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== | == About PortlandWiki == | ||
A wiki about | '''PortlandWiki''' is the [[City Wiki|city wiki]] for Portland, Oregon that <span class="plainlinks">[http://portlandwiki.org/PortlandWiki:Introduction ''you'' are invited to contribute to!]</span> A [[City Wiki|city wiki (or civic wiki)]] is a website about a town, city or region that is built and maintained by its community. PortlandWiki welcomes your contributions! | ||
PortlandWiki aims to represent the <span class="plainlinks">"[http://portlandwiki.org/Voice_of_Portland Voice of Portland]"</span> by providing a citizen-generated news and information resource, a knowledge "hub" and historical archive for Portland, Oregon and our surrounding region. | |||
Did you know that Portland is the <span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#History birthplace of Wiki]</span>? It's true! | |||
== About Portland, Oregon == | |||
Portland is a city at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. With a population of 556,000, it is Oregon's largest city, and the third largest in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. Approximately 2 million live in the surrounding metropolitan area (MSA), the 24th-largest in the U.S. | Portland is a city at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. With a population of 556,000, it is Oregon's largest city, and the third largest in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. Approximately 2 million live in the surrounding metropolitan area (MSA), the 24th-largest in the U.S. | ||