[Vision2020] Moscow wikipedia

[Bill London]

Public Invited to Build Moscow's Wikipedia

Nils Peterson invites everyone to help build a wikipedia for the Moscow community.  The wikipedia organizing meeting will be held at the upstairs room at One World Café, Sixth and Main Streets in Moscow, on Tuesday, April 26, at 7:30pm.  Bringing a wireless laptop computer is encouraged.

This new Internet-based free information-sharing system (named for the words "wiki" meaning quick in Hawaiian and "pedia" for encyclopedia) is based on the public adding and editing text to create a people's encyclopedia of Moscow, said Peterson, a Moscow resident who works as the assistant director of the Washington State University Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology.  The goal of Peterson and his small group of "wiki gardeners" is to enlist the public in creating a comprehensive resource, composed of text and links, for the Moscow community. 

"Wikis began in the late 1990's," Peterson said.  "They are websites that are very easy to modify or expand.  Everyone can participate.  We want to build a wiki for Moscow that will not be any one organization's web site, or the voice of any one person.  We want the public to add their ideas and perspectives describing the resources of our community." 

An initial framework for the Moscow wikipedia has been created, and is temporarily located at <http://moscowwiki.jot.com>.

Background information about wikis is available on the Wikipedia at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki>


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