WikiTerritories
Appearance
(Redirected from WikiTown)
The cooperation with Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects can be considered a tool to develop territories and Smart Cities.
Impact
[edit]Opportunities | Tools |
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Involving a team of institutions and individuals based in a specific area in contributing to content on Wikipedia. | ...pediA, Smart city uses of Wikipedia, Opération Libre |
Inviting Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons contributors to focus on a specific goal (documenting monuments, parks, a specific territory - city, area, town, village). | Wiki Loves... Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Hearth, Wiki Loves Africa. |
Involving schools in contributing to empruve content related to their area. | Adotta un comune, http://wikivillage.ch/ |
Linking territories to Wikipedia, through apps and QRcodes. | QRpedia, Smart city uses of Wikipedia |
Creating an event to physically move people to a location to produce photos and geographic data (maps). | Mapping parties, Wiki takes..., Wikigita |
Methodology
[edit]Content | Approach to Produce Content | Methodology |
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Texts | Editing articles on Wikipedia based on texts from existing books, brochures... |
Share Your Knowledge, UNESCO, Culture and Safety in Africa |
Photos | Photos from galleries/libraries/archives/museums | GLAM projects |
Photos | Photos produced by individuals | Wiki takes..., Wikigita, Wiki Loves... Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Hearth, Wiki Loves Africa. |
Geographic Data | Data collected by individuals on site | Mapping parties |
Translations |
Methodology | Addressing | Projects |
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Contest | Individuals (often active wikipedians) | Wiki Loves..., 100 days, milestones |
Cooperation/agreement | Institutions, associations, city councils/administrations | GLAM projects, contracts, partnerships, agreements with chapters, ...pediA |
Tours | Wikipedians | Opération Libre, WikiGita, Wiki Takes... |
Projects
[edit]Project name | Country | Description |
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Stubs of city councils | US, followed by many countries | From October 2002. |
Opération Libre | France | 48 hours collaborative project aiming at documenting a town in collaboration with citizens, associations and active wikipedians. |
Ma Commune Wikipédia | France | Ma Commune Wikipédia is a project focussing on improving articles related to citi councils in France. |
WikiGita | Italy | Wikiexcursions organised in Italy in particular during Wiki Loves Monuments. |
Wiki Loves... | The Netherlands (and international) | Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is a public photo competition around cultural heritage monuments, organized by Wikimedia chapters, groups and local Wikipedia volunteers. The public takes photos of monuments, upload those to Wikimedia Commons, and then they can be used in Wikipedia and elsewhere. The goal is to make the world's heritage monuments visible for the world wide public. Wiki Loves Contests.
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...pediA | UK (and international) | |
Wiki Takes... | USA (Canada further tools) | Wikipedia Takes Your City is a one-day photo scavenger hunt and free-content photography contest where participants compete to take as many photographs as possible of sights in a particular locale for Wikipedia articles that need them.
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Wikitown | ||
Wiki Takes Rural Areas | Spain | No Spanish municipality without a photograph (2015-2018) |
WikiDaheim | Austria | https://www.wikimedia.at/projekte/wikidaheim/ |
WikiVillage | Switzerland | http://wikivillage.ch/ |
Regiowiki | Austria | A Wikipedia-like website focussed on regional knowledge, to allow content from local communities to be uploaded and documented online (even if not considered notable for Wikipedia). https://www.wikimedia.at/projekte/partnerprojekte/ |
Territories
[edit]Project | City | Country | Starting year | References |
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TarfayaPedia | Tarfaya | Morocco | 2017 | |
Monmouthpedia | Monmouth (South Wales) | UK | 2012 | |
Joburgpedia | Johannesburg | South Africa | 2013 | |
Bremenpedia | Bremen | Germany | 2014 | |
Tartupedia | Tartu | Estonia | 2013 | |
Sestopedia | Sesto San Giovanni | Italy | 2013 | |
WiBrugherio | Brigherio | Italy | 2016 | |
Bustopedia | Busto Arsizio | Italy | 2014 | |
Umepedia | Umeå | Sweden | 2014 | |
Freopedia | Fremantle | Australia | 2013 | |
Toodyaypedia | Toodyay | Australia | 2013 | |
Gibraltarpedia | Gibralta | UK | 2012 | |
Toulouse | Toulouse | France | 2010 | Article on Wikimedia France blog |
Esino Lario | Esino Lario | Italy | 2006 | |
MedinaPedia | Tunis, Sfax | Tunisia | 2015 | |
Opération Libre [1] | Different cities in France | France | 2013-2018 | |
NissapediA | Caltanisetta | Italy | 2014 | |
WikiSanGiovanniValdarno | San Giovanni Valdarno | Italy | 2018 | |
Fano Loves Wiki | Fano | Italy | 2017 | |
Wiki Takes Manhattan | New York | USA | 2008 | |
WikiBotevgrad | Botevgrad | Bulgaria | 2018 |
Bibliography
[edit]- Hinnosaar, Marit and Hinnosaar, Toomas and Kummer, Michael and Slivko, Olga, Does Wikipedia Matter? The Effect of Wikipedia on Tourist Choices (September 25, 2017). ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 15-089. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2766248 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2766248