news sites to package their stories together by topic.)
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