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Local wiki

Local communities have local wisdom and history that is relevant to the place and has no room in wikipedia

idea creator• Mfortini

designer• Ismail-yakoubi99

developer• Pecohub

volunteer• المشغوف• Pecohub

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created on09:13, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Project idea

What is the problem you're trying to solve?

Local communities have a very large corpus of knowledge (about places, people, history) that has no place in wikipedia because it's not universally encyclopedical, but is very relevant to the place and could grow to a wikipedia entry.

What is your solution?

Allow local wikipedia namespaces/instances to spur for places, which can link to global wikipedia so that they increase value

Who will you be doing outreach with?

Municipalities

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Participants

• Designer يمكنكم تغييير شكل ويكيپيديا لتصبح اكثر جاذبية للقراء و تغييير تصميمها Ismail-yakoubi99 (talk) 13:59, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
• Volunteer مرحبا المشغوف (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
• Developer i want to be a developer Pecohub (talk) 10:11, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
• Volunteer we will together volunteer to preexisting works here on wiki Pecohub (talk) 10:36, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Endorsements

• Avid supporter of local community history, sites, and the preservation of stories and history from one generation to the next. Philrj (talk) 00:28, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
• I back this idea as an editor on the English Wikipedia who struggles to find sources on local histories in various towns and cities in my sphere of editing (currently Germany). Vami IV (talk) 04:37, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
• endorse Noix07 (talk) 15:01, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
• I think this is a great idea. I have lived in a few places, and each place I live, I really enjoy reading about new and local community info. I feel more engaged with the community or city where I live. I know that there is patch.com in the U.S., perhaps something like that? Miriya52 (talk) 21:07, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
• Local wikis and especially enriching local histories on wikipedia can do a lot for expanding knowledge. LondonMan (talk) 02:26, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
• endorse Ogoorcs (talk) 17:28, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

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