City wiki
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A city wiki is a wiki used for a city or town. The term 'city wiki' or its foreign equivalent (e.g. 'Stadtwiki') is sometimes used for a wiki that covers not just one city, but a broader region incorporating several cities or region within a country (e.g., Rhein-Neckar). Where Wikipedia is a general purpose encyclopedia for a global audience, a city wiki contains information about specific instances of things, ideas, people and places. Much of this information might not be appropriate for Wikipedia (e.g., articles on every retail outlet in a town), but might be appropriate for a wiki with more localized content and viewers. A city wiki could also contain information about the following subjects, that may or may not be appropriate for having an entry in Wikipedia:
- Details of public establishments such as public houses, bars, accommodation or social centers.
- Owner name, opening hours and statistics for a specific shop.
- Statistical information about a specific road in a city.
- Flavors of ice cream served at a local ice cream parlor.
- A biography of a local mayor and other persons
The Open Guide to London is probably the oldest of the city wikis. There are a sub group of city wikis that all use the OpenGuides software, and most have the openguides.org domain in their URL. Most of these are for cities in Europe as well as a few other cities in the rest of the world.
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[edit] Largest city wikis
The table below, adapted from a more detailed table on the Omaha Wiki, provides information on the 25 largest city wikis as of May 30, 2008, ranked by the number of articles. Twenty of the city wikis use the Mediawiki software, four use the Sycamore software (Davis, Rochester, Toronto, and Santa Cruz), and one uses the OpenGuides software (London). Some of the methods for reporting metrics vary between the different types of wikis and thus care should be used when comparing across them. For example, the Sycamore stats do not break out counts for pages outside the main article namespace (e.g., user, project, image, template, help, category namespaces in Mediawiki) so the article counts between the Mediawiki and Sycamore wikis cannot be directly compared. For the Mediawiki sites, over half of the pages are in these supporting namespaces and are not included in the counts below. The user counts for most Sycamore wikis show only users with at least one edit while the user counts for the Mediawiki sites include users who have not made any edits. Given these differences, the numbers below tend to overstate article counts for Sycamore wikis and understate the number of users.
The columns below can be sorted by clicking on the symbol below the column heading. The "Total" columns show all activity since the wiki was founded [1]. These metrics will be updated at the end of each month[2].
| Article Rank |
Founded |
City Wiki |
Total Articles |
Total Images |
Total Edits |
Total Users |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2004-07-22 | Karlsruhe, Germany | 15430 | 7774 | 225033 | 2290 |
| 2 | 2004-06-24 | Davis, California | 11161 | 14375 | 200932 | 7062 |
| 3 | 2005-04-18 | Hamburg, Germany | 10807 | 289 | 44796 | 239 |
| 4 | 2006-08-28 | Kassel, Germany | 10572 | 3663 | 83364 | 440 |
| 5 | 2005-01-18 | Rochester, New York | 6006 | 1869 | 54029 | 3188 |
| 6 | 2007-02-06 | Omaha, Nebraska | 5569 | 1288 | 34168 | 397 |
| 7 | 2006-07-26 | Salzburg, Austria | 5289 | 1917 | 60710 | 512 |
| 8 | 2005-12-15 | Rhine Neckar area, Germany | 5207 | 1203 | 33505 | 243 |
| 9 | 2006-04-03 | Hamm, Germany | 4004 | 1071 | 19433 | 28 |
| 10 | 2006-04-02 | Passau, Germany | 3979 | 1398 | 23780 | 73 |
| 11 | 2006-12-05 | Mankato, Minnesota | 3883 | 458 | 11732 | 79 |
| 12 | 2006-04-29 | Pforzheim-Enz, Germany | 3514 | 1563 | 40061 | 205 |
| 13 | 2005-03-23 | Munich, Germany | 3211 | 965 | 31862 | 503 |
| 14 | 2006-10-02 | Bielefeld, Germany | 3207 | 71 | 9518 | 82 |
| 15 | 2005-07-18 | Bloomington, Indiana | 2412 | 942 | 19600 | 2198 |
| 16 | 2006-02-27 | Santa Cruz, California | 2333 | 776 | 9490 | 75 |
| 17 | 2006-12-09 | London, England | 2219 | 1508 | 14114 | 111 |
| 18 | 2005-09-09 | Ann Arbor, Michigan | 2031 | 163 | 14142 | 530 |
| 19 | 2003-07-31 | Dresden, Germany | 1990 | 327 | 11742 | 56 |
| 20 | 2006-06-12 | Warsaw, Poland | 1667 | 1188 | 19868 | |
| 21 | 2006-06-03 | Münster, Germany | 1650 | 12494 | 983 | |
| 22 | 2007-03-30 | Göttingen, Germany | 1563 | 949 | 12355 | 426 |
| 23 | 2006-11-21 | Murgtal, Germany | 1510 | 586 | 8345 | 135 |
| 24 | 2007-02-16 | Toronto, Canada | 1484 | 566 | 5564 | 111 |
| 25 | 2007-10-02 | Nuremberg, Germany | 1160 | 301 | 15879 | 218 |
Regularly updated statistics on the largest city wikis is provided in German on the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe, with additional detail such as number of page views.
[edit] Known city wikis
City Wikis in English are known to exist in the following metropolitan areas:
- Akron, Ohio - Cool People From Akron Wiki
- Anchorage, Alaska
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Auckland, New Zealand - Auckland.Wiki
- Bangalore India
- Berkeley, California - Berkeley Wiki (just being started)
- Bloomington, Indiana
- Burlington, Vermont
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Davis, California - DavisWiki.org
- Denver, Colorado
- Gibraltar, GI
- Grand Rapids, Michigan Viget.Org (just being started)
- Hokkaidō, Japan - Hokkaidō Wiki (just being started)
- Houston, Texas
- Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania
- Los Angeles, California - TheLAWiki.com
- Maastricht, the Netherlands
- Madison, Wisconsin - MadisonWiki.org (just being started)
- Melbourne, Australia - [1]
- Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - Wikisauga.ws
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- New York City, New York - TheNYWiki.com]
- Omaha, Nebraska (over 4,500 articles) OmahaWiki.org
- Oregon City, Oregon
- Portland, Oregon
- Rochester, New York - RocWiki.org
- Sacramento, California
- Santa Cruz, California - Santa Cruz Wiki.
- Seattle, Washington
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Toronto, Ontario Canada - Torontopedia.ca
- Tsukuba, Japan - Tsukuba Wiki
- Tucson, Arizona - - Tucson Complete (just being started)
[edit] Open guides
- Boston, Massachusetts
- London, UK
- Vienna, Austria
[edit] Other languages
- Franconia, Germany - Franken-Wiki (in German)
- Karlsruhe, Germany - Stadtwiki Karlsruhe (in German)
- Kurów, Poland - Wiki o Kurowie (Wiki about Kurów) (multilingual encyclopedia, mainly in Polish)
- Kyoto, Japan - KyotoWiki (English and Japanese)
- Nagasaki, Japan - Nagasaki (in Japanese)
- Santorini, Greece - SantorinWiki (in Greek)
- Tokyo, Japan - TokyoWiki (English and Japanese)
- Trento, Italy - TrentoWiki (in Italian)
- Esztergom, Hungary - SzeretgomWiki (in Hungarian)
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ The dates of founding were based on (a) the first edit done on the Main Page (Hauptseite) for Mediawiki wikis or (b) the first edit for Sycamore wikis. If the city wiki uses the Mediawiki software, the article page count is accessible by requesting the Special:Statistics?action=raw page. If the Sycamore wiki engine is used, the /User Statistics page is accessed, all text is selected and copied into an Excel file, and totals are calculated for number of articles, number of edits, and number of files. The Sycamore statistics do not include new article creation as an 'edit' (Mediawiki does), the numbers reported above as 'edits' for the sites using Sycamore is the sum of new articles created plus and edits to these articles in order to provide comparable numbers.
- ^ If anyone is aware of a city wiki with more articles than 1,000 articles (legitimate content pages), post a comment on the discussion page with the name and URL of the City Wiki and its statistics will be checked on the next monthly update.
[edit] External links
- city-wiki-center, city-wikis have homepages in it
- Ranking and statistics on the largest city wikis
- A guide to running a City Wiki by Mark Krenz from Bloomingpedia
| This article uses content from the Omaha Wiki. The original article was at Omaha_Wiki:Largest_City_Wikis. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Wikipedia, the text of the Omaha Wiki is available for reuse under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
