City wiki Karlsruhe
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| Regiowiki | |
| languages | German , English , French and Russian |
| editorial staff | Collective authorship |
| items | 24,847 |
| user | 5,770 |
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| On-line | July 22, 2004 (currently active) |
| http://ka.stadtwiki.net/Hauptseite | |
The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe is an information portal for the city of Karlsruhe and its surroundings ( Middle Upper Rhine region ). For several years it was the largest Regiowiki in the world.
content
The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe contains information on all topics related to Karlsruhe, it provides detailed and networked information on geography, nature, history, politics, religion, education, culture, social affairs, sport, business and transport. It also provides information on the topics of tourism and leisure with excursion destinations, gastronomy guides, associations and event locations, and expressly functions as an event calendar. The only relevance criterion is the connection to Karlsruhe. More than 2000 authors are writing the content, around a very active core of around 90 authors (as of April 2016). In October 2008 the city wiki was expanded to include an English and a French edition, and in September 2009 a Russian version.
history
Hauke Löffler from Karlsruhe started the first version of the wiki on July 22nd, 2004. Initially, a Linux PC with PmWiki next to his bed served as the server . The wiki then ran with the MediaWiki software on a server of the regional Internet provider INKA e. V., Karlsruhe. After articles in the regional press and later by the dpa , public interest also rose nationwide. On April 7, 2006 the 5000th article was created. Since July 24, 2006, the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe has been the largest city wiki in the world for the first time. After a post on ZDF and a vandalism attack in October 2006, the city wiki ran on a server at Strato , which maintains data centers in Karlsruhe and Berlin, the operating system remained Debian GNU / Linux .
In August 2008 the city wiki moved to a larger server, which runs with FreeBSD and virtualization via jails.
financing
In the beginning, the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe was privately financed. In October 2005, several active employees established a sponsoring association called Stadtwiki - Society for the Promotion of Regional Free Knowledge e. V. founded in Karlsruhe. This association does not restrict its activities regionally, and so in 2008 the Bildungsverein Region Karlsruhe e. V. founded, which since February 28, 2008 is also the sponsoring and sponsoring association for the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe.
The entire city wiki has been free of any kind of advertising since the beginning and is financed exclusively by donations and membership fees to the respective sponsoring association.
technology
The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe has been using the MediaWiki software since September 2004 . It participates in the development of the MediaWiki extension Semantic MediaWiki , which is being developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , in order to be able to build a semantic city wiki . This has also been used productively in the English version of the city wiki since October 2008.
License
The Creative Commons license applies to all texts : “Attribution-non-commercial distribution under the same conditions” (CC-BY-NC-SA). The fact that the Karlsruhe City Wiki has chosen a Creative Commons license is also due to the fact that the Institute for Information Law at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, under the direction of Thomas Dreier, was involved in the German CC translations. Images can be uploaded under any license, which gives traders more options and also allows the inclusion of press photos.
statistics
The Stadtwiki Karlsruhe is growing rapidly. Development milestones were:
| date | Number of articles |
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| July 22, 2004 | 0 |
| April 30, 2005 | 1,000 |
| September 3, 2005 | 2,000 |
| October 28, 2005 | 3,000 |
| January 1, 2006 | 4,000 |
| April 7, 2006 | 5,000 |
| June 17, 2006 | 6,000 |
| July 26, 2006 | 7,000 |
| September 14, 2006 | 8,000 |
| November 8, 2006 | 9,000 |
| January 6, 2007 | 10,000 |
| February 28, 2007 | 11,000 |
| April 25, 2007 | 12,000 |
| October 24, 2007 | 13,000 |
| December 9, 2007 | 14,000 |
| April 26, 2008 | 15,000 |
| August 1, 2008 | 16,000 |
| November 15, 2008 | 17,000 |
| March 25, 2009 | 18,000 |
| July 3, 2009 | 19,000 |
| December 10, 2009 | 20,000 |
| June 16, 2010 | 21,000 |
| January 15, 2011 | 22,000 |
| January 18, 2012 | 23,000 |
| November 6, 2013 | 24,000 |
| 15th November 2016 | 25,000 |
Since the server changeover on September 22nd, 2004, more than 20 million page views (up to June 17th, 2008) have been registered. On July 12, 2007, 400,000 of these were accessed on the main page.
literature
- Christoph Lange (Ed.): Wikis and blogs - planning, setting up, managing. Computer- und Literaturverlag 2007, ISBN 3-936546-44-4 with contribution by Hauke Löffler to Stadtwikis / Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
- Beate Schittenhelm: Hey, Wiki, Hey! - City wiki Karlsruhe. Article in the Karlsruher Stadtbuch 2007, Karlsruher Stadtbuch Verlag, ISBN 978-3-9808667-5-0
- Oliver Dziemba, Matthias Horx, Eike Wenzel: Future Germany 2020 . Study on future viability with a contribution on the “Pioneer in City Wikis”, Zukunftsinstitut GmbH, Kelkheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-938284-40-7
- Stefan Selke: Net-based narratives of regional identity - city and regional wikis in the context of digitized regional management processes in Daniel Fetzner / Stefan Selke (eds.): BILD - RAUM - INTERAKTION, applied empirical research. Results of interdisciplinary cooperation., Furtwangen University , 2007
Web links
- Stadtwiki Karlsruhe (ka.stadtwiki.net)
- Spiegel Online: Citizen journalism through the back door
- Karlsruhe 12-step program
Single receipts
- ↑ Ranking of the largest urban and regional wikis in German-speaking countries
- ↑ This limit was exceeded during a database cleanup that found 154 new articles. (Source milestones )
- ↑ milestones
- ↑ online at http://webuser.fh-furtwangen.de/~fetzner/isic/bild_raum_interaktion.pdf p. 203