GetWiki

{{Short description|Wiki based in Davis, California}}

factoids

| commercial = Nonprofit| registration = Optional| author = Community of Davis, Californiadaviswiki.org is a wiki based in Davis, California about the people, events, universities, bands, places and other things of the city.DavisWiki offers resources to Davis residents, students{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}Web site has scoop on Davis community, Davis Wiki allows users to add and edit listings on everything from city politics to the best places in town for a date. For example, it includes information about local events, advice for classes to take or not take at UC Davis, locations of the cleanest bathrooms in town, and ways 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. It was launched in June 2004.

Size and activity

DavisWiki was at one point the largest City Wiki in the world.{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} Karlsruhe’s city wiki Stadtwiki Karlsruhe has since surpassed DavisWiki in total page count, but differences in the wiki software, varying content/page densities, make drawing conclusions from page counts problematic. As of November 2009 DavisWiki has over 14,945 pages, 11134 registered editors, 301 editors who have made over 100 edits, and 35 editors who have made over 1000 edits.{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}In June 2010, DavisWiki claimed: “On a given day, about 1 in 6 residents visits the site. Over the course of one week, nearly half of the residents. And over a month, we have found that just about every Davisite visits the wiki. ... 1 in 7 residents actually contribute their own knowledge to the wiki.“LocalWiki announcement on DavisWiki.org

Community involvement

Based on the above activity, and the interest that local politics have on daviswiki, the Davis Human Relations Commission awarded the daviswiki the Thong Hy Huynh AwardDaviswiki.org for Excellence in Community Involvement.City.davis.ca.us {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721000214www.city.davis.ca.us/meetings/human/HRC_MIN_4-26-07.pdf |date=2011-07-21 }}, Human Relations Commission, minutes, Thursday, April 26, 2007

Viewpoint

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.{{POV statement|date=August 2014}} Articles on the Davis Wiki are balanced by consolidating commentary to present an aggregate set of multiple points-of-view, intending to reflect the actual Davis community.

Funding

DavisWiki is part of the LocalWiki project and is financed by the LocalWiki charitable 501(c)3 organization.LocalWikiThey are run advertisement-free through community donations and fundraising events.UC-Davis: UC-Davis alumnus-funded site holds event.

LocalWiki

Some of the Davis Wiki team, including co-founders Philip Neustrom and Mike Ivanov, were working on the LocalWiki project.Wikispot.org {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222154343wikispot.org/Who_we_are |date=2010-12-22 }}, “Who we are” The LocalWiki project aims to be an ideal platform for sharing local community information.Localwiki.org {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117020938localwiki.org/faq |date=2010-11-17 }}

See also

• Comparison of wiki farms
• Comparison of wiki software
• List of wiki software
• List of wikis

References

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External links

• (localwiki:davis|Davis Wiki)
• (localwiki:|LocalWiki)