For a variety of reasons (technical, social, logistical), Wikipedia isn't suited for really hyperlocal knowledge sharing. The same factors that make Wikipedia

For a variety of reasons (technical, social, logistical), Wikipedia isn't suited for really hyperlocal knowledge sharing. The same factors that make Wikipedia work well actually work against collecting really specific, uncitable, non-noteworthy local knowledge. If you're into this sort of thing you should definitely check out the LocalWiki effort: http://localwiki.org http://localwiki.org We're a non-profit, decentralized project to collect and share the world's local knowledge.