Civitology Blog

Thanks to your support, Civitology now has three wikis open — Beijingology, Tianjinology and Shanghaiology — and we’ve a test wiki in the works for Hebei. There is demand for us to expand to Hong Kong — we’ll only get that in the works once we’re sure other wikis are coming along well!

In the meantime, we’d like to start of thinking how we can do Local Groups. Local Groups would be informal but have folks (around 5 as a “suggested maximum” for the moment) acting as a group and having a fair bit of their own say (at the local city level) on content and things like that. We do have Civitology-wide standards which we’d like to keep the same across all wikis, but we do realize that — let’s say Beijing’s quite different from Shanghai (to start with).

Folks in these Local Groups might also want to think of managing content on the wiki. It’s sad that Beijingology is, at times, taken hostage by wiki spam, but thankfully they’re often gone within a few hours (plus they never link to main pages, so visitors see “relatively pristine” content).

Those in Local Groups would simply be those more active folks who would like to take on a greater role in their city and in Civitology in all. At the moment this is a recognized, but not salaried, job (you earn recognition, but unfortunately it’s without the cash); but we’re hoping to give those taking active roles the recognition they deserve.

So if you think you’re active kind of person who wants to take part in co-building city wikis in Beijing, Tianjin and/or Shanghai, let us know on the Twitter feeds by @replying. We’ll get this going soon. Thanks for your interest!

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