Talk:City wiki

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 24/7/2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

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[edit] List of wikis should be alphabatized

Well there seems to be a disagreement as to whether the example list of City Wikis should be alphabatized or in order of which one has the most articles, etc. I think alphabatized makes more sense because if we try to keep them ordered by article count, this page will have to be modified a bunch of times. I'm guessing that the IP 69.237.198.2 who is countering my edits belongs to someone who manages or contributes to DavisWiki since the article count method favors putting DavisWiki first. Ironically enough, alphabatizing them puts Bloomingpedia first. I don't want to start a big fight over "I want my wiki to be first because its better" so I'll leave it the way it is for now until we can have more discussion about it. -- Suso (2005-08-18 15:54 GMT)

Yeah, I think at least for now Alphabetical order makes the most sense.--Damian 19:50, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I'm with the 2 of you. Entries should be alphabetized. Must remember that it's the end user who needs to make the most sense out of the info and alphabetical is the easiest to navigate. Most content just tries to make it a contest, of which it's not --Cpfa eljefe 03:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I suggest merging the individual city wiki articles to this one, as I doubt many will satisfy WP:WEB. --Karnesky 01:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

de:Stadtwiki Karlsruhe

[edit] list

http://allmende.stadtwiki.net/wiki/Node:Ranking in german:

  • Platz = rank
  • Stadtwiki = citywiki
  • Artikel (gute) = good
  • Artikel (alle) =all
  • Views
  • Edits
  • Bilder = images
  • Benutzer = user
  • Admins
  • aktualisiert = last count
If someone would translate this page, I can offer this page in an English version to, that's no problem. I'm admin on allmende. --Kawana 13:03, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why were the links removed?

Kawana removed the links to the city wikis themselves and I'm not sure why. Not having them on this page relies on them being listed on the article for the city and that may not always be the case. -- Suso 23:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

you may read Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/City_Wiki, why the external links are removed. If you miss a city wiki in the cities article, add it there. --Kawana 13:38, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] to many external links

Hi, this is not an article, this is a collection of external links. --Kawana 09:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps you meant too many? Anyway I don't agree. The article is good and the attached list is useful. Lists have an important purpose on Wikipedia in consolidating information. -- Kleinzach 10:47, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Just being started"

The links to the "just being started" wikis were removed because they, in and of themselves, don't indicate the notability of the wikis in question. That requires substantial coverage in third party sources. Since anybody can start a wiki, the existence of a wiki is not enough to establish the notability required for inclusion in Wikipedia, something that became apparent as the creator of a Los Angeles wiki and New York wiki tried to insert links to his brand-new wiki. A bit of investigation turned up more than one New York wiki, at least one (nywiki.com) being defunct. So how do "we" choose which to include? The obvious answer seems to fall back on the Verifiablity and Reliable sources policies. Anything else seems to be a form of linkspam. Pairadox (talk) 23:39, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia links do of course have to be kept up to date. However I think you misunderstand WP policies about notability. The criteria applies to articles, not to every sentence, every link in WP. We have to apply common sense here. The list of city wikis is a useful one. People want to find the wikis and a centralized list is valuable. The list is inclusive so there are no selection issues. In the future it may be that every city has a wiki, but we aren't at that point yet. Removing links and then asking for sources is illogical.
I note the edit warring that seems to have been going on here with some puzzlement. Does it relate to the LA Wiki deletion proposal? If so I think it's important not to confuse things. The subject of an article does require notability. A link doesn't. It should be relevant, and work, that's all. -- Kleinzach (talk) 23:57, 9 February 2008 (UTC)