[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":315},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-8948280":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":42,"post_text":43,"what":44,"said":87,"maker_in_thread":213,"shape":215,"grid":220,"attempts":275,"same_week":276,"maker_shows":251,"maker_hidden":307,"reader_version":308,"card":309},"8948280","LocalWiki","The open platform for local knowledge","title","Show HN: LocalWiki, the open platform for local knowledge","https:\u002F\u002Flocalwiki.org\u002F","localwiki.org","philipn",1422293561,2015,83,29,319,2565,13,"notable","learning_science","local wiki platform","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"local wiki","local history","community wiki","neighborhood knowledge","mixed",0.407,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},12,5,0,3,20,{"idea":37,"design":39,"execution":40},{"positive":38,"critical":34},8,{"positive":34,"critical":33},{"positive":41,"critical":33},1,[32,32,34,33,33,34,33,41,34,33,32,33,33,33,33,41,32,41,32,32,32,32,33,34,32,32,32,32,34],null,{"problem":45,"audience":57,"pricing":43,"motivation":70,"time_to_build":43,"stack":77,"openness":85,"stage":86,"team_size":85},{"value":46,"source":47,"evidence":48},"Local history and knowledge doesn't fit Wikipedia's notability rules and is poorly documented online","commenter",[49,53],{"id":50,"by":51,"text":52},"8948883","britta","Aw yay, I took that photo on the new homepage! It was during an editing party at the Prelinger Library in San Francisco (https:\u002F\u002Flocalwiki.org\u002Fsf\u002FPrelinger_Library). I've been a…",{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},"8948513","klenwell","I'd really love for this to succeed. Periodically I'll remark to a friend: \"The one thing the internet seems to be missing is a reliable place to catch up on a bit of local…",{"value":58,"source":59,"evidence":60},"Residents and visitors of towns and neighborhoods","inferred",[61,62,66],{"id":50,"by":51,"text":52},{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"8950098","sahaskatta","Same here, I used it in 2007-2010 while studying at UCD for just about everything from finding apartments to bike routes. Glad to see it got a nice facelift as well.",{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},"8948610","numbers","I love this idea. I have had a hard time going to cities I'm unfamiliar with and not knowing a little bit about the important and not-so-important landmarks. The problem I have…",{"value":71,"source":47,"evidence":72},"Collect local history that Wikipedia excludes and keep it from being lost",[73,74],{"id":50,"by":51,"text":52},{"id":75,"by":51,"text":76},"8949403","Yess, and a local Facebook group and\u002For subreddit can work really nicely in coordination with a LocalWiki. To share local knowledge you totally need that conversation part, where…",[78],{"value":79,"source":47,"evidence":80},"OpenStreetMap used on map page",[81],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"8948817","chippy","Nice use of OpenStreetMap on the map page. I wonder if the system utilises the collection of places, buildings, pubs, shops etc that is also mapped. Edits - looking at it in a…","unknown","launched",{"praise":88,"objections":115,"requests":141,"questions":155,"alternatives":174},[89,96,107],{"value":90,"source":47,"evidence":91},"Neutral, neighborly, collaborative approach to local knowledge",[92,95],{"id":93,"by":51,"text":94},"8948970","For inactive regions, I'd rather see LocalWiki put up a signpost in the form of \"This region got a start with five articles and two contributors but hasn't been edited in six…",{"id":67,"by":68,"text":69},{"value":97,"source":47,"evidence":98},"Useful for finding local info, e.g. Davis wiki replacing Yelp",[99,103],{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"8948523","erader","Great platform. Used this religiously while in college at Davis. Luckily, there was an active community of people updating the pages, which allowed the Wiki to essentially…",{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"8948693","johnmaguire2013","I live in Ann Arbor, have my whole life, and am very glad for the wiki we have on LocalWiki. It's been extremely helpful to me a few times now. :)",{"value":108,"source":47,"evidence":109},"Editor toolbar and map page are well done",[110,114],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"8949820","michaelbuddy","the local wiki editor tool bar & text area I've always thought was done very well. It's kind of a stand out, yet hidden feature that not a lot of wikis do as well. Simple but…",{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},[116,123,127,134],{"value":117,"source":47,"evidence":118},"Many town wikis were started and abandoned",[119],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"8948779","rmason","LocalWiki has awesome potential but they're facing two large problems. If you browse you're going to see that in the majority of the towns someone signed up, started and then…",{"value":124,"source":47,"evidence":125},"Weak mobile support",[126],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},{"value":128,"source":47,"evidence":129},"Overlapping locality pages cause fragmentation",[130],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"8949353","jewbacca","Also a potential fragmentation problem: \"Vancouver\": https:\u002F\u002Flocalwiki.org\u002Fvancouver\u002F \"Metro Vancouver\": https:\u002F\u002Flocalwiki.org\u002Fvan\u002F There's a genuinely hard problem in trying to…",{"value":135,"source":47,"evidence":136},"Transient news like sirens does not suit a wiki",[137],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"8949543","pavel_lishin","> - Anybody know why I heard 50 sirens at 2am last night? This doesn't seem like the sort of thing that belongs on a wiki, being incredibly transient by nature. Another user…",[142,150],{"value":143,"source":47,"evidence":144},"Mobile app",[145,149],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},"8948871","marquis","I've recently spent some time in a small beach community, where they set up a Facebook page for the village. It's extremely active, from lost cats, local store offerings,…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},{"value":151,"source":47,"evidence":152},"Prompts to revive stagnant local wikis",[153,154],{"id":93,"by":51,"text":94},{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},[156,167],{"value":157,"source":47,"evidence":158},"How will it differ from Wikitravel",[159,163],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"8949699","olalonde","How do you plan to differentiate from http:\u002F\u002Fwikitravel.org? Is http:\u002F\u002Flocalwiki.org supposed to be more localised \u002F higher resolution? Targeted at locals instead of tourists?",{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"8949473","walterbell","What do you think of http:\u002F\u002Fwikitravel.org?",{"value":168,"source":47,"evidence":169},"How will it avoid commercial bias",[170],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"8948589","pervycreeper","How do you plan to avoid a commercial focus\u002F bias?",[175,182,189,196,202,206],{"value":176,"source":47,"evidence":177},"Facebook groups",[178,179],{"id":146,"by":147,"text":148},{"id":180,"by":55,"text":181},"8948908","As someone who blissfully retired from Facebook years ago (for all the usual cranky reasons regularly cited on HN), I really hope Facebook doesn't come to fill this niche. But I…",{"value":183,"source":47,"evidence":184},"Subreddits",[185,188],{"id":186,"by":132,"text":187},"8949223","Not that I don't also want this LocalWiki thing to succeed, but you should definitely check out your local subreddit: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.reddit.com\u002Fsubreddits\u002Fsearch",{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},{"value":190,"source":47,"evidence":191},"Nextdoor",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"8949784","msutherl","Nextdoor \u003Chttps:\u002F\u002Fnextdoor.com\u002F> is exactly this!",{"value":197,"source":47,"evidence":198},"EveryBlock",[199],{"id":200,"by":51,"text":201},"8949891","EveryBlock tried to be that gathering-together service, but it got shut down: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.niemanlab.org\u002Fencyclo\u002Feveryblock\u002F + http:\u002F\u002Fwww.holovaty.com\u002Fwriting\u002Frip-everyblock\u002F \"We…",{"value":203,"source":47,"evidence":204},"Wikitravel",[205],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},{"value":207,"source":47,"evidence":208},"Edhat",[209],{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},"8950581","madsushi","There are some great hyper-local sites. There was one I loved in Santa Barbara (http:\u002F\u002Fwww.edhat.com) that focused on hyper-local news. 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