WikiCity Guides is an on-line publisher providing local content on places, events, and people which could be of interest to those associated with any of the 22,000 U.S. towns it covers. It serves these communities much like a collection of city guides, yet as a wiki, any of its readers are allowed to contribute content. With nearly 13 million pages, WikiCity Guides was ranked as the largest largest wiki in the world in terms of article count throughout much of 2010 and 2011. WikiCity Guides encourages, but does not require users to register to contribute.

History

WikiCity Guides began in 2009, and is led by Patrick Lazure and Rohit Keshwani. Each of the 22,154 towns follows a similar format, offering local news, a community calendar, free classified ads, a directory with links to most all local businesses, and local history. This project is also the first wiki to use Twitter

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 as a tool to index content. WikiCity Guides was acquired by the Omaha World-Herald

Omaha World-Herald

The Omaha World-Herald, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is the primary daily newspaper of Nebraska, as well as portions of southwest Iowa. For decades it circulated daily throughout Nebraska, and in parts of Kansas, South Dakota, Missouri, Colorado and Wyoming. In 2008, distribution was reduced to the...

 on October 27, 2009.

See also

• Open Directory Project
  Open Directory Project
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• WikiAnswers
  WikiAnswers
  WikiAnswers is an ad-supported wiki-based website where users can submit and answer questions.This site allows users to post and edit questions and answers. WikiAnswers.com uses wiki technology and fundamentals, allowing communal ownership and editing of content. Each question has a "living"...
  
  
• Yellowikis
  Yellowikis
  Yellowikis is a MediaWiki website collecting basic information about businesses. This information includes basic contact details such as company name, address, websites, and telephone numbers, as well as internal Yellowiki wikilinks to competitors. Yellowikis was launched in January 2005...
  
  
• AboutUs
• MyWikiBiz
  MyWikiBiz
  MyWikiBiz is a wiki directory that allows people and enterprises to write about themselves. The brand began as a service creating Wikipedia articles for paying corporations; the founder and owner of MyWikiBiz, Gregory Kohs, was soon blocked from Wikipedia. , the MyWikiBiz directory contained over...
  
  

External links

• Official website
• Omaha World-Herald: World-Herald buys WikiCity social Web site
• Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab: Omaha World-Herald, rethinking its product, buys hyperlocal WikiCity
• CNET: It's Time to go Hyperlocal with These Resources
• Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab: WikiCity aims to tap hyper-niche markets for news and information
• CrunchBase: WikiCity profile and additional company history