PortlandWiki:Library meeting 2012-01-31

Topics to cover

1. What PortlandWiki is / presentation

   Portland Wiki is a repository of knowledge for the Portland Metro area. Our aim is to represent the Voice of Portland by providing a citizen-generated news, information resource, knowledge hub and historical archive for Portland, Oregon and surrounding region.

   • history
     • PortlandWiki began in September 2009 and is administered by several of its creators. It is a completely volunteer operation. (See An Introduction to PortlandWiki).
   • popular pages
     • At PortlandWiki, we're proud of the thousands of local resident-generated pages on the site. Among them are many Popular Pages that attract significant traffic and new content on a regular basis. Several of them are: Green industry, Occupy Portland and Occupy Portland Events, CivicApps, Local blogs, Coffee and Tea Shops and Photo Contest.
   • number of edits (25,406), pages (6,071), editors (registered accounts - 491; active editors - 1), visitors ()
   • WikiStatistics
2. Possibilities for partnering with library
   • Community-library portal that anyone can update
     • library events (like Occupy Portland Events)
     • library news (original or automatically pulled from Twitter feeds, RSS feeds, etc)
     • map/listing of all branches
     • etc
     • staff and patrons alike could update and edit all content, fostering better communication
   • Library could turn to PortlandWiki administrators for any of their wiki questions and needs, we have knowledge and expertise
   • Could use PortlandWiki as a platform for collaborative editing as an educational tool
   • Could use PortlandWiki as a platform for any documentation or document building that needs to be open to public input
3. Hosting (if it comes up)
   • As a volunteer-driven, open community resource, PortlandWiki would be a great match for being hosted by the library system
   • Examples and experiences of other civic wikis that have been hosted by their local library system (ArborWiki & CantonWiki)
   • Server requirements