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March 2009

Planning for April

March 31, 2009

I’ve been busy with my day job lately, but I plan on adding a few new features and much more content to the wiki in April. Among the ideas: Upgrading the wiki to MediaWiki 1.14 from 1.13 Adding more seasonal content Promoting the editing tools and help content Soliciting more active contributions from community organizations [...]

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5 Cool Uses for Civic Wikis

March 23, 2009

I’ve spent a lot of time looking at other local wikis lately to try to generate ideas for The RichmondWiki Project. Here are some of the cooler features I’ve come across: Mapping the streets: ArborWiki’s Streets of Ann Arbor project. Listing community events: ChesterWiki’s Events calendar. What happened on this date: BhamWiki’s Dates tracker. Aggregating [...]

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Simple Tip #5: Add Images

March 17, 2009

This is the 5th of 5 posts in the “Simple Tips for Improving a RichmondWiki Article” series and it is one of my favorites. The previous tips (categories, links, Google Maps, and templates) have revolved around using MediaWiki features to enhance the article and improve the larger wiki at the same time. This time, we’ll [...]

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How to Tweet Recent Changes via RSS

March 16, 2009

It’s been on my list of things to do for a while, but I finally got around to setting up an automatic Twitter account to broadcast the RSS feed of RichmondWiki’s recent changes. To non-wiki folks, the “Recent Changes” page is a running log of all of the edits made to the wiki in reverse [...]

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