LocalWiki

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LocalWiki
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  • Michael Ivanov
  • Philip Neustrom
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    LocalWiki is a collaborative project that aims to collect and open the world's local knowledge. The LocalWiki project was founded by DavisWiki creators Mike Ivanov and Philip Neustrom[1] and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization[2] based in San Francisco, California.[3] LocalWiki is both the name of the project and the software that runs the project's websites.

    History

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    In 2004, Ivanov and Neustrom started DavisWiki, an experimental project to collect and share local information about the town of Davis, California, editable by anyone.[2] It became a large and active community wiki.[4] According to its founders, at least half of the local residents use it.[5] The LocalWiki project aims to provide "institutional memory" and context for local news.[6] LocalWiki is built on the Django framework in Python.[7]

    In June 2010, LocalWiki won a $350,000 grant from the Knight News Challenge.[8][9] After winning the grant to develop the software, they ran a Kickstarter project to raise $25,000 to help fund outreach,[10] which was successful.[11]

    In December 2011, the project announced its first "focus community", Denton, Texas.[12] Its second focus community was the Triangle region of Durham, North Carolina, with initial contributions about transportation infrastructure and parks,[13] and a goal of compiling information about historic events.[14] A nonprofit in Tallahassee, Florida helped start TallahasseeWiki with knowledge from residents.[15] The LocalWiki project for Oakland, California is supported by volunteers meeting in person to collaborate on historical information.[16]

    In 2012 the LocalWiki team assembled a comprehensive high-definition map of the Antarctic continent, available on "Open Antarctica", a LocalWiki instance for Antarctica.[17] Neustrom explained that the map was "pieced together from very-hard-to-find NASA aerial imagery and coastline datasets".[18][19]

    In April 2015, Idmloco focused on Davis LocalWiki as part of a public relations operation for U C Davis chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi.[20]

    Functionality

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    The LocalWiki software includes a WYSIWYG editing interface to help make editing simpler.[7] It also includes mapping features: each article can have an associated annotated map, and the website has an overview map with those annotations.[7]

    Notable LocalWiki communities

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    See also: List of LocalWikis

    As of 2013, major LocalWiki communities include Santa Cruz County, California; Oakland, California; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; Denton, Texas;[citation needed] Ann Arbor, Michigan;[21] and Tokyo, Japan.[22]

    See also

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    References

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