PortlandWiki

Welcome to Portland's general-interest wiki! (a project in its infancy as of August 2009) Have some ideas? Please feel free to add whatever you'd like to see here!

What in the heck are we trying to do here? Check the talk page to discuss the goals and execution of this project!

We're using this page to explore ideas for a launching wiki for Portland. Please poke around, and if you're so inclined, find an area where you can contribute! No well-intentioned ideas will be turned away :)

Where do I start?!

• Want to contribute? Feel free to add some article ideas or fill them in!
• Are you a policy nerd? Portland wiki policies is a place to develop a baseline of policies, guiding principles, etc. for the wiki.

Some links, Portland content

• Wikipedia's Oregon portal
• Oregon Encyclopedia
• OurPDX group blog
• Silicon Florist, a blog about Portland area technology startups
• ...

Interviews and culture

• brief interview with Ward Cunningham and Jimmy Wales, two giants of the wikiverse. full interview (may require login with library card)
• An interview with WikiProject Oregon, the folks working on Oregon-related Wikipedia content
• Blog and audio archive from Think Out Loud program on WikiProject Oregon and the Oregon Encyclopedia

Other civic wikis

Many other cities have established general wikis, with varying levels of success. There is a long list at wikiindex.org. DavisWiki, Santa Cruz Wiki and ArborWiki are a few of the longer-standing and more successful ones.

Other Portland wikis

• Cunningham & Cunningham - Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, is a Portland native and hosts all sorts of wiki stuff on his site, including the Portland Pattern Repository. This was the first wiki in the whole wiki world!
• FreekiWiki, the bustling wiki of local community technology center Free Geek
• AboutUs - a wiki-based directory of web sites. Company is headquartered in Portland, and is closely connected with the local wiki community.
• Shift to bikes wiki - a wiki about the fun of bicycling in Portland. Minimal, but a great foundation!
• Coworking Portland
• Personal Telco - a Portland-based non-profit building a public computer network.