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questions please let me know. I can be emailed at james.sutton (at) ucl.ac.uk . Thank you for your time! [[User:Sutton4019|Sutton4019]] 05:56, 26 June 2007 (EDT)
questions please let me know. I can be emailed at james.sutton (at) ucl.ac.uk . Thank you for your time! [[User:Sutton4019|Sutton4019]] 05:56, 26 June 2007 (EDT)


== A wiki for connecting with people locally? ==
A rolling stone is worth two in the bush, thakns to this article.
 
I've often thought about a wiki that would help people to connect, by interest and/or location - e.g. search for geeks in Kuala Lumpur, yogis in Alexandria, knitters in Dallas or people in Sydney's inner west who are into green technology... [http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Chriswaterguy/Salsa_in_Sydney Salsa in Sydney] or [http://syxpac.org/Sydney_Geek_Events Sydney Geek Events] or [http://thehughpage.com/Geek_stuff_in_Australia Geek stuff in Australia]. A bit like [http://www.wiserearth.org/ WiserEarth] but unlimited in scope rather than just green stuff.
 
Is anyone attempting to do this? If not, it'd be good to start something - e.g. on Wikia Scratchpad. (I was hoping [http://local.wikia.com/ local.wikia] was it, but it seems not.)
 
It'd be best to incorporate social networking stuff, to help finding people in one's local area. This is not a wiki's strength, but I think Wikia's making progress. What we'd really like is to be able to bring over or tie in networking stuff from other wikis. I've read snippets about improvements to social networking sites to allow people to transfer personal information. Then there's Google's OpenSocial. But what's still missing is a way to do a single search for people, on a single site. Perhaps as things get more sophisticated, Google's OpenSocial APIs will enable this kind of thing, or there'll be some other way of marking our personal pages on different sites (a bit like how CC license marks work).
 
Thoughts, anyone? Anyone else think this would be a massively useful thing? --[[User:Singkong2005|Chris Watkins a.k.a. Chriswaterguy]] <small><sup>[[User talk:Singkong2005|talk]]</sup></small> 00:04, 14 February 2008 (EST)
 
Chris, I have hopes that [[AboutUs]] will fill that niche somehow, but  you are right, it is going to take a lot of work.  Please point to [[Wikia]]'s work on this. Best, [[MarkDilley]]
 
:Hmm - I thought AboutUs was web-focused rather than local focused. Have you started to move in that direction at all, of the kind of thing I've been talking about, or is it something you've just been thinking about? Curious to hear your ideas. --[[User:Singkong2005|Chris Watkins a.k.a. Chriswaterguy]] <small><sup>[[User talk:Singkong2005|talk]]</sup></small> 09:26, 14 February 2008 (EST)
 
::Have a look at [[WikiSocial]] --[[User:Matthias|Matthias]] 12:45, 14 February 2008 (EST)
 
::: A wiki to help people connect sounds like a good idea.
::: You might be interested in these wiki, which take a few steps towards that ideal:
::: The [[Coworking]] wiki has one page per city -- I'm in Tulsa, so I check out [http://wiki.coworking.info/CoworkingTulsa Coworking: CoworkingTulsa].
::: Each individual wiki in [[:Category:Cities]] is intensely locally-focused. --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 09:37, 18 September 2008 (EDT)


== Advice on choosing a wiki platform ==
== Advice on choosing a wiki platform ==
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