DavisWiki

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The site daviswiki.org is a wiki based in Davis, California about the people, events, universtities, bands, places and other things of the city. For example, it includes information about local events, advice for classes to take or not take at UC Davis, where to find the cleanest bathrooms in town and how a poor student can best pack a to-go box from the local restaurant buffets. Newcomers or anyone with a question about life in Davis are often asked by "wikivangelists", "Did you check the wiki?," much in the spirit of RTFM.

Although a couple of years ago DavisWiki was the biggest City Wiki in the world, it has now been surpassed by the citywiki for Karlsruhe. It hit the 7000th page mark on April 22nd, 2006 and had almost 5000 registered users as of fall, 2006. According to eastwikkers, "...note that there are 122 people on "Davis Wiki" who have made more than 100 edits. How many wikis today can claim numbers like that?"

Davis Wiki includes long discussions on its pages regarding local politics, local elections, development, city policies and similar material. This is a bit counter to many wikis, which strive for a neutral point of view in all articles. Articles on the Davis Wiki are intended to be balanced, but the site aknowledged that many subjects are point-of-view dependent.

DavisWiki runs Sycamore, a software package based on python-based Moin Moin.