City wiki

A city wiki is a wiki used as a knowledge base and social network for a specific geographical locale. The term 'city wiki' or its foreign language equivalent (e.g. German 'Stadtwiki') is sometimes also used for wikis that cover not just a city, but a small town or an entire region. A city wiki contains information about specific instances of things, ideas, people and places. Much of this information might not be appropriate for Wikipedia (e.g., articles on every retail outlet in a town), but might be appropriate for a wiki with more localized content and viewers. A city wiki could also contain information about the following subjects, that may or may not be appropriate for a general knowledge wiki, such as:

The Open Guide to London is probably the oldest of the city wikis.[1] It is part of a sub group of city wikis that use the OpenGuides software, and most have the openguides.org domain in their URL. Most of them are for cities in England. Although Cityultima, formerly Cityunlimited was founded in February 2007. The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe is the largest city wiki.

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Largest city wikis

The table below, adapted from a more detailed table on the Omaha Wiki, provides information on the 30 largest city wikis worldwide, ranked by the number of articles as of August 31, 2010. Twenty-six of the city wikis use the Mediawiki software, three use the Sycamore software (Davis, Rochester, Santa Cruz), and one uses the OpenGuides software (London). Some of the methods for reporting metrics vary between the different types of wikis and thus care should be used when comparing across them. For example, the Sycamore stats do not break out counts for pages outside the main article namespace (e.g. user, project, image, template, help, category namespaces in Mediawiki) so the article counts between the Mediawiki and Sycamore wikis cannot be directly compared. For the Mediawiki sites, over half of the pages are in these supporting namespaces and are not included in the counts below. The user counts for most Sycamore wikis show only users with at least one edit while the user counts for the Mediawiki sites include users who have not made any edits. Given these differences, the numbers below tend to overstate article counts for Sycamore wikis and understate the number of users.

The columns below can be sorted by clicking on the symbol below the column heading. The "Total" columns show all activity since the wiki was founded.[2] These metrics will be updated at the end of each month.[3]

Founded
 City Wiki
 Total Articles
 Total Images
 Total Edits
 Total Users
2004-07-22 Stadtwiki Karlsruhe, Germany 21,298 16,331 363,222 4,030
2004-06-24 Davis, California 14,813 20,957 300,448 13,354
2006-03-22 Córdoba, Spain 14,054 11,226 125,200 4,555
2005-04-18 Hamburg, Germany 12,594 446 82,056 3,357
2007-02-27 Salzburg, Austria 13,393 12,336 193,636 1,729
2006-08-28 Kassel, Germany 11,409 7,464 165,359 948
2006-03-15 Birmingham, USA 8,508 3,442 80,780 340
2007-02-06 Omaha, USA 7,086 1,408 39,767 622
2005-12-15 Rhine-Neckar, Germany 6,631 1,607 53,102 439
2005-09-09 Ann Arbor, USA 6,132[4] 780 40,409 934
2005-01-18 Rochester, USA 6,040 3,003 75,019 3,101
2006-04-03 Hamm, Germany 4,816[5] 3,740
2007-09-01 Ahrweiler, Germany 4,439 1,364 22,471 163
2006-12-05 Mankato, USA 3,984 572 15,254 99
2006-04-29 Pforzheim-Enz, Germany 3,959 2,042 48,898 296
2005-07-15 Kyiv, Ukraine 3,742 1,892 18,990 398
2008-02-20 Niederbayern, Germany 3,663 4,962 41,615 540
2005-03-23 Munich, Germany 3,412 1,027 41,342 589
2007-03-30 Göttingen, Germany 3,371 2,146 21,312 596
2006-10-02 Bielefeld, Germany 3,357 126 10,347 109
2005-07-18 Bloomington, USA 3,293 1,537 29,397 3,262
2006-02-27 Santa Cruz, USA 3,135 1,603 16,497 98
2007-10-02 Nuremberg, Germany 2,965 702 42,064 344
2006-12-09 London, UK 2,920 21,903 2,649 159
2006-07-19 Chico, California 2,495 2,071 18,245 90
2008-06-22 London, England 2,459 15,411 108,973 371
2006-06-12 Warsaw, Poland 2,321 2,899 36,113
2006-08-29 Pensacola, Florida 2,293 1,922 24,305 686

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Notes

  1. ^ OpenGuides: City Wikis in Perl by Kake Pugh, 7 May 2007, accessed 11 August 2008
  2. ^ The dates of founding were based on (a) the first edit done on the Main Page (Hauptseite) for Mediawiki wikis or (b) the first edit for Sycamore wikis. If the city wiki uses the Mediawiki software, the article page count is accessible by requesting the Special:Statistics?action=raw page. If the Sycamore wiki engine is used, the /User Statistics page is accessed, all text is selected and copied into an Excel file, and totals are calculated for number of articles, number of edits, and number of files. The Sycamore statistics do not include new article creation as an 'edit' (Mediawiki does), the numbers reported above as 'edits' for the sites using Sycamore is the sum of new articles created plus and edits to these articles in order to provide comparable numbers.
  3. ^ If anyone is aware of a city wiki with more articles than 1,000 articles (legitimate content pages), post a comment on the discussion page with the name and URL of the City Wiki and its statistics will be checked on the next monthly update.
  4. ^ http://arborwiki.org/city/Special:Statistics
  5. ^ Site down on March 31, this was Google's cached page and image count from March 29

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This article uses content from the Omaha Wiki. The original article was at Omaha_Wiki:Largest_City_Wikis. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Wikipedia, the text of the Omaha Wiki is available for reuse under the GNU Free Documentation License.