In the past 2 weeks I’ve set up two new wikis. Trashwiki is a wiki about dumpster diving and anything else that’s related to trash. There’s already a tiny community, and I guess we’ll soon have 100 articles. We did copy some stuff from Wikipedia to get started, but do feel free to remove the dry encyclopedic stuff.
After that I decided I needed some money. Or cash. So Cashwiki is a wiki about money. So far it’s just me, and I copied a lot of GFDL and public domain stuff from other places.
All this got me to playing with OpenID on MediaWiki, which I also set up on my favorite hitchhiking website.
Today we reached the milestone of 1000 articles at Hitchwiki.org! It took less than 3 years to get there. Already before I found the then called “Hitchhiker’s guide to Hitchhiking” I was sure that a wiki for hitchhikers was a good idea. So I’m very happy that I moved the project to Wikia.com in December 2005. At some point I had been thinking to move it to hitchhikers.couchsurfing.com, but fortunately MrTweek was around. He did an excellent job setting up and maintaining the current Hitchwiki.org and adding the extremely cool integrated maps. All in all the project has become a prime source of current hitchhiking info, and a lightning rod for online social cooperation - in three years’ time we never felt the need to set up even a single rule.
Next…
- Last week I contacted Salman of digihitch.com and we can probably show a nicely integrated Hitchwiki on there!
- More syndication, especially maps.hitchwiki.org to other places and vice versa
- More info in other languages besides English
- Most important: continue the do-ocratic conviviality!
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