Historical Hastings

(As of: 2022-01-15)

The Historical Hastings website is for the  of Hastings, Sussex, , in the United Kingdom (UK). It started as a ping site, hence the 'HistoryMap' domain name, but grew into a wiki-based site used as a  tool. The mapping functionality is still retained in the site, and is gradually being increased, with categorised sections (for example s, or s) incorporating maps showing features referenced within the site. Funding for the site is entirely voluntary, and any funds raised via donations or shown on the site are utilised solely for hosting costs. The research and content is provided by a small team of volunteers. When the wiki was originally created, all visitors were welcome to make corrections and add  or  histories to existing pages without requiring an account, (aka an open edit wiki). However, as of January 2022, the wiki was changed to require all prospective editors to request account, thereby rendering the wiki site to .

For a relatively new wiki site, it is to see the popular pages facility retained by way of the  from MediaWiki, as this provides the current data output required for its wikiFactor (wF) value.