PortlandWiki's Barnraising event is where you help decide which improvements to PortlandWiki are most important, and then help make them.
Share your Portland knowledge, and help make PortlandWiki a world-class city wiki! Refreshments happily provided.
This event is FREE and open to the entire Portland community.

• Where: Portland Central Library at 801 S.W. 10th Avenue, downtown Portland.
• When: Saturday March 5, 2pm - 5pm.
• Room: Central's U.S. Bank Room, near main entrance on right as you enter the building.

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Welcome to PortlandWiki. The community-powered knowledge commons for Portland, Oregon.

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Welcome to sunny Portland: "Birthplace of Wiki"!

PortlandWiki is a collaborative community information resource for Portland, Oregon that is powered by you! The PortlandWiki community welcomes your creative input.

PortlandWiki's aims to represent the Voice of Portland by providing a citizen-generated news and information resource, knowledge hub and historical archive for Portland, Oregon and our surrounding region.

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• Introduction - Learn more about PortlandWiki and how you can contribute!
• Wiki Page Basics - Quick tips on writing a basic PortlandWiki page.
• To do - stumped on what to do? Check out our to do list for open activities, big and small.
• Community Portal - Where we discuss what is needed to make PortlandWiki succeed.
• PortlandWiki Policies - Best practices to follow when adding content.
• Administrators - Names of some of PortlandWiki's more active admins, what they do, and how to contact PortlandWiki.
• Article ideas - Suggest an article topic, or find an article to start building!
• Add Content Here! - Help PortlandWiki flesh out skimpy articles crying out for your content contributions.

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Places to go near Portland

Long Beach, Washington: Convenient Portland getaway and home to the "world's largest frying pan."

• Visit beautiful Timberline Lodge, a National Historic Landmark. The lodge was constructed in the late '30s as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project during the Great Depression.
• Ski the slippery slopes of Mt. Hood.
• Explore the active volcano at Mt. St. Helens.
• Meander along the Pacific Coast, less than a two day power walk from Portland.
• During Cascadia's wet months, succumb to a weekend bender in Bend, where the sun do shine most o' the time.
• Spend the July 4th holiday in Long Beach, Washington, a pinnacle of patriotism and home to the World's Largest Frying Pan.
• Find your perfect Halloween pumpkin at the Pumpkin Patch!
• And don't forget about Oxbow Regional Park. According to PortlandWiki News, it's "a wonderful place to raise your homeless family"!

Things to see in Portland

Horse spotting! Just one of many fun activities you can do in Portland!

• Check out Ground Kontrol, a classic arcade and bar. Ground Kontrol is all-ages from Noon - 5pm daily, and 21+ only after 5pm nightly.
• Drop by the Living Room Theater to check out a show.
• If you are not into movies and want a cool hangout, drop by Backspace.
• Art! The first week of the month offers First Thursday. Browse through the many art galleries throughout gritty Old Town and the shiny and plasticine Pearl District.
• Meander through the Portland Police Historical Museum.
• Walk through the South Park Blocks, which run through the Portland State University campus.

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Featured Articles

• Green industry - In Portland it's easy being green.
• Huber's Café - For Portland's oldest restaurant, every day is Thanksgiving.
• Horse rings - The small brass rings attached to curbs don't tether horses anymore... unless they're small plastic ones.
• Personal Telco - Portland's answer (so far) to "Internet as public utility."
• Yellow Bike Project - (Pictured here in black 'n' white.) A community cycling "first."
• Charles Olds - Olds shot a man "just to watch him ...uh... succumb from injuries suffered as a result of an act of manslaughter."
• CivicApps - An open data / open source project sponsored by several Portland-area government agencies.
• Portlandia - The second largest hammered copper statue in America! (The largest is the Statue of Liberty.)
• East 82nd Avenue - A major North-South arterial on Portland's Eastside. Gateway to Felony Flats.
• Rally For Peace - Fantasize stopping wars with Sunday marches, impotent slogans, and a gaggle of cosponsors 'n' endorsers.

Things to do in Portland

• Contribute to PortlandWiki!
• Go see the new Baby Cougar at the Oregon Zoo.

Kotra, Mark and Ward wrangle wild wikis at Backspace Cafe.

• Solitary advice: Do something yourself.
• Chug a barrel o' locally brewed microbrew.

Gargle some holy water. Single bowl Benson Bubbler on corner of NW Couch St & NW 18th Ave. Near entrance of Saint Mary's Cathedral, Portland.

• Lasso unruly bookworms at Powell's Books.
• Entertain the wildlife in beautiful Forest Park.
• Walk around Old Town.
• Bike along Waterfront Park.
• Stage a peace rally at Pioneer Square.
• Skate on thin ice at Lloyd Center's Ice Rink.
• Make your way through town riding the MAX.
• Risk your hide in Portland's naked bike ride!
• Waive your hands in the air "like you just don't care" at a live concert.
• Get religion by becoming a "Blazer Believer."
• Shamelessly show off your naked feet by hiking barefoot with Portland Barefoot Hikers.

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