Wikis aren’t just a place to dump information in a “walled garden” approach. They are great places to aggregate lists and link to other resources. It’s all about building a useful community resource. As such, the community benefits from a site that contains useful data but also provides links to other useful sites.
For example, our List of Twitter Users articles has several dozen Twitter users in Richmond and links to RichmondGoodLife’s Richmond Twitter page and the new RVATweets.com. The Tacky Lights Tours article has external links to other articles and lists related to the holiday tradition. These pages can serve as an index, or jumping off point, for people looking for more information.
The web, by definition, is an inter-connected series of links to and from various resources. A wiki takes it a step further by encouraging collaborative editing, rather than just a one-way publishing model. The RichmondWiki Project is a not-for-profit venture so we lose nothing but improve utility by sending traffic to other sites.
You Can Help
Feel free to add links (how to create wiki links) from RichmondWiki to other sites that contain useful and relevant information. That does NOT mean the community will allow spammy or overly promotional links to remain for very long.
Together we can build a resource about all of the things that make Richmond such a great place to live and work.
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