PortlandWiki:Community Portal

Current discussions

Template talk:Welcome simple - is PortlandWiki an encyclopedia of Portland? PortlandWiki:Hosting - choosing a more community-owned host Other site-wide discussions are found here.

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We're building a wiki for Portland, and we'd like you to help!

• Feel free to add some article ideas or just start writing articles!
• Are you a policy nerd? Portland wiki policies is a place to develop a baseline of policies, guiding principles, etc. for the wiki.

Some links, Portland content

• Wikipedia Oregon Portal
• Oregon Encyclopedia
• OurPDX
• Silicon Florist
• PDXStump
• PortlandTech
• Portland Weblog Planet
• ...

Interviews and culture

• brief interview with Ward Cunningham and Jimmy Wales, two giants of the wikiverse. full interview (may require login with library card)
• An interview with WikiProject Oregon, the folks working on Oregon-related Wikipedia content
• Blog and audio archive from Think Out Loud program on WikiProject Oregon and the Oregon Encyclopedia

Other civic wikis

Many other cities have established general wikis, with varying levels of success. There is a long list at WikiIndex. DavisWiki, Santa Cruz Wiki, ArborWiki, RichmondWiki and Bloomingpedia are a few of the longer-standing and more successful ones. (also see AboutUs:List:Civic Wiki)

Biggest civic wiki list

Other Portland wikis

moved to WikiNode

Collaboration Tools

• TypeWith.Me etherpad collaboration space
• On wiki discussion about the wiki or whatever else... maybe...

Suggestion

What do you guys think about installing the MediaWiki Extension "InstantCommons", which would make it possible to embed photos and other media from Wikimedia Commons? I think it would be really useful. (Of course, it's still nice to have the ability to upload stuff here locally, I'm not suggesting we turn that feature off.) -Peteforsyth (talk) 08:16, 28 July 2010 (PDT)