Talk:City wiki

List of wikis should be alphabatized
Well there seems to be a disagreement as to whether the example list of City Wikis should be alphabatized or in order of which one has the most articles, etc. I think alphabatized makes more sense because if we try to keep them ordered by article count, this page will have to be modified a bunch of times. I'm guessing that the IP 69.237.198.2 who is countering my edits belongs to someone who manages or contributes to DavisWiki since the article count method favors putting DavisWiki first. Ironically enough, alphabatizing them puts Bloomingpedia first. I don't want to start a big fight over "I want my wiki to be first because its better" so I'll leave it the way it is for now until we can have more discussion about it. -- Suso (2005-08-18 15:54 GMT)
 * Yeah, I think at least for now Alphabetical order makes the most sense.--Damian 19:50, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm with the 2 of you. Entries should be alphabetized. Must remember that it's the end user who needs to make the most sense out of the info and alphabetical is the easiest to navigate. Most content just tries to make it a contest, of which it's not --Cpfa eljefe 03:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Merge
I suggest merging the individual city wiki articles to this one, as I doubt many will satisfy WP:WEB. --Karnesky 01:32, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Stadtwiki Karlsruhe

list
http://allmende.stadtwiki.net/wiki/Node:Ranking in german:


 * Platz = rank
 * Stadtwiki = citywiki
 * Artikel (gute) = good
 * Artikel (alle) =all
 * Views
 * Edits
 * Bilder = images
 * Benutzer = user
 * Admins
 * aktualisiert = last count


 * If someone would translate this page, I can offer this page in an English version to, that's no problem. I'm admin on allmende. --Kawana 13:03, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Why were the links removed?
Kawana removed the links to the city wikis themselves and I'm not sure why. Not having them on this page relies on them being listed on the article for the city and that may not always be the case. -- Suso 23:54, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * you may read Articles_for_deletion/City_Wiki, why the external links are removed. If you miss a city wiki in the cities article, add it there. --Kawana 13:38, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

to many external links
Hi, this is not an article, this is a collection of external links. --Kawana 09:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you meant too many? Anyway I don't agree. The article is good and the attached list is useful. Lists have an important purpose on Wikipedia in consolidating information. -- Kleinzach 10:47, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

"Just being started"
The links to the "just being started" wikis were removed because they, in and of themselves, don't indicate the notability of the wikis in question. That requires substantial coverage in third party sources. Since anybody can start a wiki, the existence of a wiki is not enough to establish the notability required for inclusion in Wikipedia, something that became apparent as the creator of a Los Angeles wiki and New York wiki tried to insert links to his brand-new wiki. A bit of investigation turned up more than one New York wiki, at least one (nywiki.com) being defunct. So how do "we" choose which to include? The obvious answer seems to fall back on the Verifiablity and Reliable sources policies. Anything else seems to be a form of linkspam. Pairadox (talk) 23:39, 9 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia links do of course have to be kept up to date. However I think you misunderstand WP policies about notability. The criteria applies to articles, not to every sentence, every link in WP. We have to apply common sense here. The list of city wikis is a useful one. People want to find the wikis and a centralized list is valuable. The list is inclusive so there are no selection issues. In the future it may be that every city has a wiki, but we aren't at that point yet. Removing links and then asking for sources is illogical.


 * I note the edit warring that seems to have been going on here with some puzzlement. Does it relate to the LA Wiki deletion proposal? If so I think it's important not to confuse things. The subject of an article does require notability. A link doesn't. It should be relevant, and work, that's all. -- Kleinzach (talk) 23:57, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Bhamwiki

 * Bhamwiki, for Birmingham, Alabama was founded in March 2006. It currently has over 4,300 articles, over 150 editors, over 1,000 uploaded images, and nearly 34,000 edits... which seems like it would place it in the top 10 here. --Dystopos (talk) 18:38, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Chico Wiki
I have placed Chico Wiki on the list subject to the "monthly update." Pontiff Greg Bard (talk) 22:44, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

WikiLou
WikiLou.com is a wiki about St. Louis, MO. It currently has 2,128 legit content pages, nearly 20,000 edits, 1,671,341 page views, and it was founded 11/1/2006. Please consider it for this list in the future. --Mijunkin (talk) 19:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Portland?
Portland, Oregon's wiki has less than 500 entries after well over a year. Does that really count as one of the largest city wikis? Dentonwiki has over 600 after 4 months. What counts as a large number? Andral (talk) 07:53, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Restoring general list of city wikis
I would like to propose that we restore and update the general list of city wikis which was removed last April. As has been pointed out above, WP:Notability is not at all a requirement to be included in such a list (since we are not creating separate articles for each wiki, but merely documenting them on the existing 'City wiki' page).--Pharos (talk) 15:31, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Adding Yellpedia
Hi I suggest adding my wiki Yellpedia to the list. | Yellpedia is one of the largest wikis in the world with over 10 million pages. We uploaded the entire United States Yellow Pages to create start(stub) pages for everyone to come edit. Yellpedia was the Semantic Mediawiki wiki of the month for May 2013.


 * The internal mediawiki statistics don't work correctly on Yellpedia because of the way we uploaded the data. But the size of Yellpedai can be easily checked by running a search for any State in the nation (example search: State CA-- which will return over a million pages)Christharp (talk) 05:25, 18 October 2013 (UTC)