From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Wikipedia for Journalists and Bloggers

May 14, 2009

Mark Dilley Steven Walling from AboutUs.org put together a great presentation for journalists and bloggers on how to appropriately, effectively, and intelligently use Wikipedia as a resource. I think one of the opening slides sums it up the best: “Wikipedia will give you the questions you should ask, not the answers.” The slides are embedded [...]

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vCard Microformat for Business Articles

May 13, 2009

Based on yesterday’s Google announcement about supporting microformats, RichmondWiki now includes the hCard microformat standard by default for all articles in the Businesses category that use the Business template. What does this mean? The best example is a simple picture: The microformat markup standardizes web content based on predefined semantic structures. This makes it easier [...]

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MediaWiki Import XML Function

May 6, 2009

Want to upload a structured data set to a wiki quickly? The MediaWiki import XML function allows a user to import a structured XML file to create new pages or add content to a wiki from another wiki. Since the XML file has a pre-determined structure, you can simply convert any existing data table to [...]

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April 2009 Site Stats

May 1, 2009

Traffic to the RichmondWiki site increased again in April. The growth rate has been fantastic, averaging about 20% growth each month! We still have a long way to go in term of adding easy editing tools and working with various people and groups around town to create useful content, but a wiki by nature is [...]

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