City Wiki

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A city wiki is a web site that serves as a knowledge base and social network for a specific city, town or village. Smaller communities that surround the main city (suburbs, unincorporated areas, metro regions, etc.) are sometimes associated with a city wiki, even if the particular geographical entity is also represented by its own wiki. The "wiki" feature of the web site suggests that the web site's software allows for easy content contributions from the community.

PortlandWiki is a city wiki dedicated to serving as a knowledge, information and social hub for Portland, Oregon. An additional goal for PortlandWiki is to give voice to the many communities that make Portland the marvelous city it is.

Civil Society and Civic Spaces[1]

Why create and maintain a city wiki (or civic wiki)?

Nearly all human communities have benefited from common areas where individuals and groups from the community could come together to exchange information, knowledge, gossip, goods, services and so on. In hunter-gatherer societies, a community commons might consist of the simple community campfire, or extend to a much larger "common-pool resource area"[2] shared by more than one tribe. Later, as humans formed into agrarian and industrial societies, parks, plazas, the village commons and similar spaces accessible to the whole community opened up.

References

  1. ↑ Civil Society for Itself and in the Public Sphere: Comparative Research on Globalization, Cities and Civic Space in Pacific Asia (Douglass 2003)
  2. ↑ Land Tenure: Common-pool Resource Areas

External Links

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