WikiWednesday is a meeting of all wiki folk on (usually) the first Wednesday of every month. As some of you may know, Portland has its very own WikiWednesday, hosted by AboutUs. For most of its history, it has been organized primarily through a Google group. But now, thanks to bountiful generosity of Ward Cunningham in providing the subdomain, we now have a wiki of our own at pdx.wiki.org
WikiProject Oregon members are very active participants at the Portland WikiWednesday, all the way back to the inaugural meetups. As Wikipedians who care about Oregon and its wiki coverage, we relish the opportunity for a regional meetup. I personally consider WikiWednesday to be a very special event in the Wikiverse, as it is more regular than most Wikimedia-only meetups, and includes the entire Wiki Ohana.
WikiProject Oregon members are already helping out with planning the upcoming September WikiWednesday in Portland, which will focus on health in Oregon. Another important step is coming up with a site logo for the wiki, something that adequately represents what WikiWednedays in Portland are all about.
September 15, 2008 at 10:10 am
Hello, hello!
You recently highlighted a wikiHow article that I started (http://twitter.com/StevenWalling/statuses/921399068) and someone brought that to our attention in the wikiHow forums, and that led me here. I’m glad you enjoyed the article!
One of these days I’ll have to come up for a wikiWednesday. And–how come this blog is so Wikipedia focused? I mean, wikiHow could use some Oregon-focused articles.
Check out these cool New Mexico articles that I contributed to while living there:
http://www.wikihow.com/Enjoy-the-Hall-of-the-White-Giant-Tour-at-Carlsbad-Caverns-%28US%29
http://www.wikihow.com/Enjoy-White-Sands-National-Monument-%28US%29
Surely, we can show off some of Oregon’s nooks and crannies on wikiHow, no? Recently wikiHow had a request for “How to make friends in Portland, Oregon” but the article that was written got deleted. Darn.
-K.
September 15, 2008 at 10:25 am
Hi Krystle, welcome! Glad you found and enjoy the blog.
It’s Wikipedia-focused more as historical accident than anything else — it was started by WikiProject Oregon, which is a Wikipedia-specific project (or at least it started out that way!
I believe I speak for everyone when I say we’d love to have participation from other Wikis. Would you like to write an introduction to WikiHow for Oregonians, or something else along those lines? Please feel free, we’d love to post it! As you may have noticed, we’ve slacked off a bit on writing new posts recently…not so surprising, I guess, considering that it’s wikis, not blogs, that brought us together